Tata Communications has launched IZO Private Cloud service, giving direct control to organizations hosting the service over their critical data. Genius Wong, President for Global Network Services, Cloud and Data Center Services at Tata Communications has commented, “IZO Private Cloud is the next step on our mission to harness our partnerships, global network and data centre infrastructure. The new service puts the CIO back in control of their cloud and data center estate.”  This new services will be available in a total of 12 countries around the world, including cities such India, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK, & the US.

The service will allows users to access software on a pay per use basis, so that they do not have to purchase the entire product. In certain industries, companies prefer to maintain a private cloud over a public cloud so that their information is secure. Srinivasan CR, Vice President for Global Product Management at Tata Communications has also stated, “Most of the times customers are worried about security on public cloud, our private cloud offering takes that security concern out.”

The IZO Private Cloud service is a part of the companies’ network platform, which currently has over 20 service providers. These providers cover countries accounting for roughly eighty-five per cent of the world’s GDP. Tata Communications has partnered with the likes of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Service, and Salesforce to offer cloud services.

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EMC Corporation and VMware have recently announced plans to create a new cloud service business through combination of their individual cloud capabilities, along with existing Virtustream cloud offerings. Virtustream will be jointly owned by VMware and EMC and led by Rodney Rogers, CEO of Virtustream.  A definitive agreement is expected to be reached soon, with Virtustream’s financial results being consolidated into VMware’s financial statements in 2016.

Joe Tucci, EMC Corporation Chairman and CEO, has stated, “”Through Virtustream, we are addressing the changes in buying patterns and IT cloud operation models that we are seeing in the market. Our customers consistently tell us that they are focused on their IT transformations and journeys to the hybrid cloud. The EMC Federation is now positioned as a complete provider of hybrid cloud offerings.”

The new business is set to incorporate the capabilities of both VMware and EMC along with Information Infrastructure, VCE, Virtustream in order to provide the complete spectrum of on- and off- premises offerings including: VMware vCloud Air, VCE Cloud Managed Services, Virtustream’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and EMC’s Storage Managed Services and Object Storage Services offerings.

VMware will establish a Cloud Provider Software business unit led by Ajay Patel, VMware senior vice president. The software with focus on delivering solutions and software to cloud providers that with hopefully allow them to harness the capabilities of the hybrid cloud. This new unit will incorporate assets and people from the VMware vCloud Air Application Services business, vCloud Director and vCloud Air Network teams.

Rodney Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, Virtustream, has also commented, “I am honored and excited to have the opportunity to lead the new Virtustream,” said Rodney Rogers, CEO for Virtustream. “Our vision of combining our IP and collective cloud platform and services capabilities for mission-critical applications, backed by the strength and reach of EMC and VMware will deliver an enterprise-focused hybrid cloud solution that is unrivaled in the market. We expect Virtustream will become one of the top 5 service providers globally and are thrilled about what this means to all of our customers, partners, and the Federation moving forward.”

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Recently, Etihad Airways has signed a $700 million deal with cloud giant IBM.  IBM is set to provide the company’s passengers with cloud computing services that will make air travel easier. This ten year service agreement entails that IBM will provide new information technology services to Etihad and its partner airlines via a new cloud data center in Abu Dhabi.  This new data center will be developed and created by IBM. According to Etihad, the center will be one of the most sophisticated of the facilities in the Middle East. As airlines look to reduce line times, they are beginning to invest in IT solutions, as Etihad has with IBM. Cloud technologies will help the airlines improve security while reducing the cost for passengers.

Etihad is the newest addition to the trend of airlines that have adopted cloud-based collaborative decision-making systems. Such systems aim to share important information such as flight departure and arrival times and baggage information.  Etihad joins companies such as Lufthansa, who signed a €1 billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM, and British Airways, who signed a deal with Red Hat to increase its cloud computing capabilities.

New technologies may include better luggage drops with label printing and self-boarding gates based on data generated from check-ins, enable airlines to order, replace and maintain aircraft components more efficiently, better estimate travel times, and better manage loyalty programs.

