COSN is a group of Cloud service providers which collaborate with Microsoft to offer technically validated, Cloud-based infrastructure and application solutions.
Avnet Cloud Services business manager, Chris Farrow, said the process took three months of planning and three months intensive build work involving a large team and Microsoft resources.
“It is not like building a normal computing environment where you can go about it anyway you like. What this does is provide a certified platform, separate from Azure, that operates, looks and feels like the Microsoft public Cloud platform,” he added.
“To achieve that and ostensibly run a subset of the software stack from Azure itself requires a great deal of technical implementation and creation of a very specific environment that is explicitly set up to follow some fairly exacting standards, so you can run essentially the same software stack as Azure.”
It is in Microsoft’s interest for these environments to be reliable and deliver the same quality of service available in Azure itself. Thus the vendor committed its own resources to testing and validation throughout the process.
Avnet partners are now able to access Avnet’s implementation of the WAP management portal which will enable the creation and end to end management of complex Cloud environments.
The accreditation elevates the distributor from Gold hosting partner status to membership in the COSN alongside Optus and Melbourne IT.
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