iland Expands DRaaS Services To Support VMware Vcloud Availability

iland has introduced iland Secure DRaaS℠ powered by VMware. With this new service, iland adds support of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director® to their mature portfolio of DRaaS services.

Faced with ongoing and increasing risks to IT systems from cyber-attacks such as ransomware and other threats, having a secure and robust disaster recovery solution in place is a priority for many companies. The benefits of using familiar VMware technology and management frameworks in the cloud enhances iland’s IaaS customers experience, and will now be extended to disaster recovery solutions with this new offering from iland and VMware.

“iland has always been an earlier adopter of VMware’s cloud-enabled technologies. Once again, they have demonstrated the value of the VMware Cloud Provider Program by becoming one of the first cloud providers to offer support of VMware vCloud Availability,” said Geoff Waters, vice president, Global Cloud Sales, VMware. “VMware vCloud Availability enables VMware Cloud Providers to offer simple, cost-effective cloud-based disaster recovery services that seamlessly support their customers’ VMware vSphere® environments by leveraging native vSphere replication capabilities.”

iland Secure DRaaS powered by VMware is designed for organizations running on-premises vSphere environments or outsourced private clouds with other cloud providers that want to natively protect their virtual workloads in the cloud by leveraging VMware vSphere replication. In the event of a live or test failover, customers can view and manage their workloads through a single pane of glass in iland’s Secure Cloud Console.

“With over ten years of experience providing DRaaS solutions, we’re always looking to expand our solutions portfolio to reach new customers and help them to protect their IT environments,” said Justin Giardina, chief technology officer, iland. “As one of the first VMware Cloud Providers, we are expanding our disaster recovery footprint to incorporate a new VMware offering designed specifically for VMware Cloud Providers. iland Secure DRaaS powered by VMware leverages vCloud Availability, enabling VMware vCenter® server based organizations to protect VMs from their local datacenter to a cloud, natively integrating the replication with the underlying virtualization technology.”

vCloud Availability leverages native VMware vSphere Replication™ to track block changes to virtual disks (VMDKs) of running virtual machines and providing replication in regular intervals to the target environment depending on the required RPO. Using vCloud Availability, customers can achieve RPOs as low as 15 minutes to recover applications and maintain business continuity.

Customers that operate on-premises or in a co-located VMware ecosystem may not have a disaster recovery plan in place, or lack a secondary location for that purpose. The challenge around disasters, whether a natural catastrophe, system failure or even malicious software isn’t about keeping secure copies of information, but being able to react quickly to lessen the impact of an outage. DR testing is a critical component of a well-designed business continuity plan. iland Secure DRaaS powered by VMware will allow for non-intrusive, self-service testing. The benefits of this are twofold, organizations are enabled to test more frequently without disrupting business operations, and they will have more confidence in a well-tested disaster recovery solution.

iland Secure DRaaS powered by VMware Features:

• Support for full failover, partial failover, and failback
• Encryption in-motion and at-rest
• Straightforward implementation using VMware vSphere
• Simple pricing model based on the amount of replicated storage and number of VMs, with hourly compute rates upon failover
• Replication to and from the cloud, including iland and VMware Cloud™ on AWS
• Simplified on-premises installation using a single virtual appliance (vSphere Replication)
• Simplified built-in connectivity between the tenant and iland (no need for VPN)

Analyst recognition of iland as a Leader in DRaaS:

• iland was positioned by Gartner Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the June 2017 “Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.” In the Magic Quadrant for this market sector, Gartner analysts evaluated 23 service providers offering DRaaS based on the criteria of ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision.’
• iland is also ranked as a leader in Forrester Research, Inc.’s report entitled, “The Forrester Wave™: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers, Q2 2017.” In addition to being recognized for “an impressive roadmap”, iland received the highest scores possible in the categories of data security, pricing, service levels and contract terms.

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Rackspace To Deliver Fanatical Support® For Vmware Cloud On AWS

Rackspace® has announced from VMworld® in Las Vegas that it intends to offer Fanatical Support® for VMware Cloud on AWS through VMware’s Managed Service Provider (MSP) program early next year.

VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to the AWS Cloud, and enables customers to run applications across VMware vSphere®-based private, public and hybrid cloud environments, with optimized access to AWS services. Delivered, sold and supported by VMware as an on-demand and subscription service, IT teams manage their cloud-based resources with familiar VMware tools, and work with their partners of choice such as Rackspace.

With this announcement, Rackspace will build on its relationship with VMware to offer mutual customers:

• Multi-Cloud Choice: Mutual customers will have more choice across multiple cloud environments. Rackspace will help enable mutual customers to run their VMware workloads out of the datacenter and in the best-fit location, whether in Rackspace datacenters or VMware Cloud on AWS.
• VMware and AWS Expertise: Rackspace is recognized as a global, at-scale provider of managed and professional services for VMware and AWS. The company is a leading VMware Cloud Provider Partner and runs one of the largest vSphere footprints in the world. In addition, Rackspace has achieved Premier Consulting Partner status, the highest tier within the AWS Partner Network (APN), and is an audited AWS Managed Service Partner for its Fanatical Support for AWS offering.
• Managed Services: Through Fanatical Support for VMware Cloud on AWS, Rackspace will provide architecture, provisioning and management guidance, as well as assist customers with capacity management and workload mobility between Rackspace data centers and AWS data centers.

“With the same architecture and operational experience on-premises and in the cloud, customers can quickly derive business value from a hybrid cloud experience based on AWS, Rackspace and VMware,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president and general manager of Product Development for Cloud Services at VMware. “Rackspace has extended its Fanatical Support to VMware technologies for more than 10 years, and VMware Cloud on AWS presents another opportunity to help mutual customers architect, manage and optimize their existing and future VMware-based applications. We’re excited to take this next step and collaborate with Rackspace as they grow and evolve with VMware to meet our mutual customers’ needs.”

“VMware Cloud on AWS is a strong collaboration between two of the leading technology providers in the industry, and will deliver high value to customers who want to run their VMware workloads in the best-fit environment,” said Peter FitzGibbon, vice president and general manager of VMware at Rackspace. “Operating across multiple cloud deployments is relatively new to many organizations, however, and some mutual customers will want support to operate VMware Cloud on AWS effectively. As a leading VMware Cloud Provider Partner and a Premier Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network, Rackspace is uniquely positioned to provide multi-cloud expertise and identify customer needs. We’re excited to deliver Fanatical Support for VMware Cloud on AWS to customers and look forward to continuing our work with VMware to support the managed service provider model for VMware Cloud on AWS.”

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Trend Micro Announces Support for VMware Cloud On AWS

Trend Micro Incorporated has announced its market-leading Trend Micro Deep Security™ server security product is available to customers of VMware Cloud™ on AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS brings together VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software and the dedicated, elastic, bare-metal infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give organizations a consistent operating model and application mobility for private and public cloud. The addition of Deep Security provides seamless visibility and security for virtualized workloads across the SDDC, whether on-premises or in the new VMware Cloud on AWS environment.

Organizations undergoing cloud transformation projects can face a range of operational challenges and regulatory considerations that must be addressed. Trend Micro enables security tool consolidation and streamlined regulatory compliance with a single security product that can consistently secure workloads across the hybrid cloud, including physical,virtual, cloud, & container environments. Leveraging multiple security techniques and deep integration with VMware and AWS, workloads can be automatically secured as they are launched, including vulnerability scanning & policy application to ensure that attacks like WannaCry and Erebus won’t be successful. With a consistent approach to securing all environments, operational costs can be reduced while taking advantage of the cost-benefits of the cloud.

“Trend Micro’s long history of innovation with both VMware and AWS makes us well-suited to provide security for our mutual customers’ data center and cloud workloads,” said Steve Quane, executive vice president of network defense and hybrid cloud security for Trend Micro. “With millions of secured VMs and nearly 2.5 billion protection hours in the cloud, we have unparalleled experience and expertise to help our customers as they take advantage of the new VMware Cloud on AWS offering.”

VMware Cloud on AWS technology partners enable customers to deploy the same proven solutions seamlessly in both the public and private cloud. VMware simplifies deployment and eliminates the need for partners to refactor solutions for VMware Cloud on AWS. If a partner solution works on-premises in a VMware vSphere® environment, it will easily support VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware technology partners complement and enhance native VMware Cloud on AWS service and enable customers to realize new capabilities.

