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IBM has unveiled a new mainframe, organizations bringing its "data encryption security without slowing system performance" mid-size. The new system, z13s IBM is enabled and optimized for hybrid cloud environments and would be able to help secure critical information and transactions better than before.

Cyber ​​criminals are now manipulate rather than to steal, according to IBM, compromising accuracy and reliability. The z13s provides access to APIs and microwave services in a hybrid cloud environment while preserving the integrity of the data intact.

"processing fast and secure transactions is at the heart of the IBM mainframe, helping customers grow their digital business in an environment hybrid cloud," said Tom Rosamilia, vice president IBM Systems . "With the new IBM z13s, customers have to choose between security and performance. This speed secure transactions, coupled with the new analytical technology helping to detect malicious activity and built IBM Security offers help midsize customers grow their organizations with peace of mind. "

IBM announced highly integrated "innovations" for the mainframe:

• integrated safety equipment - the new z13s has advanced cryptographic features integrated in hardware enabling it to encrypt and decrypt data two times faster than previous generations, protection of information without compromising performance
• capacity intelligent security -. IBM mainframe technology integrates with the IBM software solutions Security to create a more solid basis for a hybrid cloud infrastructure. IBM also offers a new service for Cyber ​​Security Analytics System z customers, which can help identify malicious activity by learning user behavior over time.

The new z13s "planned availability is March this year. IBM Global Financing leases and payment plans are available from IBM and business partners and provide the terms and conditions that can be tailored to meet the needs of each customer to upgrade older models with flexible z13s, convert z system owned leasing while improving or acquiring a new net z13s.

Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME), a cloud-based security services provider of risk management information business and e-mail, announced the appointment Alex Bender as senior Vice President of global marketing and Mark Basler as senior Vice President of Product Management.

Alex Bender oversee global marketing Mimecast efforts, including corporate communications, marketing on the field, product marketing, demand generation and more, while Mark Basler will lead the product strategy, design and innovation for solutions "peak" email security cloud-based, archiving and business continuity.

Before Mimecast, Mr. Bender was vice president of marketing at Onapsis, Inc. Before that, Bender was General Manager of RSA Conference, an event for professionals information security, implementing innovative ways to engage the community RSA conference and manage the expansion of the conference.

Alex Bender will oversee global marketing efforts Mimecast

With its deep domain expertise in Security Information and Marketing advertising , Bender would be essential in driving the demand for products and enhance the value of cloud email security services, such as targeted protection against threats Mimecast, email remains as common cyber attack vector.

Mark Basler joined Mimecast of Constant contact , a marketing solutions provider of SaaS email, where he worked for more than five years that serve a variety of leadership roles, including head of product management and strategy and segment marketing manager. Previously, Mr. Basler has held executive positions in companies such as Azuki Systems IMG Corporation and E Ink , leading product strategy and development strategic business through periods of growth and change. Throughout his career, Basler has developed a strong commitment to a roadmap customer focused, which prove fruitful for Mimecast as it continues to innovate based on 16,0 customer needs worldwide.

Mark Basler will lead the product strategy, design and innovation Mimecast to cloud mail security, archiving and business continuity

"Mimecast transforms how organizations protect themselves against threats conveyed through advanced email, secure their archives and avoid downtime," said Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast . "the processing will continue with the field of cyber security expertise of Alex Bender and Mark Basler cloud expertise. As Mimecast turns to growth after its recent IPO, the two leaders will play a big role in the service of increasing customer Mimecast. They join a strong management team that industry's success and recognition of history centered on the accelerating demand for security, archiving and continuity of Mimecast services globally amid an landscape of evolving threats. "

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), a global provider of enterprise-class cloud services, announced that its ServiceNow platform cloud received FedRAMP certification of the US government. The FedRAMP certification would give federal agencies the confidence to accelerate their move to the cloud.

This certifies that the government community cloud ServiceNow passed the federal risk management processes defining standard security requirements for all cloud providers. This will save individual organizations time and money they may have spent doing their own evaluation of information assurance.

