Fujitsu Develops New Cloud Network Infrastructure Technology

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. have developed technology that makes it easy to design, build, and operate virtual network infrastructure that extend across multiple clouds and corporate networks.

With conventional technology it is possible to build “virtual network infrastructure” within one individual cloud or corporate location using Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology. However, when building virtual network infrastructure spanning multiple clouds and locations, not only are the setup methods different for each cloud and location, it is also necessary for a skilled engineer to take time to configure settings for connecting each part of the IT infrastructure individually.

Now Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Laboratories of America have developed software technology that abstracts the structural elements of networks in IT infrastructure, and which can collectively design, build, manage, and operate across multiple IT infrastructures. The two companies have confirmed that this technology allows virtual network infrastructure to be built in one-tenth the time required by conventional technology, when it is applied to the design and configuration of the virtual network infrastructure extending across one cloud and a location with a few dozen devices.

With this technology, it is now possible to build and operate networks in response to user or application requirements, contributing to the creation of virtual networks across multiple IT infrastructures that support a variety of services in the era of 5G mobile communications, IoT, and the cloud.

Details of this technology were announced at the Technical Committee Conference on Network Systems, held March 2 in Okinawa. This technology will also be on display at the upcoming Fujitsu North America Technology Forum (NATF) 2017, an exhibition to be held March 9 in Santa Clara, California.

Development Background

In anticipation of an era in which 5G mobile communications and IoT technology become increasingly widespread, there has been a demand for technology that can efficiently provide a variety of services in the cloud in response to diversified needs and requirements.

With SDN and other technology for virtualizing computer resources, and through the development of virtual network infrastructure that extends from IoT devices, smart devices, and PCs to the cloud for each service as needed, it is now possible for cloud service providers to securely and efficiently provide their services, independent of the physical infrastructure. These technologies are beginning to be used, for example, in delivering large volumes of data from IoT devices to the cloud, and analyzing that data for use in a variety of fields, or in flexibly building enterprise networks in response to changes in corporate organization. There has been a demand with this sort of virtual network infrastructure for the ability to quickly respond to changes in service needs and requirements that continually arise.

Issues

With conventional technology, virtual network infrastructure can be created using SDN technology based on network designs required by a user, or “logical network,” within a single IT infrastructure. However, when building virtual network infrastructure that encompasses cloud services being operated by different companies or in multiple locations, there are different setup methods for the individual SDN controllers. In addition, connecting different IT infrastructure usually requires expert knowledge to manually configure virtual network infrastructures in between, such as VPNs and VXLANs, thus making network configuration laborious and time consuming.

About the Technology

Now Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Laboratories of America have developed technology that abstracts the structural elements of IT infrastructure, and which can automatically design and build IT infrastructure that extends across multiple locations, managing and operating it as a single network infrastructure.

Features of the newly developed technology are as follows:

1. IT infrastructure abstraction technology

Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Laboratories of America developed a technology that models structural elements of IT infrastructure using logical software components to enable key features such as element configuration and operational status monitoring. Using this technology, users can automatically build virtual network infrastructures across multiple instances of IT infrastructure based on the logical network designed by the user. In addition, enabling operations and fault response management of virtual network infrastructures, lifecycle management (design, configuration, operations, and fault response), can also be done on the logical network.

2. Virtual network function automatic supplemental technology

Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Laboratories of America developed a technology to automatically supplement necessary network functions in virtual network design when converting from a logical network to a virtual network infrastructure by deriving the designer’s intentions from the connection status of the logical network.

This technology focuses on the connection between the structural elements of the designed logical network, and determines the designer’s intentions and automatically supplements necessary network functions by checking the connections between objects at different levels, such as IT infrastructure, subnets, and nodes, located at both ends of the connection.

Effects

With this new technology, it is now possible to quickly build a complex virtual network infrastructure that extends across multiple companies or locations, without expert knowledge. It is possible, for example, that the design and configuration of a virtual network infrastructure extending across one cloud and a location with a few dozen devices could be completed by one engineer in one day, whereas previously four engineers with expert virtual knowledge took three days. This can shorten the configuration time to less than one-tenth what was previously required.

