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AMP moves Exchange, SharePoint into CSC’s cloud

CSC’s heavy push into cloud computing services earlier this year has already paid off, with financial services group AMP this morning revealing it had selected the IT services giant to host its Microsoft-based email and collaboration needs.

In a joint statement, the pair said CSC would provide AMP with Collaborative Online Services – which is a version of Microsoft’s Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server suites that is hosted within CSC’s Australian servers, utilising underlying hardware and software from partners VMWare, Cisco and EMC.

Critically, the service is believed to be ‘multi-tenanted’ – which means that multiple customers will use the same infrastructure, giving rise to CSC’s description of it as a “private cloud” offering.

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