The Joint Committee Permission (JAB) granted authorization ServiceNow provisional operating FedRAMP (P-ATO). This federal compliance opens the door for agencies to respond quickly U.S. Cloud First initiative of the Government and achieve the benefits of managing cloud services. ServiceNow would operate the platform for enterprise service management cloud granted only JAB ATO P-date status.

"Given the rigorous requirements to achieve this level of compliance, which includes a greater depth of the review of the agency's level of authorization, federal agencies can choose confidence ServiceNow cloud to streamline enterprise services, "said Steve Alfieris, federal Vice President ServiceNow . "ServiceNow can assist free of federal agencies responsible for maintaining the legacy, on-site tools. - Where 75% of IT budgets are now spent Our modern and agile platform will help organizations achieve their objectives mission and services to citizens. "

Today, more than 100 US federal government clients, such as NASA on Department of Energy and Department of Defense (DOD) , use the ServiceNow platform to modernize, transform and innovate the delivery of business services. The ServiceNow software allow organizations to improve services such as IT, human resources and finance through their business.

FedRAMP P-ATO

agencies can leverage the ServiceNow platform cloud "quickly" deliver new applications to services to citizens. ServiceNow platform is a multi-instance cloud architecture that would allow high-profile clients, control and security.

FedRAMP is the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Cloud systems listed under FedRAMP P-ATO path have undergone a technical review by the Program Management Office FedRAMP and were examined by the IOC of the General Services Administration, Department of Homeland Security and DOD, among others. In addition to P-ATO, other FedRAMP certification categories include FedRAMP authorization Agency and CSP Supplied Packages.

SUSE, a pioneer in the open source software and interoperable Linux provider, cloud infrastructure and storage solutions, has announced the general availability of SUSE OpenStack cloud 6 - ". with less stress on iT staff and resources" of the latest technology ready for the company for the construction of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds private

Based on the press OpenStack Liberty, SUSE OpenStack cloud 6 deliver high availability enhancements and upgrades without interruption for future versions, with Docker and IBM z support for mainframe systems for make it easier to move applications and critical business data in the cloud. In addition, SUSE offers a new OpenStack training and certification for deployment and operation of private clouds OpenStack.

"The market has started to realize that do-it-yourself private clouds deployment approaches are too time consuming, too expensive and prone to failure," said Nils Brauckmann, CEO of SUSE . "As the first to offer a cloud OpenStack distribution enterprise, SUSE continues to focus on providing the OpenStack solution of choice for businesses. We combine quick and easy deployment, configuration, management and maintenance with improved high-availability features and the widest support of the hypervisor in the industry to give our customers access to the benefits of OpenStack without the complexities which hold some companies back. "

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 improvements to meet the needs of customers include:

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• non-disruptive upgrade capacity to facilitate the migration to future OpenStack releases
• Enhanced. features to allow customers to move existing or critical applications in their cloud with the same level of availability of more traditional infrastructure.
• support for IBM z / VM to the existing support sides for Xen, KVM, Hyper-V and VMware, making SUSE first to include all these options hypervisor. this gives SUSE OpenStack cover the broadest range of support available hypervisor and allows customers to integrate their mainframe platforms in their OpenStack private cloud.
• Docker support to allow customers to build and run new and innovative containerized applications.
• full support for OpenStack Manila to provide direct access to the performance, scalability and management of open source Manila shared file system service.
• Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 support pack 1 to allow customers to build their OpenStack clouds on the latest version of the top platform for enterprise workloads.

"We are delighted to exit SUSE OpenStack cloud 6 with support from Manila," said Jeff O'Neal, senior director of cloud Solutions Group, NetApp . "As the founder of the Manila project and a founding member of the OpenStack Foundation, we contributed expertise and technology that will enable volumes shared between public and private clouds for our customers Data ONTAP deep, a feature of many companies have been looking to accelerate their cloud adoption. "

SUSE is also present its Certified Administrator certification-SUSE OpenStack (SCA-OpenStack) and a new training course on the deployment and administration of SUSE OpenStack cloud to supplement the existing SUSE SUSE OpenStack cloud formation.