In case of migrating enterprise systems to the cloud, it is now possible to complete migration in a short period of time by simply performing operations on the logical network. In addition, when setting up a network at multiple locations, the user can design one logical network, then easily set up a virtual network at each location and add security functionality by copying and customizing the same design.

Future Plans

Going forward, Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Laboratories of America plan to continue development of other functions for lifecycle management in logical networks using this technology, with the goal of Fujitsu Limited conducting its sales as a network management function for enterprise users of cloud services after fiscal 2017. This function will also be available on the FUJITSU Cloud Service K5 provided by Fujitsu Limited.

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Faction® Earns Patent For Its Hybrid And Multi-Cloud Solutions

Faction® has announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Faction a patent for its pioneering work on hybrid and multi-cloud networking.

“We’re proud that Faction’s technology has essentially created the hybrid cloud category more than five years ago, and we look forward to exercising control of this technology now that we have received our initial patent issuance,” said Luke Norris, Faction’s CEO and founder.

Faction’s hybrid and multi-cloud technology that is now patented under USPTO Patent #9,571,301 powers Faction Cloud Bloc and Faction Internetwork eXchange (FIX) product sets. This allows service providers and enterprises to seamlessly connect the best features of various private and public clouds and design a robust cloud architecture that still operates as a single unified cloud.

Faction’s groundbreaking approach to cloud networking greatly reduces the cost and complexity of composing true hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions for customers. The technology is also broadly utilized to allow access from datacenters into private and public clouds, which Faction utilizes to connect customers currently in 22 datacenters in the United States directly into the company’s offering.

With this technology, cloud architects are now freed from rigid networking constructs and burdensome administrative tasks that have perpetually frustrated infrastructure and operations teams and slowed important business initiatives due to network constraints. Faction’s customers benefit from Faction’s composable cloud technology, allowing the combination of datacenter, private, and public cloud resources without sacrificing security or performance, and without incurring substantial migration or interconnection costs typical to traditional solutions.

This initial patent demonstrates the company’s commitment to advancing cutting-edge cloud infrastructure technology and simplifying how enterprise IT cloud infrastructures are designed, built and managed. Specifically, it details how physical resources that may be hosted within a datacenter or colocation site can connect to one or more cloud providers creating a seamless, single pool of resources. Additionally, once an enterprise is connected to the Faction composable cloud fabric, it gains the ability to easily mix other third-party cloud services together creating a true multi-cloud solution.  Further patent applications are in process, and last week a second Notice of Allowance was received on a Faction patent application to further expand the scope of issued patent claims, with others expected to follow.

The Faction technology also provides a unified data fabric for composing true hybrid and multi-cloud solutions. Enterprise IT can leverage public cloud resources on-demand while retaining the control and security of their private cloud infrastructure. The network technology enabling composable clouds complements Faction’s private cloud offering, which fully decouples compute, storage capacity, storage performance, and network capacity, enabling enterprises to compose their ideal private cloud. The Faction Internetwork eXchange makes these composable resources available not only within the private cloud environments, but the data center and colocation environments and the public clouds as well.

The announcement of the USPTO issuing a first patent follows last month’s announcement that Faction raised $11 million in capital, which will be used to expand the company and help meet strong customer demand. In 2016, Faction saw 44% year-over-year growth, and it projects similar growth in 2017.

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Bigleaf Expands Cloud Access Network In Dallas

Bigleaf Networks has announced that it is expanding its Cloud Access Network with a fifth gateway Cluster in Dallas, Texas.

By tunneling all customer traffic through the Bigleaf-owned Cloud Access Network, Bigleaf’s patent-pending SD-WAN platform is uniquely able to prioritize and seamlessly failover all applications, including hosted VoIP, Virtual Desktop, Point of Sale, VPNs, and SaaS. Bigleaf hosts its redundant gateway clusters in major Internet peering hubs across North America for optimal performance. With the addition of this Dallas Gateway Cluster, Bigleaf customers will automatically see higher performance to applications hosted in the southern U.S., and Bigleaf customers in the southern U.S. will gain increased performance for all traffic.

“We’re excited to invest in this expansion, and other upgrades coming later this year,” said Bigleaf founder and CEO Joel Mulkey. “Our unique Cloud Access Network gives customers highly-peered connections directly to all of the major cloud providers, so with our service, customers don’t have to struggle with the expense and complexity of private circuits into those cloud networks to get peak performance.”

