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Global Hosting Providers Select Abiquo for Enterprise Cloud Management
BlackMesh, BlueFire, i2k2 Networks, and Vivavo Among Increasing Number of Companies to Select Abiquo over Competitive Offerings
Redwood City, Calif. – December 14, 2010 – Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software provider, today announced that hosting providers around the world, including Blackmesh, Bluefire, i2k2 Networks and Vivavo, have selected Abiquo’s Enterprise Edition as their platform of choice for Enterprise Cloud Management. Each company is a true customer, paying fees under a full enterprise license agreement, further demonstrating Abiquo’s increasing lead in the market.
The Abiquo platform allows hosting providers to sell a set of compute, network, and storage resources as a Virtual Enterprise, giving their customers complete control of their own independent computing infrastructure, without the capital cost or maintenance requirements of physical infrastructure. Customers can request additional resources at any time, which can be allocated by the hosting provider in seconds.
“The Abiquo solution is both deeper and broader than any of the competitive solutions we tested,” said Jason Ford, CTO, BlackMesh. “We were particularly impressed by the flexibility and ease of use it will offer our customers, as well as by its support for all hypervisors, and the ability to seamlessly convert virtual images between them in a single drag and drop operation.”
After rigorous evaluation of multiple options, Abiquo was unanimously and independently selected by each of these leading service providers as the platform of choice. Abiquo’s Enterprise Edition provides a number of unique features that set it apart from competitive products.
“We have extensively evaluated products from all the Cloud management vendors over the last six months,” said Jason Serda, managing director and CIO of BlueFire, a leading hosting provider and Dimension Data Group company. “Abiquo’s solution was the clear winner, providing superior capabilities particularly for our enterprise customers. For example, our clients will be able to automate the provisioning of virtual infrastructures available across six of our primary datacenter facilities. The combination of the Abiquo platform and IP developed in conjunction with our partners has enabled BlueFire to today provide a no compromise approach to give our customers complete flexibility to define their own environments – just like a physical datacenter, but without the need to maintain the infrastructure.”
It should come as no surprise that leading service providers want to offer Virtual Enterprises as a new line of business. According to IDC, Cloud computing is projected to reach $100.4 billion by 2016 or a 27 percent annual growth rate, which is more than five times the growth rate of the traditional, on-premise IT delivery/consumption model.
“We have seen the demand for managed private Clouds increase exponentially in 2010. With Abiquo’s Cloud management platform, we can sell and implement managed private Clouds to large enterprise customers quickly, while leveraging our existing infrastructure and billing system,” said Raj Vrach, CTO of i2k2 Networks. “We believe that many enterprises will eventually move to a managed hybrid Cloud model and Abiquo will enable i2k2 Networks customers to make that transition seamlessly.” i2k2 Networks will be deploying its managed Windows, Linux and Zimbra email hosting solutions to the Cloud in India and Canada using Abiquo’s platform.
The Abiquo solution is equally effective for enterprises of all sizes, providing complete control and management of both on-premise and globally deployed infrastructure through a single interface. Encompassing public, private and hybrid Cloud models, Abiquo isolates the provision of infrastructure from the consumption of computing resources. Each application group can be assigned their own Virtual Enterprise, over which they have total control, but within assigned resource limits, eliminating any risk to the physical infrastructure.
The Abiquo solution allows hosting providers to sell Virtual Enterprises to their traditional customer base. They can also provide resources to Abiquo’s enterprise customer installations, providing them with on-demand elasticity and flexibility. Abiquo’s business policies address security and compliance concerns and enable customers to control deployment and movement according to performance, utilization, and data sensitivity.
About Abiquo
Abiquo is the Enterprise Cloud Management software company. With Abiquo, organizations can use Business Policy to manage an entire, globally deployed, computing infrastructure comprising unlimited physical and Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.
About BlackMesh
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Herndon, Va., BlackMesh is an award-winning provider of information technology solutions for small and mid-sized businesses. BlackMesh specializes in the design, deployment, and administration of robust, innovative managed hosting and managed services in both off-site and on-site locations. Combining powerful, high-performance technologies with world-class service and support, BlackMesh provides its customers with the tools they need to lower costs, accelerate growth, increase agility and improve efficiency. For more information, visit www.blackmesh.com.
About BlueFire
BlueFire provides infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud computing to mid-market clients across the Asia-Pacific region and enterprise clients via its parent company Dimension Data. The company provides a comprehensive range of services including; Hosted Desktop, Enterprise Email, Hosted Backup and Disaster Recovery. Since it was founded in 1996, BlueFire has experienced solid organic growth and has built up significant regional service delivery capability across Asia Pacific. BlueFire is a member of the Dimension Data group of companies.
www.bluefire.com.au
About i2K2 Networks
i2k2 Networks unleashes the power of Internet to business houses worldwide by providing superior leading-edge technologies to Host, Design and Develop high-quality websites and web applications. The distinctive blend of leading technologies, products and a consultative approach to customer service is the reason why hundreds of small and Medium-sized businesses trust us with their corporate needs. i2k2 extensive experience and capabilities assures customers with high quality and economical business solutions. For more information, visit www.i2k2.com.
About Vivavo
VIVAVO, Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and among one of the pioneers in research and development of the Unified Communications, Enterprise Mobility as well as Pervasive Communications in Cloud Computing environments. For more details, please contact Richelle Lau at (852)3183 9882 or email to media@vivavo.net
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| Candice Heidebrecht | Andrew Karl |
| Abiquo, Inc. | Lois Paul & Partners |
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