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Key trends in cloud infrastructure: Hybrid, smart storage, security, and more – Cloud Tech
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The past decade has brought much change to the IT infrastructure industry as enterprise IT companies scale up their data consumption to unprecedented levels. Todays enterprise IT giants require far more speed, power and bandwidth to successfully run their businesses and this is only possible via enhancements to the underlying infrastructure.
Infrastructure develops so quickly that industry practices in 2020 will likely be unrecognisable from what they were 10 years ago. Infrastructure has become more powerful, faster and more secure - and we have still only just scratched the surface of whats possible.
This article will examine some of the current trends within the industry as it stands, as well a look at what the future holds for IaaS in 2017.
The thinking behind cloud technology can be traced back to the sixties but it has been somewhat of a late bloomer. Technology giants are now investing more in cloud technology and this has had a strong impact on Internet infrastructure providers and consumers. At the same time, the rate of adoption of cloud technology is growing among smaller-sized businesses and also in the consumer market, as the cloud continues to permeate our daily lives.
Thanks to the advancements in infrastructure, there are now multi-cloud solutions. That means, using cloud hosting technology across multiple data centres to harness their collective power. A multi-cloud solution can offer increased resilience in the network and can mitigate latency issues for IaaS providers. The best multi-cloud solutions are those with integrated management and security hosting environments, as they allow for a seamless transfer of information.
Nowadays, IaaS providers are using the cloud to implement big data solutions. Big data computations and storage can now all take place within the cloud environment which means data is more widely available and can be accessed instantly. However, as big data solutions become commonplace, the mainstream infrastructure must also scale up accordingly to meet the needs of modern businesses.
As big data continues to grow there is an increased need for storage (now known as smart storage). Autonomic storage is the next generation of hybrid storage solutions and is an example of real innovation in the IaaS industry. It places data on the appropriate storage tier, enabling tier-to-tier data migration meaning that storage is no longer passive but instead improves both the performance and flexibility of the network.
In addition to smart storage, advances in technology have also made data more secure. With so many high-profile cyber security attacks and breaches in 2016, the security of data within the Internet infrastructure has become paramount for all IaaS providers and businesses alike. IaaS providers implement managed security systems as part of their offering, adding an increased layer of security to the network whilst specialist infrastructure providers are best placed to implement security on the network. In fact, many companies are currently reaping the rewards of outsourcing their data security to high-quality cyber security specialists.
As 2017 goes on, it is clear that the cloud will be undergoing significant developments. Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions will also require vigilant management as workloads increase, whilst cloud infrastructure providers will have to ensure that they are capable of managing modern cloud solutions and ensure as much of the process as possible is automated to eliminate the risk of human error.
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Jelastic joined forces with MassiveGRID to provide developers and DevOps teams with a high-end cloud hosting platform – Benzinga
Jelastic joined forces with MassiveGRID to provide developers and DevOps teams with a high-end cloud hosting platform
(PRWEB) April 06, 2017
Jelastic Inc., the cloud orchestration platform that combines PaaS, Docker containers orchestrator and Elastic VPS offerings in one solution within a single management panel, introduced MassiveGRID LTD. as a new hosting partner with data centers in New York, London and Singapore.
MassiveGRID, a worldwide high-end Service Provider with extended hands-on experience in the fields of hosting, turnkey service solution & development, started cooperation with Jelastic in order to enrich their service portfolio and enter the PaaS business, by offering a scalable, flexible and highly-available application hosting for developers.
"MassiveGRID partnered with Jelastic to provide customers with High Availability on a service level, keeping them out from hardware infrastructure configurations and complex SysAdmin tasks. We are offering pure service access through Jelastic wide portfolio of 100+ applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and many others, currently available through the Marketplace. We are confident that a combination of HA and PaaS is a key to success," said Bill Stoidis, MassiveGRID's CEO.
MassiveGRID PaaS offers a peace-of-mind experience to developers and companies who need to host their applications on a reliable platform with all the necessary tools available. Developers can design, develop, run, and manage applications without a need to build and maintain the associated infrastructure. The platform provides automatic scalability, that scales applications vertically and horizontally during load spikes.