Bigleaf’s plug-and-play SD-WAN offering is delivered as an SLA-backed 24/7 managed service. Features include:

• Intelligent Load-Balancing across multiple Internet paths from different ISPs
• Dynamic Quality-of-Service (QoS) to prioritize VoIP and other performance-sensitive traffic over commodity Internet
• Same-IP Failover to ensure uninterrupted VoIP and other real-time sessions while moving between ISP circuits
• Transparent outside-the-firewall deployment for easy zero-breach installs
• Real-time intelligence on ISP circuit latency, packet loss, jitter and throughput

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Webair Partners With Data Storage Corporation

Webair has announced a partnership with Data Storage Corporation to enhance its high availability (HA) Disaster Recovery and overall support capabilities for IBM Power Systems (iSeries, AS/400, AIX) environments. The demand for Webair’s Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution has grown exponentially over recent years, and the addition of IBM Power Systems support positions it for even further expansion.

Many companies require both x86 and IBM Power Systems platforms to run mission-critical applications, making disaster recovery critical to these environments. The partnership between Webair and Data Storage Corporation provides x86 and IBM Power Systems users with:

• Recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) of one hour, including continuous replication, network automation and orchestration
• Seventy-two hours of monthly recovery site usage before incurring additional fees
• Fully managed quarterly recovery site testing with attestation report
• Per-IP failover, public BGP failover, DNS failover, L2 stretch, and VPN(s)
• One week of checkpoints
• Recovery site network architecture customization to enable customer infrastructure integration
• The ability to replicate data to any Webair DR location, including U.S. East and West Coasts, Canada, Europe, and Asia. 

Through this new partnership, Webair now also offers customers fully managed IBM Power Systems solutions and services backed by a premier IBM Managed Services Provider.

“Webair’s strategic partnership with Data Storage Corporation broadens our Disaster Recovery support capabilities,” explains Michael Christopher Orza, CEO of Webair. “While most providers only offer a limited range of services encompassing specific operating systems and workloads, this partnership delivers a true DRaaS solution that is customized to mirror customers’ specific production environments and supports both state-of-the-art and legacy platforms.”

Webair customers can also take advantage of ancillary services available at its data centers as part of their larger DRaaS solutions, including public and private cloud infrastructure, snapshot-based storage replication, colocation, authoritative DNS, third-party cloud connectivity, Backups-as-a-Service, network connectivity, and Seeding. These services are fully managed and can be tied directly into DRaaS infrastructure via private and secure cross-connects.

“I am excited about the Data Storage Corporation / Webair partnership and the opportunities it will provide to both companies as our services are in high demand across all markets and industries with tremendous growth forecasted,” says Hal Schwartz, President DSC.  “Because of this partnership, the combined teams can now provide first-class management and technical support, allowing them to deliver and fully manage cloud, hybrid cloud and cloud backup solutions with the highest confidence and service levels.”

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Dimension Data Launches Managed Cloud Service For Microsoft

Dimension Data has announced the availability of its Managed Cloud Services for Microsoft. The new offering provides organizations with a cloud-based managed service for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, and Office 365, whether deployed in the public cloud, on premises, in a private cloud or as a hybrid model. Combined with its planning and deployment services, Dimension Data is now able to provide its clients with a complete end-to-end managed service, with the added benefits of meeting client-specific security and compliance.

Based on statistics presented during Microsoft’s 2016 Q3 earnings call, there were over 70 million commercial Microsoft Office 365 monthly active users. In addition, *Microsoft Office 365 is one of the fastest growing areas of technology in the enterprise sector today.

According to Tony Walt, group executive of Dimension Data’s end-user computing business, for these productivity solutions to be effective in an enterprise environment, they need to be managed and supported. However, managing the administrative complexity, while at the same time extracting the full value from each of the applications, is a challenge for CIOs and enterprises today.

“With the feature-rich cloud productivity suite of applications increasingly becoming the foundation for organizations transitioning to a digital business, Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Services for Microsoft and the software-as-a-service Cloud Control management platform is a game changer. It is revolutionizing the automation and management of enterprise Microsoft messaging and collaboration.  Managed Cloud Services for Microsoft provides the services and technology you need to plan, deploy and manage your Microsoft messaging and collaboration suite, ensuring that the complexity inherent in an integrated environment is seamlessly addressed, while also guaranteeing you have the flexibility to grow and adapt to the migration to cloud,” says Walt.

