New Amazon S3 storage class meets long-term data retention requirements, removes complexity of managing tape

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive, a new storage class that provides secure, durable object storage for long-term retention of data that is rarely accessed. At $0.00099 per GB-month (less than one-tenth of one cent, or $1 per TB-month), S3 Glacier Deep Archive offers the lowest cost storage in the cloud, at prices significantly lower than storing and maintaining data in on-premises magnetic tape libraries or archiving data off-site.

Organizations in many market segments are required to retain data for long periods of time to meet regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, there are organizations, such as media and entertainment companies, that want to keep a backup copy of core intellectual property. These datasets are often very large, consisting of multiple petabytes, and yet typically only a small percentage of this data is ever accessed—once or twice a year at most.

To retain data long-term, many organizations turn to on-premises magnetic tape libraries or offsite tape archival services. However, maintaining this tape infrastructure is difficult and time-consuming; tapes degrade if not properly stored and require multiple copies, frequent validation, and periodic refreshes to maintain data durability. Additionally, it is difficult or impossible to do machine learning and other types of analysis directly on data stored on tape.

Now, with S3 Glacier Deep Archive, customers with large datasets they want to retain for long periods will be able to eliminate both the cost and management of tape infrastructure, while ensuring that their data is preserved for future use and analysis, such as in oil and gas seismic exploration and developing autonomous vehicles.

Customers can still use S3 Glacier when they want retrieval options in minutes for archive data, while S3 Glacier Deep Archive is ideal for customers who want the lowest cost for archive data that is rarely accessed. In the event that recovery becomes necessary, the objects can be recovered in as little as 12 hours with S3 Glacier Deep Archive versus days or weeks with off-site tape.

“We have customers who have exabytes of storage locked away on tape, who are stuck managing tape infrastructure for the rare event of data retrieval. It’s hard to do and that data is not close to the rest of their data if they want to do analytics and machine learning on it,” said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Amazon S3, AWS. “S3 Glacier Deep Archive costs just a dollar per terabyte per month and opens up rarely accessed storage for analysis whenever the business needs it, without having to deal with the infrastructure or logistics of tape access.”

With six different storage class options, Amazon S3 provides the broadest array of cost-optimization options available in the cloud today. All objects stored in S3 Glacier Deep Archive are replicated and stored across at least three geographically-dispersed Availability Zones, designed for 99.999999999% (eleven nines) durability, and can be restored within 12 hours or less. S3 Glacier Deep Archive also offers a bulk retrieval option that lets customers retrieve petabytes of data within 48 hours.

Customers can upload data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive over the internet or using AWS Direct Connect and the AWS Management Console, AWS Storage Gateway, AWS DataSync, AWS Command Line Interface, or the AWS Software Development Kit.

S3 Glacier Deep Archive is integrated with Tape Gateway, a cloud-based virtual tape library feature of AWS Storage Gateway, so customers using it to manage on-premises tape-based backups can choose to archive their new virtual tapes in either S3 Glacier or S3 Glacier Deep Archive. S3 Glacier Deep Archive is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Western Digital’s Data Center Systems boosts growth and market momentum as users transform storage infrastructure

Western Digital has announced that its Data Center Systems (DCS) business continues to gain momentum with record growth and achievements, as enterprise and cloud-scale customers accelerate deployment of DCS solutions to meet the data infrastructure demands of a wide range of applications, including business-critical databases, decision-support systems, and real-time analytics.

With a vertically-integrated data infrastructure design, development and manufacturing model – from silicon to systems – Western Digital’s DCS delivers solutions with performance and economic efficiency to help customers protect, mobilize, transform, and extract greater value from data within increasingly specialized environments in the data center.

The Data Center Systems’ portfolio addresses a variety of on-premises and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, as well as supporting varied applications and workloads, including real-time AI/ML, big data analytics, virtualized enterprise applications, high-performance databases and high-density geo-dispersed cloud-scale repositories to name a few. With heavier workloads demanding more compute resources than ever before, IT leaders are turning to Western Digital to help design, architect, and deploy high-performance, scalable and flexible data-centric infrastructures that deliver the performance, scalability, and peace of mind they are seeking for their businesses today and into the future.

