Published report indicates some Verizon public cloud services are set to be shuttered
Verizon Communications is reportedly set to shut down some of its public cloud operations in favor of its private cloud services.
According to Fortune, customers using Verizon Public Cloud Reserved Performance and Marketplace will see those services shuttered on April 12. Those set to be impacted have reportedly been asked to migrate their content to Verizon’s Virtual Private Cloud platform.
The story cited a Verizon spokesperson who said the shut down impacts “cloud service that accepts credit card payments, but that the company ‘remains committed to delivering a range of cloud services for enterprise and government customers and is making significant investments in its cloud platform in 2016.’”
Reports earlier this year claimed Verizon was looking to raise more than $2.5 billion through the sale of 48 data centers as it continued to monetize non-core assets. The assets included those acquired as part of its $1.4 billion purchase of Terremark Worldwide in 2011, which it said at the time would bolster its cloud service operations.
Verizon last year expanded the availability of its software-defined networking powered Secure Cloud Interconnect service to the public sector across 30 countries. The company’s Enterprise Solutions division said the platform provides a secure, private Internet connection with consumption-based bandwidth, preprovisioned on-demand resources, application performance, various service classes and usage-based billing that can be managed through a centralized online portal. The service is also said to support private, public and hybrid cloud deployments; can integrate with connected cloud platforms from Amazon Web Services, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Salesforce; and data centers from CoreSite, Equinix and Verizon’s own service.
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