Developed in collaboration with the development team of the review of the OpenStack Foundation, the new course will specifically prepare students to take both Foundation OpenStack OpenStack Certified Administrator (COA) examination and the SCA-OpenStack examination. In this way, the OpenStack professionals would not only gather important identifying community supported information, but also demonstrate real life OpenStack deployment expertise. First sessions of the new course will be held at the next OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, beginning April 25.

"OpenStack has quickly matured into a viable option for enterprise-class private clouds," said Gary Chen, research manager for Software Defined Compute, IDC . "for most companies, balancing and improving internal skills with the support, training and maintenance of a experienced experienced partner as SUSE is a key factor in the success of private cloud projects. Initiatives such as new training and certification programs will help accelerate the adoption OpenStack, making it easier for companies over the company to gain productivity and agility benefits of their cloud investments private ".

Hewlett Packard Company (NYSE: HEP) announced its open server, cloud optimized storage, HPE Cloudline CL50. HPE now offers a comprehensive portfolio of open infrastructure with computing, network, and also offers storage servers. Today's announcement also includes improvements to the HPE Altoline network switches for service providers.

With the explosive growth of data, service providers should increase storage capacity while maintaining the smaller data center footprint possible. The HPE Cloudline CL50 is a high density, multi-node storage server designed for seeking service providers for "high-density storage with a $ aggressive / GB" to run the cloud storage and data analysis applications.

Built on the open design principles to enhance the adaptability and facilitate the integration of IT, the HPE Cloudline CL50 would fit easily in a multi-vendor management environment. HPE Cloudline CL50 naked iron minimalist design features and supports one or two compute nodes for different performance levels. The server supports up to 80 large form factor hard disk drives to provide up to 640 TB of storage in a single 4U chassis.

"Service providers are looking for business agility and faster data center integration that comes with the deployment of open infrastructures, while others appreciate the integrated management and proven deployment capabilities that come with industry standard rates, "said Reaz Rasul, vice president and general manager, global business HyperScale, HPE . "HPE is the only provider that offers a choice of standard or open infrastructure solutions to accelerate business growth and provide service providers with the flexibility to expand quickly and cost effectively."

HPE has expanded its partnership with Scality in January 2016 to accelerate the adoption of the object defined by software and file storage. Scality RING supports standard x86 servers in the industry HPE, and now includes support for certified HPE Cloudline CL50. This partnership is designed to provide service providers' flexibility, resilience and performance "needed to bring down the cost of storage to the petascale.

HPE 'Open' Networking portfolio

HPE expands its portfolio of HPE Altoline switches with the introduction of four new models to its 0 family, including one that features 25/100 Gbps. switches strengthen the ability of customers to adapt their network infrastructure to meet their specific demands and requirements of the workload, and allow service providers and networks across the Web to quickly evolve their networks at low cost with a product of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in.

the family of HPE Altoline switches provides service providers of their choice of open source network operating systems, including Cumulus Pica8, and later this year, OpenSwitch.

US signal, a hosting provider Midwest cloud will increase its current offer by offering a cloud complete hybrid solution using the Cisco Fabric InterCloud. Participation as Cisco InterCloud provider will give its customers the ability to extend their on-premise workloads US Signal cloud while maintaining control over their entire environment both physically and virtually.

"Clearly when we talk to our customers, they need an agile approach to hybrid cloud technologies," said Amanda Regnerus, vice -President of marketing and product development at US signal . "Although the clouds consumption patterns are increasing in complexity, US Signal continues to evolve and strengthen our service portfolio. This is just another step in the right direction and continue to strengthen our Cisco partnership."

with the Cisco Fabric InterCloud deployment should be complete Q1 2016, customers of US Signal will have access to the US Signal cloud platform hosting them

• Speed hybrid cloud deployments directly from their data center in the cloud US signal with consistent network and security policies
• Reducing the amount of "shadow" of cloud deployments in their organizations, reducing security risks
• Manage the entire network and security of their hybrid cloud from a single management console, on-site Cisco ICF
• Jumpstart and cloud wide initiatives for the production, testing and development
• Satisfying requirements for complex use cases, which involve a mixture of cloud, colocation and bare metal

"Cisco InterCloud Fabric is a software solution that enables companies to easily combine and place workloads, including their network and security policies with Cisco Powered providers like US signal," said Peder Ulander Vice President, Cisco Cloud and Managed services Organization . "We are delighted to have US Signal as a key partner in delivering this innovative cloud capacity."

