Recognized for creating new opportunities in on-demand software, cloud computing and SaaS.

Abiquo, Cloud Management provider, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the 2013 OnDemand Companies to Watch.  Inclusion in the OnDemand Companies to Watch signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Abiquo was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialisation, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Abiquo and the OnDemand Companies to Watch will be honoured at AlwaysOn’s OnDemand event on May 20^th, 2013, at Hewlett-Packard’s Executive Briefing Center in Palo Alto, CA.

“As we move into a new digital age that’s fueled by robust applications, mobile technology, and always-on performance, on-demand innovations are enhancing almost every sector of the online world.  The borders are being pulled down between desktop, TV, tablet, smartphone, and laptop, and the rigorous determination of the companies in the Global Silicon Valley are meeting and exceeding this developing entrepreneurial challenge,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The OnDemand Companies to Watch winners are using the increasingly stable and reliable cloud infrastructure to develop, maintain and deploy a continuous stream of disruptive technology to every single computer user on the planet.  The OnDemand Companies to Watch are about to break into the Global Silicon Valley and become some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”

The OnDemand Companies to Watch winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalise the 2013 list.

Abiquo provides a Cloud Management Platform that delivers the industry’s most advanced Enterprise Cloud software solution, enabling enterprises and service providers to rapidly build and manage a fully automated and governed, self-service, multi-hypervisor cloud from globally deployed resources.

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Abiquo today announced the latest edition of its award winning Cloud management platform; Abiquo Enterprise Edition 2.4.

The platform update will allow users to create High Availability virtual appliances, achieve faster set up times, have greater control of storage tiers and improve scalability and performance of their cloud offering. Improvements have also been made to the image lifecycle, self-service features and to accounting systems.

Abiquo has extended its virtual appliance builder to enable users to create High Availability virtual appliances through its self-service interface.  A new concept of “application layers” alllow users to define virtual machines within a virtual appliance that must reside on different physical hosts, this ensures true High Availability.

Abiquo’s policy based deployment rules have been extended to ensure that virtual machines in the same application layer are deployed to different hosts. In VMWare environments the anti-affinity rule in Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) will also be set.

Another feature within the latest edition will allow users who are deploying Abiquo for the first time, with a new configuration wizard allowing the Cloud administrator to quickly and easily carry out the initial configuration for their cloud platform, accelerating the time taken to get familiar with the Abiquo technology.

Within the 2.4 edition Abiquo has also enabled Cloud administrators to have greater ability to manage storage tiers by extending its policy based control. Cloud administrators can now determine which Cloud tenants have access to certain storage tiers within a datacentre. For service providers this allows for greater control of the storage based services that may be provided through the Abiquo platforms and for enterprises this allows IT to remain in controls of the storage platforms whilst still offering controlled self-service to the platform users.

Another key feature to the Abiquo 2.4 platform is the new and improved accounting system. Cloud administrators can now extend and consolidate the accounting system and ultimately improve management and control The extensions include additional resources and custom accounting resources, such as a new range of accounting metrics, different sizes of accounting periods and resource unit granularity. The new changes also allow for greater flexibility in charging for Cloud resources and the ability to easily charge for additional services that may be part of the Cloud platform.

Download Abiquo Enterprise Edition, Version 2.4

Abiquo v2.6 will be releasing in Summer 2013.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands – Red Herring announced its Top 100 award winners today, recognizing Europe’s leading private companies and celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.

Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring’s editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

“Selecting startups that show the most potential for disruption and growth is never easy,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “We looked at hundreds and hundreds of candidates from all across the continent, and after much thought and debate, narrowed the list down to the Top 100 Winners. Each year, the competition gets tougher but we believe Abiquo demonstrates the vision, drive and innovation that define a Red Herring winner.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technological innovation, management quality, overall business strategy and market penetration. This assessment was complemented by a review of the track records and standings of similar startups in the same verticals, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Europe.

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Abiquo has announced that it has been shortlisted for Datacentre Management Product of the Year

The DCS awards reward the products, projects and services as well as honour companies and teams operating in the datacentre arena. Franziska Priebe, marketing manager of award organisers Angel Business Communications, said: “This year we have had a significant increase in the overall number of nominations. It was a tough decision for the judges but Abiquo’s entry clearly stood out with its Virtual Data Centre Management solution. Therefore, I’m happy to confirm that Abiquo is shortlisted in the ‘Datacentre Management Product of the Year’ category. With voting open until 9th of May, it is down to the industry to decide if Abiquo can stand out now from the shortlist and be a clear winner in this category.”

Voting began on 9^th April and will continue on until to 9^th May, to read more and to vote for Abiquo as Datacentre Management Product of the Year please click here.

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US$5 million growth capital investment positions enterprise cloud management software leader for accelerated commercial growth.

Specialist growth capital investor Oxford Capital has led a US$5 million funding round into Abiquo an award-winning enterprise cloud management software provider.

Oxford Capital joins existing investors Balderton Capital and Nauta Capital as major backers. The investment will enable Abiquo to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its award-winning technology, generate global sales and increase worldwide marketing activity.

