Brazilian IT services firm CPM Braxis will launch a new service for the construction of data centers by year-end, the company's technology infrastructure integration director Carlos Alberto Duque told BNamericas.
CPM Braxis will use the experience acquired with construction companies and project development in the building of Brazilian bank Bradesco's (NYSE: BBD) data center, and turn their expertise into a product.
The company saw a business opportunity in the increasing demand for data storage and processing with high levels of security in the Brazilian market, said Duque on the sidelines of the Futurecom telecoms industry conference held in São Paulo.
CPM Braxis also launched a product during the conference - the end-to-end virtualization solution Xvirtual - which will be the company's main focus for next year, along with the data center building service.
The Xvirtual solution is targeted at medium and large businesses and requires a high initial investment, which will be more advantageous for a company in three years than if the company maintains the original hardware and software infrastructure.
The client can also opt for additional management support, in which CPM Braxis substitutes real machines for virtual ones while also managing the client's complete system. The solution is offered in partnership with US enterprise access solutions provider Citrix Systems (Nasdaq: CTXS) and California-based virtualization software company VMware (NYSE: VMW).
"CPM Braxis is introducing the infrastructure as a service model, in which SaaS is bundled with infrastructure and hardware as a service, which has been considered by Gartner as the main trend within the next five years," Duque said.
GLOBAL CRISIS
For CPM Braxis senior VP Maurício Minas, while facing a global financial crisis, the company may take advantage of the low value of the Brazilian currency real compared to the US dollar.
"With the recent devaluation of the real due to global financial instability, we once again start being competitive as an outsourcing provider. Brazil is now on its way to facing off with its strongest competitor, India. Furthermore, international banks will need to reduce costs and therefore revise contracts with IT services providers, and we are becoming increasingly attractive for them," said Minas.
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