Enter Cloud Suite Now Available On The Megaport Software Defined Network

Enter has announced a collaboration with Megaport (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of Megaport Limited (“Megaport”), the global leader in software defined networking (SDN), that enables near-instant, readily-available access to its Enter Cloud Suite (ECS) and services ecosystem through Megaport’s global elastic interconnection network. Enterprise and carrier customers connected to the Megaport network in Amsterdam as well as any other Megaport-enabled locations can now directly connect to Enter’s innovative cloud platform and tap into Megaport’s global footprint.

“Megaport’s Software Defined Network enables us to extend direct connectivity to our cloud services beyond Milan, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam to address increasing customer demand for network and cloud services across Europe and beyond,” said Milko Ilari, head of International Business & Strategy, Enter. “The relationship also enables automated provisioning to Enter Cloud Suite via dedicated connections from any Megaport-enabled data center.”

Enter Cloud Suite is the first European, OpenStack-based cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. ECS enables seamless orchestration of servers, storage, networks, domain name system (DNS) and content delivery network (CDN) through an intuitive graphical interface or advanced application program interface (API). The highly available, resilient and scalable offering can be delivered autonomously or as a fully managed, turnkey solution that encompasses architecting, design, setup, migration, and ongoing maintenance and support.

Wholly owned and operated, and built upon secure open source technology, Enter Cloud Suite is compliant with European data protection and privacy legislation. This is a key reason why Enter Cloud Suite is one of the official cloud platforms of 52 European institutions and agencies, such as the European Parliament and Court of Justice.

“As the demand for scalable and reliable connectivity to cloud solutions grows, Megaport is excited to enable innovative providers such as Enter, who wish to provide their customers the best connectivity capabilities. In addition to instantly managing their connectivity to ECS from any Megaport-enabled location, on any device, Enter customers can now consume elastic bandwidth for connectivity across the globe, enabling the customer to adjust the bandwidth consumption as their business requirements change,” adds Belle Lajoie, executive vice president, Asia Pacific, Megaport. “Megaport’s Software Defined Network also enables direct, instant, and scalable access to our global Ecosystem of service providers, as well as connectivity to critical Internet Exchange services throughout Europe.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Informatica Positioned As A Leader In 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant For iPaaS

Informatica® has announced that Gartner, Inc. has, for the fourth consecutive year, positioned Informatica as a Leader in its March 2017 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), Worldwide. In the newest report, Informatica is positioned the highest on the ability to execute axis and farthest on the completeness of vision axis.

The complete report, including the quadrant graphic, was published on March 30, and is available here.

According to the new Gartner report: “For many, the reality of cloud is here. Application portfolios are hybrid, with many organizations having to integrate between these diverse endpoints.”

In the report, “Gartner estimates that the enterprise iPaaS market continued to expand notably during 2016, approaching $700 million in revenue and growing around 60% in terms of providers’ subscription revenue when compared to 2015.”

The new report also observes that, “Other powerful drivers for enterprise iPaaS adoption will be mobile app integration and API publishing and management, which will create a growing overlap of, and convergence with, API management and mobile back end as a service (MBaaS) offerings. We expect that iPaaS adoption will also be driven by IoT requirements (although at a later stage), which will determine some degree of functional overlap and create a demand for integration within emerging IoT platforms.”

“Informatica has been a pioneer in the iPaaS market and is innovating faster than ever,” said Ronen Schwartz, senior vice president and general manager, data integration, Big Data and cloud, Informatica. “Informatica iPaaS addresses the challenges integration experts and citizen integrators face in adopting cloud and hybrid environments. Informatica iPaaS helps solve data integration, B2B integration, application integration, API creation and management, IoT, MDM, data quality and data security. We are proud to offer an intelligent, secure and trusted platform to help our customers in their strategic journeys to the cloud.”

The Informatica Cloud® market leading iPaaS delivers the broadest set of cloud integration/iPaaS capabilities on a single platform for connecting, integrating, synchronizing, cleansing and relating data across all systems, in the cloud or on-premise. Informatica is a pioneer in cloud data integration and now more than 600 billion transactions are processed with Informatica Cloud per month, demonstrating the growth in workloads shifting to the cloud and driving today’s hybrid cloud era. Customers depend on Informatica Cloud to underpin such key use cases as SaaS integration, cloud analytics and data warehousing, hybrid cloud management, application integration and data management across multiple types of environments, all powered by Informatica’s iPaaS platform.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Cisco Ends 2016 On Collaboration Market High

New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that collaboration market leader Cisco grew its market share for the third consecutive quarter, passing the 15% mark in the final three months of the year. Microsoft too saw a sequential uptick in its market share but remained more than two and a half percentage points behind its big rival. Avaya continued to battle with IBM for third place in the market, with IBM coming out on top in the fourth quarter but Avaya having the lead for full-year 2016. Cisco’s market share growth in Q4 was thanks in large part to achieving a five-year market share high in premise-based solutions while holding its own in the much higher growth hosted/cloud market segments. Microsoft continues to hold a strong lead in hosted/cloud collaboration, but this side of the market is more fragmented with no single supplier achieving a double-digit market share, in contrast to the on-premise market. Beyond the top four vendors, other major players in the market include AT&T, Verizon, Citrix, Polycom, Mitel, UNIFY and ALE.

Total revenues from collaboration — which includes enterprise voice, UC applications, telepresence, email software, enterprise content management, enterprise social networks, and a range of hosted/cloud communications and applications — again topped the $9 billion mark and were close to their all-time high. Revenues from hosted/cloud solutions continue to grow strongly — up 9% in 2016 compared with 2015 — while revenue from premise-based systems declined 4%. During the quarter particularly strong growth was seen in teamwork applications, contact center as a service (CCaaS), and video as a service (VaaS). Teamwork applications is an emerging and super-high growth area that features Cisco’s Spark and vendors like Slack. Strong market demand for CCaaS drove strong growth for such vendors as Genesys/Interactive Intelligence, inContact and Five9; while increased market adoption for VaaS drove strong growth and continued attention to vendors such as Zoom and BlueJeans.

“Collaboration continues to be a somewhat fragmented market that is characterized by a long list of disruptive and high-growth companies, with no less than 15 companies achieving full-year growth rates in excess of 20%,” said Jeremy Duke, Synergy Research Group’s founder and chief analyst. “That level of growth is certainly not matched by the market leaders, with the top 10 companies in aggregate seeing their revenues actually decline somewhat in 2016. Looking ahead we see that new cloud-based applications will continue to disrupt traditional business communication systems, creating strong opportunity for new cloud based solutions.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag