PA Consulting Group Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program

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PA Consulting Group Joins Google Cloud Platform Partner Program

LONDON, July 27, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    PA Consulting Group has this week joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program
[http://googleenterprise.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/introducing-google-cloud-platform.html ]
as a Services Partner. PA uses cloud-based services to help organisations create
innovative, cost-effective and scalable IT solutions, from concept development to design
and delivery.

    "The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program enables us to help our clients develop new
cloud-based solutions that drive their success across the range of sectors, public and
private, in which we provide support by building on power of the Google Cloud Platform,"
says Dan Rossner, cloud expert, PA Consulting Group. "The Google Cloud Platform offers a
broad set of application development, cloud storage, large scale computing and big data
capabilities that provides our clients with an enhanced technical ability to meet the
demands of fast-moving business."

    "Using Google App Engine has allowed us to benefit from instant scalability and easier
website development," said Adrian Shand, Project Manager for the UK Met Office social
weather website (wow.metoffice.gov.uk). "Thanks to the scalability, we haven't had
anything to worry about as the site has grown in use."

    Dan continues: "Using Google's technology we have already achieved results that would
have seemed unthinkable only a few years ago. With the permission of the NHS, for example,
we used Google's Big Query platform to upload and interrogate anonymous patient data
approaching a billion units. Previously it would have taken hours or days to run a query
on a resource of this scale - using Big Query we could do it in a few seconds. On a
separate project, we used the Google App Engine to create the social weather website for
the Met Office wow.metoffice.gov.uk. The scalable, elastic nature of this platform has
given enthusiasts in around 150 countries worldwide the chance to share, in real-time,
more than 40 million readings online."

    Google's Cloud Platform [http://cloud.google.com/index.html ] products enable
customers to implement:

   
    - Cloud app solutions, such as mobile apps, social apps, business process
      apps, and websites, using Google App [http://cloud.google.com/products/index.html ]
      Engine [http://cloud.google.com/products/index.html ] and Google
      [https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql ] Cloud
      [https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql ] SQL
      [https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql ].
    - Cloud storage solutions, such as high-end backup and recovery, active
      archiving, global file sharing/collaboration, and primary SAN/NAS, using Google Cloud
      [http://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage.html ] Storage
      [http://cloud.google.com/products/cloud-storage.html ].
    - Large-scale computing solutions, such as batch processing, data processing and
      high performance computing using Google Compute
      [http://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine.html ] Engine
      [http://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine.html ].
    - Big data solutions, such as interactive tools, trend detection and BI
      dashboards, using Google BigQuery [http://cloud.google.com/products/big-query.html ]
      and Google [http://cloud.google.com/products/more-products.html ] Prediction
      [http://cloud.google.com/products/more-products.html ] API [
      http://cloud.google.com/products/more-products.html ].

    "To help customers get the most out of our cloud platform products," explains Eric
Morse, Head of Sales and Business Development, for Google's cloud platform, "we work
closely with services firms, like PA Consulting Group, that deliver custom applications
and other infrastructure solutions on top of Google's cloud platform."

    The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program includes Services Partners such as systems
integrators, IT consultant firms, developers, web designers, and other professional
services companies that help clients design, develop, and manage new cloud-based
solutions. Customers benefit by engaging with PA Consulting Group, which has invested in
developing the skills needed to build these powerful new solutions on top of Google's
Cloud Platform.

    For more information on PA Consulting Group and our cloud-based offerings, please
visit PA's Innovative Solutions website
[http://www.paconsulting.com/it-consulting/providing-innovative-solutions-to-new-business-challenges ]
. For further information on PA joining Google Cloud Platform Partner Program
please visit
http://www.paconsulting.com/our-thinking/pa-joins-google-cloud-platform-partner-program
or email cloud@paconsulting.com.

    About PA Consulting Group

    We are a firm of more than 2,000 people, specialising in management and IT consulting,
technology and innovation. Independent and employee-owned, we operate globally from
offices across Europe and the Nordics, the United States, the Gulf and Asia Pacific.

    We work with businesses and governments to anticipate, understand and meet the
challenges they face. We have outstanding technology-development capability and a unique
breadth of skills, from strategy to performance improvement, from HR to IT. Our expertise
covers energy, financial services, life sciences and healthcare, government and public
services, defence and security, transport and logistics, telecommunications, consumer
goods and automotive.

    Shivani Joshi, cloud@paconsulting.com

Source: PA Consulting Group

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