BT, a global provider of unified communications solutions and services, has announced the launch of new cloud services to support customers in AMEA (Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa).

The Company has also launched its Cloud Connect program and simultaneously announced the availability of BT for Life Sciences R&D in this region, designed to enable collaboration within the life sciences industry for increased R&D productivity.

Newly launched Cloud services include the BT One Cloud Cisco global platform and BT One Cloud Lync fully-managed private cloud service with enterprise telephony and video.

Both services are available to customers on a pay-per-user basis.

The Cloud Connect program enables customers across AMEA to connect directly through BT's network to various other software-as-a-service providers and to more than 200 third- party data centres around the world.

BT for Life Science R&D is specifically designed to allow organisations active in the life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and associated sectors to comply with stringent security, regulatory and compliance requirements while accessing the very high computational demands of R&D and adopting the latest in cloud computing, collaboration, and unified communications.

The solution is based on the BT Cloud Compute platform and delivered through BT data centres. It has already been deployed with Genome Institute of Singapore and is being rolled out in Japan.

Kevin Taylor, President, BT Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, said: "We are proud to see our customers leverage the investments we have made in the AMEA region in the last few years. These have included improved network infrastructure, an enhanced product portfolio, strengthened field services, customer showcases and the establishment of service centres in the region."