NEC Corporation of America extends cloud alliance

A cloud enablement alliance between NEC Corporation of America and Magna5 will bring together NEC's infrastructure as a service offerings with Magna5's communications network. NEC Corporation of America, a technology integrator, has expanded an alliance with a long-time services ally, transitioning from the traditional reseller model to an infrastructure-as-a-service partnership. NEC, based in Irving, Texas, had been working with NetServe365, a managed service provider in Pittsburgh, under a solution integrator arrangement. In November 2017, Magna5, a cloud and managed communications provider with headquarters in Dallas, acquired NetServe365. In light of that deal, NEC and Magna5 said the companies have "reconfirmed and extended" the alliance NEC Corporation of America originally established with NetServe365. NEC's business with NetServe366 has evolved from a networking and telephony reseller relationship to what Mike Mitsch, managing director of infrastructure as a service at NEC, called a "cloud enablement model." That model aims to offload the task of purchasing and assembling IT infrastructure.