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Aerohive Achieves Unmatched Scale and Flexibility in Cloud-Managed Networking – Patch.com
MILPITAS, CA - From Aerohive: Aerohive Networks (NYSE: HIVE), the leading independent enterprise Cloud networking vendor, today announced it has begun to execute an expansion of its Cloud Footprint globally which will add Regional Data Centers (RDCs) in Australia, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Canada, and Brazil before the end of the year. These new data centers are in addition to Aerohives long-standing Cloud Footprint in the United States and Ireland.
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The ability to instantly enable Cloud networking across the globe is part of Aerohives commitment to expanding our worldwide footprint, said David Flynn, chief executive officer, Aerohive Networks. By adding these Regional Data Centers, we are accelerating the global adoption of Cloud managed networking with our unmatched scale and flexibility.
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Aerohive (NYSE: HIVE) enables our customers to simply and confidently connect to the information, applications, and insights they need to thrive. Our simple, scalable, and secure platform delivers mobility without limitations. For our customers worldwide, every access point is a starting point. Aerohive was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.aerohive.com, call us at 408-510-6100, follow us on Twitter @Aerohive, subscribe to our blog http://boundless.aerohive.com/, or become a fan on our Facebook page.
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‘UK cloud services are strong and ready to compete with the world’s best tech economies’, Cloudreach CEO says as … – Data Economy
Brexit fails to halt data centre investments as operators enter a new phase of business evolution beyond pure colocation offerings.
Investment firm Palatine Private Equity has invested in UK-based data centre provider The Bunker, in what is the PE companys fifth deal out of Palatines third fund.
The Bunker was founded in 1994 and offers services around cloud, colocation and hosting. The operator has also over the years built a knowledge around fintech and the wider financial services sectors.
It has two data centres in England, one in Ash, Kent, and the other in Newbury. Each data centre has a power capacity of just below 2.5MW, however, the sites have the capacity to be expanded by several MWs.
Palatine said in a statement that the current levels of sales activity within the business show a rate of growth that will continue with the company set to benefit from market headwinds such as GDPR and an ever-greater demand for cyber security services.
In parallel to the new investment and in conjunction with long term business succession planning both Peregrine Newton (CEO) and Andy Theodorou (COO), both co-founders of the business, have decided to step aside.
Consulting director Andy Hague has been named as the new Group CEO, whilst Phil Bindley (CTO) has been promoted into the role of Managing Director with the rest of the Senior Management Team remaining in their current roles.
Palatine was advised by BDO, Gateley Plc and RSM with due diligence provided by CIL, Marsh and The Berkeley Partnership. Debt facilities were provided by European Capital and Santander.
Speaking to Data Economy, BDOs head of TMT M&A, Robin Brown, said: When you talk to a lot of British or European [data centre providers] as well as small data centre operators they are unsure at the moment about what they should be doing with their businesses.
Should they be focusing on just filling up their sites and getting a return from a colocation base; should they be moving into managed services; should they be moving to cybersecurity services; should they be buying or building more small data centres to have a regional play?
What this investment by Palatine private equity into The Bunker is showing, is that there is investor support for data centres to invest in more advanced managed services and cybersecurity capabilities. Their proposition is offering a technical solution to customers that is greater than just colocation.
The Bunker is designed to be ultra-secure and what they have done over the year is migrate the business from being just colocation services into managed hosting, disaster recovery, network services and dedicated cloud services. Part of the strategy of the business is to further move into cybersecurity services over time.
With The Bunker based in the UK, uncertainty around Brexit failed to hinder any negotiations, with Brown playing down questions around private equity investors fears.
He said: One of the interesting implications of some of the UK private equity funds is that the basis underpinning their investment in their funds is that their businesses are UK registered.
Quite often when they make an investment in Europe it is still being done by a UK registered business. They will set up, even if it is a shell company or a small acquisition, that is still run from the UK, whether over the longer term, you see more and more private equity funds being less constrained by the requirements of a UK registered business is a question that is open, it does not have an answer yet.
The Brexit effect has not been brought up as a significant impact on why they would or would not invest in the UK.
Looking ahead, and with investors showing more interest in the data centre market beyond pure-play colocation, Brown also said the investment carried out by Palatine could spark a wave of private equity investments.
The private equity I am talking to at the moment are specifically interested in investing in data centres that have made the migration towards managed services, he said.
Small data centres that are continuing to just do colocation are less attractive. Data centres that are moving into fields like cybersecurity, are worth more to an investor and an investor understands how they can make further acquisitions to grow the business and not be constrained by the footprint of the data centre itself.
