CLOUD SECURITY
Lemongrass | January 19, 2023
Lemongrass, a company that specializes in moving SAP systems to the cloud, just announced that it will work with Florida Crystals Corporation (FCC), a cane-sugar company based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The collaboration will give the FCC access to Lemongrass's cloud technology, which will allow them to run their SAP systems in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
The partnership resulted in the migration of FCC's SAP systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which began in 2021 and is now complete. Lemongrass continues to provide innovation and ongoing support for the FCC's SAP landscape. This collaboration is exemplary of how companies are using cloud technology to help modernize their businesses.
Mike Rosenbloom, CEO at Lemongrass, said, “We are honored to work with a true industry pioneer like FCC, whose values around sustainability and business efficiency are setting a high standard for their industry.” He added, “We look forward to a continued partnership with Florida Crystals as the company expands its use of SAP on AWS.”
(Source: Globenewswire)
FCC chose to move to the cloud to save money and simplify its applications, as well as to lay the groundwork for future changes. The move to AWS aligns with FCC's goals of being environmentally and socially conscious in their business decisions and will also save them money. FCC and Lemongrass worked together to move their SAP systems to the cloud. The move was finished in 2021, and since then, Lemongrass has been supporting FCC's SAP landscape.
About Lemongrass
Lemongrass is a company that focuses on providing services that are made possible by software, especially in the area of SAP on Cloud. They offer managed services to enterprise customers, using their expertise and best practices to help with SAP transformations. They use their Lemongrass Cloud Platform (LCP) to enable near zero downtime migrations to the cloud and offer managed services for SAP and related workloads. They have customers in multiple industries and regions around the world and partner with major technology companies such as AWS, SAP, Microsoft, and Google.
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AWS INFRASTRUCTURE
Megaport | January 23, 2023
Megaport Limited, one of the leading global Network as a Service (NaaS) providers, recently announced that the company achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outposts Ready Partner Designation as a part of the AWS Service Ready Program. As a result, customers of AWS can now securely connect Outposts racks with AWS Direct Connect service locations using Megaport's global private Software Defined Network, allowing more trustworthy and high-performing application migrations and operations to Outposts.
The AWS Service Ready Program offers customers AWS Partner software solutions that are approved through a technical validation for sound architecture and have been customer success. In addition, AWS Outposts Ready Partners provides products that work with Outposts deployments, are tested by Outposts, and follow architecture best practices and AWS security. AWS Partner Solutions Architects have validated and tested Megaport's solutions through this program, making them a strong recommendation.
Customers of Megaport and Outposts will enjoy the following benefits: More data centre choices with fewer restrictions, Service ready designation where the solution has been tested, validated, and proven by AWS, and network resilience that allows a redundant architecture for the critical AWS Region connectivity. In addition, the customers can use their own network equipment, like routers and switches, within the data centres where the Outposts racks are deployed or can use a virtual routing service, Megaport Cloud Router (MCR), for dynamic BGP routing to AWS Direct Connect.
Vincent English, Chief Executive Officer of Megaport, said, "We're thrilled to be named an AWS Outposts Ready Partner." He added, "Many of our customers run applications that have low-latency requirements and must run on-premises and using Megaport to privately connect Outposts racks to AWS Direct Connect service locations ensures that these applications run reliably and are highly performant.
(Source: Business Wire)
About Megaport
Founded in 2013, Megaport is a Network as a Service (NaaS) solutions provider. The company connects 700+ enabled data centres in 20+ countries in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe with its Software Defined Network (SDN). It provides customers with high-speed, secure, and on-demand connectivity to top cloud networks and managed service providers. Compared to traditional connectivity options, its NaaS solutions give customers more flexibility, lower operating costs, and a faster time to market. Megaport works with the most significant data centre operators, systems integrators, managed service providers worldwide, and the best cloud service providers. It is headquartered in Fortitude Valley, Queensland and is an ISO/IEC 27001-certified company.
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CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
Virtana | January 12, 2023
Virtana, a provider of AI-enabled solutions for hybrid cloud management and monitoring, has announced early access to its Google Cloud support for bill analysis within its solution, Virtana Cloud Cost Management. Customers of Virtana will be able to integrate with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and use Cloud Cost Management bill analysis features. They will also be able to look at trends in their GCP bill by project and service using data from up to 13 months ago.
By analyzing billing data, Virtana customers can gain greater visibility into their cloud costs and identify opportunities to optimize and reduce them. In addition, with early access to its Google Cloud support, Virtana gives customers a powerful tool for figuring out how much their cloud costs are.
Senior cloud product manager at Virtana, David McNerney, said, "We consistently heard from customers that being able to analyze cloud spending over surface trends and time is their top priority in a cost management tool for the cloud, and GCP is a must-have as more customers increasingly adopt multi-cloud infrastructure." (Source: PRNewswire)
Virtana now supports cloud customers using the three primary cloud service providers (CSPs), including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Upcoming GCP support from Virtana will include features like application and business mapping, idle resources, and the ability to export and share reports. In addition, with its new Google Cloud bill analysis support, Virtana gives customers an easy-to-use, data-driven way to determine how much their cloud costs.
About Virtana
Virtana offers a unified multi-cloud management platform to simplify application workload optimization, migration, and monitoring across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. The cloud-agnostic SaaS platform lets businesses efficiently plan their cloud migrations and then adjust workloads across their hybrid cloud infrastructure to optimize performance, capacity, and cost. Most customers see a 25% or more reduction in cloud costs within the first ten days of using the platform.
Virtana has been named CRN's Coolest Cloud Company, Business Insider's Top Cloud Leader Reducing Public Cloud Costs, Comparably's Best Company Culture, and Gartner's Customer First Company.
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