Summary: Sungard Availability Services disclosed one of its customers: Kahua. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, Kahua is a project management and collaboration software provider for construction and transportation organizations.
Details: Sungard is hosting Kahua’s infrastructure in a colocation environment and providing managed services for infrastructure, network and application security. It is providing DR and security services enabled by AlertLogic. The security management was a key selling point along with Sungard’s global footprint as Kahua is planning for global expansion.
Angle: This is a quick snapshot of how colocation customers are looking at offloading some IT administration capabilities. Specific and specialized functions like security can be a driver behind this move.
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