If they have services that are provided to clients that are in the data centre, they can then add additional services that they then can provide to those clients that do not rely solely on the data centre footprint. One example would be GDPR consulting services.
Marijuana startup Lemonhaze leverages Bizspark to jump from AWS to Azure – OnMSFT (blog)
Here at OnMSFT, we write a lot about cloud computing and the various tangential functions it encompasses such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data storage. We also take the time to crunch the numbers each quarter from some of the top names in the industry to see how each company is doing with trying to obtain or maintain the highly coveted market share crown.
But what does it all mean?
For one marijuana start up, it means ditching cloud computing incumbentAmazon for quickly rising software giant Microsofts cloud offerings.
I was recently told an anecdotal story of how Microsofts lesser publicized Bizspark program helped marijuana dispensaryLemonhaze shift its entire business off AWS and onto Azure.
While this migration tale is just one of a thousand stories of business switching back and forth between Amazon and Microsofts cloud computing solutions, Lemonhazesexperience highlights Microsofts developing concentration on helping small to medium sized businesses access the benefits of the cloud.
As Lemonhaze writes on their blog, Why did we make the move? Simple. Our AWS charges were eating through our limited capital resources.
While Lemonhaze has nothing but positive things to say about AWS as a service, it comes down to money as to why the company migrated over to Azure. Lemonhaze recounts a particularly costly encounter with AWS that help motivate the company to switch.
There was this one time an offshore team member inadvertently launched an RDS Instance on AWS that cost us three-thousand bucks. Thats three grand! We would have much preferred spending that money on legal reefers.
Previously, the words Microsoft, start up and money seemed to usually end in another AWS success story, but according to Lemonhaze, Microsoft has a notso secret weapon to help convert those terms in Azure success stories.
Bizspark.
Lemonhaze got accepted into the Bizspark program. With open arms. Thanks to Bizspark, Lemonhaze is now fully hosted in the Azure cloud for FREE! For a start-up, this is huge. It frees up capital that we have now allocated to other growth initiatives. Not only was migrating over a cinch, MSFT supplied us with professional service support to facilitate the migration. Seamless.
Worried about a perceptional rejection by Microsoft based on its involvement with marijuana, Lemonhaze cautiouslylooked into the Bizspark program not expecting much. As a start-up in the legal marijuana space, we have gotten accustomed to hearing the word no and the myriad of rejections we deal with on a regular basis, recounts the team.
Fortunately, Lemonhaze qualified for Bizspark and managed to save a whopping 100% on their web hosting. Lemonhaze is realistic about its future with Azure as Bizspark is mainly a testing and migration tool that offers credits to lure potential customers in. At some point, Lemonhaze will have to eventually shell out its own money to host its services on Azure but based on their positive experience and seamless transition, the team plans on staying with Azure for the foreseeablefuture.
We dig the BizSpark/Azure approach of assisting start-ups. Most start-ups fail. At Lemonhaze we fail every day. When working with AWS, the only free customer support available was for billing questions. Theres nothing scarier to a start-up than having to part each month with a nice chunk of change, without the ability to assess if we are optimizing our spend. One wrong move on AWS can wreak havoc on the finances/future of a start-up. Note that when we did run into a critical technical issue, we were required to pay an additional fee for support with AWS.
Again, this is just one in a long list tales that Microsoft will use to continue to pitch its Azure service and the companys new found focus on tailoring its product for the little guys now. We must also keep in mind, Amazon is in no threat of losing its cloud computing cache or its multitude of customers anytime soon, but Lemonhazesclosing words should put a smile on the Azure teams face while worrying the AWS team a bit.
Most small business owners I know are petrified of getting crushed by Amazon. Ditto with Amazon sellers. And brands. (P.S. This is the main reason why we are relieved to no longer be sharing any info/data with Amazon.)
It may only be a few rumblings here and there, but once a narrative takes hold, it can be hard for a company to overcome its momentum. Fortunately, Microsoft knows a thing or two about trying to overcoming narratives, it remains to be seen how Amazon handles theirs.
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US retailers increasingly switching to public cloud hosting to free up resources to develop new services – InternetRetailing.net
A surprising majority of US retailers including the likes of L.L.Bean and Orvis are integrating public cloud services into their core business practices around apps and other technologies as the benefits significantly outweigh the risks.
According to the study by Forrester, 67% of retailers now believe that moving to the cloud will allow them shift budgets away from application maintenance towards new areas of innovation. Within this, cloud is becoming the preferred place to modernize core business apps, with firms running B2B or B2C commerce software on cloud platforms doubling since 2014 to 24%. In the same period, mobile apps in the cloud grew to 27% and ERP grew to 26%.
