MATRIXX Software Launches Digital Commerce Solution On Google Cloud

MATRIXX Software has announced the availability of MATRIXX Digital Commerce on the Google Cloud Platform. A comprehensive solution, MATRIXX Digital Commerce is a single platform that brings together traditionally separate functions including: product lifecycle management, customer engagement, service delivery and monetization. By offering this innovative cloud-deployment capability, MATRIXX Software now makes it possible for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to leverage the benefits of Google Cloud for rapid digital transformation.     

CSPs embarking on digital transformation journeys are seeking cloud native, fast-start solutions in lieu of large-scale IT transformations which carry substantial risk. By leveraging MATRIXX Digital Commerce in Google Cloud, CSPs have a fast-start, low cost option to digitize IT operations. MATRIXX Software provides telcos with an alternative path to continuing the steep investments in decades-old BSS infrastructure, which is inherently too complex and slow to support today’s dynamic market requirements.   

“We are seeing more demand for real-time commerce capabilities deployed via the cloud,” explained Dave Labuda, founder, CTO and CEO of MATRIXX Software. “We’ve chosen to work with Google because they are the disruptive cloud vendor in terms of price, innovation and performance. In addition, Google’s well-provisioned global network, with hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cable, makes them the right partner to bring our network-grade application into the public cloud.”

Leveraging a public cloud option, CSPs can quickly automate processes and streamline operations. By replacing outdated and complex technology with MATRIXX Digital Commerce in Google Cloud, CSPs deploy a simpler IT architecture that enables business agility and delivers a much-improved experience to customers — at a fraction of the operational costs incurred via traditional BSS.

Rich Karpinski, principal analyst, mobile operator strategies at 451 said, “While some operators continue to focus solely on NFV, many are looking for a quicker win with their IT operations transformation — an activity that all too often in the past has been a long, expensive project that failed to pay promised dividends. As NFV is still evolving and maturing, going with a public cloud offering that supports network-grade applications and operations today could provide CSPs a faster, more cost-effective path forward.”

MATRIXX Software chose Google Cloud because of its unique ability to provide telco-grade scalability and performance with network-grade application and security support, embedded analytics, and a level of price performance that provides a new benchmark of economics for telco transformation and operations.

MATRIXX Software has been working with the Google Cloud Platform since the beginning of 2017 to define, test, benchmark and validate the environment. Using Compute Engine, Cloud Load Balancing and Virtual Private Cloud services from Google Cloud, MATRIXX Software has benchmarked supporting tens of millions of subscribers, using a small number of VMs, and full support for both local and geographical redundancies to provide telco-grade reliability and availability.

MATRIXX Digital Commerce in Google Cloud provides:

• A quick-start environment and architecture to fast-track digital transformation
• Virtual managed network capabilities
• Strong organizational and platform security
• Local and geo-redundancy to provide five-nines of availability
• Seamless horizontal scalability
• The ability to start small but scale to support Tier One telco customer and network traffic volumes

The first live deployments of MATRIXX Digital Commerce in Google Cloud will launch in early 2018.  

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Masergy Integrates Managed Cloud Workload Protection Into MDR Platform

Masergy has announced the availability of its Managed Cloud Workload Protection solution. The managed offering reduces threats to enterprise cloud services by delivering rigorous protection, detection and response capabilities for AWS, Azure, Google and private cloud environments. This innovative solution is the latest integration into Masergy’s comprehensive managed detection and response (MDR) platform to mitigate risk, offload incident monitoring and improve security outcomes.

“Migration to IaaS/PaaS environments offer tremendous business benefits, but as we’ve seen with recent high-profile cloud breaches, a single misconfiguration or missing control can be detrimental,” said Jay Barbour, director of security product management, Masergy. “Our managed solution delivers best practices for tracking vulnerabilities and ensuring proper configuration. With 24/7 monitoring from our global team of certified security experts we provide real-time alerting and incident response.”

According to Gartner’s How to Make Cloud IaaS Workloads More Secure Than Your Own Data Center G00300337, “95% of cloud security failures will be the [IaaS] customer’s fault.” In addition, “adopting the best practices outlined in this research will require changes to security culture, mindsets and processes, thus slowing adoption.”

