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Award-Winning Enterprise, Roundarch, Chooses Abiquo to Optimize and Grow Their Business
Leading Digital Consultancy Uses Abiquo to Empower Client Service Teams to Create On-Premise Development Resource Clouds and Expand into New Business Venture
Redwood City, Calif. – May 11, 2011 – Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company, today announced the signing of its latest enterprise customer, Roundarch. Roundarch is a leader in digital design and implementation that creates web sites, rich web applications, mobile applications, social media applications and digital marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies and large government organizations. Roundarch chose Abiquo as its strategic cloud management platform to allow its client service teams to easily provision virtualized development environments for projects, as well as move completed projects into production on client data centers, all with the security and business policy in place to ensure workload management and financial visibility.
Since its founding in 2000, Roundarch’s strength is in delivering breakthrough digital experiences through design and enterprise-class technology implementation. Roundarch has seen increased demand from clients for cloud-based hosting of digital design projects from development through production. As a result, this has increased the number of virtualized environments the consultancy manages across numerous locations using multiple hypervisors.
Because Roundarch works with Fortune 500 companies and government clients, security is a primary concern and many public cloud providers were not a viable option. In addition, the lack of financial visibility in public clouds was not scalable as client service teams created development environments for new projects. Finally, IT needed control over the workload across its many remote datacenters and virtualized IT resources.
After evaluating numerous competitive options, including external cloud solutions, Roundarch chose Abiquo because it delivered the on-premise management solution needed for security, multiple hypervisor support, robust business policy support to control resources and visibility across its global virtualized environments.
“Abiquo is an important part of a strategic initiative for us to manage multiple datacenters and multiple hypervisors in order to meet the current and future needs of our clients for cloud-hosted technology implementations,” said Geoff Cubitt, president and chief technology officer. “Abiquo stood out because it affordably delivers all that we need for an on-premise management solution, along with the ability to migrate our web and digital projects to go live in production with our clients’ hosting provider. Abiquo is not only enabling us to manage our virtual resources better, it’s allowing us to extend our business model to offer more value to our customers.”
“Roundarch provides a very compelling example of the kind of strategic objectives Abiquo helps companies meet with cloud computing,” said Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO. “The ability to help Roundarch optimize their IT operations, address the financial visibility and security issues public clouds presented and enable them to expand into a new business offering is very rewarding for us. We are delighted to have enterprises like Roundarch see this kind of value.”
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 Roundarch
Roundarch designs and implements digital experiences for the world’s largest organizations. Roundarch delivers websites, rich web applications, mobile applications, social media applications, digital marketing campaigns and more for clients such as Avis, HBO, Bloomberg Sports, Hershey’s and the US Air Force. Roundarch’s unique blend of breakthrough user experience design and enterprise-class technology implementation is perfectly suited for the most complex problems in the digital space. Roundarch has offices in Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York. For more information visit www.roundarch.com and the company’s blog at http://blog.roundarch.com.
| Contacts: | |
| Candice Heidebrecht | Andrew Karl |
| Abiquo, Inc. | Lois Paul & Partners |
| candice.heidebrecht@abiquo.com | andrew_karl@lpp.com |
| +1 (650) 264-5905 | +1 (512) 638-5323 |
