VIRTUAL DESKTOP STRATEGIES
Netcracker Technology | June 23, 2022
Altice has chosen Netcracker Cloud BSS and Professional Services to offer a SaaS-based solution with improved revenue management capabilities for its affiliates in Portugal, France, Israel, the United States, and the Dominican Republic, according to Netcracker Technology.
Altice will implement Netcracker Cloud BSS on AWS to give the operator with cloud-native technology, a SaaS deployment model with evergreen upgrades, and future-proofed capabilities, allowing the operator to reduce on-premise gear and increase flexibility.
Netcracker will also provide complete services, such as analysis, design, integration, migration, DevOps, cloud operations, and training, to assist the operator in smoothly migrating, integrating, and operating the solution across its global subsidiaries. For new services, the new revenue management solution will cut costs, enhance billing accuracy, minimize time to market, and enhance order to cash.
“We are excited to start this new chapter with such an innovative and global industry leader. Our advanced portfolio of cloud products and services will drastically accelerate and streamline Altice’s billing capabilities to help achieve seamless growth in all markets,”
Sylvain Seignour, President of Netcracker
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Options | August 01, 2022
Options Technology, the leading Capital Markets services provider, today announced the achievement of VMware Cloud Verified status in their Park Royal Data Center.
The accomplishment follows the VMware Cloud Provider Principal Partner Status awarded to the firm last year, along with Cloud Verified status at LHC, LD4 and NY5 sites.
Cloud Verification assures that a partner is validated to expertly deliver cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service across VMware’s best-in-class network, storage, and compute solutions to meet individual client needs specifically.
VMware Cloud Verified partner services enable customers to achieve unmatched levels of consistency, performance, and interoperability for traditional and containerised enterprise applications with the confidence the service received is based on the most advanced VMware cloud technologies.
Options President and CEO Danny Moore said, “We are delighted to announce the addition of Park Royal to our growing portfolio of cloud solutions and Options’ third VMware Cloud Verified status in recent months.
Today’s news not only validates the rapid expansion of services across our global backbone but Options’ unique position as the partner of choice in the delivery of holistic, flexible, and resilient cloud strategy for clients.”
Today’s news comes as the latest in a series of strategic announcements for Options, including its seventh Microsoft Gold Partner status, hosting capabilities in Aruba IT3 Bergamo, and the launch of its Quantify and Data Store products.
In 2019, Options received investment from Boston-based Private Equity Firm Abry Partners. This investment has enabled Options to accelerate its growth strategy and develop its technology platform while expanding its global reach in key financial centres.
About Options
Options Technology is the No. 1 provider of IT infrastructure to global Capital Markets firms, supporting their operations and ecosystems.
Founded in 1993, the firm began life as a hedge fund technology services provider. Today, the company provides high-performance managed trading infrastructure and cloud-enabled managed services to over 550 firms globally, providing an agile, scalable platform in an Investment Bank-grade Cybersecurity wrapper.
Options clients include the leading global investment banks, hedge funds, funds of funds, proprietary trading firms, market makers, broker/dealers, private equity houses, and exchanges. With offices in 8 key cities; New York, Toronto, Chicago, London, Belfast, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Auckland, Options are well placed to service its customers on-site and remotely.
In 2019, Options secured a significant growth investment from Abry Partners, a Boston-based sector-focused private equity firm. This investment has enabled Options to considerably accelerate its growth strategy to invest further in its technology platform and expand its reach in key financial centres globally.
Options has been named among the UK’s leading growth companies in the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table.
About Abry Partners
Abry is one of the most experienced and successful sector-focused private equity investment firms in North America. Since its founding in 1989, the firm has completed over $82 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity or preferred equity placements. Currently, the firm manages over $5.0 billion of capital across their active funds.
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VMWARE
VMware | June 13, 2022
VMware has been rated a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability for 2022. Tanzu Observability by Wavefront, a VMware observability platform, has been honored for its vision and execution. Visit the VMware Tanzu website to get a free copy of the Gartner 2022 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability.
To satisfy the criteria of becoming a contemporary digital company, organizations are increasingly embracing multi-cloud strategies and modern application development. However, managing and monitoring app performance across these dispersed settings is challenging and requires unified observability throughout the tech stack, which conventional segregated monitoring technologies lack.
“VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront delivers enterprise-grade observability and analytics for multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments at scale, allowing our customers to quickly troubleshoot and reduce performance bottlenecks across their infrastructure and applications, and in turn, achieve higher availability of business-critical services to their end-users. This recognition by Gartner affirms our commitment to giving organizations the solutions they need to succeed in their cloud journeys.”
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