New Delhi: Steria has unveiled a cloud services that it claims will enable enterprise customers to access highly secure and cost-effective computing power in less than 30 minutes. The service will be available in June 2010.

Commenting on the collaboration with Cisco, Steria Group CEO, Francois Enaud, said: "Steria has earned a reputation for expert implementation and management of a full range of complex IT services projects. Our collaboration with Cisco to enable us to deliver Steria "Infrastructure On Command" is a strategic evolution of our multi-tiered service delivery model. For the first time, utilizing the automation of Steria's outsourcing operation and the innovation embedded in the Cisco Unified Computing System platform, customers will have access to incremental computing power and associated infrastructure services "on command", at the click of a button."

"The combination of Steria's global service delivery model, our associated automated service management framework, STARS (Steria Advanced Remote Services), and the strength of the new Cisco Unified Computing System platform gives this offering a unique market differentiator," commented Karine Brunet, Steria Group's Director of Industrialised Service Lines. "Infrastructure on Command enables us to provide secure and reliable platform access, while enabling our customers to address their business challenges in terms of cost containment, cash optimisation and time-to-market."

Company claims that its latest offering 'Infrastructure on Command' delivers multiple benefits including, 'on the fly' service provisioning in less than 30 minutes, in a very secure environment. The service will also be very cost effective, due to the variable, consumption-based pricing model.

Another advantage of the service will be its flexibility of 'click-to-buy' functionality lets customers experience Infrastructure On Command as easily as an e-commerce transaction.