Managed Cloud Services for Microsoft is a solution that manages the automation and management of enterprise Microsoft messaging and collaboration applications. Cloud Control™, Dimension Data’s administrative platform and portal enables help desk representatives to perform tasks to resolve issues that would normally require escalation to second or third level administrators, delivering reduced costs and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Managed Cloud Services for Microsoft builds on Dimension Data’s expertise with Microsoft’s productivity solutions, with the company having deployed more than one million seats of Office 365 globally, over 1.5 million seats of Exchange on-premise, and another two million cloud-based Exchange seats. Dimension Data has also completed more than 400 SharePoint projects and over 500 Skype for Business projects globally.

“We have combined more than 25 years of expertise in delivering Microsoft solutions and managed services with our own intellectual property and management tools,” said Phil Aldrich, director of end-user computing, Dimension Data. “Managed Cloud Services for Microsoft provides our clients with the best of both worlds, delivering enterprise performance and management for their Microsoft workloads with the flexibility and scalability of cloud.”

The service is being rolled out globally to address the needs of Dimension Data’s worldwide client base.

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Report: Nearly One-Third Of Consumers Aren’t Aware They Use The Cloud

There is confusion over what qualifies as ‘the cloud,’ according to a new consumer survey. Despite marking that they use at least one of several popular cloud-based applications, such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive, over 30% of consumers subsequently responded that they do not use or access information in the cloud. Clutch designed the survey to gauge consumers’ knowledge and habits regarding cloud usage.

When it comes to understanding which applications are part of the cloud, experts say that the confusion is understandable.

“From private cloud, managed private cloud, to in-house and public cloud, there are many different technologies which can be referred to as cloud, but are very general,” said Alexander Martin-Bale, director of Cloud and Data Platforms at adaware, an anti-spyware and anti-virus software program. “The reality is that knowing exactly when you’re using it, even for a technical professional, is not always simple.”

Over half of the respondents (55%) say they are “very” or “somewhat” confident in their cloud knowledge. However, 22% of respondents who do consider themselves very confident in their cloud knowledge did not know or were unsure about whether or not they use the cloud.

Lucas Roh, CEO at Bigstep, says this is likely due to the overuse of the cloud as a buzzword. “It boils down to the fact that the word ‘cloud’ has been used everywhere in the press,” he said. “People have heard about it, and think that they conceptually know how it works, even if they don’t… They’re only thinking in terms of the application being used, not the actual technology behind those applications.”

When it comes to the security of the cloud, 42% of respondents believe the responsibility falls equally on the cloud provider and user.

Chris Steffen, technical director at Cryptzone, says there has been a shift in how people view the security of the cloud. “I think the dynamic is changing along with the information security paradigm,” said Steffen. “People are realizing ­— ‘Hey, maybe I do need to change my password every five years,’ or something similar. You can’t expect everything to be secure forever.”

Based on the findings, Clutch recommends that consumers seek more education on cloud computing, as well as implement simple additional security measures, such as two-factor authentication.

These and other security measures are increasingly important as the cloud becomes more ubiquitous. “The cloud is not going anywhere. If anything, it’s going to become more and more an integral part of the stuff that we do every single day, whether we know that we’re using it or not,” said Steffen.

Clutch surveyed 1,001 respondents across the United States. All respondents indicated that they use one of the following applications: iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, iDrive, and Amazon Cloud Drive.

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CallidusCloud CPQ And Clicktools Earn Servicemax Certification

Callidus Software Inc. has announced the integrations of its award-winning configure price quote (CPQ) and Clicktools feedback solutions with ServiceMax’s leading cloud-based field service management platform.

ServiceMax customers, who manage all aspects of the field service process, including work orders, parts management, entitlements and dispatch, can now seamlessly employ CallidusCloud’s quote generation capabilities and the ability to collect customer feedback from within the ServiceMax platform. The combination simplifies and removes previously manual CPQ processes to better tackle new business opportunities, which frequently arise during the service process.

