ZNetLive Rolls Out Managed Microsoft Azure Stack

ZNetLive Rolls Out Managed Microsoft Azure Stack

ZNetLive has announced that it has made available Microsoft Azure Stack — Microsoft’s truly consistent platform for hybrid cloud, to businesses of all sizes with complete deployment and operational support. This will enable enterprises to seamlessly implement and manage their data in a hybrid cloud environment, while realizing its full potential with benefits like agility, scalability, and flexibility, irrespective of their size or cloud expertise of their IT staff.

Azure Stack provides a secure way to enterprises who wish to use Azure public cloud but reasons like data criticality, compliance and data accessibility prevent them from doing so. An extension of Microsoft Azure platform, it helps them to implement same capabilities that Azure public cloud offers, within their own data centers, on premise. It provides them a secure way to have control over their data that’s safe within their boundaries, behind all their security software. This helps them get the benefits of both the public and private cloud worlds.

Microsoft announced the Azure Stack’s ready to order availability in the recently concluded Microsoft partner event – Microsoft Inspire. “We have delivered Azure Stack software to our hardware partners, enabling us to begin the certification process for their integrated systems, with the first systems to begin shipping in September,” wrote Mike Neil, corporate vice president, Azure Infrastructure and Management, in his blog post.

“Azure Stack is another step by Microsoft in fulfilling its Digital Transformation goals. ZNetLive has always been among the fore-runners in bringing the Digital transformation technologies to the end customers and thus, we decided to offer dedicated support services for Microsoft Azure Stack, while attending Microsoft Inspire in Washington D.C, itself. With Microsoft, we take our next step in creating a digitally transformed world,” said Munesh Jadoun, founder & CEO, ZNetLive. 

ZNetLive’s Microsoft Azure Stack management services will provide benefits, including but not limited to these mentioned below:

One support stop for Azure – ZNetLive will provide completely unified support for Azure cloud and Azure Stack cloud including platform elements like hardware, VMs etc. ZNetLive’s Microsoft certified Azure experts will provide round the clock assistance in creating, installing, operating, monitoring and optimizing cloud environments using Azure Stack. 

Assurance and trust with expertise of handling Microsoft Cloud services – Being the first Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) in Rajasthan, India, ZNetLive has been working closely with Microsoft for over a decade and has been providing Microsoft cloud management services to benefit the end customers by getting them digitally transformed.  

As its long-standing partner, it has earned many Microsoft partnerships like Cloud OS Network Partner, Gold Hosting, Gold Data Center, Gold Cloud Productivity, just to name a few.

Ensuring secure services – With managed Microsoft Azure Stack, the customers can select state of the art, certified data centers of ZNetLive for hosting their Azure Stack cloud. ZNetLive trained technical experts will take care of the application and infrastructure security with regular health check monitoring and recommending security services to help customers meet regulatory compliances.

 “We have been working with Microsoft Azure for a long time now. Before Microsoft Azure Stack, we used System Center 2012 R2 product suite to create private cloud environments for our customers. This led to an increase in costs due to hardware, licensing, maintenance, upgrades etc.

But now with Azure Stack, we’ll be able to provide our customers the same Azure capabilities in their own data centers at much lesser prices. Since the intuitive interface of Azure Stack is same as that of Azure, the team will be at ease creating VMs, cloud databases, and other Azure cloud services with no additional training,” said Bhupender Singh, chief technical officer, ZNetLive. 

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Report: NetOps And Devops Want More Collaboration In A Multi-Cloud World

Report: NetOps And Devops Want More Collaboration In A Multi-Cloud World

F5 Networks has announced the results of a recent survey comparing the views of over 850 NetOps and DevOps IT professionals on their respective disciplines and collaboration practices. Traditionally, the larger IT market has viewed these two groups as somewhat antagonistic toward one other. However, the F5 survey indicates they are largely aligned on priorities, with converging interests around the production pipeline and automation capabilities. Reconciling survey results with the current trend of DevOps turning to outside solutions (such as shadow IT) to deploy applications, an implication emerges that NetOps will need additional skills to adequately support efforts tied to digital transformation and multi-cloud deployments.

In parallel, F5’s Americas Agility conference takes place this week in Chicago, featuring a dedicated focus toward topics relevant to the interplay between NetOps and DevOps. With hands-on experiences such as technology labs and training classes aimed at helping operations and development professionals take advantage of programmable solutions, the event explores how modern applications are successfully developed, deployed, secured, and supported.

Key Survey Findings

NetOps and DevOps respect each other’s priorities: Within each group, over three-quarters of NetOps and DevOps personnel believe the other function to be prioritizing “the right things” within IT, signaling a common understanding of broader goals, and opportunities to increase collaboration between the teams. In addition, the groups are fairly aligned on the pace that apps and services are delivered, with frequency of deployments satisfying a significant majority of both DevOps (70%) and NetOps (74%) personnel.

Support for automation: Both segments agreed that automation within the production pipeline is important, with an average rating of significance on a 5-point scale of 4.0 from DevOps and 3.5 from NetOps. Respondents also reported more confidence in the reliability, performance, and security of applications when the production pipeline is more than 50% automated.

Dissonance around pipeline access: A difference of opinion surfaced around the ideal level of shared access to production resources. Forty-five percent of DevOps believe they should have access to at least 75% of the production pipeline, with significantly less (31%) of NetOps respondents placing the access figure for DevOps that high, hinting at a partial disconnect surrounding expectations and best practices within IT. This misalignment can hamper efforts to streamline processes and deliver applications the business needs to succeed in a digital economy.

Differences driving multi-cloud deployments: The majority of DevOps (65%) admitted to being influenced toward adopting cloud solutions either “a lot” or “some” by the state of access to the pipeline via automation/self-service capabilities. Related, a significant portion of NetOps (44%) indicated that DevOps’ use of outside cloud technologies affects their desire to provide pipeline access “some,” with an additional 21% stating that it influences them “a lot.” One result of this is the use of multiple cloud solutions and providers across IT, further complicating the process of delivering, deploying, and scaling applications that support digital transformation efforts.

“We see some interesting data points around network- and development-focused personnel,” said Ben Gibson, EVP and chief marketing officer, F5. “While DevOps seeks more open access to the deployment pipeline to drive the speed of innovation, NetOps can be much more cautious around permissions — presumably because they’re the ones that bear the responsibility if security, availability, or performance are compromised. Despite different approaches, both groups support each other’s efforts, and seem to agree that more flexible technologies are needed to overcome current business limitations, bridge disparate functions, and position IT to better leverage public, private, and multi-cloud environments. Overall, neither group’s responses seemed particularly well aligned with the ‘us vs. them’ narrative that has loomed large in the media to date.”

Bridging IT Functions between NetOps and DevOps

Taken together, the survey results point to a rising interest in automation and self-service that can be linked to the rapid adoption of cloud-based solutions, and the desired flexibility they provide. NetOps and DevOps each demonstrate a willingness to introduce emerging technologies and methods into the production pipeline. However, the speed of innovation can also push traditional IT operations teams beyond their current skill levels, contributing potential resistance on the path to streamlined future application rollouts. From the survey, DevOps reports a confidence level of 3.6 on a 5-point scale in terms of if they have the skills their job function requires, with NetOps’ self-assessment yielding a slightly lower figure (3.4).

The survey findings are in step with F5’s belief that enhanced education will play a larger role in bringing these two groups together and rallying around shared goals. To that aim, F5 offers a growing library of industry certification programs that help customers tailor their application delivery infrastructures across related disciplines and provide common frameworks for different roles throughout the organization. With testing available at F5’s Agility conferences and other venues, over 2,500 certifications have been earned in the past year. In addition, F5’s vibrant DevCentral community provides a means for over 250,000 customers, developers, and other IT professionals to pool their collective knowledge, learn from each other’s experiences, and make the most of their technology investments.

Looking forward, F5 is focused on enabling shared empowerment between NetOps and DevOps teammates, concurrent with their use of multi-cloud solutions. The company’s programmable BIG-IP® products, along with adjacent technologies such as its container-focused offerings, provide compelling platforms for evolving IT groups to apply valuable acceleration, availability, and security services to make their applications, users, and operations practices more successful. Further detail on the survey results and methodology can be found in a companion report.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

LockPath Included In Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant For BCMP Solutions

LockPath Included In Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant For BCMP Solutions

LockPath has announced it has been included in Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Business Continuity Management Program Solutions, Worldwide.

LockPath was one of 12 vendors included in Gartner Inc.’s report, which was published July 12, by Gartner analysts Roberta Witty and Mark Jaggers. The report, which aims to help organizations evaluate business continuity management program (BCMP) software solutions, recognized LockPath as a challenger in the space for its Keylight Platform.