Masergy addresses Gartner’s recommendations and goes even further by extending patented security analytics capabilities and mature processes to cloud computing environments in partnership with CloudPassage. This continues Masergy’s expansion of its Managed Detection Response ecosystem with a cost-effective solution that provides scalable coverage for servers, virtual machines, cloud operating systems and containers.

Benefits include:

• Automates best practices and accelerates enterprise migration to cloud computing while also supporting legacy on-premise servers and data centers
• Frees up critical in-house security resources from time-consuming 24/7 alert monitoring and triage
• Protects against sophisticated attackers and security misconfigurations with extensive security controls and audit capabilities

Gartner, “How to Make Cloud IaaS Workloads More Secure Than Your Own Data Center,” Neil MacDonald, Lydia Leong, Terrence Cosgrove, Refreshed: 4 October 2017 | Published: 24 June 2016.[G1]

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Enter Fortifies Carrier-Neutral Interconnection Capabilities At Its Milan Data Center

Enter has announced enhanced connectivity capabilities at its Milan Caldera data center campus with the addition of its neutral interconnection facility, MIL2.

An expansion of Enter’s existing MIL1 data center, MIL2 is purpose-built to facilitate cost-effective cross-connects to a multitude of carriers and content providers via its Meet-Me Room.

Enter’s MIL1 and MIL2 data centers provide a reliable environment for telco colocation, with redundant power distribution and a generator that provides the facility with at least five days of backup power at full load for business continuity.

Leveraging Enter’s expansive backbone and metro dark fiber network, MIL2 customers can access hundreds of networks within the Caldera campus and seamlessly connect to additional local network providers and remote facilities in the Milan area.  Additionally, nearby landing points in Bari and Palermo enable access to submarine cables Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 5 (SEA-ME-WE 5) and Asia-Africa-Europe (AAE-1) by way of Enter’s strategic provider partnerships.

“We expanded our neutral interconnection facility to provide customers with cost-effective, reliable interconnection opportunities. Located in one of Italy’s key connectivity and fiber hubs, our Milan Caldera data centers offer a strategic and cost-effective alternative to Frankfurt and Marseille,” says Milko Ilari, Head of International Business & Strategy at Enter.  “In addition to serving as a bridge for operators looking to expand their reach to or within Western Europe, MIL2 is also designed to accommodate unique project requirements as well as facilitate mutually beneficial partnerships amongst our customers.”

Enter’s transparent, partner-centric approach is also evident in its recent Open Compute Project (OCP) hardware deployment for Enter Cloud Suite (ECS) in MIL2.  The OCP was launched by Facebook and provides an open source design for servers, racks and data center facilities, lowering vendor lock-in and increasing community participation in data center.  By adopting OCP, companies can dramatically reduce CAPEX and OPEX, while driving innovation through the incremental contribution of the open source community.

ECS is the first European, OpenStack-based cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution.  With one connection to Enter, small to mid-size communication service providers can affordably expand their network footprint and reach all of Europe’s leading IXs.  In addition to ECS, Enter also offers Colocation, Ethernet and internet access services, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), dark fiber, and data center services at its MIL2 data center.

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iQuate Releases iQCloud

iQuate has announced the availability of iQCloud, the most advanced automated discovery and service mapping solution for digital enterprises.

As cloud computing becomes mainstream, business and IT professionals must understand how their IT services are delivered to run their business in a digital age. How can you harness the power of the cloud if you don’t understand how your existing IT services are delivered today?

“iQCloud gives organizations what they need for a smarter way to the cloud,” says Patrick McNally, CEO of iQuate. “We call it Discovery and Service Mapping 2.0 because it automatically discovers, maps, sizes, tracks, and enables dynamic service management with top-down application services visibility together with bottom-up infrastructure clarity.  We will tell you how your IT services are delivered now, and we’ll help you manage them wherever they are delivered in the future — across legacy, private and public cloud environments.”

McNally brought together a highly respected team with several decades of experience in discovery and service mapping to create iQCloud. The iQuate team worked with an existing global customer base to build a solution that reduces to minutes and hours what once required weeks, and months of manual effort and required deep in-house knowledge of IT resources.

iQCloud provides actionable information to IT and business professionals within the first hour of onboarding and doesn’t require installation or deep knowledge of the IT enterprise it exposes. “The technology has been designed to get more organizations into the cloud faster and with lower risk,” says McNally. “iQCloud automatically provides a holistic view across your entire estate, including highly dynamic, hybrid IT environments.”