The combination enables field service reps to generate value-rich quotes and proposals while they’re on-site with customers. Once the quote has been generated, customer feedback can be collected to ensure an excellent customer experience and to help improve future interactions.

“To meet customer expectations in the Internet of Things era, it’s vital to automate as many steps in the sales process as possible,” said Giles House, chief marketing officer at CallidusCloud. “Customers want to complete transactions faster and more accurately, especially when they’re face to face with field service representatives. Giving service reps the power to efficiently complete transactions will help ServiceMax customers make more money faster.”

“Price automation used to be one more hurdle for our customers to provide a seamless service experience,” said Jonathan Skelding, vice president of global alliances at ServiceMax. “Integrating CallidusCloud’s technology into our platform has facilitated a faster, more intuitive quote-automation process — and as a result, it’s empowered technicians to provide a flawless field service experience. When used in an Internet of Things environment such as our Connected Field Service platform, imagine a connected machine initiating a parts and labor quote which, once authorized, creates the work order and schedules the technician.”

CPQ and the Clicktools platform are delivered as part of CallidusCloud’s Lead to Money suite, a SaaS suite designed to help businesses drive enterprise engagement, sales performance management and sales effectiveness throughout the sales cycle to close bigger deals, faster.

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CloudGenix Partners With Converged Network Services Group

CloudGenix, Inc. has announced it has entered into a master agent agreement with Converged Network Services Group (CNSG), the premier Master Distributor for connectivity, cloud, and cloud enablement. With this partnership, CloudGenix will accelerate its business development, while CNSG will add the CloudGenix Instant-On Networks (ION) product family to its portfolio of solutions. With CloudGenix ION, CNSG and its partners can now provide customers with the best solutions for their connectivity needs, independent of carriers and connectivity transports.

CNSG, a solutions provider for end-to-end telecommunications services, has a decade-long track record of helping businesses manage their communications infrastructure. Together, CNSG and CloudGenix will provide customers with not only a best-of-breed connectivity solution, but will also deliver SLAs for cloud applications such as Office365, AWS, Azure, Unified Communications, and VoIP. CloudGenix ION eliminates complex routing protocols and hardware routers, enabling direct setup of business rules and app SLAs, while also reducing WAN costs by 50% to 70%. All network and app flows are stored in a centralized database, providing customer access to native, actionable application and network insights. CloudGenix uniquely delivers single-sided, per-app controls and SLAs for cloud apps.

“CNSG is committed to working with only the best-of-breed technology suppliers to deliver the highest quality solutions for our partners and their customers,” said Randy Friedberg, vice president of business development at CNSG. “Our alliance with CloudGenix reflects this mission, and ensures our product portfolio continues to align with customers’ needs for cost savings and unmatched application performance. CloudGenix uniquely offers provider-agnostic SD-WAN solutions and provides unmatched support for our partners.”

“This agreement is a win all around: CNSG benefits from leading-edge SD-WAN product offerings for its customers that enables its telco aggregation service, CloudGenix is partnering with a leader in the industry, while customers benefit with cost savings, streamlined business processes and a solution that will take them into the future,” said Kumar Ramachandran, CEO of CloudGenix. “It’s a strong strategic fit that maximizes the strengths of both companies.”

Register here for a February 18, 2017 webinar featuring CNSG and CloudGenix, which will discuss the successes companies are realizing with CloudGenix SD-WAN.

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Fusion Wins Three Year, 0,000 Contract

Fusion has announced that it has signed a three year, $350,000 cloud solutions contract with a major, multi-site radiology center headquartered in the Midwest. The win demonstrates Fusion’s increasing success in the health care vertical. Fusion’s specialized solutions are winning growing acceptance among health care providers who cite Fusion’s comprehensive understanding of the industry’s needs and its professional expertise in delivering effective solutions that solve its unique problems.

The radiology center has continuously evolved its imaging technology for over seventy years, providing expert diagnoses and treatment to patients referred by multiple hospitals and ambulatory care centers in the region. It was impressed with Fusion’s flexibility and agility in customizing solutions to meet the industry’s demanding compliance requirements.