According to Witty and Jaggers, “The 2017 BCMP solutions market — with an estimated $300 million global market revenue — has broadened its IT disaster recovery management, crisis management and risk management capabilities since 2016.”

LockPath’s Keylight Platform supports enterprise BCMP efforts to identify and mitigate operational risks that could potentially lead to disruption. The platform’s integrated and holistic approach to risk management allows organizations to coordinate efforts across the business to continue operations after serious incidents or disasters.

“We are thrilled to be included in this year’s Magic Quadrant,” said Chris Caldwell, CEO, LockPath. “With the number of threats that can adversely impact operations multiplying, our customers are finding value in including business continuity as part of their overall integrated risk management and GRC programs.”

 

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Report: Shifting Clouds, Surging M&A Shape 2017 Data Center Demand

Report: Shifting Clouds, Surging M&A Shape 2017 Data Center Demand

As consumers turn to their smartphones for everything from streaming video to buying their groceries, the data center industry is stepping up to meet escalating demand for storage. A new report from JLL reveals data center construction in North America is up 43% from 2016 and industry consolidation powered a $10 billion surge in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the first half of 2017. Meanwhile, cloud leasing activity started shifting to global markets. 

“While M&A activity is surging, leasing has quietly returned to normal in the U.S.,” said Bo Bond, managing director and data center solutions co-lead, JLL. “The acquisition of large amounts of server space in the U.S. by cloud companies continues, but is no longer as frenetic as it was in 2016. Data center users are now turning their attention toward filling out their global data center footprint and making technology investments to keep them ahead in a rapidly changing industry.”

Data center users investing in the future

In exclusive interviews for JLL’s report, top data center users addressed the hot topics in the industry and how they affect their investment decisions. Users revealed the biggest industry changes coming over the next two years:

  • Efficiency programs will install automation to make data center operations more valuable to the core business.
  • Artificial intelligence will help reduce human intervention in data centers and significantly cut time to restore operations in the event of a failure.
  • Artificial intelligence will make greater use of predictive analytics on-site.
  • Processor technology investments will improve cooling and reduce energy usage.

“Data center users are investing in systems that will allow them to use their servers more efficiently and effectively,” said Mark Bauer, managing director and data center solutions market director, JLL. “Essential technological advancements like artificial intelligence to anticipate failures and automation to reduce response time are what the industry needs to keep up with today’s digital consumer.”

Surprising local market impacts

While data center users are looking to expand their global footprint, North America remains an important location for data storage. In fact, revenue and growth is up for data center companies in a big way in North America. The following markets experienced significant shifts in the first half of 2017:

  • Northern Virginia: Supply is growing at a historic rate, driven by its top-tier status in the data center industry. But with a shortage of available big-block spaces, providers are scrambling to bring new inventory online as quickly as possible to capitalize on the market’s low vacancy and pent-up user demand.
  • Dallas/Fort Worth: The first half of 2017 brought changes to the market, with cloud providers officially setting up shop, spurring a 50 percent bump in absorption. Low power costs will continue to be a major advantage for the market.
  • Northern California: Leasing activity regressed to traditional market levels in the first half of 2017 after large providers drove absorption in the region throughout 2016. Moving forward, construction and occupancy costs will continue to decrease as large blocks of space open up for users.
  • Atlanta: Driven by continued success of both tenured operators and newer operators hitting their stride, the market sustained its strong growth from 2016 during the first half of 2017. Providers and users are now evaluating ways to enter the historically underserved market as they look to anchor their presence in the Southeast.
  • Montréal: Following the raging storm of U.S. cloud activity in 2016, big-name cloud providers swooped in to Montréal in the first half of 2017. The timing is right for providers to enter the Canadian market and take advantage of its optimal pricing and low power rates.

