Vipnet Croatia taps Neostratus for public cloud

The Croatian subsidiary of Telekom Austria, Vipnet, has tapped up cloud services provider Neostratus to provide a fully customisable, white-labelled public cloud platform enabling the operator to provision and manage a range of messaging, communication and collaboration solutions.

The platform will enhance Vipnet’s existing cloud offering, which serves cloud IT solutions to business customers, primarily small and medium enterprises, which require Microsoft Exchange, collaboration services based on Microsoft SharePoint, unified communications through Microsoft Lync, as well as an online backup and recovery.

Cloud services provisioning is enabled by Neostratus’ own proprietary Cloud Services Manager, which will be integrated with Vipnet’s billing and operational support systems.

Vipnet’s business customers will use a fully Vipnet-branded Outlook and OWA (Outlook Web Access) interface while using their business email and communications.

Vipnet is the fourth operator from the Telekom Austria Group to partner with Neostratus in cloud services provisioning, following A1 (Austria), Mobiltel (Bulgaria) and Si.mobil (Slovenia).

“Croatian businesses have much to benefit from the use of IT in driving customer satisfaction and employee productivity.  By combining this world-class cloud portfolio with Vipnet’s existing family of mobile communications services, we believe that all business customers of Vipnet, regardless of size, can realize the positive impact of IT cloud services on their business,” said Viktor Kovács, founder and chief commercial officer of Neostratus.