IntelliFlash N-Series, a unified NVMe all-flash array is a differentiated next-gen enterprise flash storage system that delivers exceptional performance and economics for data consolidation. The IntelliFlash NVMe array intelligently places fast data across multiple grades of flash storage media for maximum performance acceleration and consistent responsiveness.

With an extensive set of data services including inline compression and deduplication, along with native support for SAN and NAS protocols, IntelliFlash arrays are deployed at thousands of customer sites worldwide to accelerate applications common in transaction processing, real-time analytics, databases, virtualization, and file services workloads.

ActiveScale petabyte-scale, hybrid-cloud object storage system provides a cost-effective, scalable solution for unstructured data growth and facilitates a data-forever architecture. S3-compatible, the ActiveScale system delivers elastic scaling (up and out), extreme data durability (up to 19 nines), and single-plane-of-glass management, making it an easy and economical choice to store all types of unstructured big data.

Ultrastar software-defined storage (SDS) storage servers and platforms are a line of all-flash, hybrid and disk storage platforms that are a key element of next-gen disaggregated storage and SDS systems, delivering high density and the flexibility to balance performance with cost. This family provides up to 1.4PB of raw storage in a compact and efficient form factor. All Ultrastar platforms support up to 24 SSDs in a hybrid configuration, enabling a high-performance storage tier for demanding applications.

OpenFlex NVMe-oF open composable infrastructure will enable the transformation of data centers into next-generation highly scalable and flexible environments to effectively address the diverse applications and complex data workflows of existing business. Enabling NVMe-oF, OpenFlex allows organizations to compose virtual storage systems from shared pools of data center resources, incorporating disk, flash, and compute via an Open Composable API.

A key innovation is enabling disk-based resources to share the same fabric and protocol as flash-based storage, offering flexibility and value. Virtual systems will now be composed while balancing SLAs against cost demands. OpenFlex can save up to 40 percent of TCO over conventional hyper-converged infrastructure approaches.

“Western Digital’s DCS group has become a key partner of ours, driven by its innovative storage systems and platforms, and its steadfast commitment to the channel,” said Marco Mohajer, president at Technologent. “With their expanded team, high-touch model, and strong ISV alliances, we’re working together to address new challenges and win new business for next-generation workloads driven by analytics, machine learning, IoT and more. We look forward to our continued relationship with DCS to help grow our business and explore new market opportunities.”

“It is clear from IDC primary research that those enterprises undergoing digital transformation – that is, the evolution to business models that treat and leverage data as a strategic capital asset – are investing in new technologies to drive IT infrastructure modernization, including All-Flash Arrays, software-defined storage, and unstructured storage platforms, at rates that are 17 to 46 times that of the rate of organizations not pursuing digital transformation,” said Eric Burgener, research vice president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. “Vendors like Western Digital who have innovative, competitive offerings in all these areas and are engaging with these more forward-looking companies are enjoying high revenue growth as a result.”

“The continued, unabated growth of data and its strategic value is driving a transformation of IT infrastructures as never before,” said Phil Bullinger, senior vice president and general manager of Western Digital’s Data Center Systems business unit. “As data center customers face these new and relentless demands, they’re looking to partner with a company they can trust with the capabilities, products and resources they need. Western Digital is that company. By applying our decades of data storage expertise and semiconductor memory intellectual property to holistically innovate from silicon to systems, we help our customers solve data infrastructure challenges in a way that no other vendor can. We are thrilled to be able to assist all of our valued customers in accelerating and protecting their digital ecosystems.”

DriveSavers offers California flood victims free data recovery of their wet computer hard drives

DriveSavers announced that it will provide free data recovery services to Russian River, California residents who have lost critical data as a result of the devastating flooding that occurred in February and March of 2019. The company is donating time, resources and years of expertise to provide up to US$1,000,000 worth of data recoveries from water-damaged hard drives.