With eight centers of physical data and more than 14,000-miles of fiber, Cloud and Managed US Signal services Organization would be able to easily combine and place workloads, including their network and security policies with Cisco PowerMidwest and includes both HIPAA and PCI Compliant Cloud and network-based solutions. customers rely on US signal for data backup, disaster recovery, management and professional services.

green cloud Technologies, a cloud technology solutions provider belonging to employees based in Greenville, South Carolina, obtained master certification as Cisco Cloud and Managed services Master Partner. This certification aligns with the Cisco-Powered Green Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offerings, and establishes the company as the a Cisco cloud experts in the industry.

Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program (CMSP) master certification recognizes that Green Cloud has reached the highest level of expertise and competence in three major product categories Cisco. The certification is the result of a complete audit of third parties to verify the Green Technologies cloud capabilities to design and sell sophisticated solutions of Cisco and to provide services and support to its reseller partner network while maintaining highest enterprise-class standards of reliability and security.

"We are delighted to have met the stringent standards of Cisco and were rewarded for our efforts with his master CMSP certification," said Mac McClenathan, green cloud vice president and general manager, Cisco channel . "for our partners, this critical designation gives them additional assurance that we are experts in these advanced technologies, and we have the capabilities to provide and support the best products available. All this helps to strengthen our relationship with our partners, which is one of our main goals as a company. "

Recognized as the fastest growing SC company, Green Cloud Technologies provides solutions customized cloud to an exclusive network of reseller partners. Based the distribution channels only, Green cloud can focus on the partner activation without competition for end-user companies. Cisco Powered expansive range, cloud based products, services, and support the company adapt to applications of any size. - SME to enterprise class organizations

OFFSITE, a cloud hosting company and data center headquartered in its own 50,000 installations square feet in southeastern WI, with redundant data center operations in Chicago, Illinois, announced the implementation of pure storage. (NYSE: PTSG) FlashArray in its hosted private cloud computing and services offering

the important infrastructure upgrade is one of several hardware and software enhancements OFFSITE made to their environment hosting and private cloud should improve the performance of virtual workloads customers hosted in the data center offsite.

"the decision to invest in pure storage to our private cloud environment was easy," said Brendan Sullivan, OFFSITE Chief Executive Officer (CEO) . "our customers are middle market require the power and performance of enterprise iT solutions and pure storage delivers this in our Cisco UCS, FlashStack hosted environment."

"IaaS will continue to be a compelling alternative for companies and organizations seeking the best performance in a way that also reduces the burden of CAPEX most companies have historically faced" added M Sullivan .. . "We expect that the upgrade of the private cloud infrastructure with the Pure Storage will allow us to continue to gain share in the private cloud space and help us achieve our growth targets from data center solutions. "

Since 2011, OFFSITE was improves data center services offering to include higher density of carriers, a network operations center services and private cloud computing solutions ( CNP).

When asked about improving the performance of this upgraded infrastructure, OFFSITE Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Anthony Portee commented, "Bottom line is it's faster. We have established customer environments in our private cloud using pure storage and leverage our own internal workloads. it performs in a way that feels like there are endless IOP for an application. in the end private cloud account is about to flow. private cloud can calculate featured tasks that are complicated or disabled all together. If storage is as efficient storage, this can be a highlight of death workload and pure storage helps eliminate these challenges for our customers. "

OFFSITE offers private cloud services, IaaS, custom, colocation services dedicated and shared, recovery services disaster, the operations center services network (NOC), and hosted and managed solutions.

RapidScale, a managed cloud service provider for MSOs, VAR, MSP , Transporters and Master Agents in the US, has appointed Paul Overstreet as Channel Manager, Central Region. M. Overstreet is based in Fort Worth, Texas, and is responsible for sales of cloud services RapidScale through boarding, training and support of sales partners in the US central region.