The core of where the cloud can play a role is in mobile sites and applications for the bulk of retailers surveyed, but it is also strong in enterprise relationship management (ERP), e- and m-commerce platform operations and increasingly in web content and experience platform operation.
The study also finds that two in five marketers surveyed for the recent Forrester Wave evaluating enterprise marketing software suites believed they could rely exclusively on the cloud for marketing technology.
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Mozilla’s Send is basically the Snapchat of file sharing – The Verge
Mozilla has launched a new website that makes it really easy to send a file from one person to another. The site is called Send, and its basically the Snapchat of file sharing: after a file has been downloaded once, it disappears for good.
That might sound like a gimmick, but it underscores what the site is meant for. Its designed for quick and private sharing between two people not for long-term hosting or distributing files to a large group.
Though cloud hosting and local services like AirDrop have made sharing files much easier than it used to be, it can still be frustrating to get someone a file. Email attachments often cap out at 20MB or so. And while you can add something to a storage service like Dropbox, its then sitting there taking up space, with no indication of whether the file has been downloaded yet and is safe to remove.
Send gets around all of that. It supports files up to 1GB, and after uploading something, itll give you a link to send to someone else. That link will expire once theyve downloaded it or once 24 hours have passed. So someone elses procrastination is really your biggest limitation here. Files are also encrypted as theyre uploaded, and Mozilla says it does not have the ability to access the content of your encrypted file.
Mozilla is classifying Send as an experiment for now, so its possible that the site wont be around forever. But the service already seems useful. And if it catches on, maybe itll stick around as a way to keep sending stuff.
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Why Facebook Is Withdrawing WhatsApp from the IBM Cloud – Market Realist
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Facebook (FB) is pulling itsWhatsApp hosting from IBM (IBM) Cloud to its own data centers, according to a recent CNBC report.WhatsApp has been hosted on IBM Cloud for yearsbefore it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Withdrawing WhatsApp from IBMs cloud is viewed as part of Facebooks search for operating synergies.
Facebook has developed more efficient server technology under its OCP (Open Compute Project), which is saving it a significant amount of money in its data center operations. Facebook disclosed in 2015 that it had saved more than $2.0 billion in costs from OCP in the previous three years.
By bringing WhatsApp to its data centers, Facebook would eliminate its expenses for hosting the app on IBM Cloud.
Pulling WhatsApp from a third-party cloud wouldnt be a surprising move, as the company has done this with other apps it has acquired. For example, by the time Facebook acquired WhatsApp, it was already in the process of migrating Instagrams hosting from Amazon Web Services (AMZN) to its own data centers.
WhatsApp has garnered 1.2 billion monthly active users, similar to the user base of Facebooks Messenger and higher than the 700.0 million Instagram users. The flagship Facebook app has nearly 2.0 billion monthly subscribers, as shown in the chart above.
WhatsApp is said to be one of IBMs large cloud customers. Moving it away from IBM Cloud could be viewed as a setback for Big Blue in its competition with Amazon, Microsoft (MSFT), and Alphabets (GOOGL) Google for control of the cloud computing market.
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You need a cloud exit plan, even for AWS, Google, Microsoft, or IBM … – InfoWorld
The cloud computing infrastructure marketIaaS, PaaS, and private hostingcontinues to consolidate around the four major providers, as they maintain or even grow market share at the expense of smaller providers.
AWS has continued to grow its revenues more rapidly than the overall market. In other words, AWS is the one to beat, and it will likely remain so for sometime. According to Synergy Research Groups Q2 2017 data, AWS now has 34 percent of the cloud infrastructure market share, followed by Microsoft at 11 percent, IBM at 8 percent, and Google at 5 percent.
This latest data underscores a long-term trend of consolidation, and thats something enterprises need a strategy for.
If you have picked a weak cloud provider, meaning one that has not established a sustainable market share, you could find your cloud services turned off in a few years. We already saw this happen a few years ago as several smaller IaaS providers left the market a few years ago. And it will happen again.
As a result, you could find that that the public cloud services youve depended on for years might be shut down without much notice.AWS, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are all well funded companies, so they are not likely to drop public cloud services right away if the going gets rough. But there are no guarantees. Google, for example, could one day decide that its relatively small market share isnt worth continued investment.
So, how do you protect yourself? Watching the market is one way to do it, but its impossible to predict the technology market with any degree of certainty.