Eligible devices include external hard drives, desktop computers and laptops.

The free recovery service is available now for victims of the February/March 2019 flooding. Because exposure to water and air cause corrosion on circuitry, customers must contact DriveSavers and ship devices no later than Apr. 30, 2019. Limited to one device per business or household.

Customers needing additional recoveries, and those with multi-drive devices such as RAID, NAS and SAN devices, are eligible for a 50 percent discount off regular service fees.

DriveSavers retrieves irreplaceable data from every type of storage device. The company has a record of overcoming physical damage to devices caused by flooding, fire, mechanical damage, common drive failures, malware and more. Their range of customers includes home users, small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government, healthcare organizations and creative professionals. The company partners with AT&T, Newegg and Fry’s Electronics. Satisfied customers include, among others Bank of America, Google, Lucasfilm and NASA.

DriveSavers will accept as many water-damaged devices that it can up to $1,000,000 in services. However, it may further limit the number of free recoveries based on workload and availability of personnel.

“DriveSavers is known worldwide for recovering data from severely traumatized devices including those that have been dropped, burnt, crushed, and submerged in water,” said Scott Moyer, president of DriveSavers. “We offer our expertise to those who’ve lost irreplaceable data like photos and videos of loved ones, business files and financial records.”

AlertEnterprise enhances security with debut of facial recognition technology for Visitor Management

AlertEnterprise announced the addition of facial recognition technology (FRT) to its Visitor Management Kiosk software. AlertEnterprise Visitor Management Kiosk software with FRT delivers frictionless security to organizations that are looking to improve security and enhance customer experience with a powerful first impression at check-in.

The new FRT feature provides fast and accurate on-site identity verification and makes it easy for an organization to add facial image analysis to the check-in process for employees, visitors, contractors, and guests arriving on-site.

Designed with GDPR data storage compliance in mind, the new FRT feature ensures that no actual images of faces are stored on client networks, meaning visitor identities remain secure and safe.

If a visitor has checked-in previously to a location and has authorized the AlertEnterprise Visitor Management Kiosk App to capture a photo of their face, the software instantly recognizes them and allows the visitor to bypass the standard registration process. The visitor can then quickly complete check-in by confirming their visit details, providing a signature and printing out their visitor badge.

AlertEnterprise software provides true prevention of insider threats, fraud, theft, sabotage and acts of terrorism by overcoming vulnerabilities and blended threats across information technology, operational technology (OT), physical access systems and industrial control Systems. Purpose-built for protecting critical infrastructure in key sectors, such as utilities, oil and gas, airports, federal agencies, financials, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, AlertEnterprise solutions deliver industry-specific situational awareness with continuous monitoring and incident management.

When combined with Enterprise Guardian software, Visitor Identity Management software with FRT provides a complete physical identity and access management solution for all employee, contractor, vendor and visitor identities from a single source.

By leveraging FRT, the system allows organizations to move away from first/last name dependency and can help identify cardholders that may attempt to or have acquired multiple badges. In an upcoming release, the feature will integrate with watch lists to detect people who may try to enter a facility with different names.

“We believe that frictionless secure access is an essential component to the vision of the Intelligent Enterprise,” said Yogesh Ailawadi, Senior Director, Product Management at AlertEnterprise. “As part of our complete physical identity and access management solution, Visitor Management with FRT further enhances corporate security through advanced technology and automated active policy enforcement.”

CloudJumper now part of Microsoft DCO program in support of MSP data center migration to Microsoft Azure

CloudJumper announced that the company has joined the Microsoft Data Center Optimization (DCO) program. CloudJumper supports IT solution providers in the movement of their IT operations to Azure, reducing the capital and operational costs of cloud solution delivery. Microsoft and the DCO program empowers CloudJumper channel partners in the migration to Azure.