James Hogan, Etihad’s president and chief executive, has commented, “This is a game-changing agreement for Etihad Airways, for our partners and employees, and for Abu Dhabi. This is a long-term, strategic partnership which will allow Etihad Airways and its partners to harness the latest technologies as we deliver our services.” IBM and Etihad will also create a joint technology and innovation council in Abu Dhabi to work on developing more personal travel solutions.

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In response to an increasing demand, AliCloud, Alibaba Group’s cloud computing sector, announced that it has launched another data center. This new data center, located in Silicon Valley, California, addresses the need for both affordable and secure cloud computing while still establishing an infrastructure that provides high availability and disaster recovery. Customers may begin to apply for the new centers services on October 12^th. This new center is the fourth announced in 2015 and the ninth worldwide. The first United States data center was announced I in March of 2015. A center in Singapore was announced in August in addition to an environmentally-friendly lake water-cooled data center at Qiandao Lake, China in early September. These data centers join ones located in Beijing, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai in China. AliCloud plans to expand into areas such as the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

The newest Silicon Valley data center has been designed to handle the cloud and big data analytics requirements of customers along the West Coast of the United States for the three to five years. It will have the same service level agreements as the first center in the United States, but will also contain a portfolio incorporating all AliCloud services currently available in international markets. This portfolio will ten cloud services that are designed to assist customers focused on  innovation, including start-ups looking to reduce the cost of cloud-based service delivery and big data analytics, as well as established businesses in  industries such as the gaming, multimedia and mobile Internet.

Cloud services available from Silicon Valley that aim to aid enterprises in achieving optimum  performance and availability include Cloud Monitor System (CMS), an open platform for real-time monitoring of sites and servers; Open Cache Service (OCS), an online caching service for rapid access of hotspot data; Open Storage Service (OSS), a massive, secure and highly-reliable cloud storage service; and irtual Private Cloud (VPC), an isolated and customized network environment including other AliCloud services.

Ethan Sicheng Yu, Vice President of AliCloud, has commented, “Our data centers are typically located in key innovation and commerce hubs around the world, where we expect growing demand for cost-efficient cloud computing and big data analytics services. Our second U.S. data center is situated in Silicon Valley which is the epicenter for technology innovation world-wide. AliCloud is focused on building a comprehensive and holistic global ecosystem that offers world-class cloud computing and a nuanced understanding of local requirements. We expect to welcome more partners and customers onto the AliCloud platform as we extend our global reach and continue to deliver outstanding value for our cloud computing infrastructure services”

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NTT Communications has brought its Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to European customers. Its DRaaS provides a managed cloud service to deliver business continuity in the event of an on-premise failure; it has been operating within the United States for many years. NTT is bringing the service to many European data centers for enterprise customers within the region. NTT is currently offering a one month launch trial of DRaaS for customers that qualify.

DRaaS allows companies that it supports to function normally during times of either planned or unplanned shortages. In addition, it provides real-time replication of customer servers to NTT’s cloud application, which in turn provides automatic failover and failback to ensure both data protection and high availability. This service is currently being offered at four NTT data centers across Europe in addition to other data centers around the world; so, customers may choose where they would like their recovery environment to be located. According to NTT Communications, DRaaS is based off of technology from Geminare’s Cloud Recovery platform. DRaas functions by replicating critical servers, customer data, and operating systems to the NTT cloud. European companies that are interested in testing out the service to see if the offering of DRaaS is compatible against their infrastructure and if it fits the companies’ requirements. This trial will be at either reduced or no cost to companies willing to try it.

“NTT Com’s DRaaS is a powerful cloud solution that allows customers to place their recovery environments in NTT’s Enterprise Cloud whether their primary infrastructure is on-premise, in a public cloud or in a private cloud. This is powered by Geminare’s patented DRaaS platform making it a compelling way for customers to capitalise on the benefits of cloud,” said Damian Skendrovic, NTT Europe’s vice president of cloud services.

