OREANDA-NEWS. NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced that it has been positioned as a Leader in International Data Corporation's (IDC) first ever "IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Next-Generation Telcos: Hosted Cloud and Data Center Services 2013-2014 Vendor Analysis" report. The IDC MarketScape represents a vendor assessment including both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define success in today's cloud professional services market.

IDC evaluated 12 global and regional services providers in the report, assessing those factors that are expected to be most conducive for success in the short and long terms.

IDC cites NTT Com's key strengths as:
* Lead in network innovation for datacenter and cloud service, known as Enterprise Cloud, delivery using software defined networking (SDN)
* Large datacenter footprint enables NTT Com to deliver global seamless datacenter services
* Strong cloud capabilities and strategies using advanced network technology.

"NTT Communications has set a global cloud vision (GCV) for the enterprise segment, leveraging its strength in network, datacenter footprint and taking advantage of customer's transition to cloud-based ICT services." said Sherlin Pang, senior research manager, Communications, IDC Asia/Pacific.

IDC's competitive analysis validates that NTT Com has a large datacenter footprint and connectivity in Asia Pacific, as well as end-end cloud integration capabilities. Enterprises considering cloud deployment in the region can benefit from NTT Com's geographically redundant datacenter to create highly reliable system architecture, and a suite of total ICT management service will bring them to significant savings.