Within Jelastic intuitive UI developers receive user-friendly application topology wizard, deployment manager and CI/CD tools integration. One more proof of automation goes ahead with Jelastic Marketplace, that provides a rich set of preconfigured applications for one click installation. The Jelastic ecosystem offers a hassle-free experience to any developer, who will be paying only for the resources consumed.
"We are excited to reinforce Jelastic worldwide presence with high-end service provider MassiveGRID. A new partnership unleashes great opportunities for customers with business critical services who are looking for highly available and performing turnkey cloud hosting in the USA, the United Kingdom, and Singapore," said Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic CEO and Co-founder.
MassiveGRID PaaS is initially available through their highly available data centers in New York, London & Singapore and they plan to open even more regions within Jelastic Multi Cloud soon. Customers can experience scalable cloud hosting with MassiveGRID for free during a 14 day trial period.
About Jelastic: Jelastic is a cloud platform for hosting applications that can be deployed on bare metal hardware or any IaaS. Currently, it is running as public, private and hybrid cloud on top of more than 50 data centers worldwide. The platform provides certified containers for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and .NET and the ability to use custom Docker containers. Jelastic offers agile deployment models without coding to proprietary APIs, flexible automatic scaling for stateless and stateful applications, collaboration, access control, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, built-in billing and business analytics tools, while driving down TCO with high density and hardware utilization. For more information, visit us at https://jelastic.com/
About MassiveGRID: MassiveGRID is a global service provider, which specializes in high-availability hosting since 2003. It operates in the best datacenters around the globe, in order to provide leading-class services to their customers. MassiveGRID is so confident of its service offering reliability that it commits to a 100% SLA to all its Dedicated Servers & Private Clouds. The Company's competitive advantage in High-Availability architecture, along with its flexibility to offer any kind of customized solution, in terms of resources, places it in a leading position against competition. For more information, please visit https://www.massivegrid.com/
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Cloud ERP move requires grasp of different types of cloud computing – TechTarget
One difficulty of planning to move your ERP to the cloud: The term is largely a marketing creation. Depending on who's doing the talking, cloud can mean many different things. No wonder there is still a lot of confusion about the different types of cloud computing.
"Cloud is more of a branding and marketing apparatus for the industry to package services in a consumable way," than it is a term with concrete meaning, said Stephen Moss, senior vice president of managed technologies at PCM, an IT services provider.
Chris LeBeau, director of IT at Advanced Technology Services chimed in, "Many people are still confused, and sometimes fooled, by deployment options that vendors slap the cloud buzzword on, but [which] are really the old hosting model that simply takes what might have been on-premises and puts it in the vendor's data center."
This arrangement describes classic IT outsourcing or managed services, and it has existed for decades.
Cloud, on the other hand, carries the connotation of services and software being delivered and maintained by a provider, along with an IT infrastructure.
"The cloud to me is more based on next-generation services and the ability to continue to innovate and enhance your processes," Moss said. Cloud is, by nature, more dynamic than IT outsourcing.
Sorting through the different types of cloud computing is an important task before proceeding with migration planning for ERP. The selection of platforms and types of cloud computing services can affect your costs, degree of flexibility and security, as well as the amount of customization that is possible.
When most people talk about cloud today, they are referring to the shifting of IT infrastructure from running on-premises to running in a cloud provider's environment. The software, platforms or IT infrastructures are maintained by a services provider in the public cloud (such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure) or the private cloud (one operated by a services provider).
With public cloud, the deployment may be multi-tenant, where infrastructure is shared by more than one company, thereby reducing costs, or private -- also called single tenant -- where the customer has its own dedicated database and code base, resulting in comparatively higher costs. A software as a service (SaaS) ERP system is a type of public cloud application that can be either single or multi-tenant.
Today, most manufacturers that have migrated to the cloud have hybrid cloud environments, meaning they use a mix of different types of cloud computing and on-premises deployments of IT resources for the optimal balance of agility and cost. Hybrid environments are often necessary, as cloud ERP vendors do not always have every capability a manufacturer might need. Functions such as distribution and warehousing are easily carved off to reside either on-premises or with a different cloud service provider.