For more insights on data center industry performance in the first half of 2017, with research from data center hub markets across the U.S. and Canada, download the report.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Report: Federal IT Pulling Back From Pure-Play Public Cloud Infrastructures

Report: Federal IT Pulling Back From Pure-Play Public Cloud Infrastructures

Cloud savvy Federal IT decision makers are opting for hybrid cloud models over pure-play public cloud infrastructures as they seek to modernize and secure government systems, according to an independent survey underwritten by Nutanix. The survey, conducted by Market Connections, Inc., drove several key findings. Cost savings using a public-only approach, while possible, have not lived up to the initial hype of cloud computing. While 39% of public cloud users indicated that cost savings are considered ‘great’, the majority of respondents (61%) noted minimal results, ranging from ‘some savings’ to ‘no savings’ at all. Respondents also noted that not every workload is optimal to run in a public cloud, with financials (43%), custom or mission-specific applications (36%) and human resources/ERP applications (34%) considered the least suited for the public cloud.

The most surprising result was that, as a group, more experienced public cloud users forecasted increasing the proportion of application workloads that they run in their private clouds over the next two years, indicating that more experienced cloud users are increasingly leveraging hybrid models to optimize their environments.

“Federal agencies are realizing that a wholesale move to the public cloud is not always the best approach to meet their desired outcomes,” said Chris Howard, Vice President of Federal, Nutanix. “There is a clear opportunity to achieve the benefits of cloud with a hybrid approach, keeping predictable application workloads on-prem and using public cloud for dynamic applications that require extra capacity for finite periods of time.”

The survey of 150 defense, civilian, and intelligence agency IT decision makers sought to determine whether the move to cloud computing has fulfilled agency expectations since the Cloud First Mandate was issued in 2010. Key areas of focus for the study were cost savings, security and applicability of cloud for all application workloads.

The blind online survey was comprised of Department of Defense, military service or intelligence agency respondents (45%), and federal civilian or independent government agencies, including legislative and judicial respondents (55%). All respondents were familiar with their agency’s cloud usage.

To access the full report and survey results, please visit http://www.nutanix.com/FedStudy.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Ensono Cloud Deploys NetApp SolidFire

Ensono Cloud Deploys NetApp SolidFire

Ensono Cloud has recently deployed NetApp SolidFire, a Tier-one quality service provider accelerates shift to a software-defined data center with performance guarantees, flexibility, and scalability.

 “Ensono is committed to delivering a superior managed service experience to our clients. With NetApp® SolidFire®, our clients can focus on accelerating their businesses and leave the burden of managing IT to us,” said Oliver Presland, VP of Global Product Management, Ensono. “Simply put, NetApp SolidFire enables us to deliver more value with less resources. It has become a key enabler of our international cloud platform expansion and our shift toward a software-defined data center.”

According to a survey by Harvey Nash and KPMG, CIO priorities are broadening to include automation and improving agility, along with increasing operational efficiencies, improving business processes, delivering consistent and stable IT performance to the business, and saving money. As a leading hybrid IT solutions and governance provider, U.S.- and UK-based Ensono is answering these rapidly changing business priorities with its new secure private cloud platform, Ensono Cloud.

As the storage foundation designed to run business-critical applications for Ensono Cloud, Ensono deployed NetApp SolidFire all-flash storage from NetApp to serve its clients in the UK and United States. With SolidFire, Ensono delivers improved managed IT services from an innovative infrastructure that is predictable, automated, scalable, and highly available to support its clients’ business-critical applications.

With granular, volume-level SolidFire quality of service, Ensono delivers high performance of every customer application from its shared infrastructure and offers simple delivery of different service tiers. Its scale-out architecture enables Ensono to achieve nondisruptive system expansion with instant resource availability to better support its business growth.

Through SolidFire automation capabilities and deep integration with its VMware-based environment, Ensono can provision resources more quickly, allowing its staff to focus on high-value activities such as applications management and designing complex client solutions.

The diverse features provided by the NetApp SolidFire system are critical to transitioning to a next-generation, software-defined data center. This transition, combined with improved managed services delivered through the new Ensono Cloud, has enabled Ensono to release a state-of-the-art platform to an international market. Already available in the UK, Ensono Cloud is slated to deploy in the United States by summer 2017, bringing highly regarded Ensono services to new markets.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Dataguise Presents Data-Centric Audit and Protection (DCAP) Solutions At AWS Summit

Dataguise Presents Data-Centric Audit and Protection (DCAP) Solutions At AWS Summit

Dataguise has announced that the company will exhibit at the AWS Summit in Chicago. Dataguise will showcase its award-winning security and compliance solution for the detection, protection, monitoring, and auditing of sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Redshift, and all databases supported by RDS. During the event, Dataguise will feature enterprise customer deployments of DgSecure where IT professionals have securely migrated enterprise data to AWS and leveraged the highly scalable platform in financial services, health care, insurance, and other tightly regulated industries.