The center also noted that Fusion’s feature-rich cloud communications solutions are provided over the company’s own advanced, yet proven cloud services platform, allowing for the seamless, cost-effective integration of additional cloud services. Citing quality and business continuity concerns, the center was further impressed that Fusion’s solutions are integrated with secure, diverse connections to the cloud over its robust, geo-redundant national network, with end to end quality of service guarantees and business continuity built in.

Fusion’s single source cloud solutions offer the radiology center a single point of contact under one contract for integrated services, eliminating the need to manage multiple vendors, and optimizing efficiency with shared, burstable resources across the enterprise.

“We appreciate the healthcare’s industry’s increasing confidence in us, and we are pleased to have been selected to help the center advance its technology investments with our cost-effective single source cloud solutions. Fusion is committed to providing healthcare institutions with the solutions they need to provide the highest levels of care professionally, efficiently and compassionately,” said Russell P. Markman, Fusion’s president of business services.

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Beeks Financial Cloud Joins Equinix Cloud Exchange

Equinix, Inc. has announced global financial cloud infrastructure provider, Beeks Financial Cloud, has deployed on Equinix’s Cloud Exchange as it continues to expand its business globally.

Beeks Financial Cloud leverages Cloud Exchange and Platform Equinix™ to connect its customers to global cloud services and networks via a secure, private and low-latency interconnection model. By joining the Equinix Cloud Exchange, Beeks Financial Cloud gains access to instantly connect to multiple cloud service providers (CSPs) in 21 markets, build a more secure application environment and reduce the total cost of private network connectivity to CSPs for its customers.

“Beeks Financial Cloud has continued to grow rapidly on Equinix’s interconnection platform, with Hong Kong being our eighth addition. Data centers underpin our business and we are confident that Equinix’s Cloud Exchange will enable the speed, resilience and reduced latency our customers have come to expect from our company. Equinix’s global footprint of interconnected data centers has allowed our business to really thrive,” said Gordon McArthur, CEO, Beeks Financial Cloud.

Today, banks, brokers, forex companies, and professional traders are increasingly relying on high-speed, secure and low-latency connections for more efficient business transactions, as demand for data centers and colocation services in the cloud, enterprise and financial services sector continues to grow. According to a July 2016 report by Gartner – Colocation-Based Interconnection Will Serve as the ‘Glue’ for Advanced Digital Business Applications – digital business is “enabled and enhanced through high-speed, secure, low-latency communication among enterprise assets, cloud resources, and an ecosystem of service providers and peers. Architects and IT leaders must consider carrier-neutral data center interconnection as a digital business enabler.”

Beeks Financial Cloud, a UK-based company, first deployed in an Equinix London data center four years ago on one server rack, now has approximately 80 interconnections within Equinix across eight data centers situated in financial business hubs around the world. These direct connections provide increased performance and security between Beeks and its customers and partners across its digital supply chain. Beeks was the first provider in the world to use cross connects to ensure a retail trader customer had a direct connection to their broker.

Beeks’ new deployment in Equinix’s Cloud Exchange provides the necessary digital infrastructure and access to a mature financial services business ecosystem to connect with major financial services providers in key markets around the globe via the cloud. Equinix’s global data centers are home to 1,000+ financial services companies and the world’s largest multi-asset class electronic trading ecosystem— interconnected execution venues and trading platforms, market data vendors, service providers, and buy-side and sell-side firms.

Equinix’s Cloud Exchange offers software-defined direct connections to multiple CSPs including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute and Office 365, IBM Softlayer, Oracle Cloud, and others. This has allowed Beeks to scale up rapidly while securely connecting to multiple cloud providers.

Beeks Financial Cloud has continued to expand its business on Equinix’s global interconnection platform of 146 International Business Exchanges™ (IBX®) in 40 markets across the globe. Beeks is currently deployed in Equinix’s International Business Exchanges™ (IBX®) in London, New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Chicago, and most recently, Hong Kong.

The move to Equinix’s Cloud Exchange is expected to help save approximately £1M over the next three years, while enabling Beeks Financial Cloud to meet the needs of its global customer base who thrive and grow through forex trading.

London is a key player in the global digital economy, with the fifth largest GDP by metropolitan area in the world. Equinix’s flagship London data center based in Slough (LD6) is one of the fastest-growing in the UK and has been established as a hub for businesses to interconnect in a secure colocation environment.

Source: CloudStrategyMag