CMAC Transportation Using Managed Hosting from Latisys to Strengthen PaaS Offering

IaaS solutions provider Latisys has announced a managed hosting services agreement with CMAC Transportation. CMAC will use the Latisys Managed Hosting solution to underpin its own integrated Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution through the unique, multi-year agreement.

The partnership brings together CMAC's own compute platform and solution stack, which will be hosted on the Latisys enterprise platform. This will enable the easy management and delivery of CMAC systems and services in a more cost-effective and efficient manner.

CMAC provides warehousing, consolidation and transportation services to a variety of customers and offers the TMW enterprise management software environment, which powers its portfolio of logistics business systems. The company is getting backup from managed hosting, cloud and data center colocation provider Latisys to better serve its customers.

"As a rapidly growing company we need a world class service provider willing to collaborate with us on a solution optimized for our business needs – not just for today, but also for tomorrow," said Mike Christie, partner, CMAC. "By hosting CMAC's solution stack on Latisys' enterprise platform we facilitate deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying, provisioning and managing underlying hardware and software."

"CMAC is a great example of a new breed of innovative IT organizations that look to IT outsourcing to lower costs and improve speed to market," said Pete Stevenson, CEO at Latisys. "Like many of our enterprise customers, CMAC is able to reduce CapEx and improve control and visibility while at the same time become more nimble and innovative."

The Latisys Chicago data center acts as the central hub for the company's national IaaS platform, which enables customers to utilize its Managed Hosting and Enterprise Cloud from anywhere in the world. The data center platform is operated under SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 audited controls, offering high standards of availability and security.

The company also announced it had begun construction of an additional 10,000 square feet of high-density raised floor in the Chicago data center, which will include an additional 1.35 megawatts of power. The complete Latisys data center platform offers more than 343,000 square feet of space, spread among seven data centers that reach four major global markets.