Before joining RapidScale, Paul Overstreet was director of enterprise systems account with Lenovo, the multinational technology company. In this role, he was responsible for server and storage sales in government and education of national and local accounts in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.

M .. Overstreet has also held the positions of Sales Systems Group Enterprise Inside Technical Rep Midwest Enterprise R & D Enterprise Acquisition and Rep Rep Lenovo. Overstreet holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Midwestern State University.

"What attracted me here is the customer experience laser spot and work closely with the channel community," said Paul Overstreet.

"I am very happy and honored to be part of the team of RapidScale!" said Paul Overstreet . "As I lived in my last role, and from day one with RapidScale, the industry is changing and embracing the cloud with astonishing speed. What attracted me here is the point laser on the customer experience and work closely with the channel community. That's a winning combination and I look forward to significant growth within my region and society as a whole. "

cloud services managed RapidScale include CloudServer, CloudDesktop, CloudOffice, CloudMail, CloudRecovery, CloudApps, and more.

" We look forward to Paul enter the Central Region and guide our partners to success, "said Mark Szotkowski, RapidScale President, Sales . "Paul brings a strong understanding of IT business to our company with a good attitude and a strong track record in space."

Shopify, a multi-channel commerce platform cloud designed for small and medium enterprises, has agreed to acquire privately kit CRM -. a virtual marketing assistant who operates the messaging to help companies market their online stores

acquisition would strengthen the focus on Shopify the growing trend towards the "trade of the conversation," opening the mobile channel and messaging platforms to help marketers manage their businesses.

"We believe that messaging applications are the gateway to the Internet on mobile, and the conversational trade represents a huge opportunity for Shopify," said Craig Miller, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Shopify . "Kit meets a real pain point for traders and is one of our top-rated applications in the Shopify App Store. We look forward to have team kit and join Shopify help define the Conversation future business together. "

Founded in 2013, Kit acts as a virtual marketing assistant to help manage a small business marketing tasks so entrepreneurs can focus on other aspects of their business. Kit allows companies to serve ads on targeted Facebook and Instagram updates to post to their Facebook page, make recommendations based on the activities of the store, and more, all via text messages. Last month, Kit has also introduced an API for interacting with other applications in the App Store Shopify.

"As an entrepreneur, you dream of building a business that makes an impact. Our partnership with Shopify has helped us positively change the way businesses operate in over 30 countries," said Michael Perry, founder and CEO of Kit . "We have witnessed firsthand the commitment Shopify to business owners, and it is a privilege to be a major part of it. This is a big step, and incredible opportunity to join Shopify kit. We could not be happier to make our impact felt among business owners all over the world. "

the acquisition Kit and integration with the new Shopify platform Messenger Facebook announced yesterday, also supports the company's focus on helping entrepreneurs embrace the conversational trade.

CTERA Networks, a secure file service provider of any cloud, announced a series of updates its storage gateway portfolio cloud. The updates are designed to offer new levels of deployment flexibility, storage capacity, and efficiency for remote office IT environments.

The refreshed range CTERA gateway includes a new configuration of the virtual appliance that enables companies to use existing remote office / branch office equipment (ROBO) to provide all the features and benefits of a cloud storage gateway CTERA. CTERA gateway services can now be deployed from either VMware or KVM servers, providing good option for organizations that invest in converged infrastructure or virtualized IT.

CTERA Networks also announced an overhaul of its file management system of the bridge, with primary file system maintained and orchestrated centrally in the cloud . CTERA gateways extend the overall system by selectively synchronizing files to remote and branch offices in accordance with policies set by the IT administrator user and / or. The devices act as additional levels of storage in a file management and synchronization system in the cloud that combines the ends, offices and the cloud. Sync Gateways' of CTERA now support the size of local volumes up to 64 terabytes, a 4X increase in capacity compared to previous models.