The Microsoft DCO Program supports administrators in reducing data center costs by transitioning to Azure’s global cloud infrastructure which now spans more than 100 highly secure facilities worldwide.

With Azure, the freedom to build, manage, and deploy CloudJumper’s Cloud Workspace Management Suite (CWMS) on a massive, global network is a simple task, reducing the time and complexity of implementing DaaS, WaaS and cloud-based application delivery.

CloudJumper assists partners with entry into the DCO program, providing deployment and management support, along with marketing guidance throughout their engagement.

CloudJumper has aligned with Microsoft to orchestrate Cloud Workspaces on Azure, enabling partners to deliver cloud solutions at scale. With customized adaptation to Microsoft Azure, IT solution providers benefit from significant operational efficiencies, simplified management, and auto-scaling that allows on-demand expansion or contraction of services rendered.

Leveraging CloudJumper’s cloud platform, administrators have the ability to unify management and centralize oversight of their desktop and application infrastructure, significantly reducing management complexity. CWMS for Azure eliminates the need to host components outside of Azure’s compute environment and simplifies user access by passing Active Directory Domain Services credentials throughout the platform, using single sign-on to access applications based on user-defined policies for a better overall experience.

Administrators have the ability to manage the entire technology stack, including server resources as the organization requires. CloudJumper also integrates billing into the administrator’s interface to streamline client management and administration.

“CloudJumper is a key technology partner and we welcome this alignment with Microsoft,” said Aaron Garza, VP, Business Development, Pax8. “With Azure, managed service providers can transcend what has been possible by leveraging the scalability and reliability of the Microsoft Cloud. As a result, the delivery of highly agile business solutions is at their fingertips, supported by one of the largest cloud networks on earth.”

“Cloud Workspace for Azure offers partners the unique ability to grow cloud revenues by developing and deploying enterprise-class solutions how and where they are needed, at the most competitive rates possible,” said Max Pruger, Chief Revenue Officer, CloudJumper. “We are pleased to be a part of Microsoft’s DCO Program as Azure will be central to our operational efforts over the next several years. Managed service provides that capitalize on this opportunity will be better positioned in the market with excellent opportunities to expand their revenue base.”

Morpheus Data Cloud Management Platform boosts cloud analytics; expands integrations to reduce hybrid IT complexity

Morpheus Data announced on Thursday a series of enhancements which will help enterprise customers reduce cloud costs and simplify management of hybrid cloud deployments.

Morpheus customers can now boost cloud efficiency and predict future expenses with enhanced analytics, policy-based quotas and consolidated reporting for AWS and Microsoft Azure; simplify hybrid IT management and accelerate digital transformation with updates to existing AWS, Microsoft, Google, VMware, and Nutanix support; and improve visibility of application deployments across multiple clouds with ITSM integration into Cherwell and BMC Remedy.

As cloud management matures, standalone cloud optimization products are giving way to comprehensive approaches such as Morpheus which help enterprises get cloud spend under control while also providing the governance to eliminate future problems.

Morpheus now synchronizes actual costs from both AWS including month-to-date, estimated spend, and last month’s costs. New cost reports and visualizations are broken down by service and tag plus include data on both On-Demand and Reserved hours per EC2 Instance Type.

This same level of accuracy and insight is applied to Microsoft Azure and will soon be extended to enable the application of additional cost-saving recommendations for both cloud providers. Lastly, cost reporting is updated to show budget variance between budgeted amount and actual spending per tenant.

These updates are on top of existing brownfield discovery and guided remediation to improve efficiency across over a dozen cloud platforms. In the past 12 months, Morpheus leveraged machine learning to help customers identify millions of dollars of cost savings. More importantly, these organizations are now able to apply governance and consolidated reporting across projects, teams, and tenants so they can focus less on cost and more on improving IT agility.

Recent research indicates that 68 percent of enterprises will be using more than one cloud platform to provide services but for already overloaded IT departments this means having to learn multiple tools and processes to perform the same activities.

