Business Wire
Steve Sparling
July 27, 2010

Intec, one of the world’s leading providers of Business Support System (BSS) solutions, today announced the successful deployment of its market-leading solutions for Best Buy, a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services. The Intec solution for Best Buy, which is supplied in a managed services model hosted by Intec’s business partner CSC, includes Intec Singl.eView along with Intec’s Inter-mediatE and Inter-activatE products. The Intec solution supports the retailer’s own mobile broadband offering, Best Buy Connect, launched July 11th.

Best Buy selected Intec to support its MVNO plans and help the retailer deliver innovative new services to the consumer technology market. Best Buy Connect is an example of one of these offerings, which allows consumers to one-stop-shop for connected solutions by purchasing computers with customizable mobile broadband service plan options.

Cloud Computing
Paul Colmer
June 1st, 2010

CSC has been offering a framework for clouds that encompasses infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, software as a service, and business processes as services. Several public sector clients have already gotten on board. Among them is JPL NASA, the Jet Propulsion Lab of the agency. CSC introduced them to the concept of a trusted cloud infrastructure over the past year, which they are using today. Then there’s the City of Los Angeles. Several months ago, CSC won a contract alongside Google to migrate the City’s email and collaboration system from a GroupWise environment to a Google Apps environment. The result: City employees will now be able to use a more flexible and agile application.

To a large degree, the procurement by the City of Los Angeles was modeled after what Washington, DC accomplished under then CTO, Vivek Kundra. Now, as Federal CIO, Kundra, alongside the Office of Management and Budget, has continued to back cloud solutions. The question now is agency readiness and trust.

The cloud: three-pronged approach

For Yogesh Khanna, CSC CTO, helping customers migrate to clouds requires addressing opposite ends of a spectrum: the art of the possible and the fear of the unknown. Navigating those two extremes involves a three-pronged approach: cloud consulting services to establish a cloud roadmap for clients; integration services to orchestrate the right cloud, the right way to meet clients’ business requirements; and a portfolio of cloud services, what Khanna refers to as “cloud consumables,” that are part of that four-layer framework, such as IaaS or SaaS.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced that, after an extensive evaluation, AMP — one of Australia’s leading wealth management companies — has selected one of CSC’s growing number of Cloud computing services.

Under the agreement, CSC will provide AMP with Collaborative Online Services (COS), CSC’s private Cloud-based e-mail and collaboration solution providing feature-rich e-mail, instant messaging and team collaboration, based on the Microsoft product set (Exchange, Office Communication Server and SharePoint). COS is hosted locally in Australia by CSC on the best-of-breed Virtual Computing Environment platform comprising integrated technologies from VMware, CISCO and EMC and is now available for use across Australia for commercial and public sector organizations.

"AMP has chosen e-mail and collaboration tools as the first production system to progress on their roadmap. We are extremely pleased that AMP has chosen CSC to assist them on this journey and we look forward to working closely with them as the company continues with strategic plans to take further advantage of Cloud based services,” said Matthew Day, vice president, Financial Services, Health and Public Sector for CSC in Australia.