Abiquo develops software that provides a management platform; a thin unobtrusive layer that sits over various technologies allowing businesses easier and more effective access to the Cloud. Companies using the software are able to monitor and control all of their applications from a unified platform. By integrating virtual IT services in this way, Abiquo can simplify business processes.
Abiquo’s customers include major multinational companies from a range of industries, as well as cloud infrastructure providers who can use Abiquo to enhance the services they offer to their clients.

Colin Watts, Partner, Oxford Capital said:
“Cloud computing gives businesses far greater control over their software and systems, benefitting from a more flexible IT framework. Abiquo is at the leading edge of this change, the software essentially allows businesses to not only utilise Cloud computing but to also effectively manage it through its easy to use portal. With the Abiquo solution businesses are not required to remove their current IT systems which can be costly and time consuming. Instead, the management platform that Abiquo provide integrates easily with most technologies, making it an exceptional product in the market.”

“Abiquo already has a well-developed customer base which includes global enterprises, government contractors and leading managed service providers. We see excellent growth prospects for the business.”

Jim Darragh, Chief Executive, Abiquo said:
“The Abiquo cloud management platform is recognised by customers and analysts alike for delivering the industry’s most advanced enterprise cloud software solution. We appreciate this recognition which is endorsed by the continued support from our investors.

“This latest funding round led by Oxford Capital will allow us to accelerate our global distribution and marketing and marks an important step in our commercial development.”

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Abiquo has announced today it has been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The nominees are evaluated on 20 main quantitative and qualitative criterion: they include disruptive impact, market footprint, proof of concept, financial performance, technology innovation, social value, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

“This year was rewarding, beyond all expectations” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “The global economic situation has abated and there are many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products. We had a very difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Abiquo shows great promise and therefore deserves to be among the Finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring Europe. We know that the 2013 crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to make an impact.”

Finalists for the 2013 edition of the Red Herring 100 Europe award are selected based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, mobile and other industries completed their submissions to qualify for the award.

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Europe Forum in Amsterdam, April 8-10, 2013. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony the evening of April 10 at the event.

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As advocates for flexible, non-vendor lock-in, Abiquo’s VP of Products Lee Fisher speaks out about the best way to optimise cloud management platforms and other considerations within the cloud industry.

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Abiquo has been rated by analyst house, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) as value leader in the industry for cloud platforms.  EMA is a leading industry analyst and consulting firm that specialises in providing deep insight in data management technologies. Abiquo was credited in the top tier category of ‘value leader’ along with Cisco, due to the platform “offering all the ingredients for customers to create a true enterprise cloud”.  The cloud platform was taken and analysed against the following set criteria to determine the strength of the cloud platform: functionality, architecture and integration, deployment and administration.

Abiquo’s platform was commended for having the ability to tie together “a companies’ existing technologies coherently and securely, leveraging existing infrastructures instead of introducing a new technology that sits uncomfortably in the middle of the datacentre”.  EMA was also impressed by Abiquo’s unique ability to move a business’ environment from one hypervisor to another at the push of a button.

In terms of functionality, the platform allows for the provision of both physical and virtual cloud resources through a simple interface in a straightforward and concise manner. Being able to be easily integrated into existing infrastructures allows fast deployment of the software with 3-4 weeks being the average turnaround time. This was seen by EMA to be highly reasonable, especially since the platform carries multiple features and capabilities.

Abiquo was praised on the open architecture of the platform with extension for open flow which is easy to create around the platform.

Torsten Volk, Senior Analyst, EMA states “Abiquo’s value proposition cuts through the usual marketing hype, offering customers what they actually need: a cloud platform that ties together existing enterprise technologies. We applaud the revolutionary approach Abiquo has taken to help businesses transform their existing cloud infrastructure. Users are able to integrate all existing technologies and manage them from one simple self-service interface. We’re particularly impressed with Abiquo’s unique capability of moving environments from one hypervisor to another by the push of a button. It truly is a value leader in the industry”.

Customers who already have the solution in place spoke of the great support and responsiveness they receive from Abiquo from the start of implementation to after care services. They also liked the simple functionality of the interfaces which both admin and end users found they could use with ease.

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Abiquo survey reveals alarming statistics on lack of cloud strategy and integration.

84% of IT managers are yet to make the most of cloud technology, according to research by cloud software provider Abiquo. The survey highlights an alarming trend of IT managers failing to effectively adopt cloud services to improve business efficiency.

The survey carried out at Cloud Expo Europe reveals that 60% of IT managers feel their business’s IT strategy isn’t under control or providing what is needed. 57% of them said they have no defined cloud strategy to follow at all.

78% of businesses questioned do not manage their cloud technology from a single interface (instead using a convoluted cloud setup) and almost two-thirds said they aren’t automating the allocation of networking resources to efficiently fulfil cloud services. It was therefore unsurprising that 47% of businesses are making technology and cloud decisions without getting the IT department involved.

Jim Darragh, CEO, Abiquo said: “We’ve been talking to lots of businesses about difficulties in effectively adopting cloud and time and time again the same issues are coming up: it’s not self-service, there’s no single interface for technology, the components aren’t working together. The bigger players in the cloud market aren’t solving these problems yet they control the market share. This is causing frustration in the industry and confusing IT managers.”

Abiquo recently launched EverythinQ, which is the integration of its software with the third-party infrastructure-based components businesses are currently using for cloud operation and management. This enables businesses to manage everything from a unified platform.

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