Morpheus eliminates the need to learn multiple tools by providing a standardized approach to automate provisioning of new application environments across over 20 cloud platforms.

Cloud specific enhancements in the recent release include AWS that accelerates onboarding of existing accounts by adding all VPC’s in a region at the same time before applying role-based access to govern use, and seamlessly responds to workload spikes via Amazon scale-groups in addition to native Morpheus scaling. It also integrates with Microsoft to create and manage resource pools in Azure plus more easily and securely manage large-scale SCVMM based on-prem clouds.

It also integrates with Google to take full advantage of Morpheus third-party multi-network integrations for IPAM, DNS and provision Windows VMs; integrates with VMware to manage and deploy applications to a VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) cloud in addition to existing support and certification for vSphere, ESXi and vCloud Director; and integrates with Nutanix. Morpheus is now Nutanix Ready certified plus integration has been enhanced with more robust brownfield discovery, hypervisor console access, and improved Windows provisioning automation.

To help bring the worlds of ITSM and DevOps closer together Morpheus combines a rich automation and cloud orchestration platform with hooks into ITSM tools so customers get better visibility from service request to service delivery. This announcement adds both Cherwell and BMC Remedy to existing integration with ServiceNow.

Morpheus is an official technology partner of Cherwell and initial integration includes the ability to synchronize change requests between Cherwell and Morpheus and coordinate execution of actions.

Morpheus is an official technology partner of BMC and initial integration includes ability to manage the change management database (CMDB) for any workloads Morpheus discovers or provisions.

Morpheus is an official technology partner of ServiceNow with a certified ServiceNow plug-in. Integration points include service catalog, approval workflows, CMDB, and incident management.

“Cloud computing is in its second decade, but enterprises still struggle to fully capitalize because of economic and organizational challenges,” said Brad Parks, VP of Business Development, Morpheus Data. “Today’s updates bridge the gap and set Morpheus apart as the best full-stack provider of agnostic multi cloud management.”

New Quest offering provides control of Active Directory backup and recovery in times of disaster or catastrophic event

Quest Software announced on Wednesday release of Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD), Disaster Recovery Edition, which provides organizations the power to view, backup and restore changes in AD environments all the way to the operating system and bare metal level.

This release from the Quest Microsoft Platform Management business adds another layer of protection to its Recovery Manager solutions set that already includes AD backup and recovery at the object and directory level across the forest. With RMAD Disaster Recovery Edition, organizations can implement an AD disaster recovery plan and quickly recovery from any disaster caused by mistakes, corruption or full on disasters like ransomware and cyberattacks, with minimal impact on the business.

With cloud adoption on the rise and the explosive growth in data, so too comes the increase in organizational risk to emerging threats. According to Gartner’s February 2019 ‘Infrastructure Availability and Recovery Primer for 2019,’ “In digital businesses, infrastructure and operations leaders must plan for states of reliability, availability, resiliency and recovery across their environments. This requires technology and tools, as well as individual skills to enable this across on-premises, cloud and hybrid IT environments.”

As many organizations take a hybrid approach to AD management, Quest continues to be at the forefront in developing the most complete set of AD management and security solutions for both on-premise and Azure deployments. Thousands of organizations leverage Quest RMAD solutions to maintain maximum uptime, safeguard against data loss, prepare for emerging threats, protect corporate credibility, and reduce costs.

Quest’s Recovery Manager for Active Directory automates an AD recovery at the object and attribute level. Recovery Manager for Active Directory, Forest Edition automates an AD recovery at both the object and attribute level and directory level across the entire Forest. This gives organizations the ability to perform on-premises automated forest-level recovery and create of a fully functional virtual lab environment for complete AD management.

With the new RMAD Disaster Recovery Edition, Quest is extending its AD management capabilities even further for complete AD backup and recovery at the object and attribute level, directory level and operating system level across the entire forest. This ensures the strongest possible security posture across the entire AD infrastructure.

