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📅 Aug 22, 2018 - 365 Data Centers Adds Veeam-Powered Enterprise Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) - 365 Data Centers, a provider of hybrid data center solutions with data centers in Boca Raton, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Indianapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, New York and Tampa, is now offering its own private enterprise Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS). Powered by Veeam, the new backup service is delivered across 365 Data Centers' "high-speed, low latency" US-based network.

"We're proud to partner with Veeam to provide our clients with the industry's leading BaaS product," said Jeff Slapp, Vice President, Cloud Services & Support at 365 Data Centers. "We employ systems that ensure the best possible integrity and recoverability of our clients' mission-critical data. Plus, our ...

📅 Aug 22, 2018 - Investment Company Behind Plesk, Oakley Capital, Buys cPanel - cPanel (cpanel.com), the web hosting automation software platform well-known in the worldwide hosting industry, has been acquired by a group of investors led by Oakley Capital. The group also owns Plesk and SolusVM. Oakley Capital acquired Plesk in May 2017, while Plesk, in turn, acquired SolusVM, which supplies software for VPS management, among other things.

Based in Houston, Texas, cPanel employs over 220 team members and has customers in more than 70 countries. Oakley Capital expects this acquisition to enable significant investment in new product and feature innovation while supporting growth in headcount in Houston where cPanel will continue to be headquartered. Financial terms of ...

📅 Aug 22, 2018 - Network Security Provider Untangle Announces Pay-As-You-Go Availability for AWS Cloud - Untangle, a provider of cybersecurity solutions designed specifically for the below-enterprise market, for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), has made available Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) options in Amazon Web Services (AWS Cloud) for its NG Firewall software. NG Firewall in AWS would help organizations maintain a consistent security posture across dispersed locations while able to easily scale without being limited by hardware.

Untangle's Firewall as a Service provides customers with integration to a cloud ecosystem that provides value-added services like centralized management, proactive alerting and threat intelligence.

Untangle's NG Firewall inspects traffic bi-directionally, providing ...

📅 Aug 23, 2018 - European Company NOVIS Chooses IBM Cloud to Expand Its Insurance Business Globally - NOVIS (novis.eu), a growing European insurance company, has adopted IBM Cloud (ibm.com) to help accelerate its international expansion, streamline business processes, while "gaining efficiencies with innovation in a secure IT environment." NOVIS Insurance Company Inc., a company headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia, runs its IT systems on IBM Cloud in all branches across ten European countries.

Currently, NOVIS operates its insurance business in Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Finland. In 2017, the company expanded its operations into Italy, while at the beginning of 2018 it was launching branches in Sweden and Iceland.

NOVIS Insurance Company is focused ...

📅 Aug 23, 2018 - Cloud File Services Provider Nasuni Expands Partner Ecoystem in Europe - Nasuni (nasuni.com), a provider of cloud file services (Storage-as-a-Service solutions) powered by their proprietary Nasuni UniFS global file system, a company operating globally from its worldwide headquarters in Boston, MA, and its European office in London, is significantly expanding its partner ecosystem in Europe. One of Nasuni's newest channel partners is COOLSPIRiT (coolspirit.co.uk) – a UK provider of private and hybrid cloud solutions.

Much of Nasuni's business growth can be attributed to the company's expanding partner ecosystem, stated Nasuni, which now includes VARs, VADs, and systems integrators such as MTI, and Softcat in the UK, Cancom and Materna in Germany, and Quorum in ...

📅 Aug 24, 2018 - Alibaba Cloud Unveils New Suite of Cloud Products for Asia Pacific Retail Market - Alibaba Cloud (alibabacloud.com) has unveiled a new suite of cloud product offerings globally within the inter-related areas of cloud architecture, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and security. Although the company has made its nine new cloud solutions available globally, the suite of managed cloud hosting products is specifically aimed at the Asia Pacific retail market.

In relation to data technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Alibaba Cloud is launching two key products. Alibaba's Data Lake Analytics is a serverless service for customers to turn their cloud storage data into insights. PAI is Alibaba Cloud's proprietary machine learning platform that would provide ...