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CLOUD COMPUTING
Transformation Services Accelerate Move to Cloud
CSC’s new ACE Suite of transformational services accelerate the migration of applications to the cloud by combining our standard processes with best-of-breed technologies from VMware, Inc., and The Virtual Computing Environment Company. The first of these services, the “ACE Factory,” is a highly-industrialized automated managed service that quickly assesses, treats, and tests an enterprise’s legacy custom and mainframe business applications for cloud deployment.
“In order to successfully grow and manage change, an organization must constantly innovate by creating new products and services, adapting to currency and market shifts, and mitigating the risks of unexpected market changes,” says Michael W. Laphen, CSC chairman, president, and chief executive officer. “Our cloud services portfolio enables the reinvention essential to a changing business by redesigning applications and workloads.”
The Industry's First On-Premise Private Cloud Billed as a Service
CSC BizCloud™ combines the privacy, security, and control of a private cloud with the agility, convenience, and commercial model of a public cloud. Our solution, which can be up and running in as little as 10 weeks, takes the work out of implementing a private cloud and helps overcome many objections that security-conscious organizations have to cloud adoption. Robert Mahowald, IDC vice president, SaaS & Cloud Services, says, “CSC has been very strategic with this announcement. They engaged customers in a discussion about their business needs and developed a flexible solution that addresses those needs spot on. BizCloud and CSC’s related services break new ground for IT buyers trying to navigate the road to data center transformation.”
Fully Managed Video-Conferencing
CSC’s new TelePresence as a Service (TaaS) offering is an end-to-end managed video-conferencing solution based on Cisco’s TelePresence suite. Unlike other solutions, TaaS provides unique TelePresence packages at fixed monthly costs. The solution can also integrate disparate technology platforms into one user interface. Because we provide all of the equipment, design the TelePresence room, and manage the service through the duration of its lifecycle, there are no up-front costs to the client and fewer barriers to adopting cloud technologies.
CYBERSECURITY
CSC Strengthens UK Security Expertise
To bolster our cybersecurity efforts in the UK, CSC took on the majority of staff from Symantec’s UK Government Consulting business, Symantec-LIRIC. The team strengthens CSC’s ability to offer a comprehensive set of security advisory and engineering solutions and services for clients in the region. CSC provides clients tailored offerings to define a roadmap to reducing their enterprise security risk and the security engineering services and solutions to execute the change.
HEALTHCARE
A Solution for On-the-Go Healthcare Professionals
Patient in Your Pocket™, our new application for BlackBerry® smartphones, lets healthcare professionals more effectively care for patients by equipping them with immediate, secure access to information from any location. Leveraging the commu-nications capabilities of a BlackBerry, Patient in Your Pocket allows caregivers to capture and send narratives, images, and structured data. The application also serves as a unified communications platform that consolidates voice paging, text messaging, and email. Mobile doctors, nurses, and health workers in the U.S., the UK, and the Middle East, are already realizing its value while delivering front-line care to patients.
New Software Monitors Patients in Real Time
CareVeillance™, a software tool that provides real-time clinical surveillance and reporting for hospitals, continuously monitors and evaluates clinical information generated during patient care. The tool alerts clinicians about patients showing early signs of high-risk conditions such as sepsis or pneumonia, giving caregivers an early opportunity to assess and make sure appropriate treatments are performed during critical time frames. “We were enthusiastic to work on the development and rollout of this tool and think it has the potential to be a real game changer in healthcare,” says Greg Ator, M.D., chief medical information officer, The University of Kansas Hospital.
AWARDS & RANKINGS
One of the World's Most Admired IT Services Companies
CSC ranks among Fortune magazine’s list of “World’s Most Admired Companies” in 2011 for the second consecutive year. We are ranked #4 in the Information Technology Services category and as one of the most admired companies in Virginia. According to Fortune, this recognition is “the definitive report card on corporate reputation,” as decided by thousands of executives, directors, financial analysts, and ratings companies on nine corporate attributes, from people management to financial soundness.
Innovation Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit 2011
During Cisco’s Partner Summit, CSC received two distinguished awards: Solution Innovation Partner of the Year and the Cisco Capital Partner of the Year award for the Multinational/Global region. Our decade-long relationship with Cisco offers clients global scale, multi-vendor integration expertise, and business processes based on world-class technology and open reference architectures — all delivered within a flexible choice of business models.