Private cloud allows a much greater degree of customization than public -- where there is little to no customization -- but at a price. This offering is designed for higher security, as the environment is not shared.
The key when sorting through the different types of cloud computing is to understand, at a high level, what flavor of cloud the ERP vendor provides -- some offer multiple types of cloud computing -- while not getting bogged down in the technicalities.
"Don't get hung up on the type of cloud offering," said Linsey Ryan, principal in the enterprise solutions practice at consulting firm KPMG. "If I were a buyer, I would look at capabilities and how much they cost. Those things are the most important to me."
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New Study Shows AWS Losing Ground to Azure in Enterprises – Virtualization Review
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It's the latest in a series of surveys that show Microsoft's public cloud gaining developer and admin mindshare.
Although Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) still maintains its lead in the public cloud space, Microsoft's Azure platform may be turning the tide in larger enterprises. A new survey lends credence to that perception.
The survey comes vio Sumo Logic, examining "The New Normal: Cloud, DevOps, and SaaS Analytics Tools Reign in The Modern App Era."
Sumo Logic, which describes itself as a "machine data analytics service," contracted UBM to survey 235 IT operations, application development, and information security professionals at companies with at least 500 employees, with about half of the respondents working at companies with 5,000 or more employees.
At that high end of the enterprise spectrum, the survey found, Azure actually beats AWS.
"In the early days of the cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) took the lead as the cloud computing vendor of choice," the survey report said. "But the survey revealed that as the cloud matures, organizations are becoming more comfortable with vendors other than AWS and are using multiple cloud vendors. In fact, while other reports show that AWS still has a lead in cloud market share, the top cloud vendor in this survey -- which included only organizations with at least 500 employees -- was Microsoft Azure.
"When asked which IaaS or PaaS vendors they were using (with multiple responses allowed), 66 percent of respondents cited Azure. Interestingly, more than half of the Azure users were from organizations with more than 10,000 employees, which suggests that Microsoft's cloud is particularly popular with large enterprises. AWS came in second with 55 percent of respondents, followed by Salesforce App Cloud (28 percent), IBM Cloud (23 percent), and Google Cloud (20 percent)."
This finding reinforces some conclusions from other surveys. For example, last month's survey from Spiceworks Inc. found that Azure beat AWS in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) space. That report said: "In the public cloud IaaS provider category, Microsoft Azure is the most commonly used (16 percent), followed closely by Amazon Web Services (AWS) at 13 percent. Azure is also expected to see the most growth in the next 12 months with 21 percent of IT pros considering it -- while AWS is being considered by 11 percent."
A January report from financial analyst FBR Capital Markets said: "We continue to believe 2016 will be a '206 area code street battle for the cloud,' with Microsoft firmly best positioned as the vendor to compete with AWS on the enterprise cloud front for years to come."
Going further back, a RightScale Inc. report from 2015 said: "Cloud competition for enterprises (1000+ employees) got a lot more interesting in 2015. AWS still maintains a lead (50 percent vs. 49 percent in 2014), but Azure IaaS has closed the gap significantly (19 percent vs. 11 percent in 2014). As a result, the AWS lead in the enterprise narrowed from more than 4x to 2.5x its nearest competitor."
Taken together, these and other reports indicate that if AWS has any vulnerabilities that threaten its longstanding cloud computing leadership, they come at the high end and in IaaS offerings.
However, as mentioned, there are always contrasting reports to point to. For example, brand-new research from VisionMobile Ltd. almost directly disputes the Sumo Logic report.
The VisionMobile survey report said: "Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most popular primary cloud hosting at every company size. For the smallest companies (1-5 employees) where Amazon has just a 15 percent share, they face very credible competition from Microsoft (12 percent), Google (11 percent), and Digital Ocean (10 percent). However, when we look at larger companies, Amazon's share grows to 26-27 percent at every size, Microsoft stays in the 11-13 percent range, while Google fades along with Digital Ocean."