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Vertiv Introduces Cloud Capabilities And IoT Gateway

Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, has announced a significant cloud-based addition to the Vertiv portfolio that will empower customers with deeper insights across the data center. The Vertiv cloud offering will leverage the collective knowledge gleaned from decades of data center projects to deliver real-time analysis that will simplify and streamline data center operations and planning.

As part of the Vertiv cloud offering, now available is a new Internet of Things (IoT) gateway that provides added security with simple installation and commissioning to streamline data center connectivity. The Vertiv™ RDU300 gateway, a new entry in the Vertiv RDU family of monitoring and control products, integrates with building management systems and ensures that any data passed to the Vertiv cloud from the customer site is done securely and using minimum bandwidth. Together the Vertiv cloud offering and Vertiv RDU300 gateway enable remote visibility, collection, and analysis of critical infrastructure data across all Vertiv products.

“As an organization, we have designed and built data centers of all shapes and sizes and have millions of equipment installations in data centers and IT facilities in every corner of the globe,” said Patrick Quirk, vice president and general manager of Global Management Systems at Vertiv. “The accumulated knowledge from past, present and future deployments is a powerful resource, and this cloud-based initiative operationalizes that resource in a way that will bring unprecedented capabilities to our customers.”

The Vertiv cloud initiative unlocks the data and deep domain knowledge Vertiv has accrued from its history of monitoring and servicing hardware, software and sensors, including its Chloride®, Liebert®, and NetSure™ brands. With billions of historical uninterruptible power supply (UPS), battery and thermal system data points populating the Vertiv cloud, supplemented by the constant inflow of real-time data, operators will be able to make decisions and take actions based on data-based insight and best practices from across the industry.

Vertiv will use its cloud to aggregate, anonymize and analyze data from IT deployments around the world, identifying trends and patterns that will transform data center operation practices and virtually eliminate the traditional break/fix model and preventative maintenance. Starting with battery monitoring and monitoring for select UPS and power distribution unit (PDU) systems, Vertiv will leverage its cloud to continuously evaluate performance against billions of existing data points to anticipate everything from maintenance needs to efficiency improvements. The Vertiv cloud will synthesize that information and deliver preemptive prompts to data center managers, who can remotely trigger the appropriate actions through qualified personnel and eventually secure Vertiv gateway systems within their facilities and more effectively plan in the short and long term.

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Equinix Collaboration with AWS Expands to Additional Markets

Equinix, Inc. announced an expansion of its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the extension of direct, private connectivity to the AWS Direct Connect service to four additional Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in North America and Europe. The move advances the Equinix and AWS collaboration that enables businesses to connect their owned and managed infrastructure directly to AWS via a private connection, which helps customers reduce costs, improve performance and achieve a more consistent network experience.

“When businesses compete at the digital edge, proximity matters. To be successful, enterprises require superior interconnection. Together, Equinix and AWS are catalysts and enablers of this new digital and interconnected world. By offering AWS Direct Connect in our data centers across the globe, we are helping our customers solve their business challenges, drive better outcomes, and simplify their journey to the public cloud,” said Kaushik Joshi, global managing director, Strategic Alliances at Equinix.

Effective immediately, AWS Direct Connect will be available to customers in Equinix IBX data centers in Helsinki, Madrid, Manchester, and Toronto, bringing the total number of Equinix metros offering AWS Direct Connect to 21, globally. Customers can connect to AWS Direct Connect at all available speeds via Equinix Cloud Exchange™ (ECX), cross connects or Equinix-provided metro connectivity options. Additionally, with the recently announced AWS Direct Connect Gateway, Equinix customers can also access multiple AWS regions with a single connection to AWS Direct Connect.

In addition to the four new markets announced today, Equinix offers AWS Direct Connect in the Amsterdam, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, London, Munich, New York, Osaka, São Paulo, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, and Washington, D.C. metro areas.

