Posts from George Knox

Spicenet Uses Flexiant to Power its Cloud

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Flexiant FCO V5

Today we are pleased to welcome Spicenet to the Flexiant family. Spicenet, a business Internet provider in Tanzania, wanted to deploy a public cloud offering to increase revenue and offer self-service functionality to its SME customers.

Spicenet has the ambition to pioneer cloud in Tanzania to capture the huge public cloud growth in Africa. According to IDC, public cloud adoption in emerging African countries is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of up to 84% over the coming five years. This is a real opportunity for Spicenet.
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Small Changes Equal Big Results at Flexiant

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User Experience

I started thinking about small changes equaling big results. Now some might align this with living a healthy life, but today I’m mapping it to Flexiant. We’ve made some changes to Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator – some might view these changes as small, but trust me when I say, they equal big results.
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2015 Cloud Predictions for the Service Provider

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Cloud Resources

What changes will 2015 bring? We asked our team here at Flexiant, what they believe will be the key trends of 2015. While many in the industry make predictions on cloud, few are focused 100% on the cloud service provider. Today, we offer 10 cloud predictions for 2015 for the service provider.

  • Next Gen App Development Becomes the De-Facto.

Next generation applications will be acknowledged by many enterprises as the de-facto way forward to design apps. To support this, we have also just seen VMware, leader in enterprise virtualization, launching a new initiative called Cloud-Native Apps, that will help with educating customers in architecting the applications of the future.
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Flexiant Gives Advance Group Simplicity to Quickly Launch Complex Apps

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Advance Group

Advance Group, a leading technology services provider in Spain, has selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to power its latest cloud computing solution aimed at SMBs. By selecting Flexiant, Advance Group has the cloud management tools necessary to support an IaaS public cloud service.

Advance Group also saw the power of Flexiant’s application blueprints solution that contain all the key information to successfully build and deploy applications in the cloud – including server, software, storage, network, images and firewall details, and how they all relate together. Using Flexiant, Advance Group now has the simplicity to launch complex applications quickly and easily for its customers.
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451 Research’s Take on Flexiant Concerto

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This month we launched Flexiant Concerto, the simple solution to multi-cloud workload management and portability. 451 Research analyst William Fellows recently spoke with us and got to see the platform in action.

The 451 Take is:

Flexiant is extending its opportunity from the creation of IaaS services using Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to the management and orchestration of multiple cloud services with Concerto. Rightly believing that this will be a multiplayer, multi-model sourcing world, it is delivering the ability for MSPs and telcos to manage workloads across multiple cloud vendors and geographies.

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