Among developers, though, that VisionMobile report somewhat echoes the big-company advantage of Azure, stating: "Microsoft shows greater strength equally with developers who target large enterprises, and those who target small to medium businesses (14 percent each)," it continued. "They are weaker with those targeting consumers (11 percent) or professionals (9 percent)."
Moving beyond the issue of market share, other key findings of the Sumo Logic report highlighted by the company include:
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VMware exits hybrid cloud hosting business with sale of vCloud Air to OVH – SiliconANGLE (blog)
VMware is exiting the hybrid cloud hosting business as the company sells its long-struggling vCloud Air division to French hosting company OVH for an undisclosed price.
Introduced at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas in 2008 with the hybrid service following in 2013, vCloud Air was pitched as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud hosting offering that aimed to deliver enterprise information technology departments an edge in managing heterogeneous cloud environments versus competitorsthat mostly offered homogeneous solutions.
Competing directly withAmazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM Softlayer, vCloud Air failed to gain serious traction with a product offering that lacked key features offered by itsrivals, including pay-as-you-go pricing and even the ability to sign up to the service with a credit card.
In 2015, a year when Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.s analyst group raised many doubts about the service, it was declared as pretty much dead. Rumors flew thatVMware had drastically scaled back development of the service and was considering pulling theplug on it altogether.
VMware had insisted the service was on track. In a SiliconANGLEinterview in August 2015VMware Vice President of Cloud Services Matthew Lodge claimed that the service was growing rapidly and that it had become one of the big three players in the space. The executive claimed the service enjoyed 80 percent year-on-year growth contributing $350 million to $450 million to VMwares revenues.
VMwares top cloud executive Bill Fathersstepped down as boss of vCloud Air in April 2016 when it was noted again that thefuture of the service was once again uncertain, this time in light of the then-upcoming merger between VMwares parent company EMC Corp. and Dell Inc.
OVH, which is one of the largest web hosting companies in the world according to figures from Netcraft, was naturally more positive about the vCloud Air business. It saidin a statement that with this acquisition, OVH will offer a very unique value proposition for larger enterprise deployments, including rich capabilities for migration and advanced hybrid functionalities for virtual data centers. This will benefit all our clients across the globe.
After the acquisition, which is expected to close in the current quarter,vCloud Air customers in the U.S. and Europe will be moved to OVH, which has 20 data centers in 17 countries with 260,000 servers. According to Forbes, the acquisition does not include the corehybrid cloud technology underlying the product, meaning that existing vCloud Air partnersincluding Rackspace Inc. and IBM Corp. will still have access to the technology directly from VMware itself.
The acquisition will not affect VMwares bottom line. The company reiterated its previously issued financial guidance for the first quarter and full fiscal year 2018.
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Oracle secures ISO 27001, HIPAA and SOC certifications for its cloud portfolio – Cloud Tech
Oracle has announced its public cloud services have achieved various security and compliance certifications, including ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC1 and SOC2, in what the company describes as continued momentum for its products.
The Redwood giants platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) has received Service Organisation Control (SOC) attestations across a variety of key services, while its Fusion software as a service (SaaS) is HIPAA-accredited and the ISO 27001 was awarded for the proper management and security of assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted to an organisation by third parties.
The move puts Oracle alongside its various industry competitors; for example, Microsofts SOC1 and SOC2 information can be found here copies of the report are only available to customers who have signed an NDA while ISO 27001 can be found here. The Oracle accreditations were administered by Schellman & Co.
Oracle is continuously investing time and resources to meet our customers strict requirements across highly regulated industries, said Erika Voss, Oracle global senior director for public cloud compliance, risk and privacy in a statement. These new certifications not only validate the reliability and security features of the Oracle Cloud; they effectively make Oracles solutions available to thousands of new customers in the healthcare and public sector industries.
Writing for this publication last year, Frank Krieger, director of compliance at cloud hosting provider iland, explained the benefits of ISO 27001. The business benefits of ISO 27001 certification are many, Krieger wrote. ISO 27001 is an effective way to reduce the risk of your organisation suffering a data breach, satisfies audit requirements and establishes trust both internally and externally that security controls are properly managed, providing customers with greater confidence in doing business with you.