“VMware Cloud on AWS provides customers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud offering that gives them the SDDC experience from the leader in private cloud, running on the leading public cloud provider, AWS,” said Mark Lohmeyer, vice president, products, Cloud Platforms Business Unit, VMware. “Solutions such as Trend Micro’s Deep Security enable IT teams to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and create operational consistency across cloud environments. We’re excited to work with partners such as Trend Micro to enhance native VMware Cloud on AWS capabilities and empower customers with flexibility and choice in solutions that can drive business value.”

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Navisite Launches VMware vCloud Availability Program At VMworld

Navisite’s managed services for the VMware-native cloud-based replication and disaster recovery capabilities for VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director at VMworld, Aug 28-31. This complements Navisite’s recent launch of VMware NSX network and security virtualization platform. 

With Navisite’s VMware cloud services, running VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Navisite clients will be able to test replicated environments and move applications seamlessly, all while production is actively running.

“Our clients have been looking for a native solution to replicate and migrate protected virtual machines to the cloud — without the need for costly dedicated hardware or complicated third-party solutions,” said Sumeet Sabharwal, group vice president and general manager, Navisite. “The spike in recent cyberattacks and ransomware has highlighted interest in cloud replication disaster recovery implementations. Navisite VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director based replication service provides clients with a simple and cost effective solution to enable availability of their VMware environments.”

Navisite’s VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director solutions offer a variety of benefits for clients, including:

• On-premises installation and complete VMware compatibility: Using a Navisite VMware Cloud as a vCloud Availability for vCloud Director replication target, clients can replicate virtual machines (VMs) from primary VMware vSphere environments to a highly scalable, geographically-diverse site, based in one of Navisite’s enterprise-grade data centers.
• Simplified failover switch capabilities: Clients can gain access to a remote site for disaster recovery without the painful process of configuring a VPN. After an interruption at a client’s primary site, users can simply initiate a failover switch to keep business applications running in a remote Navisite environment. Once the primary site is restored, clients can then initiate a failback to return to running applications as usual. Leveraging a distributed architecture provides Navisite clients with unique failover testing capabilities.
• VMware-native solution with enhanced functionality: Unlike alternative third party replication tools that can be costly and difficult to integrate, vCloud Availability for vCloud Director is a native solution developed with the full support of the vSphere stack.

“Navisite’s innovative program gives their clients access to VMware’s latest replication and Network Virtualization technologies,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president, general manager, Cloud Provider Software Business Unit, VMware. “Navisite’s vCloud Availability for vCloud Director solution offers clients an end-to-end, VMware-native solution that can surpass existing third-party data protection solutions.” 

Clients are already taking advantage of this cloud replication and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution. One example is Ceridian, a global human capital management company that has turned to Navisite to help meet the needs of its changing business model.

“As the only provider in the U.S. with a VMware vCloud Availability replication offering, Navisite is exceeding our expectations yet again,” said Warren Perlman, CIO, Ceridian. “Their new multi-cloud solution combines the power VMware NSX and vCloud Availability for vCloud Director to deliver seamless and rapid recovery time in the event of a disaster, allowing us to keep the focus on our core business.”

Navisite is a Gold Sponsor at VMworld 2017, the industry’s largest virtualization and cloud computing event, taking place August 28-31 in Las Vegas. Navisite will be discussing and demonstrating its VMware expertise along with new VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director at booth #212 during the conference.

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Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Now Available Across Seven CoreSite Markets

CoreSite Realty Corporation has announced the expanded availability of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, which can now be privately accessed from seven of CoreSite’s markets across the country, including Northern Virginia, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.

CoreSite customers can privately connect to Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 via the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange, which provides high-performance, SLA-backed virtual connections and on-demand provisioning. The integration of Azure ExpressRoute and the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange provides CoreSite customers with the opportunity to establish a fast and reliable private connection into Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365. With an Azure ExpressRoute connection, customers have a natural extension of their data centers and can build hybrid applications that span on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Cloud services without compromising privacy or performance.

