Verizon is shutting down two public cloud services and telling users to move their workloads by April 12, 2016 according to @Kennwhite’s Tweet from February 11.
Verizon will discontinue its Public Cloud Reserved Performance and Marketplace services. As an alternative Verizon will offer its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to customers. Verizon says VPC provides the cost effectiveness of a multi-tenant public cloud, but includes added levels of configuration, control and support. It claims this will improve isolation and control for more advanced businesses. Customers that don’t move face data loss as Verizon warns that no data or content will be retained.
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As you take some time to enjoy your friends and family this holiday season, I wanted to take a minute to wish you a fruitful and happy holiday season from all of us at Flexiant.
As I reflect back on 2015, it was a busy year for Flexiant. We continued to develop innovative software with new releases of Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator and Flexiant Concerto, we helped many telecom operators overcome their cloud challenges and helped service providers get to the cloud quickly. We did this all while continuing our mission to focus 100% on helping telcom operators and service providers’ increase profit, revenue and growth from cloud services.
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Fifteen years ago the service provider market was the place to be. Lots of businesses were making their first moves online, customer acquisition was relatively straightforward and growth was easily achieved. But over the past decade or so most service providers have faced tricky trading conditions, they have had to watch their margins erode as the market matured and consolidated. Some have reacted by focusing on defensive strategies rather than innovation. However the case for innovation in a difficult market has been well-argued – innovation, and the differentiation that follows from it, can flourish when times are tough as people look for an alternative approach, and there are many celebrated examples of this happening with great success in other industries. Fortune magazine, for instance, launched in 1930 less than a year after the Wall Street crash; Diet Coke was launched in 1982 in the middle of a global recession; Apple launched its first iPod in 2001 around the time that the dotcom bubble burst.
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We love helping telcos solve their cloud headaches. It might be because they want to offer a new service or make the most of cloud like their competitors or because they have already tried a strategy that hasn’t worked and now they need a fast and easy solution. Whatever the reason, we are in the business of helping telcos orchestrate their cloud so they can capture the market opportunity.
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Today we are proud to welcome AB Network to the Flexiant family. Based in Panama, AB Network operates a dedicated data center to offer its customers infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS), back up site monitoring, web applications and services administration.
AB Network was wasting time and revenue generating opportunities manually provisioning its infrastructure. It needed to automate its infrastructure and that required cloud orchestration software.
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