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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Recently, Salesforce has hosted its 13^th annual user conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco. In congruence with the more than 160,000 individuals in attendance, there were also a series of special guests including musician Stevie Wonder, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Lightning Man. Salesforce announced that in 2016, it will become the world’s fourth largest software company, behind only Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.

This news joins the announcement of the plethora of new cloud based services. Lightning Man, also known as Salesforce co-founder Parker Harris, announced the new Internet of Things, or IoT, Cloud that is powered by thunder. The IoT will connect events from devices on the IoT platform to Salesforce and Thunder will be the real time event processing engine that powers the platform. Through the IoT Cloud, businesses may use the point and click tools that are available to outline, alter, and set rules for events that may trigger a reaction throughout the Salesforce platform. Events may be triggered by things such as clickstreams, log entries, sensors, and other devices. Device support will be determined through customer feedback during the pilot tests, a method that is part of the idea of allowing third parties to construct appropriate support.  IoT Cloud will be piloted in the beginning of 2016. In addition, Microsoft was announced as the launch partner.

“IoT deployments only bring value when organizations are able to act on the information that their IoT networks generate,” said Gary Barnett, chief analyst at Ovum. “The ability to make sense of that data by connecting it with existing customer information will be a key factor in turning data into action.”

SalesforceIQ, the result of the attainment last year of RelateIQ, was also announced. The product is available in two different versions in order to best fit the needs of customers. The product is being offered for Small Business and for Sales Cloud. Each of these products is specialized for their different settings, but both monitor the user’s email, calendar, and other information in addition to recommending actions that catalyze the sales process. Relevant information is automatically sent to Salesforce. The SalesforceIQ for Sales Cloud consists of iOS, Android, and Chrome apps while Salesforce IQ for Small business is available now in a 14 day free trial.

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According to recent reports, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment and M&A organization, has invested roughly $67 million throughout eight Chinese technology companies. These companies represent a number of industries, including robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics and cloud technology.

The companies sharing the $67million dollar investment are Bluebank, Hampoo, Ninebot, Nuovo Film, PraFly, 99cloud Inc., and AWcloud Technology CO.Ltd, and Telink. 99cloud is based in Shanghai and provides OpenStack based solution as well as operational support. Some of these solutions include front-end optimization, core framework optimization, backend optimization and hyper-converged all-in-one solutions. AWcloud is based in Beijing and offers large scale OpenStack Cloud solutions for a multitude of industries such as oil, power, healthcare, and education. AWcloud has aided in he ransition from traditional IT services to contemporary cloud solutions through a hyper-converged “Cloud-in-a-Box” solution based on OpenStack and Intel technology. In addition, the company provides a private cloud that may be scaled out by adding more systems.

There are many obstacles for international cloud companies, such as Microsoft and IBM, which make it difficult for them to enter the cloud sector in China. For example, such companies are required to pursue partnerships with local Chinese cloud companies. Because Chinese based companies benefit from the expanding market and methods that safeguard them from international competition, they are made to be an attractive investment.

“Intel has a well-established track record working with China on the development of its technology industry over the past 30 years, during which time the country has transformed itself into a leader of global technology innovation,” Intel China president Ian Yang said in a statement. “Our investments, new products and collaborations in China support the government’s national initiative to uplift its innovation economy and continue Intel’s long-term commitment to accelerating CTE development in China and driving global innovation and entrepreneurship.”s

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A study commissioned by cloud services marketplaces provider BCSG has implied that telecoms operators could benefit greatly from differentiating into cloud provisioning for both small and medium-sized enterprises; the size of such opportunity is quantified at about $22 billion for operators in the United Kingdom and the United States. The SME sector is generally underserved and therefore has much room for expansion under telecom.

While BT Global Services have already carved out a lucrative cloud business among enterprise customers, and many other telecoms also offer assistance in the areas of hosting and business applications for SMEs, the potential for telecoms operators to become the suppliers of cloud computing services to small businesses has generally not been taken advantage of, according to BCSG.

These comments originate from a study conducted by BCSG of SME’s in both the United Kingdom and the United States. During the study, it was discovered that there were high levels of confusion pertaining to cloud services and technologies that were appropriate for the businesses.  Just under half of those surveyed claimed they would be willing to purchase cloud services from their telecoms supplier, while only 40% said they were willing to buy software and other tools from operators to help grow their business.

With only 31% of SMEs surveyed saying they had a cloud migration strategy in place, BCSG predicted that the firm intent from SMEs  could be worth upwards of $22 billion .

“Not only is the SME market a potential goldmine for operators looking to add greater value to customers through service diversification, they also present a captive and willing audience,” said BCSG commercial director Tom Platt. “It is vital that operators seize the initiative by helping their SME customers realize the value of cloud services and business applications.”

More than half claimed they would contemplate switching operators in two years, and 58% said that they would switch operators if a broader range of technology and services was offered. “Long tenure from SME customers does not imply loyalty – and operators can’t afford to be complacent. These results demonstrate the value of operators broadening their service offering to SMEs,” said Platt.

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