By Lorenz S. Marasigan
CLOUD services and data-center provider IP Converge Data Services Inc. (IPC) has struck a partnership deal with global Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider CloudSigma, allowing the companies to jointly offer scalable and secure cloud resources in the Philippines.
This marks CloudSigma’s first foray into the Asian market.
“CloudSigma offers one of the most flexible and customizable cloud-based IT infrastructure platforms available in the market. This partnership allows IPC to introduce enhancements into our existing cloud offerings and offer globally competitive cloud services to Philippine-based organizations while addressing data sovereignty and network-latency concerns,” IPC President Reynaldo R. Huergas said on Friday. The Swiss company serves six independent geographical locations across the US, Europe, and now, Asia.
CloudSigma’s first Point-of-Presence in the country is hosted in IPC’s data-center facilities and locally distributed through the country’s premier cloud-services portal.
“We have been seeing a growing interest from potential customers in the Asia-Pacific region. We believe that it’s the perfect time for customers to embrace cloud services, especially with our new Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity offerings that are very relevant for this region. We see IPC as an ideal partner in extending our reach in the Asia Pacific,” CloudSigma CEO and cofounder Robert Jenkins said.
He said these cloud servers come with an array of benefits.
“It is highly flexible, capable of running any x86-based operating system, including Windows, Linux, Unix and more. It comes with full access to a user dashboard, which allows full customization of features, plus a full-coverage API for automation. Moreover, CloudSigma servers run on the latest-generation v3 range of Intel processors, combined with networking and SSD storage performance,” he said. “This new cloud will offer low-latency computing to all customers throughout the Philippines in a way that hosting in Singapore, Hong Kong or elsewhere just can’t compete with. With data being hosted in-country, clients with sensitive- and mission-critical data are assured of its security. Our hybrid cloud capabilities make it simple and secure to extend existing physical environments into the cloud,” he said.
Through these on-demand virtual machines, businesses and organizations can run critical applications easily without investing in physical infrastructure.
“This partnership offers the best of both worlds—a cloud solution with local support here in the Philippines and, at the same time, an extensive global network of cloud locations that customers can tap. Through this partnership, we hope to help more business see the value of enterprise cloud computing,” Huergas said.