The AWS Summit in Chicago takes place at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center from July 26-27 and is a popular industry conference that brings together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate and learn about AWS. Dataguise will show DgSecure, a multi-platform data-centric security solution which integrates with AWS to scan and locate all sensitive information stored on Amazon S3, Redshift, and RDS to reveal the location and status of this information throughout its lifecycle. The solution also provides data masking for databases supported by RDS, including SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL.

“As an established Amazon AWS partner, Dataguise has invested the time and resources required to develop the most effective solution for Amazon’s cloud infrastructure platform,” said JT Sison, VP, Marketing and Business Development for Dataguise. “As a result, DgSecure enables users to unleash the power of data in the cloud in the most secure and compliant way possible. The presentation of this technology at the AWS Chicago Summit is expected to draw interest from enterprises with deployments on AWS infrastructure as an increasing number of workloads move to this platform.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Cloud Technology Partners Launches Cloud Kickstart For AWS

Cloud Technology Partners Launches Cloud Kickstart For AWS

Cloud Technology Partners (CTP) has announced that it has launched Cloud Kickstart for Amazon Web Services (AWS), a fixed-time, fixed-price offering that enables clients to safely and quickly leverage the power of AWS across their organization.

“Regardless of whether clients are looking at one workload, multiple workloads, or an entire portfolio, transforming from on-premise to cloud-based IT requires a deep understanding of the best technologies, tools, and vendors to build the right end-to-end solution,” said Robert Christiansen, vice president and cloud adoption practice lead, Cloud Technology Partners. “Cloud Kickstart for AWS takes the guess work out of standing up an enterprise-grade AWS environment and includes all the processes and tools you need to enable your team to safely and securely start provisioning cloud resources.”

Cloud Kickstart for AWS enables your team to quickly start leveraging a secure cloud environment and gain instant awareness of the transformative power of the cloud within your organization. Reducing time to cloud from up to a year to just six weeks, Cloud Kickstart for AWS provides an enterprise-grade AWS environment with all of the essential automation, security, governance, and compliance controls in place including:

  • CTP’s recommended tagging standards
  • AWS account standards
  • IPSec VPN connectivity to AWS
  • Platform common services VPC (both production and nonproduction)
  • Active Directory integration for controlling access to tooling and environment
  • Automated creation of Windows and Linux AMIs
  • AMI snapshot management
  • Creation of custom IAM Roles
  • SDLC toolchain using best-of-breed automation tools

Cloud Kickstart helps companies realize time to value faster with pre-built continuous integrations and continuous testing capabilities that provide immense efficiency gains to DevOps teams. As well as providing best-in-class security, compliance and analytics capabilities to keep your organization’s data secure.

In addition to these features, Cloud Kickstart for AWS also includes a robust reference architecture created with best-of-breed tools in the AWS ecosystem to create a simple package for rapid AWS adoption at scale. From configuration management with chef to security leveraging Trend Micro, Dome9 Arc and Vault, to operational analytics using Sumo Logic, Cloud Kickstart for AWS includes all the tools you need to ensure a secure and compliant AWS environment. Today’s Cloud Kickstart for AWS reference architecture includes these proven solutions:

  • Host-based anti-malware, intrusion prevention and detection, integrity monitoring and application control (Trend Micro)
  • Network security and IAM monitoring and enforcement (Dome9 Arc)
  • Secrets store, temporary access leases (Vault)
  • Encryption for EBS volumes (AWS)
  • Monitoring (AWS Cloudwatch)
  • Consolidated logging including CloudTrail, Build, Automation, and security events across all accounts (Sumo Logic)
  • Configuration management (Chef)
  • Orchestration (Jenkins)
  • Binary repository (Artifactory)
  • Code repository (Git)
  • Managed Cloud Controls for Continuous Compliance and Continuous Cost Control (CTP)

“Moving to the cloud is one of the most transformative changes an organization can make, however, it can be disruptive to the business without the right tools or expertise,” said William Fellows, founder and research vice president, 451 Group. “Today, organizations are seeking methods to help them transition to the cloud more quickly and securely. With Cloud Kickstart for AWS, Cloud Technology Partners has brought together best-of-breed partners to address this business need and help organizations rapidly take advantage of the cloud.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Logicalis US Expands Its Microsoft CSP Program

