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Alibaba Cloud Showcases Wuying Cloudbook at Apsara Conference

Supported by dedicated Wuying Architecture, Wuying Cloudbook provides enhanced security, flexibility and collaboration for the workplace in the digital age 

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, will be showcasing new additions to its cloud computer offering at its Apsara Conference. The Wuying Cloudbook, empowered by Wuying Architecture, is designed to provide enterprises with unlimited computing power while helping them enhance data security, improve cost efficiency and facilitate collaboration in increasingly diverse hybrid office settings.

Drawing on the high levels of security, scalability and compatibility that characterise the cloud, the Wuying Cloudbook allows users to fully leverage the power of cloud computing while minimising the workload for local devices. Users can scale computing power and storage up or down to meet their demands as and when they need, getting rid of the capacity restrictions of running large-scale software, such as video-rendering software, and enjoying a real-time interactive experience with low latency and high-quality images.

Wuying Cloudbook supports secure storage and transmission of massive volumes of organisational resources by centralising and managing them in the cloud. It overcomes typical security challenges in enterprise environments, such as data loss and local device vulnerabilities, while allowing users to access organisational resources anytime, anywhere.

Wuying Cloudbook also extends the boundaries of collaboration, allowing users to run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, or Android on it simultaneously. As the software is also deployed and running in the cloud, there is no need to download and install software on local devices, minimising the requirement for storage capacity and the battery consumption of local devices. Wuying Cloudbook is an ideal choice for new ways of working, such as remote working, outsourcing, and collaboration between teams in different locations.

The scalability, security and flexibility of Wuying Cloudbook is supported by Alibaba Cloud’s Wuying Architecture, which is designed to optimise workload collaboration between cloud and local devices. The industry-leading architecture is compatible with devices ranging from laptops and tablets to any hardware that demands robust computing power. Leveraging this architecture, users can access unlimited computing power and storage capacity in any computing terminal.

“Wuying Architecture is a powerful extension and expansion of the workplace. It helps enterprises to enhance flexibility and improve operational efficiency. Taking advantage of cloud-based data security capabilities and tools, Wuying provides additional assurance to safeguarding corporate information security,” said Jiangwei JIANG, Senior Researcher and General Manager of Infrastructure Products, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. “Thanks to its compatibility, Wuying Architecture brings the benefits of cloud computing to hardware brands, software vendors and enterprises, as well as individual users.”

The Wuying Cloudbook, will be demonstrated at the exhibition area at Alibaba Cloud’s Apsara Conference, features an ultra-thin body just 13.9mm deep and a 14-inch touch- 2 screen. An unboxing video, giving a preview of the device, is available here. With this new addition, Alibaba Cloud now offers cloud computing in the form of a card, a box, an all-in-one PC, a laptop and a Desktop-as-a Service (DaaS) application.

Customer experiences with Wuying: Automotive and Education

In China, IM Motors, an intelligent electric vehicle company, is the first in the automobile industry to adopt Wuying in product design. At the R&D stage, teams in different locations need to collaborate closely. Using Wuying, the design documents can be accessed by multiple teams in multiple locations.

“The automobile industry traditionally relied heavily on offline collaboration, as large-scale workstations were necessary for many work processes. Wuying is a dream come true for our sector. Not only does it offer the necessary computing power to support the intense workload, but it also eases our anxiety around data security when transmitting and sharing confidential design files, allowing us to focus our attention on the design itself,” said Jiao XIANG, Executive Director of Intelligence Research Center, IM Motors.

East China Normal University is one of the early adopters of Wuying in education. The cloud computer has replaced traditional server rooms in research projects, allowing students to work seamlessly on their projects when they move from laboratories to classrooms and dormitories, as the research data has been centralised in the cloud. Research efficiency has also been greatly improved by running data analytics on the cloud.

“This mobile research mode offered by Wuying has proven to be very valuable for professors and students alike. On-the-cloud laboratories provide unlimited computing power, overcoming the limitations of latency and bandwidth in a localised setting. In addition, it’s a powerful, 24/7 service, which helps us obtain research results in a much shorter time,” said Wei WANG, professor of the School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University.

Apsara Conference opens tomorrow

As well as showcasing the Wuying Cloudbook, Alibaba Cloud’s annual Apsara Conference, which opens on November 3 in Hangzhou and runs until November 5, will shed light on the tech leader’s business strategy, products and partnerships.

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About Alibaba Cloud Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com) is the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It offers a complete suite of cloud services to customers worldwide, including elastic computing, database, storage, network virtualization services, large-scale computing, security, management and application services, big data analytics, a machine learning platform and IoT services. Alibaba maintained its position as the third leading public cloud IaaS service provider globally since 2018, according to IDC. Alibaba is the world’s third leading and Asia Pacific’s leading IaaS provider by revenue

Cloud Providers, Hyperconvergence, Kubernetes, News

Nutanix Accelerates Kubernetes Adoption in the Enterprise

Nutanix has announced new features in its Cloud Platform to accelerate the adoption of Kubernetes running both at scale and cost-effectively. The company announced broad support for leading Kubernetes container platforms, built-in infrastructure as code capabilities, and enhanced data services for modern applications. These new features allow DevOps teams to accelerate application delivery with the performance, governance, and flexibility of the Nutanix Cloud Platform, while allowing customers to maintain control of their IT operating costs.

“Kubernetes deployments are inherently dynamic and challenging to manage at scale,” said Thomas Cornely, SVP, Product Management, Nutanix. “Running Kubernetes container platforms cost-effectively at large scale requires developer-ready infrastructure that seamlessly adapts to changing requirements. Our expertise in simplifying infrastructure management while optimising resourcesー both on-premises and in the public cloudーis now being applied to help enterprises adopt Kubernetes more quickly. The Nutanix Cloud Platform now supports a broad choice of Kubernetes container platforms, provides integrated data services for modern applications, and enables developers to provision Infrastructure as Code.”

According to Gartner, by 2027, 25% of all enterprise applications will run in containers, an increase from fewer than 10% in 2021. This is a significant challenge for many given most Kubernetes solutions are not meant to support enterprise scale, even less can do so in a manner that is cost effective. The Nutanix Cloud Platform enables enterprises to run Kubernetes in a software-defined infrastructure environment that can linearly scale. Additionally, whether running Kubernetes on-premises or in the public cloud, Nutanix delivers a cost-effective solution that can help lower total cost of ownership by up to 53% when compared to other native cloud deployment solutions.

New capabilities, including broad support for leading Kubernetes container platforms, built-in infrastructure as code capabilities, and enhanced data services, make Nutanix an even stronger proposition for enterprises looking to deploy Kubernetes at scale. Specifically, new enhancements include:

  • Broad Kubernetes Ecosystem:The Nutanix Cloud Platform, with the built-in AHV hypervisor, now supports most leading Kubernetes container platforms with the addition of Amazon EKS-A. This builds on a large ecosystem including Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, as well as Google Anthos, and Microsoft Azure Arc for edge deployments, along with the native Nutanix Kubernetes, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE).

  • Built-In Infrastructure as Code Operating Model:Nutanix also announced an updated API family along with its SDKs in Java, JS, Go and Python, currently under development. This will enable automation at scale and consistent operations regardless of locationーin the datacentre, on the public cloud, or at edgeーboth of key importance to enterprises. Additionally, when combined with Red Hat Ansible Certified Content or the Nutanix Terraform provider, a DevOps methodology can be brought to infrastructure through automation leveraging Infrastructure as Code.
  • Strengthened Data Services for Modern Applications: Nutanix Cloud Platform’s web-scale architecture enables customers to start small and scale to multi-PB sized deployments as application needs grow. It is the only platform to unify delivery of integrated data services with file, object, and now adding database services on the same platform for Kubernetes-based applications. Today Nutanix launched Nutanix Database Service Operator for Kubernetes, which enables developers to quickly and easily provision and attach databases to their application stacks directly from development environments. The open source operator is available via artifacthub.io as well as by direct download at GitHub. Additionally, Nutanix Objects now supports a reference implementation of Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) for ease of orchestration and self-service provisioning. It also adds support for observability using Prometheus. Lastly, Objects is now validated with modern analytics applications including Presto, Dremio, and Vertica, along with Confluent Kafka to efficiently enable large-scale data pipelines often used in real-time streaming applications.

These new features build on the Nutanix Cloud Platform’s ability to handle the dynamic demands of Kubernetes applications at scale. With the Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure, performance and capacity scale linearly, resilience is delivered from the ground up with self-healing nodes, and persistent storage is natively integrated. Additionally, the Nutanix Cloud Platform can help deliver cost efficiencies by eliminating unused compute and storage resources. For customers looking at cloud integrations, the same Nutanix value is delivered across hybrid multicloud endpoints with full license portability across edge, datacentre, service provider, and hyperscaler points of presence.

“When we decided to bring the core platform for our solutions in-house, we decided to take a modular containerised approach to give us the desired flexibility and simplify management by maintaining customisation as configurations,” said Larry McClanahan, Chief Product Officer, Nymbus. “Our partnership with Red Hat and Nutanix gives us the flexibility to innovate, the speed to get to market fast, and the tremendous scalability to support ongoing growth. We’re thrilled that we can better help our customers succeed in the digital banking market with unique solutions.”

“Container development platforms promise faster application development speed, but will only be deployed by organisations who can maintain compliance, day 2 operations, and cost management control at scale,” said Paul Nashawaty, Senior Analyst at ESG. “Nutanix offers a compelling path to speed the deployment of modern applications at scale and in a cost-effective manner, with full choice of Kubernetes container development environments and cloud endpoints.”

Cloud Providers, Hyperconvergence, News

Nutanix Launches Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure

Nutanix has announced the general availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure, extending its hybrid cloud environment to Microsoft Azure dedicated bare metal nodes.

NC2 on Azure offers a seamless hyperconverged infrastructure and unified management spanning private and public cloud environments to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption. NC2 on Azure enables customers to deploy and manage their workloads in their own Azure account and VNet enabling them to keep the operating model simple and consistent between Azure and on-premises.

With license portability of Nutanix term-based software and the ability to leverage all Microsoft Azure benefits, NC2 on Azure provides customers the investment protection and choice to run their workloads in a hybrid cloud environment. NC2 on Azure is now generally available to customers on Azure dedicated bare metal nodes in North America Azure regions, with additional global Azure regions to follow in 2023.

“Organisations are embracing hybrid multicloud to easily scale from on-prem to the public cloud, optimise costs for performant and secure workloads, and tap into a flexible subscription model,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, President and CEO of Nutanix. “NC2 on Azure gives our customers a frictionless on-ramp to Azure with consistent management of apps and data across their hybrid multicloud environment.”

“While public cloud has solidified as a crucial investment for businesses, many customers need to run and manage workloads across public and private cloud environments,” said Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud + AI Group, Microsoft. “NC2 on Azure provides consistent management for businesses’ infrastructure across on-premises and cloud, reduces network latency, and increases cost efficiency.”

Customers can now run workloads on NC2 on Azure and manage Azure instances from Nutanix’s management interface. This enables customers to run hybrid workloads seamlessly across private clouds and Microsoft Azure without needing to re-architect their applications. The expected result is simplified and consistent IT operations across clouds, hybrid cloud adoption in hours, and lower total cost of ownership when compared to other cloud deployment solutions.

Customers can also take advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefit as well as Extended Security Updates to improve cost, security, and efficiency. Nutanix customers will be able to port their existing term licenses to NC2 on Azure or get on-demand consumption of Nutanix software through the Azure Marketplace, enabling frictionless movement between private clouds and Microsoft Azure.

“Customers are struggling with the reality of managing workloads across private and public clouds, and this challenge is not going away,” said Paul Nashawaty, Senior Analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group. “This Nutanix and Azure solution addresses key challenges many enterprises are facing by providing unified management across clouds with applications, data and license portability.”

Customers can leverage NC2 on Azure to:

  • Simplify and optimise disaster recovery, eliminating the need to maintain a secondary site by utilising Microsoft Azure’s on-demand capacity for failover.
  • Access on-demand capacity bursting to Microsoft Azure, rapidly scaling capacity while leveraging existing applications and tooling.
  • Migrate and modernise their datacentres by easily moving their existing applications and data as-is without costly and time-consuming refactoring or retooling.

“As we strive to financially protect 39 million customers around the world with our products and services, we continue to see hybrid cloud as a key milestone in our digital transformation journey,” said David Fitzgerald, Assistant Vice President of IT Delivery at Unum. “With NC2 on Azure, we are excited about leveraging a seamless hybrid cloud platform for disaster recovery as well as to migrate and run workloads in Azure to handle a myriad of hosting scenarios. We can now, on-demand, expand our Nutanix Cloud Platform to Azure regions without having to re-factor our applications. We look forward to continuing our strong partnership with Microsoft and Nutanix.”

“TCS has a long track record of embracing technology innovations to satisfy customer demand and enable them to focus on business outcomes,” said Dinanath Kholkar, SVP and Global Head of Partner Ecosystems & Alliances at TCS. “Microsoft Azure and Nutanix have been popular technology choices of TCS customers looking for digital transformation, and NC2 on Azure is an attractive option for us to help our customers extend and migrate their on-prem workloads into a cloud space more easily. The ability to rapidly deploy and burst workloads through NC2 on Azure is vital to our customer’s hybrid and multicloud strategy.” Dina added, “TCS Microsoft Business Unit (MBU) is looking forward to taking this solution to our joint customers.”

AV tech, Cloud Platforms, Cloud Providers, News

Alibaba Cloud Introduces Video Solutions to Support European Customers

ApsaraVideo Live and ApsaraVideo VOD designed to support live streaming and wholistic video production 

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technologies and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced the introduction of new video solutions – ApsaraVideo Live and ApsaraVideo VOD – to support customers including broadcasters in Europe with live broadcast services and wholistic video production and management tasks.

“Video content and formats are increasingly diversified and rich in the new media era, with growing demand for fast yet reliable multi-media services such as live streaming and automatic transcoding,” said Raymond Ma, General Manager of Europe, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. “Underpinned by our robust infrastructure and cutting-edge technologies, we are introducing cost-effective and robust media solutions to the European market to meet our customers’ evolving demands for optimized video experiences.”

  • ApsaraVideo Live is an end-to-end live streaming platform for both audio and video supported by Alibaba Cloud’s large-scale real-time transcoding technology. It provides high-definition and uninterrupted live audio and video services with low latency and high concurrency. Alibaba Cloud’s proprietary Narrowband HD ™ 2.0 technology provides high-definition videos at 50 frames per second, while its 8K live streaming services deliver vivid images with a resolution up to 7680 × 4320. There are also tailored live streaming solutions for various industries, covering e-commerce, entertainment, online education, gaming, finance, and large-scale events. It also has a wide range of live streaming encryption technologies that provide comprehensive detection and protection of multi-media content. The platform provides media processing capabilities including material management, content recreation and media distribution.
  • ApsaraVideo VOD is an all-in-one video solution that supports functions including video online editing, uploading, media management, automatic transcoding, video review and analysis, as well as video delivery acceleration. Leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s resilient infrastructure and high-quality video transcoding technology, the solution enables the easy and cost-effective management of video-on-demand services. It can provide bandwidth of 150 Tbps to deliver high-quality video playback services, and uses the industry-leading narrowband HD transcoding technology to reduce 30% of the bandwidth costs without losing video quality. The solution also supports multiple video protection functions, including anti-leeching, playback authentication and video encryption.

“We will continue to enhance our video service offering with local partners by introducing innovative media solutions to the market,” said Ma. “We hope to facilitate our customers to capture the new growth opportunity amidst the changing media consumption landscape.”

As the official Cloud Services partner of the International Olympic Committee, Alibaba Cloud’s media technologies were deployed during the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, as an effort to increase broadcasting efficiency whilst bolstering the coverage of the Games through more innovative and inclusive viewing experiences for global sports fans. In collaboration with Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), Alibaba Cloud rolled out an innovative broadcasting solution “Live Cloud” during the Beijing Games. It enabled OBS to deliver live multilateral content in high quality over the public cloud with a fraction of the cost and minimum time for set-up. That led to a significant increase inproductivity for broadcasters, while the stability, elasticity and worldwide agility of cloud also ensured a high quality of broadcasting, even during a surge in demand for live streaming of the most popular events.

About Alibaba Cloud

Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com) is the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It offers a complete suite of cloud services to customers worldwide, including elastic computing, database, storage, network virtualization services, large-scale computing, security, management and application services, big data analytics, a machine learning platform and IoT services. Alibaba maintained its position as the third leading public cloud IaaS service provider globally since 2018, according to IDC. Alibaba is the world’s third leading and Asia Pacific’s leading IaaS provider by revenue in U.S. dollars since 2018, according to Gartner.

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WSO2 Launches WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud to Deliver Best-in-Class CIAM Support for Both B2B and B2C

WSO2 also delivers stronger analytics, typing biometric authentication, multi-attribute login, and added device support with today’s releases of WSO2 Identity Server 6.0 and WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud

As organisations expand their online presence, they are exploring new ways to reach more customers through innovative partnerships. This is raising the stakes for enterprises to ensure a secure, frictionless customer experience (CX)—whether reaching these customers via business-to-consumer (B2C) or business-to-business (B2B) models. The new WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud, available today, addresses these demands with customer identity and access management (CIAM) functionality that goes beyond B2C to offer the industry’s most extensive CIAM support for B2B scenarios.

WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud is part of WSO2’s CIAM suite, which also includes the industry-leading, open-source WSO2 Identity Server software that manages more than 1 billion identities each year. WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud combines the proven B2C capabilities of the WSO2 CIAM suite with new B2B organisation management functionality, which uniquely enables organisations to create multiple levels of B2B organisational hierarchies and lets administrators of each organisation configure their own policies and processes.

WSO2 also introduced WSO2 Identity Server 6.0 today. Both the newest release of WSO2 Identity Server and the new WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud build on the current WSO2 CIAM suite to add significant new features. These include integration with third-party analytics tools, integration with TypingDNA for authentication based on typing biometrics, multi-attribute log-in support to give users more sign-in options, and device flow support to bring CIAM to a broader range of devices.

“More than a quarter of our CIAM customer base has started using WSO2 Identity Server for B2B, which gave us valuable real-world insights into how to support enterprises’ increasingly sophisticated market requirements with our new WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud,” said Geethika Cooray, vice president and general manager of identity and access management at WSO2. “With our expanded WSO2 CIAM suite, our customers have greater flexibility than ever to support their B2B and B2C scenarios, leverage business customers and partners to scale business models, broaden their market reach, and speed time to market—all while easily adapting their CX for distinct audiences to optimise user engagement.”

Recent research undertaken by WSO2 in the United Kingdom and Ireland (UK&I) examined how organisations are using CIAM platforms to deliver a more personalised experience. It found that 80% of respondents are using or planning to use a single platform for employees, partners, and suppliers as well as their customers.

“Organisations recognise that outside of the work environment, business users are also consumers who increasingly expect their digital experiences to be of the same high quality whether at home or at work. With WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud, we are closing the gap and enabling enterprises to bring a secure, frictionless experience to consumers and business users, alike,” said Ricardo Diniz, vice president and general manager for UK&I and Southern Europe.

 

Extending CIAM from B2C to B2B

“In 2021, Gartner observed an increase in inquiries about B2B, which surpassed B2C CIAM by 25%,” according to the Gartner IAM Leaders’ Guide to Access Management1.

WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud supports the growing demand to extend CIAM from B2C to B2B by building on the industry-leading functionality already in use with WSO2 Identity Server, the uniquely extensible, API-driven, cloud native product that enables developers to harness the power of CIAM without being security experts. It incorporates the ability to federate, authenticate and manage identities; bridge across heterogeneous identity protocols; and secure access to web and mobile applications along with API-based endpoints.

Additionally, WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud goes beyond WSO2 Identity Server 6.0 to provide robust support for B2B business models through the new B2B organisation management feature. Unlike other CIAM products that are limited to simple organisation management, the B2B organisation management handles complex nesting, which gives enterprises the flexibility to:

  • Define as many organisations and multiple levels of sub-organisations as needed to represent large enterprise customers and their hierarchical organisation structures, each of which get their own secure space for managing user identities and their access privileges.
  • Define multi-level delegated administration policies for organisations, so they can manage their own user identities and access privileges.
  • Enable each organisation to manage its own role-based access controls to restrict access to its resources.
  • Define organisations for intermediaries in distribution channels, such as resellers and distributors, and allow them to define their own security policies and operational workflows for customer onboarding, log-in, branding, and adaptive authentication to manage their enterprise customers.

“The needs of partners are somewhat distinct from consumers but equally important to the success of organisations already down the road in their digital transformation journeys,” said Jay Bretzmann, vice president of identity research at IDC. “Built with ears to the development ground, WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud should help organisations delight partners in the same way it has enriched consumer user experiences, going beyond simple access to provide greater management capabilities and automation options.”

 

Enhancing Users’ Experiences

WSO2 Identity Server 6.0 and WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud both expand upon the WSO2 CIAM platform by adding a number of features aimed at enhancing the experiences of enterprises and their customers.

 

Greater analytics functionality for enterprise users. Both offerings include pre-configured integration with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) based analytics. Additionally, they can be integrated with other third-party analytics tools.

 

Typing biometric authentication via TypingDNA. Integration with TypingDNA enables organisations to leverage typing biometrics and offer customers seamless, user-friendly, risk-based authentication (RBA) that enhances security and fraud detection.

 

Multi-attribute login support. Enterprise can now make it easier and more convenient for users to sign into applications by letting them choose which attribute they want to use as their primary identifier, such as username, email address, or phone number.

 

Device flow support. The new feature expands the range of devices an organisation can effectively use within the overall CX solution to include devices with limited input capabilities, such as smartphones and smart TVs.

 

Availability

WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud and WSO2 Identity Server 6.0 are available today. To try WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud, visit here. To download WSO2 Identity Version 6.0, visit here. To learn more about both offerings attend the webinar on the 14th of September, 2022 by registering here.

1Gartner, “IAM Leaders’ Guide to Access Management,” by Abhyuday Data, Michael Kelley, and Henrique Teixeira, April 27, 2022. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

 

About WSO2

Founded in 2005, WSO2 enables thousands of enterprises, including hundreds of the world’s largest corporations, top universities, and governments, to drive their digital transformation journeys—executing more than 60 trillion transactions and managing over 1 billion identities annually. Using WSO2 for API management, integration, and customer identity and access management (CIAM), these organisations are harnessing the full power of their APIs to securely deliver their digital services and applications. Our open-source, API-first approach to software that runs on-premises and in the cloud helps developers and architects to be more productive and rapidly compose digital products to meet demand while remaining free from vendor lock-in. WSO2 has over 900 employees worldwide with offices in Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Sri Lanka, the UAE, the UK, and the US. Visit WSO2 to learn more.

Cloud Platforms, Cloud Providers, Data & Analytics, News, Tech

TIBCO Announces Breakthrough iPaaS Capabilities

Significant enhancements have been announced to TIBCO Cloud™ Integration, TIBCO’s iPaaS offering, powered by TIBCO Cloud™. This expands the potential for integration of applications, data, and devices across hybrid environments, assisting customers grappling in a volatile business world to accelerate business outcomes. TIBCO Cloud Integration delivers remarkably faster automation of business processes and integration of digital assets across the enterprise. By speeding up and simplifying app development, businesses can now respond to market trends even faster, creating a competitive advantage for customers.

“It’s essential for organisations to focus on data to overcome today’s many business challenges. Properly leveraging data can empower businesses to turn those challenges into opportunities,” said Randy Menon, senior vice president and general manager, Connect and TIBCO Cloud, TIBCO. “TIBCO Cloud delivers scalable, adaptable solutions that drive integration between all systems, operations, and processes. Together, we enable our customers to unlock the power of real-time data.”

TIBCO Cloud features new innovations that further accelerate app, data, and device connectivity via a SaaS-delivered digital platform. These updates deliver significant value to customers, such as:

  • Delivering solutions faster with intelligence, embedded from design to deployment, enables developers to accelerate integration development using smart guidance for optimal technology approaches and design patterns. New enhancements also speed up data integration initiatives using AI/ML-based smart mapping technology, making mapping recommendations derived from deep learning of a developer’s mapping choices.
  • Increased agility with unified decision management and governance empowers business users to consolidate enforceable decisions across the organisation with ease. This enables users to delegate decision authority to a shared service within TIBCO Cloud and reduce inconsistent decision-making.
  • Rapidly capturing business value from events, new features simplify the development of an event-driven architecture. A new API Modeler allows for the easy design of AsyncAPIs for Apache Kafka®. Teams seamlessly share and discover event-driven APIs via an embedded registry in TIBCO Cloud, and events are easily published and subscribed to during solution development via point-and-click functionality, rather than through the development of custom code.

 

With this announcement, TIBCO forms a new partnership with Automation Hero to add intelligent document processing capabilities into automation applications, enabling customers to unlock valuable data that was previously difficult to access. “As a market leader in automating any document-centric process, we partnered with TIBCO to enable enterprise customers to create and realise enormous business value from unstructured data. This data is often trapped in documents and traditionally requires significant manual labour to extract,” said Stefan Groschupf, founder and chief executive officer, Automation Hero. “We look forward to publishing and making available the combined solution via the TIBCO Cloud Integration marketplace to make state-of-the-art AI document processing available with just a few clicks.”

“TIBCO’s ability to connect and integrate everything from any source has been a major factor in helping our business dramatically reduce the time-to-market for new automation and integration initiatives,” said Fabio Tormen, chief information officer, Venchi. “The flexibility TIBCO Cloud Integration provides is one of the primary reasons we can now quickly and easily connect with new partners and accelerate our growth in new markets.”

Supporting its leadership in connectivity, integration, and iPaaS solutions, TIBCO also announced its TIBCO Cloud Integration offering has been named a leader by leading analysts in the following reports: GigaOm Radar for iPaaS, GigaOm Radar for Cloud Platforms for Hybrid Integration and Automation, and the Nucleus Research iPaaS Technology Value Matrix.

 

Cloud Migration, Cloud Platforms, Cloud Providers, News

11:11 Systems Completes the Acquisition of Unitas Global Managed Service and Cloud Assets and Cleareon Fiber Networks Connectivity Assets

Unitas and Cleareon add value to 11:11’s cloud, connectivity and security platform and portfolio, deepening the company’s cloud and connectivity offerings worldwide

11:11 Systems (“11:11”), a managed infrastructure solutions provider, today announced the acquisition of certain managed service and cloud infrastructure assets from Unitas Global. The transaction includes specific managed services customers, cloud infrastructure and contracts.

It is estimated that by 2025, over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms. With this acquisition, 11:11 adds new cloud assets and customers to its portfolio, which will serve to strengthen and deepen 11:11’s commitment to the future of cloud services.

Through this acquisition, customers will have the benefit of enhancing their cloud environments by gaining access to the full spectrum of 11:11’s cloud, connectivity and security solutions delivered through the recent acquisitions of iland and Green Cloud Defense.

11:11 has also recently completed the acquisition of certain connectivity assets and customer contracts from Cleareon Fiber Networks. This acquisition will add a world-class base of wholesale carrier customers to 11:11’s global customer ecosystem.

“We continue to make significant progress towards our mission to become the industry standard in cloud, connectivity and security solutions,” said Brett Diamond, CEO, 11:11 Systems. “These recent acquisitions including adding assets from Unitas and Cleareon not only substantively advance this mission, but also provide all of our global customers with an arsenal of new tools to ensure that their mission critical applications and data are always running, accessible and protected.”

“11:11 was the perfect choice to continue to enable and strengthen the digital journey for our valued managed service and cloud infrastructure customers,” said Todd Barrack, SVP Operations, Unitas Global. “Their innovative roadmap and commitment to customer service will ensure that our customers have everything they need to compete in the cloud era, and the fact that 11:11 is a leader in security, backups and disaster recovery will provide critical new services to fight cybersecurity threats.”

11:11 is backed by Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a middle-market private equity firm that invests in growing infrastructure platforms.

Q Advisors, a global TMT investment banking boutique, acted as exclusive financial advisor to 11:11 Systems in connection with this transaction. Perkins Coie acted as legal advisor to 11:11 Systems. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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ABOUT 11:11 SYSTEMS

11:11 Systems is a managed infrastructure solutions provider that holistically addresses the challenges of next-generation managed cloud, connectivity and security requirements. The 11:11 model empowers customers and partners to “Rethink Connected,” which includes fully-integrated, fully-automated services, activities and data powered on a single platform delivering increased performance, optimisation and savings. Learn more at 1111Systems.com.

 

ABOUT UNITAS GLOBAL

Unitas Global is a next-generation managed network provider offering automated ubiquitous edge access to cloud everywhere. The combination of its design and price platform, Unitas Nexus™ and its global network Unitas Reach™ provides the most agile network environments that are easy to design, procure, and are fully managed. Learn more at www.unitasglobal.com.

 

ABOUT TIGER INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS

Tiger Infrastructure Partners is an innovative, middle-market private equity firm that invests in new and growing infrastructure platforms. Tiger Infrastructure targets investments in communications (digital), energy transition, transportation, and related sectors, primarily located in North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.tigerinfrastructure.com.