CoreSite customers can efficiently transfer large data sets for high-performance computing, migrate virtual machines between dev-test environments in Azure to production environments housed in a CoreSite data center and optimize replication for business continuity, disaster recovery, and other high-availability strategies.

“We are excited to announce the expanded availability of Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to our customers across seven of our key markets,” said Brian Warren, senior vice president of engineering & products at CoreSite. “We are enabling our customers with the solutions necessary to bring together all of their applications, data, devices, and resources, both on-premise and in the cloud, with predictable, reliable, and secure high-throughput connections.”

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Rackspace Expands Private Cloud Capabilities

Rackspace® has announced the general availability of Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware®, which will now be built on VMware Cloud Foundation™. With this, customers can enhance the foundational technology that is enabling their move out of the data center and into the cloud with the newest VMware capabilities. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware built on VMware Cloud Foundation will enable full software defined data center (SDDC) capabilities including compute, storage and networking that span the public and private cloud.

VMware Cloud Foundation accelerates IT’s time-to-market by providing a factory-integrated cloud infrastructure stack that is simple to use and includes a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking and security. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware helps businesses maximize their VMware deployments by helping build, operate and optimize customers’ physical and virtual infrastructure, freeing IT resources from day-to-day infrastructure management so they can focus on their core business. Rackspace is one of the largest global providers in the VMware Cloud Provider™ Program and has partnered with VMware for more than 10 years delivering valuable solutions for mutual customers.

Built on VMware Cloud Foundation, Rackspace Private Cloud provides mutual customers with enhanced capabilities and management benefits including:

• Standardized Architecture: Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware is built on VMware Validated Designs, which are based on best practices, making deployments more predictable and lower risk.
• Continuous Updates and Lifecycle Management: Continuous updates allow for the most up-to-date VMware capabilities through lifecycle management of VMware components, thereby helping to improve users’ security posture.
• Leverage Existing VMware Investments: Users leverage the control, flexibility and choice needed to run VMware as easily as they would in their own data center.IT departments can migrate or extend to the VMware cloud with consistent tooling and skills. Consistent infrastructure architecture can be leveraged across multiple locations without the need to refactor code. Mutual customers maintain value of existing investments made in training, VMware technology and familiar tools by accelerating adoption of software-defined infrastructure.
• Offload Physical and Virtual Infrastructure Operations: Rackspace delivers a hosted model, which eliminates many of the procurement and integration challenges that IT organizations face in their own data centers. Mutual customers also benefit from the ability to scale their solution quickly and as needed without the need for significant upfront CAPEX investments in data centers and hardware.
• Managed by Rackspace, Powered by VMware: With Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware, customers have access to Fanatical Support® provided 24x7x365 from more than 150 VMware Certified Professionals (VCPs) to help migrate, architect, secure and operate Rackspace hosted clouds powered by VMware technologies.

“Provisioning hardware quickly is no longer considered a value for customers, it’s expected,” said Peter FitzGibbon, vice president and general manager of VMware at Rackspace. “The enhancement in our VMware private cloud delivery model through VMware Cloud Foundation will provide further value to new and existing Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware customers by giving them access to the most streamlined and innovative VMware SDDC capabilities and lifecycle management. We are excited to use VMware Cloud Foundation and look forward to continued innovation on the platform.”

“With a decade of proven success in helping customers meet their business demands, VMware and Rackspace are taking another step together to help mutual customers dramatically shorten the path to hybrid cloud,” said Geoffrey Waters, vice president of Global Cloud Sales at VMware. “VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s most advanced cloud infrastructure platform that unlocks the benefits of hybrid cloud by establishing a common, simple operational model across private and public clouds. Together with Rackspace and its renowned Fanatical Support, we will add great value to mutual customers in their digital transformation journey.”

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ByteGrid Chosen By Re-Quest, Inc. For Highly Secure Hosting Solutions

ByteGrid Holdings LLC has announced an agreement with Re-Quest, Inc. to provide highly secured technical expertise supporting Re-Quest’s delivery of Oracle hybrid cloud solutions for their customers.

Re-Quest has been successfully assisting customers around the world since 1991, leveraging their investment in Oracle Technology and Infrastructure assets to gain higher returns on investment, lower total cost of ownership and measurable improvement in their business processes.