CTERA in physical and virtual cloud storage gateways serve all-in-one storage devices replace the inherited file / NAS servers, tape backup and other proprietary systems with a single solution, integrated and cost-effective cloud. The gateway is an extension of the platform file services CTERA Enterprise, which enables companies to protect data and manage files in offices and equipment -. All virtual private cloud or private organization

The newly designed portfolio CTERA cloud storage gateway deliver

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) - a virtual form factor eliminates the need to deploy and manage multiple systems in the office, and allows an organization to consolidate office servers, firewalls, print servers, file servers, DHCP, and backup firm services on a single converged server features built into the cloud backup capacity.
• high availability and failover capabilities configurations -. Organizations can now leverage the CTERA virtual gateway for implementing Office file services highly resistant to the most demanding remote environments
• Increased capacity on board - virtual storage volumes allow branches to scale and handle large and growing requirements of storage capacity easily
• file services deployment and protection of data on demand -. A virtual appliance enables organizations to deploy the file and backup services to any desktop instantly solve all the challenges of collaboration protection, business continuity or data
• IT protection investment and a path to converged IT -. organizations can integrate the virtual gateway with various IT services and manage all of their equipment selection.

"since 2010, CTERA has focused on the consolidation of branch office equipment stack while providing exceptional product functionality and customer value" said Jeff Denworth, SVP marketing, CTERA . "Our new virtual gateways and capacity extensions are the natural progression of this strategy, simplifying deployment of file services and protection of integrated cloud data for organizations seeking cost effective solutions easily managed at the edge of the network. "

Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global consulting and technology provider with $ 9.5 billion in revenues and 194,000 + employees, will use AWS Cloud hosting a series of Infosys technologies that could help client companies to adopt safely quickly cloud-based systems.

Together, Infosys and AWS allow customers to move enterprise workloads, including mainframe and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for AWS Cloud. Infosys will also leverage the AWS offers around the analysis to provide deep, actionable insights and enable businesses to gain competitive advantage in their industries. Infosys will also support companies in their transition to existing technologies AWS Cloud.

"Working with AWS Infosys can help organizations realize the full potential of the AWS cloud without being overwhelmed by an arduous integration process," said Sandeep Dadlani, President, Global Head of Alliances Infosys . "The migration to a modern high-performance, scalable infrastructure built on AWS will be faster, easier and more profitable than ever."

Infosys and AWS focus on the burden of migration solutions Labour (SAP and other enterprise workloads), central services and modernizing legacy to move existing workloads and complex data and analytical solutions, including hybrid platform analysis cloud and analysis as a service.

further this relationship include Infosys insurance Suite, "which focuses on security, risk management, compliance and governance issues AWS deployment for customers and Infosys information platform (IIP), a platform of data and analysis that help companies leverage their data assets for innovation and improve business growth.

AWS Cloud Center of Excellence

as part of the collaboration, Infosys is creating a "AWS Cloud Center of Excellence" dedicated cuts across all Infosys service lines and Infosys will use 5000 and 2500 formed AWS certified AWS resources covered the entire AWS service portfolio.

The AWS Cloud Center of Excellence, which has access to all the tools and the AWS technology, will constantly help create new business transformation solutions leveraging the AWS Cloud and based on design thinking with "zero distance" to the customer.

"AWS works with many large organizations, complex companies looking to transform their business leveraging the AWS cloud," said Mike Clayville, Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development , Amazon Web services AWS Cloud) . "the strategic partnership with Infosys will help accelerate the migration legacy workloads to the cloud of these organizations by allowing them to quickly reach the agility benefits of switching AWS. customers will now have easier access to more innovative solutions from cloud computing that stand to transform and modernize their enterprise. "

CloudJumper, a workspace-as-a-Service (WAAS) platform provider, has launched its new cloud workspace hosted offering, CloudJumper nWorkSpace and a WAAS licensing model "flexible".

nWorkSpace is a WAAS platform fully packed, including software, infrastructure, services and support designed for a "highly automated, yet personalized user experience. "the channel-centric solution enables strategic providers (SSP) interested in providing desktop services and application delivery based on the cloud to benefit from easy and profitable nWorkSpace platform.

nWorkSpace of CloudJumper platform WAAS is a channel-centric solution would offer partners and customers a choice of licensing models for greater flexibility and reduce costs, including user named and concurrent user licensing options.