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Com is a subsidiary of  Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, the largest telecommunication company in the world. It offers cloud services, data center services, network services, and voice and video communications services. Its network service is offered across 196 countries/regions and has upwards of 140 data centers throughout the world.

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Fusion, one of the leading providers of cloud services, has announced the acquisition to Chicago based RootAxcess. RootAxcess has a broad range of services, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (also known as Iaas), cloud hosting, virtual data center, and utilizes private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The deal was closed on September 30^th 2015; RootAxcess is expected to be fully integrated by the end of the first quarter in 2016. According to reports, the acquisition Accelerates Fusion’s expansion in the cloud computing segment of its business with significant cross-selling and upselling opportunities into its’s existing customer base of approximately 11,000 businesses, strengthens Fusion’s position in the IaaS market, and adds a business customer base with an average monthly revenue per customer estimated at $2,900.

Matthew Rosen, Fusion’s Chief Executive Officer, has commented, “We are delighted to announce the acquisition of RootAxcess. With Fusion’s current suite of cloud computing solutions designed for large enterprise customers, the acquisition of RootAxcess provides us with a complementary set of cloud computing solutions for a broader range of businesses. We intend to integrate, enhance and expand RootAxcess’ regional infrastructure with Fusion’s advanced cloud platform and fully diverse and redundant nationwide network to support our growth strategy in the cloud. We believe that the integration of RootAxcess with Fusion’s extensive customer relationships, expertise in key industry verticals, and nationwide infrastructure will further differentiate Fusion as the single source for the cloud for businesses of any size. We anticipate significant upsale of the integrated solution to our existing base of 11,000 business customers. As we have stated, a key near-term objective for Fusion is to gain scale through acquisitions, complemented by organic growth. This transaction represents an important step toward this objective as it significantly enhances Fusion’s ability to deliver robust, industry-leading cloud computing solutions to our existing customers and accelerates the expansion of the cloud computing segment of our business.”

“As a leading cloud services provider with an end-to-end product suite, nationwide next-generation cloud network, and a strong customer-focused culture, Fusion is the ideal partner to take the RootAxcess portfolio to the next level,” said Eric Wince, RootAxcess’ Chief Executive Officer. “Fusion’s management shares our vision of the transformational benefits of the cloud, and we expect this transaction to be highly beneficial to our valued customers who can continue to rely on robust, secure cloud computing solutions for their most mission-critical needs.”

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Oracle, a global computer technology corporation, recently announced two additions to its cloud platform for integration: Oracle SOA Cloud Service and Oracle API Manager Cloud Service, a suite of tools that allow users to integrate on-premises and cloud-based applications. These two new services join Oracle’s iPaaS services.

These new additions were built on Oracle’s SOA suite, which is based on service-oriented architecture, and Oracle’s SOA Cloud Service offers easy provisioning, management, automatic upgrades and easy scale up. The result of this is that programmers are able to quickly develop, deploy and scale their API and integration projects.

Additionally, hybrid integration is supported via its deployment portability feature, enabling users to move their platforms from the cloud to on-premises as business demands change. This feature is ideal for organizations that wish to move their integration workloads to the cloud while deploying production on-premises.

A recent Ovum survey reported that almost 90 percent of respondents showed an inclination towards adopting cloud-based integration platform for appropriate use. Low cost agility and digitalization are what is driving the need for hybrid integration solutions, with SOA and iPaaS being some of the preferred options. Organizations need to distribute these integration processes in a manner that maximizes efficient utilization of both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure and operational spend.

Oracle’s cloud platform has been seeing exponential growth, and they are behind some of the world’s most distinguishable organizations. They have more than 2,500 customers using their Cloud Platform, which includes services such as Application Development, Business Analytics, Content and Collaboration, Data Management, Integration, and Mobile.

Oracle cloud supports more than 70 million users and handles over 33 billion transactions per day. It stores more than 700 petabytes of storage in its 19 data centers around the world to support the over 54,000 mobile devices it runs on.

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