Oracles efforts to become the leader in public cloud, after a slow initial start, have been well documented. The company announced total cloud revenues, including IaaS, at $1.2bn in its most recent quarter, with CTO Larry Ellison telling analysts that its next-generation data centres have capabilities which potentially dwarf Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to figures from Synergy Research, the four leading players in the cloud IaaS market AWS, Microsoft, IBM and Google remain entrenched, although singling out Oracle for its high growth rate.
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DWP’s outlines challenging progress to cloud and smaller contracts – Diginomica
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) doesnt have the best track record when it comes to digital agility. Can it make the necessary improvements?
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was at Cloud Expo Europe last week, keen to highlight the progress it has made on its digital transformation journey, one that has been typically long and complicated as befits any large UK government department.
The journey was prompted by the arrival of the coalition governments ICT strategy back in 2011, which called for better efficiencies, reuse of services, openness, and a move away from large IT contracts and towards smaller suppliers. Under the strategy, no contract was supposed to be over 100m for its lifetime value and no hosting contract was meant to be longer than two years.
At the time, DWP IT was totally outsourced, so James Barton, head of Delivery Leadership at DWP Digital, knew everything had to change.
There was going to be a move away from Tier 1 suppliers, levelling the playing field for smaller suppliers, sharing solutions and a cloud-first policy. This has been a long journey, its six years and still counting. A department like ours is very large, so changes do take a long time.
There has been scant evidence of the DWPs savvy handling of IT contracts. Back in 2008, the department launched the tendering process for a two-package desktop services deal worth 4.5bn, which HP won a chunk of. By 2010, the DWP had ditched HP and handed the contract to Fujitsu; a year later, roles were reversed Fujitsu lost the deal and HP was reappointed.
This pattern continued even post-2011. In 2014, the DWP put out a request for bids for an IT contract worth up to 120m to replace the DWPs existing hosting services deal with HP, signed back in 2002 to the tune of 440m. Fast forward to February 2015, when the deal was about to expire, and the DWP announced it had awarded a three-year hosting contract to none other than HP. But Barton insists the DWP is adapting its approach to suppliers.
We want the department to be a better place to support third parties. Removing barriers of entry we had in the past from the outsourced contract and making it so that subject matter experts and small organisations can come in and do what they do best in a cost-efficient way.
As the UKs biggest public services department, responsible for delivering pensions and benefits, the DWP has millions of people relying on a successful transformation. Barton, who has been with the DWP for 10 years and is responsible for all major IT infrastructure projects, compares its scale to that of a sizeable retail organisation, with 800 locations and a large network of contact centres employing 85,000 people across the UK. The DWP pays out 2.8m every day in benefits, has a budget of 168bn, and serves 22 million customers, who Barton says can expect an improvement in services.
Were looking to build a better digital service. We want to do this around our new systems, based on cloud. We want to choose the best technology out there. This is digital transformation on a massive scale. The department still has a lot of legacy systems, a lot of old systems and this is part of transforming all that into the new cloud technology.
But the DWP faced a large obstacle to achieving this kind of transformation: its existing all-encompassing IT outsourcing contract, according to Barton.
It fixed all the problems we had prior to that contract around resilience, security and stability. But there are problems with those large monolithic contracts: maintaining the currency of the technology; continually struggling to get off the old operating systems; applying patches; unable to get the cheaper, quicker, better devices in as theres no real incentive for innovation.
We drifted away from market competitive prices. We ran benchmarks and by the last one we had no single price in competitive rates.
But exiting such a large contract was never going to be a short-term programme, and Barton noted that the DWP was lacking the facilities, the capabilities and the people to support its own IT.
We were looking to disaggregate, we want contracts that are less than 100m. When we started this seemed impossible, to get to 100m. We had an annual spend of 260m. The strategy was to do something very different.
Barton emphasised how big a job the DWP faces in moving its applications from one outsourced infrastructure to its own cloud-based systems by sharing the current IT setup at the department.
