The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited (HSH), one of Asia‘s leading hospitality groups, has chosen a Verizon Terremark enterprise cloud computing solution to consolidate and centralize its technology infrastructure and better support its customers.

HSH was incorporated in 1866 and owns and operates a range of prestigious hotels and commercial and residential properties across Asia, the United States and Europe, including the luxury Peninsula Hotels in nine cities.

HSH, which focuses on excellent customer service, realized that centralizing its IT infrastructure would better align its processes and systems in support of its customers. The company decided to adopt a hybrid public/private cloud computing infrastructure that enables it to leverage additional capacity on demand during peak booking periods.

Additionally, by eliminating the need to maintain servers at the company‘s many locations around the globe, HSH‘s central IT team would be able to focus its efforts on accelerating the development of new services for both guests and staff.

HSH chose Verizon due to its proven ability to deliver a highly scalable, secure and efficient environment from which critical data and applications such as Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint could be integrated and accessed with HSH‘s global active directory structure.