Logicalis to Present at UCISA Cloud Computing Seminar

Forum to Discuss Economic & Environmental Benefits of Cloud for Education Community

SLOUGH, England, February 14, 2011 - International solutions provider, Logicalis (
www.logicalisprevision.com/), today announced that Simon Daykin, CTO,
is to address UCISA members at the association's Cloud Computing Seminar
(www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/ng/Events/2011/Cloud.aspx), on the
opportunity, challenges and value of cloud, and the architectural flexibility
afforded by 'virtual containers'. Hosted at Loughborough University, the
event will focus on infrastructure and networking provision, and consider how
cloud computing can offer one solution to the myriad of challenges, such as
budget cuts, tough carbon targets and an escalating appetite for technology,
facing the education community.

UCISA represents almost all the major UK universities and higher
education colleges and has a growing membership among further education
colleges, other educational institutions and commercial organisations
interested in information systems and technology in UK education, providing a
network of contacts and a powerful lobbying voice.

    What: "Cooperative Clouds & Virtual Containers"

    Who: Simon Daykin, CTO, Logicalis

    When: 11.30am Wednesday 16th February

    Where: Cloud Computing Seminar (
    www.ucisa.ac.uk/en/groups/ng/Events/2011/Cloud.aspx), UCISA,
    Holywell Park, Loughborough University

Speaker abstract: Cloud computing is dramatically changing the way the
education sector can consume IT infrastructure and IT services. To extend
cloud beyond which hypervisor platform you prefer, Logicalis has developed an
architectural construct it calls a 'Virtual Container'. This construct and
the associated cloud architecture allows organisations to embrace cloud
models, and deliver IT services through onsite, offsite, shared and hosted
platforms. This session will consider this architectural model and its use
cases in education, and how to approach IT service delivery and platform
sharing in new and innovative ways, without first having to agree on a single
hypervisor.

Logicalis recently announced its high-density data centre (
www.logicalishddc.co.uk/) (HDDC) and range of Made to Measure cloud
services are natively connected into JANET (www.ja.net/), the network
dedicated to the needs of education and research in the UK. Logicalis'
connection to the unique high bandwidth academic network will provide JANET's
users with a range of data centre and cloud services, including
Infrastructure as a Service, application hosting for Independent Software
Vendors (ISVs) servicing the education community, through to high density
hosting of virtualisation and supercomputing environments.

About Logicalis

Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information and
communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded on a superior
breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications & collaboration; data
centre; and professional and managed services.

Logicalis Group employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including highly
trained service specialists who design, specify, deploy and manage complex
ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 5,000 corporate and public
sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships
with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.

The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of $1 billion,
from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America and Asia Pacific, and
is fast establishing itself as one of the leading IT and Communications
solution integrators, specialising in the areas of advanced technologies and
services.

The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the
Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues in excess of $4
billion.

For more information, visit www.uk.logicalis.com.

    For further information please contact:

    Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte Sandy
    Cohesive Communications
    T: +44(0)1291-626200
    E: logicalis@cohesive.uk.com

For further information please contact: Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte Sandy, Cohesive Communications, T: +44(0)1291-626200, E: logicalis at cohesive.uk.com