We maintain over 1,000 applications. Theyre not all big, but some are extremely big we have some of the largest databases in Europe, if not the world. Some are very small, you wouldnt really refer to them as an application, more a spreadsheet or an Access database.
We process more payments every day than several banks. We run 50 million lines of code within the applications. We exchange 10 million data records with other departments, with local authorities and their agencies. We have about 10,000 changes to our IT systems every year. Most of those changes are legislative, we have to put those changes in line and respond by a certain date. And we respond as a department to 2.2 million IT issues per year, in the offices, on the phone and online.
The problem the department faced quite quickly was that systems needed to be migrated away from the old mainframe and Unix infrastructure. One of the first steps on the DWPs digital journey was to acquire some of its own data center space to host applications, along with starting a DevOps programme and building its own cloud capability. It is using private cloud hosting for the most sensitive data, and is also considering services such as AWS for functions like testing.
By the end of April, the data center will be ready to host applications, and it already has its private cloud tested. The next step is to migrate the applications onto cloud hosting.
The key elements of that, both in terms of monitoring, and deployment and testing, is weve made big strides as a department to introduce the automation required to enable repeatability and resilience. So far about half of the applications have been moved out of the monolithic contract. The data center is up and running for test and dev; within the next month, thats when itll start being ready for production.
Barton also has to contend with the current governments commitment or lack of to the digital and cloud-first strategy set out by previous Cabinet Office Minister, Lord Francis Maude. As Derek du Preez noted in his exclusive interview with Maude in February, there is a general consensus among the new powers that be that too much power at the centre is fractious, and more emphasis is being placed on departmental-level capability. There is also a softening of approach towards the larger technology suppliers. When questioned on how this affects his job, Barton explained:
Why does it take us from 2011 to do some of these things? Its those kinds of reasons. There were five predecessors heading up the programme that delivers this, one was initially my boss, he was a really really good guy. Why did he fail? Things change, the money wasnt there.
Its a real problem for delivering things across government. How do we keep things going? We have to remain flexible, we have to be able to react to those things, and I think cloud gives that.
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Agreement Between Jaleel Holdings and BIOS for Fully Managed Cloud Services – Yahoo Finance
DUBAI, UAE, April 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
As the popularity of cloud computing grows across the Gulf, more companies are starting to adopt the benefits of cloud services into their business infrastructure. One of them is the UAE based investment company Jaleel Holdings. The company has interests in multiple sectors, including, education, metal fabrication, logistics, and fast-moving consumer goods.
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As part of its growth strategy, Jaleel Holdings entered into an agreement for managed cloud services with BIOS, a leading cloud service provider in the UAE. Jaleel Holding's several sites across the UAE will connect to CloudHPT in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
"BIOS is proud to execute the latest technology innovations in the cloud service sector and provide Jaleel Holding with a reliable and constantly developing service that will help them grow across the UAE markets", says Dominic Docherty, Chairman at BIOS.
Being a multi-profile holding company that runs operations across a wide range of industries, Jaleel Holdings counts on full-time infrastructure and application availability. As the company runs 24/7 operations and works with very large number of transactions each day, downtime and data loss are critical to the continuity of the business. Failing to maintain complete security and peak performance would result in significant reputation and financial losses for the holding. This is where BIOS stands as a solution.
The locally-based servers of CloudHPT allow BIOS to provide around-the-clock monitoring, analysis, service management and offer a complete availability of hosted applications.
CloudHPT is the first and only Cisco-powered cloud in the UAE which utilizes the latest Cisco UCS technology. Being built on high-performance technology (HPT), CloudHPT uses some of the most modern innovations in the industry including VMware and Cisco's application-centric infrastructure (ACI), to deliver the most advanced cloud platform in the Middle East region.
The innovative total availability protection suite service (TAPS) by BIOS provides production hosting in Dubai with disaster recovery services to Abu Dhabi while protecting the business continuity of the holding. Part of the agreement between BIOS and Jaleel holdings includes the hosting of SAP HANA, Nav, iRetail, and other critical business applications. The newly developed database as a service (DBaaS) will be a leading factor for the successful cloud service operations of the UAE cloud provider. DBaaS provides BIOS with the required technical resources to support various types of databases and provide fully managed infrastructure and application layer services.
