BT iNet has announced that it is to recruit more than 50 people into its Converged Infrastructure Practice over the next 18 months, in order to help customers take the first steps towards cloud adoption.

The programme, which is being led by BT iNet’s director of converged infrastructure, James Wolf, will expand the company’s existing advanced data centre skills and capabilities, and will form a core part of the BT Compute product family.

As a result, BT iNet is launching its biggest ever recruitment drive to increase its team by more than 17 per cent in order to expand its converged-infrastructure-focused practice. The new roles will cover both sales and engineering, as well a dedicated team to accelerate the adoption of new products and develop new services that complement the ‘BT Private Compute’ portfolio.

BT iNet’s Private Compute solutions also provide a pathway into other parts of BT’s portfolio that address the later stages of the cloud journey, including its Managed Compute and Cloud Compute platforms.

Neil Pemberton, managing director, BT iNet, said: “Understanding the cloud journey can be complex for customers, so it’s important to break it down into clear and simple steps that help simplify adoption. That’s exactly what we’re doing with this programme, which has been designed to provide the solutions and capabilities that customers need now and help them move towards the cost-predictability, cost-effectiveness and efficiencies offered by cloud services.”