CLOUD COMMUNICATION
Aptum | January 17, 2023
Aptum, a hybrid multi-cloud managed service provider, recently announced that it has acquired CloudOps, a Montreal, Canada-based cloud consulting, managed services, and software firm specializing in open source, cloud-native platforms, networking, and DevOps. This strategic acquisition on 5th January 2023, will help Aptum provide hybrid services and multi-cloud solutions, which include advanced cloud migration and DevOps, to customers in 43 countries.
CloudOps has grown from an operations-managed services company to a leader in cloud networking, cloud computing, and DevOps solutions since 2005. Aptum plans to keep a separate CloudOps unit and combine select teams with improving customer solutions, including Advisory and Consulting Services, Support Services, and DevOps.
Aptum will leverage CloudMC's API-driven, modular, and extensible edge orchestration platform to improve its Hybrid Cloud Management Portal. As a result, the progress toward a unified interface for managing hybrid and multi-cloud workloads will be accelerated. In addition, the combined strengths of the two firms will open new markets for their respective products and services in a wide variety of industries, not just telecom but also the media and communications industries, retail, the financial sector, manufacturing, energy, utilities sector hospitality, education, and transportation.
Aptum alongside CloudOps will provide Digital Customer Experience to its customers in Canada, US, and UK across multiple clouds such as Azure (Aptum recently earned the Microsoft Azure Expert MSP Certification), Google, AWS, Hypertec Cloud, and Cox Edge.
About Aptum
Aptum is a global hybrid multi-cloud managed service provider founded in 2019. The company is headquartered in Toronto (Ontario) with an international reach spanning Latin America, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. Aptum's Data as InfrastructureTM strategy allows the company to provide comprehensive solutions and individualized choices to its customers, allowing them to achieve measurable business results and get the most out of their technology budgets. Integrated into a secure network, it provides sophisticated cloud solutions with top performance. It is a portfolio firm of DigitalBridge, a multinational investment firm dedicated to strategic opportunities in digital infrastructure.
About CloudOps
CloudOps is a cloud computing software company founded in 2005. The company specializes in open-source, cloud-native platforms, networking, and DevOps. The company's headquarters will remain in Montreal CloudOps' leadership, and staff will connect with Aptum after the acquisition. Designing and managing cloud platforms to accommodate changing business needs and ensure long-term operational success enables forward-thinking customers to own their destinies in CloudsTM. The company’s primary focus is on telecom, finance, Utility, large enterprise, media, software, healthcare, and public sector organizations.
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CLOUD SECURITY
DartPoints | January 18, 2023
DartPoints, the cloud, colocation, infrastructure, and security solutions provider to enterprises, announced the launch of Bare Metal Cloud Solution. The company's new bare metal packages allow tenants to control the IT infrastructure completely, gaining cloud-like agility along with highly secure physical equipment and offering dedicated servers. The offerings are targeted at organizations seeking high-security levels, customization, and performance.
DartPoints' move into the bare metal market responds to the growing demand for fully customized data center services at the edge. With the continuous growth in data and the rise of hyperconverged technology, experts predicted that "The bare metal cloud market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 25.59% between 2022 and 2027.”
(Source: Technavio)
Bare metal users can build, test, deploy, and maintain their workloads all on a single platform. Without a dedicated compute environment, it can be hard to fine-tune things like compute or storage configurations to meet the needs of an organization. A bare metal setup gives you complete control, more processing power, and the best performance. As a result, bare metal is ideal for many uses, such as high computing power workloads, big data analytics, and hosting apps that need to be constantly updated.
The servers are single tendency and physically isolated, so the overall security is significantly simplified. It makes bare metal a good choice for organizations with strict policy or compliance requirements, like those in the financial, legal, or government sectors.
About DartPoints
DartPoints, a worry-free technology solutions provider, was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company delivers colocation, infrastructure, cloud and security solutions to carriers, enterprises, and cloud and content providers. Its world-class data centers provide redundancy and airtight physical security. The company's comprehensive cloud solution also allows its clients to address technology gaps with a scalable OpEx model. DartPoints believes in providing equal access to life-changing connectivity, bringing cutting-edge infrastructure to mid-size organizations, and bridging the digital divide.
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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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