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Fusion Adds Capabilities With MegaPath

11 May 2018 Alice Marshall Cloud Computing

Cloud service provider Fusion pays $71.5 million for MegaPath-- acquiring cloud services including Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), cloud computing, security, SD-WAN and cloud connectivity.

MegaPath also brings around 8000 SMB and large enterprise customers, as well as 45 sales representatives. Fusion says the deal provides with a stable of cloud services professionals, together with a "robust" back office platform.

“This transaction is further evidence that Fusion is rapidly building a cloud services industry leader around our unique and compelling single-source strategy," Fusion says. "MegaPath is an ideal fit with our strategic objectives as it adds a diverse, high-value business customer base, a team of cloud services experts, and incremental financial scale, with a high percentage of MRR, high ARPU and low churn relative to industry averages. Given the similarities between our businesses, we expect the MegaPath acquisition to facilitate the customer, operational and financial integration of Birch, enabling us to drive Fusion’s strategy more efficiently across the entire organisation.”

Ingram Micro Presents CloudBlue

04 May 2018 Marco Attard Cloud Computing

Ingram Micro launches CloudBlue-- an independent software division formed through several Ingram Micro investments, aimed at service providers wanting to build, scale and monetise cloud services.

The CloudBlue platform is different from the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace offering. It promises to allow service providers of any size and a "wide variety" of business models to automate, aggregate and monetise own cloud and digital services, as well as services from 3rd parties. It also allows ISVs to take offerings to market across the entire multi-service provider ecosystem through the Ingram Micro cloud commerce and anything-as-a-service (XaaS) platform.

Equinix Connects Paris to Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

04 May 2018 Marco Attard Cloud Computing

Equinix Connects Paris to Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

Datacentre operator Equinix announces the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute private connectivity service is now available for customers in the Paris market at the same speeds offered in 20 other markets globally.

Azure ExpressRoute provides a private dedicate link between on-premises IT systems and the Microsoft cloud, bypassing the public internet to enable secure and reliable data transfers. As Equinix puts it, direct access to a cloud onramp via edge note ensures performance, reliability and optimal cost efficiency.

Currently Equinix provides private connections to Azure in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Miami, New York, Osaka, Paris, São Paulo, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington DC.

Juniper Claims Easier Multicloud Management

27 April 2018 Alice Marshall Cloud Computing

Juniper Claims Easier Multicloud Management

Juniper sets to make management of workloads on multiple cloud environments easier with Contrail Enterprise Multicloud-- a platform with multidomain orchestration and advanced analytics capabilities.

Positioned as a more open alternative to Cisco ACI or VMware NSX, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud enables policy and control capability for any workload across multi-vendor networking environments and most server deployments on any cloud, be it public, private or both. Customers can manage and monitor workload policies from a single command centre, streamlining workflows across bare metal servers, VMs, containers and network devices.

AWS Adds Blockchain With Templates

27 April 2018 Marco Attard Cloud Computing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) follows the likes of Oracle, IBM and Huawei with a "blockchain-as-a-service"-- Blockchain Templates, a means for customers to quickly build secure blockchain networks on the cloud.

The company itself admits there is a lot of confusion surrounding the idea of the blockchain. In fact, the blog post detailing Blockchain Templates compares current discussion of the technology to "Shimmer Floor Wax," a "Saturday Night Live" sketch about a floor polish that is also a dessert topping. AWS describes the blockchain as having "lots of intriguing possibilities," be it as as "the foundation of a new monetary system" or as "a distributed ledger and immutable data source" one can apply to multiple use cases.