Direct connection to AWS inside Equinix IBX data centers is ideal for specific enterprise use cases, such as:

• Securing and accelerating data flows: Applications such as business intelligence, pattern recognition and data visualization require heavy compute and low-latency connectivity to large data sets. Equinix Data Hub™ and Cloud Exchange can help enterprises control data movement and placement by enabling private, secure and fast connectivity between private data storage devices and AWS compute nodes, maintaining data residency and accelerating access between storage and compute resources.
• Interconnecting to hybrid cloud and business ecosystems: Direct connection to AWS via the Equinix Cloud Exchange offers enterprises access to networks, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS providers and connectivity to thousands of other business ecosystems.
• Direct and private connectivity to strategic cloud providers that avoids the public internet is a growing business practice for leading companies. According to the Global Interconnection Index, a market study published recently by Equinix, the capacity for private data exchange between enterprises and cloud providers is forecast to grow at 160% CAGR between now and 2020.

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Equinix Achieves AWS Networking Competency Status

Equinix, Inc. has announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Networking Competency status in the AWS Partner Network (APN), underscoring Equinix’s ongoing commitment to serving AWS customers by providing private and secure access inside its global footprint of International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers. This distinction recognizes Equinix as a key Technology Partner in the APN, helping customers adopt, develop, and deploy networks on AWS.

“Equinix is proud to achieve AWS Networking Competency status. Together, Equinix and AWS Direct Connect accelerate Amazon Web Services adoption by making it easier to directly and securely connect to AWS and ensure the performance and availability of mission-critical applications and workloads,” said Kaushik Joshi, global managing director, Strategic Alliances at Equinix.

Achieving the AWS Networking Competency differentiates Equinix as an APN member that provides specialized demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with specific focus on networking based on AWS Direct Connect. To receive the designation, APN members must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

In April of this year, Equinix achieved Advanced Technology Partner status in the AWS Partner Network. To obtain this status, AWS requires partners to meet stringent criteria, including the ability to demonstrate success in providing AWS services to a wide range of customers and use cases. Additionally, partners must complete a technical solution validation by AWS.

To help customers reduce costs, improve performance and achieve a more consistent network experience, Equinix offers AWS Direct Connect service in its IBX data centers in 21 markets globally, including the Amsterdam, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Manchester, Munich, New York, Osaka, São Paulo, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Warsaw and Washington, D.C. metro areas.

Direct and private connectivity to strategic cloud providers that avoids the public internet is a growing business practice for leading companies. According to the Global Interconnection Index, a market study published recently by Equinix, the capacity for private data exchange between enterprises and cloud providers is forecast to grow at 160% CAGR between now and 2020.

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SolarWinds Updates Its SaaS Portfolio

SolarWinds has announced an all-new, breakthrough product and two advanced product updates in a major evolution of its SolarWinds Cloud® Software as a Service (SaaS) portfolio. The new offerings expand the company’s current capabilities for comprehensive, full-stack monitoring with the introduction of AppOptics™, a new application and infrastructure monitoring solution; significant updates to Papertrail™, providing faster search speeds and new log velocity analytics; and enhanced digital experience monitoring (DEM) functionality within Pingdom®.

Collectively, the new SolarWinds Cloud portfolio gives customers broad and unmatched visibility into logs, metrics, and tracing, as well as the digital experience. It will enable developers, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals to simplify and accelerate management and troubleshooting, from the infrastructure and application layers to the end-user experience. In turn, it will allow customers to focus on building the innovative capabilities businesses need for today’s on-demand environments.

“Application performance and the digital experience of users have a direct and significant impact on business success,” said Christoph Pfister, executive vice president of products, SolarWinds. “With the stakes so high, the ability to monitor across the three pillars of observability — logs, metrics, and tracing — is essential. SolarWinds Cloud offers this comprehensive functionality with industry-best speed and simplicity. With AppOptics and the enhancements to Papertrail and Pingdom, we’re breaking new ground by delivering even greater value to our customers in an incredibly powerful, disruptively affordable SaaS portfolio.”

AppOptics: Simple, unified monitoring for the modern application stack

Available today, AppOptics addresses challenges customers face from being forced to use disparate solutions for applications and infrastructure performance monitoring. To do so, it offers broad application performance monitoring (APM) language support with auto-instrumentation, distributed tracing functionality, and a host agent supported by a large open community to enable expanded infrastructure monitoring capabilities and comprehensive visibility through converged dashboards.