"managed services have evolved to the point where suppliers no longer have to deal with all the complex solutions, heavy configurations, or a combination where difficulties in management are for course, "said JD Helms, president, CloudJumper . "Our organization represents a new era in plug-and-play IT company where ease of use and unmatched customer experience scales without limits."

CloudJumper comes from human resources and pioneer of cloud hosting services nGenX - a telecommunications provider spinoff of Q-Comm Corp. now organized into two entities operating separately mission CloudJumper is the activation of strategic services provider (SSP) in the delivery of WaaS .

A relatively new channel partner classification, the SSP model was born from the convergence of telecom, ISVs and MSPs moving in space to another, and eventually the cloud. CloudJumper sees this as a major opportunity for the channel and allocates resources for the benefit of the first among equals.

CoreSite Realty Corporation, a colocation data center services provider and interconnect solutions through the US , announced the availability of direct access to Google Cloud Platform through their Any2Exchange CoreSite for Internet peering. This would allow companies the opportunity to reach the connections "secure, reliable, high performance" required for the operation of hybridization solutions and multi-cloud.

Google Cloud Platform enables enterprises to build, test and deploy applications to the cloud of Google's infrastructure. This collaboration would provide CoreSite customers with a level of connectivity business services such as Google Compute Engine Google Cloud Storage, and Google BigQuery with "higher availability, lower latency and greater security than Internet connections."

CoreSite customers will be able to connect directly to Google Cloud Platform via CoreSite Any2Exchange in Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles . in addition, customers can access Google Cloud Platform all markets CoreSite via its rich ecosystem of network providers or through its inter-site connectivity in some markets. CoreSite offers numerous inter-site connectivity options, including informed transportation solutions and dedicated dark fiber.

Any2Exchange CoreSite of is one of the largest Internet exchanges in the United States. With Any2Exchange of CoreSite, customers would be able to guarantee, SLA-backed, low-latency connections on a port and a variety of speeds (including 1Gbps, 10Gbps and 100Gbps ) with direct peering Google Cloud Platform.

clients connecting directly to Google Cloud Platform benefit from reduced congestion and routing issues, reducing transport costs in common, lower latency and reduced complexity, while having access to connect peers and with nearly 400 participating members.

"CoreSite is pleased to announce the availability of direct peering to Google Cloud Platform via our Any2Exchange, providing our customers a dedicated, flexible and efficient to optimize their needs in cloud and connectivity constantly changing" said Brian Warren, senior vice president of engineering and product CoreSite .

WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of software that enables global enterprises to meet today's data storage security challenges, scalability and availability, announced a new partnership with WAN acceleration vendor, bridges. The software bridges PORTrockIT add speed while providing the resilience of corporate data and security for critical applications such as backup, replication, disaster recovery and cloud migration.

PORTrockIT bridge software will now be available for active WANdisco's patented Fusion -transactional replication technology, which was built to move transactional data to the cloud -. wide petabyte

"This new partnership brings together two best-of-breed solutions to unlock the full potential of the cloud," said David Richards, CEO and co-founder of WANdisco . "Continuous availability of WANdisco and guaranteed data consistency can now be deployed with the bridge software that virtually eliminates the effects of network latency, making it possible for the cloud site environments to function as one."

combined bridges and WANdisco technology would ensure that the large volumes of data in real time production can move to and from the cloud without any interruption. This would support hybrid cloud requirements for the application, processing break-out, and offsite disaster recovery, without downtime or data loss.

The combined solution eliminates the need to provider of cloud storage devices to be sent back and forth of customer data centers in a process that involves days off and not be for a single movement of cold less critical data.

"Companies are increasingly dependent on the need to move large volumes of data to where it needs to be up to speed", said David Trossell CEO bridges . "They also need to have full confidence that their infrastructure is able to deliver the performance that are critical to their business. WANdisco software is already known for its performance and it has revolutionized global business requirement to migrate large amounts of transactional data to the cloud. when combined with technology PORTrockIT bridges, the resulting increase up to 100 times the transfer speed has raised the bar for business ".