Logicalis US Expands Its Microsoft CSP Program

Logicalis US has announced it has expanded its Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program and is relaunching its offerings to include additional professional and managed services attractive to organizations of all sizes — including enterprise organizations. To help CIOs wondering if a CSP relationship is right for their business, the Microsoft solution experts at Logicalis have identified seven reasons CIOs should consider a CSP relationship. Microsoft’s CSP program provides organizations an alternative consumption model for procuring cloud-based Office 365 and Azure subscriptions that does not require the kind of stringent, three-year commitment inherent in larger, volume-based on-premise enterprise agreements (EAs). Additionally, by bundling the right professional and managed services, Logicalis, a Microsoft Gold Partner and one of the top 200 Microsoft solution providers of 2017, is able to provide comprehensive Office 365 and Azure solutions that take advantage of the cloud’s flexibility, delivering a monthly consumption- or usage-based model capable of meeting the varied needs of customers of all sizes — small to large.

“Providing our Microsoft customers – including enterprise-level clients – with a model that can adapt to changes in their business is particularly important to organizations that may not be able to predict business fluctuations three years in advance,” says Wendy McQuiston, director, Microsoft Professional Services, Logicalis US. “If a customer needs 1,000 seats of Office 365 this month, then wants to decrease those seats to 800 the following month, under their CSP agreement with Logicalis, they can do that with no financial penalty. Our CSP program combines the product pricing as well as the level of support that fits the customer’s changing needs and digital transformation strategy — no more money lost due to non-consumption or increases based on the difference between EA estimates and actual usage. Logicalis’ Microsoft CSP program allows any size customer to purchase and pay only for the subscriptions and services they actually use on a month-to-month basis.”

Seven Benefits of a Microsoft CSP Relationship

Logicalis’ Microsoft CSP program can help users of any size take advantage of a more flexible, pay-as-you-go, consumption-based model with the option to bundle Microsoft cloud subscriptions like Office 365 and Azure with a host of professional and managed services designed to ensure those solutions are functioning as expected and to assist with the migration to those services.

  • Pay-As-You-Go: No more long-term pre-pay service commitments, enabling a faster ROI on Microsoft Office 365 and Azure cloud implementations and services.
  • Migration Help: Built-in migration assistance to move users to the cloud.
  • Professional Services Included: Security, identity management and application needs as well as ongoing support services are bundled into the Logicalis CSP professional services engagement.
  • Faster Issue Resolutions: Logicalis US becomes the CIO’s main point of contact for issue resolution, delivering the right level of support faster.
  • Digital Transformation Strategies: By partnering with Logicalis, CIOs will learn how to combine Microsoft solutions with other multi-vendor solutions to drive their organization’s digital transformation.
  • Logicalis-Direct Invoicing: Cloud subscription invoicing will come directly from Logicalis, unless customers choose to retain on-premise EA subscriptions.
  • Combined Program Capabilities: Organizations can continue to purchase their on-premise EA licensing direct from Microsoft and still utilize the Logicalis CSP program for their cloud subscriptions or alternatively add professional or managed services support to services procured through an EA.

 

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Archer Voted Best Cloud-Based Services Provider

Archer Voted Best Cloud-Based Services Provider

Archer has been voted best cloud-based services provider in the 2017 Waters Rankings. The win was revealed at today’s Waters Rankings Awards Presentation luncheon held at the Metropolitan Club in New York.

The 15th annual Waters Rankings recognize the investment management community’s leading solutions providers. Winners were determined based on a survey of financial technology professionals who rated their peers in terms of overall quality of service.

“This is a fantastic team win for Archer,” said Bryan Dori, Archer CEO. “Firms competing for Waters’ Best cloud-based services provider category include the strongest brands in Fintech.”

Dori adds, “Our flexible cloud-based services model is ideal for investment managers positioning for growth. Firms are able to focus on investing and client relationships with scalable technology and services. The Best cloud-based services provider win is an acknowledgement of the value of our integrated model as much as the way we deliver it.”

Winning Waters’ best cloud-based services provider is the latest in a series of accolades received by Archer and its team so far this year. Archer CEO Bryan Dori was named Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 in the Fintech category in Greater Philadelphia, and Archer CFO Ted Pastva was recognized as a Leading CFO in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Business Journal.

Source: CloudStrategyMag