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C&W Communications (C&W) earlier this week announced that it has joined the Microsoft Direct Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program to bring greater choice and new capabilities of value-added for its business customers.
As a Direct Cloud Solution Provider, C&W has consistently demonstrated its expertise with Microsoft technologies and will now provide Azure Managed Services and support to its customers in Trinidad. Nicolas Collette, C&W’s Chief Commercial Officer – Business Markets, said: “We are excited to now be a Microsoft Direct Cloud Solution Provider, and we are proud of this distinction as it speaks to our trusted expertise with the latest technologies and to our ability to deliver the highest quality user experience to our business customers.”
Collette described this collaboration with Microsoft as a “superior commitment to our clients.” “We are providing superior innovation, superior organization, and fundamental solutions to our customers and partners. We’re enabling digital transformation in the region,” he added.
“C&W can now offer our business customers access to its unique Cloud Management Platform, which ensures customers have a choice of differing Cloud providers, including Azure, from a single unified interface. This powerful dashboard manages resources and deployments across all public, private, and hybrid cloud stacks from a single window, empowering C&W to develop and deliver more infrastructure as a Service solution to its customers,” said Peter Spratt, C&W’s Director for Cloud & Data Centre Services.
“We are excited to welcome Liberty Latin America to our Microsoft Direct Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. We are sure that their extensive reach and expertise, coupled with our secure cloud offerings, will be critical to serving our customers’ rapid pace of digital transformation in the Caribbean region,” said Darren Mohammed Country Representative for Microsoft Trinidad & Tobago.
“We’re thrilled about the potential that this partnership brings for companies across Trinidad and Tobago; combining our customer experience mindset with leading-edge technology will bring a multitude of benefits for our clients. We look forward to continue playing an important role as the provider of choice to enable digital transformation,” said C&W’s Vice President for Trinidad, Simone Martin-Sulgan.
C&W’s business teams will continue to elevate their consultative approach to end-to-end solution design methodology, providing customers with an authentic Multi-cloud experience using a combination of public and private clouds, starting with Microsoft Azure services.
C&W’s Regional Data Centers are linked via a fully meshed MPLS network that spans 35 countries over 65,000km with the largest subsea multi-ring fiber-optic network throughout the greater Caribbean, Central America, and the Andean region.