Interoute wins Business Service Innovation award for its Ground to Cloud platform

London, 11 August 2009 – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest next-generation network, today announced it has won a business innovation award at the Global Telecoms Business Awards, held in central London on 16 June 2009. The award for innovation in the International Service Delivery category was won in partnership with Juniper Networks. Matthew Finnie, Interoute’s Chief Technology Officer, received the award for Interoute’s Ground to Cloud service delivery platform.   

Interoute’s Ground to the Cloud proposition enables international companies to have as much or as little control as they need to support their business.  At the infrastructure end of the scale customers have the capability to take basic fibre services and add their own management layer or buy fully managed services including Interoute’s monitoring and reporting tools. For those enterprises looking to a trusted partner to take on the management of their critical IT infrastructure Interoute’s cloud approach to services removes the complexity of building, managing and changing their infrastructure.

Interoute is a market leader in the development of platform based services, from its unified connectivity platform for corporate WAN outsourcing and award winning SIP communication services to its recent enterprise cloud computing initiative. Interoute’s cloud is one of the most sophisticated and scalable corporate service delivery platforms in Europe. It sits upon 57,000 kms of lit fibre spread across 90 cities in 24 countries and is supported by 59 data centres, making up Europe’s largest next generation network.

“We are delighted to have had our Ground to Cloud Strategy recognised by such a prestigious industry award,” said Matthew Finnie, Chief Technology Officer at Interoute. “This is not  about throwing all your business assets into a public cloud, Interoute’s IP cloud offering, works as a dedicated, private facility that is scalable on demand to meet the needs of businesses. We have built resilience and security into our cloud, enabling us to offer businesses a fresh alternative to IT outsourcing mitigating the cost time and resources customer typically today spend on IT infrastructure.

Alan Burkitt-Gray, editor of Global Telecoms Business, said the GTB team was impressed by the quality and number of nominations this year — the most it has ever had — so it was a special triumph to be one of the winners this year.

“This project stood out, even though the competition was strong, and it just had to be one of the winners. Well done to all involved,” Burkitt-Gray continued. “The industry is seeing a wave of innovation which is making a huge difference — to the companies working in the industry and to all of us in business and as consumers.”