“Re-Quest prides itself on the high level of business process and technical expertise we bring to every client engagement,” said Ron Zapar, CEO. “Which is why we chose to partner with ByteGrid, providing our customers with high value services across a complete spectrum of Oracle Hybrid Cloud solutions.”

“We know it’s important for Re-Quest to provide their customers with the technical perspective to implement projects that deliver complete customer satisfaction and partner success,” said Jason Silva, ByteGrid’s CTO. “We’re proud to partner with Re-Quest to ensure they’re successful in bringing that satisfaction by hosting their Oracle Hybrid Cloud technology solutions.”

In addition to this new agreement with Re-Quest, ByteGrid serves some of the world’s largest companies and government agencies, including numerous Fortune 50 companies.

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Rob Kakareka Joins Qligent As Manager Of Business Development

Qligent has announced that Robert “Rob” J. Kakareka has joined the company as its new manager/business development. A broadcast industry veteran with extensive sales experience, Kakareka is tasked with developing U.S. sales, customer relationships and market opportunities.

Kakareka reports directly to John Shoemaker, Qligent’s director of sales. Atlanta-based Kakareka will focus on selling the company’s innovative, Vision cloud-based monitoring and compliance platform to U.S. broadcasters, including major networks and call-letter stations.

Qligent’s Vision platform gathers and analyzes data from high-end probes that monitor distinct points along the distribution signal path, out to the last mile. This data enables broadcasters to ascertain that they are delivering an optimal Quality of Experience (QoE) for their viewers, and pinpoint technical issues they need to address.   

“I’m excited to be promoting the value and benefits of Qligent’s flagship product, Vision, at a time of rapid change in the broadcast industry,” said Kakareka. “Vision is uniquely positioned to support mission-critical broadcast distribution in a cost-efficient SaaS model as the industry expands from traditional over-the-air, cable and satellite channels to new digital, mobile and over-the-top (OTT) outlets.

“Despite this dramatic IP-centric shift, the broadcast industry remains a close-knit community with unique requirements and workflows,” Kakareka continued. “My goal is to show broadcasters that not only is our technology exceptional, but we have their backs as they venture into new and emerging market opportunities — including a true Monitoring as a Service business model that offloads monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting responsibilities to our managed services layer.”

With a career spanning over 20 years, Kakareka is no stranger to the broadcast industry, having held strategic sales and business development positions for many high-profile brands. These prior posts include Avid (Orad) Graphics Systems (from February 2014 to February 2016), Miranda (February 2012 to March 2014), Pixel Power (February 2008 to February 2012) and BarcoNet (February 2001 to February 2002).

In these national sales roles, Kakareka regularly outperformed sales quotas, broadened customer bases, boosted sales revenues, and built strong customer relationships with broadcasters nationwide. He’s also knowledgeable in all aspects of broadcast television operations, including graphics and virtual reality studio workflows, SaaS digital media services, big data-scaled storage, TV/film production and OTT/cloud workflows.

Kakareka has also tackled complex business development challenges, such as developing new business for Comprehensive Technical Group, while creating new business plans for this system integration firm’s existing clients. While working for systems integrator Technical Innovations/Broadcast Solutions Group (from February 2002 to February 2008), he implemented a sales plan for the rollout of ATSC compliant DTV systems, sold and integrated them at hundreds of stations across North America, among other sales achievements. 

 “In his stellar career, Rob has witnessed this industry’s many transitions firsthand, and that experience will be especially valuable as we engage with broadcasters to demonstrate how our unique, groundbreaking cloud software can solve today’s ‘uncontained’ distribution challenges,” said Shoemaker. “Our company has experienced rapid growth in a short time, and we’re confident that Rob’s industry expertise, insight and track record will help us capitalize on this momentum and significantly expand our U.S. customer base.”    

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EvoSwitch Releases White Paper

EvoSwitch has released a new white paper titled: ‘How to Build a Better Cloud –Planning.’ Aimed at CIOs, CTOs and IT Directors, the white paper provides expert-input to a business-driven planning process for weighing multi-cloud environments and implementing a hybrid cloud strategy.

