As part of its digital transformation services portfolio, CGI can now offer clients several secure cloud storage solutions that enable access to vital business data from mobile devices and traditional desktop computers. These solutions give clients peace of mind knowing their data is secure and uncompromised.
These solutions are already in use by Foresters™, an international financial services provider committed to family well-being with over one million members in Canada and the UK. Based on Hitachi Data Systems' most advanced cloud technology, the solutions can be hosted within CGI's global data centers or in customers' data centers in a private cloud model – offering unparalleled flexibility, security, and choice for customers.
Highlights and Key Facts
- CGI is the global systems integrator offering consistent block, archive, and object solutions and utilizing the Hitachi Cloud Service Provider program across North America and EMEA.
- HDS will enhance CGI's state-of-the-art data centers to deliver "in-country" hosted cloud services, starting in Canada, the United States, Sweden, Norway, and Portugal, with additional sites to follow.
- Initial technologies to be launched include:
- Storage as a Service
- Data Jump
- Disaster Recovery as a Service
- Archive as a Service for Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint®, databases, network-attached storage (NAS), and other environments.
- The bottomless framework for centralized storage (using the Hitachi Content Platform and the Hitachi Data Ingestor)
- File sync and share as a service (using the Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere)
- CGI is part of Hitachi Data Systems' Global Systems Integrator Partner Program and is the first Hitachi Data Systems-certified global cloud service provider.
