Thomas Duryea hitches to NextDC for national expansion

Elevated to VMware's vCloud status.

IT service provider Thomas Duryea Consulting is in discussions with national data centre operator NextDC as part of its plans for national expansion.

TD currently leases space in two unnamed Melbourne and Sydney-based data centres, and CEO Andrew Thomas told CRN the company plans to have a presence in data centres in every major city excluding Hobart in the next twelve months.

He said the company would work with NextDC to be present in the operator's new data centres as they come online.

Thomas also revealed TD has signed significant contracts with unnamed partners over the last quarter in the areas of storage, data management and desktop, specifically Windows 7, in the retail, legal and government verticals.

“We’re coming off the biggest quarter we’ve ever had, September broke all records as a company,” he said. “We’ve grown year on year by a minimum of 40 per cent across all lines of business. It’s been in some surprising areas, there’s been an uplift in product and procurement, a huge jump in professional services, and in managed services including the cloud offering. We’ve grown 180 per cent in cloud management year on year.”

The news comes on the back of the company's elevation to VMWare vCloud partner status.

A long time VMWare partner, TD now offers its customers the ability to move workloads from their VMware vSphere-based virtualised or private cloud environment to the VMware vCloud Powered service and back again.

Thomas said the offering addressed customer demand for managed disaster recovery, with at least a dozen new customers now signed up for specific bids, joining a client list of over 500.

The company is offering its customers Hybrid Cloud via VCloud connector, facilitating burst capability for both production, development and testing, and disaster recovery workloads. Thomas said the company synchronises data and applications between a customer’s infrastructure and its own infrastructure in real time, at storage, backup and application levels.

“What we’re saying to customers is we’ve created a canvas for them to paint a picture on,” he said. “We have the virtualisation layer, vCloud community vector, and we have both major storage vendors in our cloud infrastructure with all the capability to do real time synchronisation.”