"We're looking forward to growing profitability and reaching peak performance with the help of the managed cloud services by BIOS. We believe cloud services are the future of IT-driven businesses and we're excited to implement the innovations of cloud computing into our daily operations to guarantee consistency in growth across multiple markets," says Sameer K. Mohamed, Managing Director at Jaleel Holdings.
"Many organizations are holding back on cloud computing citing security reasons, higher operational cost and local regulatory requirements. But cloud has emerged to solve these challenges, offering companies a more agile infrastructure that enables them to address ever-evolving regulatory requirements, while addressing sophisticated threats with specialized security expertise relentlessly tracking on the threat groups around the world. With a strong team of BIOS, I'm sure my team can now focus on innovative ways to reach & work closely with our customers, onboard them across multiple channels, understand & help them - all in a more secure way," added Venu Gomathy, Head of IT at Jaleel Holdings.
About Jaleel Holdings
Headquartered in Dubai, Jaleel Holdings is now an AED 1.3 billion top line company with strong presence in trading and distribution of fast moving consumer goods (FMCG). Jaleel Holdings owns Jaleel Cash & Carry (the largest FMCG wholesaler in the UAE), Jaleel Distribution and J Mart supermarkets. Jaleel Holdings has also interests in the education and industrial solutions sectors. Jaleel Distribution is a significant component of Jaleel Holdings, offering a high degree of personalized service to the region's most prestigious customers including leading hypermarkets, supermarkets, groceries, convenience stores, hotels, restaurants and other institutions.
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BIOS is a System Integrator and Cloud provider based in the UAE.
CloudHPT is the first Certified Cisco Powered Cloud provider in the region. Our solutions are built on High Performance Technology (hence HPT) and housed in the UAE's best datacenters.
For more information, pleasevisit http://www.biosme.comor contactNidhi Salva, nidhi@cloudhpt.com, +971-4-3789082.
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Achieving Peak Cloud Performance Don’t Do It Alone – The Media Temple Blog (press release) (blog)
Achieving Peak Cloud Performance Don't Do It Alone The Media Temple Blog (press release) (blog) Enlisting the help of a managed services provider can help organizations better leverage the potential of cloud hosting while lessening the burden on their internal IT team. It can also provide a deeper level of assistance and expertise, and ... |
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MTN woos firms with cloud plan – Daily Nation
Thursday March 30 2017
A woman walks past the entrance of the headquarters of South Africa's MTN Group in Johannesburg. FILE PHOTO | REUTERS
Telecommunications firm MTN has opened a data centre at its Mombasa Road offices in Nairobi as part of a strategy to attract smaller businesses to its cloud computing services.
The tier III facility, the second highest classification level for data centres, will provide MTN clients with robust remote computing capabilities.
The data centre offers redundancy and service availability about 99.9 per cent of the time, with maximum interruptions of 1.6 hours per year. It also offers power outage protection for at least 72 hours.
MTN says that it is particularly interested in extending the reach of its cloud accounting application and growing its business reselling Microsofts cloud service Azure.
The SME space is quite big. These are small guys that cannot afford to invest a lot in infrastructure. We want them to be able to their business using online applications, said MTN Business managing director, Mr Kennedy Chinganya.
The data center has the capacity for 70 racks, of which 24 are connected. A rack is basically shelving space on which servers sit. Each of the racks at MTNs new data centre can accommodate 42 high density servers.
MTNs new facility is relatively small. Liquid Telecoms East Africa Data Centre, a tier III facility, has 600 racks at its Nairobi. Mr Chinganya said that MTN has data centers with capacities of 5,000 racks in other parts of the continent.
Technology companies, globally and locally, are positioning themselves to compete on cloud computing and data hosting services. American multinational IBM last month brought its cognitive cloud computing services to Kenya through a deal with Sidian Bank.
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