As a colocation services provider with its data centers located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Manassas (Washington DC area) in the U.S., EvoSwitch serves a considerable amount of clients with hybrid cloud needs. That’s why the colocation company established its cloud marketplace, EvoSwitch OpenCloud, two years ago. Through this marketplace, EvoSwitch customers would be able to quickly and securely interconnect to a large number of other cloud platforms including AWS, Google and Azure.

Partly based on these OpenCloud, hybrid cloud customer experiences as well as cloud management expertise of the author himself, the EvoSwitch white paper released today provides CIOs, CTOs, and IT Directors with business-driven guidance for successfully planning their hybrid cloud strategy. Titled ‘How to Build a Better Cloud –Planning,’ the white paper is written by seasoned data center services and cloud computing professional, Patrick van der Wilt, who serves as the commercial director for EvoSwitch.

EvoSwitch’s new white paper ‘How to Build a Better Cloud –Planning’ counts 30 pages and is available in English. It can be downloaded for free here.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Equinix Collaborates With SAP

Equinix, Inc. has announced that it is offering direct and private access to the SAP® Cloud portfolio, including SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform, in multiple markets across the globe. Dedicated, private connections are available via Equinix Cloud Exchange™ and the SAP Cloud Peering service in the Equinix Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, Sydney, Toronto and Washington, D.C. International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers, with additional markets planned for later this year. Through this connectivity, enterprise customers benefit from high-performance and secure access to SAP cloud services as part of a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy.

“Equinix recognizes that enterprise cloud needs vary, and by aligning a company’s business requirements to the best cloud services, they can create a more agile, flexible and scalable IT infrastructure.  With more than 130 million cloud subscribers, SAP has a strong foothold in the enterprise market, and by providing these customers and more with dedicated connectivity to their SAP software environments simply, securely and cost-effectively from Equinix Cloud Exchange, we help customers connect and build a hybrid cloud solution that works for them,” said Charles Meyers, president of strategy, services and innovation, Equinix.

As cloud adoption continues to rise, so does the growth of multi-cloud deployments. In fact, according to the recent IDC CloudView survey, 85% of respondents are either currently using a multi-cloud strategy or plan to do so in the near-term.* Equinix Cloud Exchange, with direct access to multiple cloud services and platforms, such as the SAP Cloud portfolio, helps enterprise customers to expedite the development of hybrid and multi-cloud solutions across multiple locations, with the goal of gaining global scale, performance and security.

SAP Cloud Peering provides direct access inside the Equinix Cloud Exchange to help customers looking to reap the benefits of the SAP Cloud portfolio, with the control and predictability of a dedicated connection. Initially, access will be available for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform, which serve as SAP’s IaaS and PaaS solutions respectively. SAP and Equinix plan to make available SAP SuccessFactors®, SAP Hybris®, SAP Ariba®solutions and others in the near future.

“SAP joined the Equinix Cloud Exchange platform to address customer requirements for enterprise hybrid architecture in an environment that lends itself to the very highest levels of performance and reliability. With SAP’s traditional base of more than 300,000 software customers seeking ways to take the next step in a cloud-enabled world, SAP has established efficient capabilities to deliver on those requirements,” said Christoph Boehm senior vice president and head of Cloud Delivery Services, SAP.

SAP continues to gain traction in enterprise cloud adoption, with particular strength in APAC and EMEA. According to a recent 451 Research** note, SAP’s APAC cloud subscription and support revenue grew by 54%, while it rose by 35% in EMEA and by 27% in the Americas.  Access to these cloud-based services in Equinix’s global footprint of data centers will help drive adoption and reach of SAP cloud offerings.

Equinix offers the industry’s broadest choice in cloud service providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Google Cloud Platform, and other leading cloud providers such as SAP.  Equinix offers direct connections to many of these platforms via Equinix Cloud Exchange or Equinix Cross Connects. Equinix Cloud Exchange is an advanced interconnection solution that provides virtualized, private direct connections that bypass the Internet to provide better security and performance with a range of bandwidth options. It is currently available in 23 markets, globally.

*Source:  IDC CloudView Survey, April 2017. N=6084 worldwide respondents, weighted by country, industry and company size. 
**Source: 451 Research, “SAP hits Q4 and FY2016 targets as cloud subscription/support revenue jumps 31%,” February 1, 2017

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