A better way is to have an exit plan, including which provider to go to, how to migrate your data and applications, what the costs will be, and what the impact will be on your business. Business continuity planning was long a staple of IT management; it needs to be one for cloud management as well.
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CCS points users of major expiring frameworks towards G-Cloud – PublicTechnology.net
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Users of two soon-to-expire frameworks worth a cumulative total of more than 750m are being directed towards G-Cloud, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has said.
In its monthly update, CCS today announced that bodies currently using the Computer-Based Testing Services vehicle should look to G-Cloud when the deal expires on 17 October. The framework, which has a spending pot of up to 400mwas primarily launched to find a company which could provide digital service for the roughly 1.7mpeople in the UK who sit the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agencys driving theory test each year.
The framework also came with a requirement to digitally deliver an estimated annual total of 400,000 literacy, numeracy, and computer skills tests on behalf of the Department for Education.
The deal, which commenced its scheduled four-year term on 18 October 2013, picked learndirect Limited as its sole supplier. The Sheffield-based learning services provider is not on G-Cloud 9, the latest iteration of the governments flagship cloud framework, which went live in May. The new agreement features a total of 2,847 suppliers across three lots: Cloud Hosting; Cloud Software; and Cloud Support.
The move to push users of the testing services framework towards G-Cloud follows similar guidance from CCS in its July update in regards to the Managed eMail Framework, which expires later this month.
The vehicle, which came with a budget of 350m, was put in place in 2014 for an initial term of two years. Its remit was to find suppliers to deliver managed email services to central government departments and their arms-length bodies, non-departmental public bodies, NHS organisations, and local authorities.
From 29 August, any entities procuring services through the framework should, instead, turn to G-Cloud, CCS said.
The managed email contract was split into three lots, with same four suppliers being appointed to each: BT; Accenture; General Dynamics; and CSC. The first three of these are on G-Cloud 9, although the latter is not.
Since the first iteration of G-Cloud was launched in 2012, a total of about 1.7bn has been spent through the various frameworks, as of November 2016. Monthly G-Cloud spending has reached as high as 71.6m, a figure achieved in August of last year.
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Secure Cloud Storage Service India Benefits All Types Of Businesses – HostReview.com (press release) (blog)
Secure Cloud Storage Service India Benefits All Types Of Businesses
In todays IT setup, organizations are deliberating about the cloud technology for the right solutions. Many businesses have adopted it and are successfully accomplishing their goals while many are still hesitant for some reason or the other and find the traditional hosting more comfortable. However, the trend is changing rapidly, and businesses are seeking the secure cloud storage service India for more efficient data storage and recovery.
Types of cloud computing:
One of the significant benefits that the secure cloud storage service India offers to the small and medium businesses is the data storage, backup and archiving solutions. Since the cloud infrastructure is offered over the internet the services of one cloud provider caters to the needs of numerous unrelated users at a time.
Consumers can choose from three types of cloud hosting- one is the most affordable, scalable and flexible public cloud which runs on the multi-tenancy model. The second option for the large organizations that seek control and privacy can go for the private cloud and thirdly the hybrid cloud solutions that give the combined features of both private and public cloud.
Why You should go for paid cloud storage:
There are many providers that offer free cloud storage services. However, they come with limited features and several restrictions that will not suit your requirements if you are serious about your business. They will offer limited storage space.
On the other hand, the benefits you get with the secure cloud storage service India is highly scalable. With data increasing tremendously for businesses of all sizes. You need flexible solutions and cloud offers them to you. In case you have a heavy traffic, inflow and need to increase your storage capacity, you can do it with a couple of clicks. Same way, once the rush is settled down; you can reduce your capacity. You will be paying for services you have consumed on the pay-as-you-use model.
Location free access:
Another benefit of the secure cloud storage service India is that you can access your applications from anywhere and any compatible device with an internet connection. This helps businesses to continue with the work even when they are on the move.
Data safety and security:
Your data is safe and easily recoverable instantly. The cloud storage backup India providers replicate your data across multiple servers. In case there is a mishap or accidental deletion, your data can easily be retrieved from the other servers where it is cached. It is safe from hackers and fraudsters since the providers encrypt the entire data as they are replicating and transmitting over servers in the network. Likewise, your data and business keep running even if a disaster strikes your business premises.
What you need from your secure cloud storage service India provider:
To have the best impact on the benefits of the cloud choose a provider that offers 24/7 support. They must be available to attend to your issues at any time. Your provider maintains and manages the servers. So, you cannot be sure where your servers are and will be relying on their services to make sure your business is available throughout the year with minimum latency and downtime.
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