For a unified view, AppOptics’ distributed tracing, host and IT infrastructure monitoring, and custom metrics all feed the same dashboarding, analytics, and alerting pipelines. SolarWinds designed the solution to simplify and unify the management of complex modern applications, infrastructure, or both. This allows customers to solve problems and improve performance across the application stack, in an easy-to-use, as-a-service platform.

For application performance monitoring, the powerful distributed tracing functionality can follow requests across any number of hosts, microservices, and languages without manual instrumentation. Users can move quickly from visualizing trends to deep, code-level, root cause analysis.

AppOptics bridges the traditional divide between application and infrastructure health metrics with unified dashboards, alerting, and management features. The host agent runs Snap™ and Telegraf™ plug-ins, enabling drop-in monitoring of key systems. The solution integrates with a wide range of systems to support the heterogeneous infrastructure environments dominating today’s IT landscape.

AppOptics serves as a highly extensible custom metrics and analytics platform that brings together applications, infrastructure, and business data to deliver deep insights that enable fast problem resolution. Finally, with pricing starting at $7.50 USD per host/month, AppOptics delivers an unmatched combination of deep functionality and very affordable pricing, a breakthrough that makes powerful application performance monitoring capabilities accessible to virtually all organizations.

Papertrail: Faster, smarter troubleshooting with log velocity analytics and ‘lightning search’

Papertrail is a cloud-hosted log management solution that helps users troubleshoot infrastructure and application problems. The latest version introduced today includes log velocity analytics, which can instantly visualize log patterns and help identify anomalies. For example, customers now can visualize an increase in total logs sent by a server, a condition that could indicate imminent failure, or something out of the norm.

Also, new to Papertrail is “lightning search,” which will enable developers, support engineers, and systems administrators to search millions or billions of log messages faster than ever before, and then immediately act on information found within the log messages. Together, Papertrail’s latest enhancements empower customers to troubleshoot complex problems, error messages, application server errors, and slow database queries, faster and smarter, with full visibility across all logs.

Pingdom digital experience monitoring

Research firm Gartner estimates that, “by 2020, 30 percent of global enterprises will have strategically implemented DEM technologies or services, up from fewer than 5 percent today1.”  Pingdom, a market leader in the DEM arena, helps make websites faster and more reliable with powerful, easy-to-use uptime and performance monitoring functionality. Available on November 27, the Pingdom solution’s latest enhancements for digital experience monitoring include three new dashboard views that provide the ability to continuously enhance user experience on websites or web applications:

• Sites View: Customers can quickly locate a user experience issue on any monitored website
• Experience View: Customers can filter users and identify those affected by performance issues
• Performance View: Customers can explore the technical cause of an issue and quickly and easily identify opportunities for performance improvements

The latest updates to the Pingdom solution’s digital experience monitoring will empower customers to know first when issues affect their site visitors’ experience, and quickly surface critical information needed to enhance the overall experience.

SolarWinds Cloud: The next evolution of SaaS-based full-stack monitoring

Today’s announcement of SolarWinds Cloud is another important milestone in the company’s drive to deliver a set of comprehensive, simple, and disruptively affordable full-stack monitoring solutions built upon a common, seamlessly integrated, SaaS-based platform. Since 2014, SolarWinds has dramatically expanded its cloud portfolio and capabilities through a series of acquisitions, while making significant progress integrating these acquired solutions, including Pingdom, Librato®, Papertrail, and TraceView™, under a common sales and operational model.

AppOptics builds on the technology and feedback SolarWinds put into Librato and TraceView since their introductions. Now, the company has integrated and enhanced this functionality within a single solution, taking another big step forward in advancing its strategy to unify full-stack monitoring across the three pillars of observability on a common SaaS-based platform.  SolarWinds’ ultimate goal is to enable a single view of infrastructure, applications, and digital experience, which will help customers solve their most complex performance and reliability problems quickly, with unexpected simplicity and industry-leading affordability.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Cambridge Semantics Announces Semantic Layer For Multi-Cloud Environments

Cambridge Semantics has announced multi-cloud support for Anzo Smart Data Lake (SDL) 4.0, its flagship product that brings business meaning to all enterprise data.

Incorporating several new technical advancements designed to deliver a generational shift over current data lake, data management and data analytics offerings, Anzo SDL 4.0 now supports all three major cloud platforms — Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The vision for multi-cloud capability enabled by Anzo will allow enterprises to choose from any combination of on-premise, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud solutions that makes the most sense for their business environment.

“Organizations today view their data assets as key business drivers for competitive advantage,” said Sean Martin, CTO of Cambridge Semantics.  “However, for many, the cost of running analytic solutions is drastically increasing, while speed-to-deployment remains a major challenge. Therefore, we are seeing an accelerated movement to the cloud and its variable cost model.”

As the largest cost center in most enterprise connected data analytics and machine learning programs becomes renting on-demand computing power, many enterprises are actively planning to work with multiple separate cloud vendors to take advantage of the price fluctuations in today’s increasingly commoditized cloud-based computing market, according to Martin.

Cambridge Semantics’ multi-cloud data center model for service-based cloud compute consumption is abstracted and completely automated to eliminate cloud infrastructure provider lock-in as well as securely shift sophisticated consumption of compute resources between the different cloud vendors dynamically to achieve the most competitive pricing at any given moment.

“Our customers want to be able to decide where to place their analytics compute spend globally on an hour-by-hour or even a minute-by-minute basis,” Martin said. “Not only does our open standards-based semantic layer provide business understandable meaning to all enterprise data, but the same metadata driven approach is essential in enabling customers to describe the policies that determine where that data is both securely stored and processed.”

“Cambridge Semantics offers the only semantically-driven smart data lake big data management and connected data analytics solution that entirely insulates enterprises from the different cloud vendor APIs,” Martin said. “It won’t be long before our customers will be able to see multiple vendors quotes for exactly how much the same analytics dashboard is going to cost them to compute before they click the button to select the cloud provider that will get to run that specific job.”

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DDN Partners With Hewlett Packard Enterprise

DataDirect Networks (DDN®) has entered into a partnership with global high-performance computing (HPC) leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to integrate DDN’s parallel file system storage and flash storage cache technology with HPE’s HPC platforms. The focus of the partnership is to accelerate and simplify customers’ workflows in technical computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning environments.

Enhanced versions of EXAScaler® and GRIDScaler® parallel file systems solutions, and the latest release of IME®, a software defined scale out NVMe data caching solution, will be tightly integrated with HPE servers and the HPE Data Management Framework (DMF) software, enabling optimized workflow solutions with large-scale data management, protection and disaster recovery capabilities. They will also provide an ideal complement to HPE’s Apollo portfolio, aimed at high-performance computing workloads in complex computing environments.

“Congratulations to DDN and HPE on this expanded collaboration, which seeks to maximize data throughput and data protection,” said Rich Loft, director of the technology development division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) — and a user of an integrated DDN and HPE solution as the foundation of the Cheyenne supercomputer.  “Both of these characteristics are important to the data workflows of the atmospheric and related sciences.”

“With this partnership, two trusted leaders in the high-performance computing market have come together to deliver high value solutions as well as a wealth of technical field expertise for customers with data intensive needs,” said Paul Bloch, president, DDN. “In this hybrid age of hard drive-based parallel file systems, web/cloud and flash solutions, customers are demanding truly scalable storage systems that deliver deeper insight in their datasets. They want smarter productivity, better TCO, and best in class data management and protection. DDN’s and HPE’s integrated solutions will provide them with just that.”

DDN has been a trusted market leader for storage and parallel file system implementations at scale for nearly twenty years. The integrated offerings from DDN and HPE combine compute and storage in the fastest, most scalable and most reliable way possible.

“At HPE we’re committed to providing best practice options for our customers in the rapidly growing markets for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager for HPC and AI Segment Solutions, HPE. “HPE and DDN have collaborated on many successful deployments in a variety of leading-edge HPC environments. Bringing these capabilities to the broader community of HPC users based on this partnership will accelerate the time to results and value that our customers see from their compute and storage investment.” 

Source: CloudStrategyMag