With RMAD Disaster Recovery, users can backup and recovery at the object and attribute level, the directory level and the operating system level across the entire forest for complete disaster recovery; and restore the domain controller’s operating system without depending on other IT functions to reduce downtime and get users back to work quickly.

It also demonstrates and validate the DR recovery plan by building a separate virtual forest test lab with production data to test disaster scenarios and safely test prior to making changes in the production; highlight changes made since the last backup by comparing the online state of AD with its backup or by comparing multiple backups. Accelerate recovery by quickly pinpointing deleted or changed objects or attributes, and, with Change Auditor, identify who made the changes.

It also integrates with Quest On Demand Recovery with a single recovery dashboard that enumerates hybrid and cloud-only objects. Users can run difference reports between production and real-time backups, and restore all changes, whether on-premises or in Azure AD.

“We’re committed to delivering solutions that help organizations protect their Microsoft Active Directory investments and mitigate accidental or malicious business disruptions,” said Brad Kirby, Senior Director, Product Management, Quest Microsoft Platform Management business. “Our comprehensive product offering helps customers recover at every level. The new release of RMAD Disaster Recovery Edition is like an insurance policy for AD that gives organizations the power to prepare for and recover from a scorched earth AD disaster. Now IT teams can build comprehensive recovery plans addressing small object level issues to crippling ransomware or attacks.”

Avaya OneCloud transformation program enables adoption of cloud communications infrastructure

Avaya Holdings introduced on Wednesday its program to assist organizations considering cloud communications delivery models as part of their digital transformation. Avaya’s cloud transformation program makes it easier and removes uncertainty and risk from the transition.

The program provides compelling incentives and the resources of its professional services team to help companies map the most effective and efficient path to implement Avaya OneCloud solutions for public, private or hybrid communications deployments.

The Avaya cloud transformation program helps organizations define and discover their required outcomes for a cloud communications transition; determine the best cloud models for various applications, based on specific business needs; identify key processes and APIs that work within their existing infrastructure and how best to deploy them to a new cloud ecosystem; and begin their cloud transformation with next steps and roadmaps aligned to their specific business goals and based on targeted financial modeling.

Avaya OneCloud solutions for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS), provide organizations of all sizes with a fast, convenient and automated path to the benefits of cloud communications. Avaya OneCloud solutions are available in 34 countries. The company will continue to expand its global footprint in the coming months to meet the growing needs of customers worldwide.

Avaya currently has 3.7 million cloud seats between its public and private offerings, and continues to see increased adoption of its cloud solutions across a range of industries.

For Avaya customers, the company will provide credits for perpetual licenses and reduced per-seat cloud pricing, as well as remove termination penalties on current support services contracts for those that implement an Avaya OneCloud solution.

Avaya customers can also take advantage of Avaya cloud transformation workshops at reduced or even zero cost. These workshops bring Avaya professional services cloud experts together with an organization’s key decision makers for a working session to understand the breadth and depth of a cloud transformation with the Avaya OneCloud deployment model that best meets their needs, develop an implementation timeline, and define what is required to achieve desired outcomes.

“Communications is foundational to digital success, driving improved collaboration and improving the customer experience, and cloud has become the new operating model for digital businesses,” said Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research. “For business leaders digitally transforming their communications via the cloud, it is important they find solutions that fit their workflows and a solution provider that offers a range of options. Avaya OneCloud offers the broadest selection of cloud options across every segment, and Avaya’s cloud transformation program will help organizations find the right solution that fits their unique requirements.”

Aligned Energy introduces Aligned Access, its software-defined, carrier-neutral connectivity offering

Aligned Energy launched on Wednesday its Aligned Access offering, software-defined, carrier-neutral connectivity solution that extends customer reach across Aligned’s data center network and beyond with accessibility to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud and Salesforce; and IT service and network providers.

Aligned Energy is an infrastructure technology company that offers adaptable colocation and build-to-scale solutions to cloud, enterprise, and managed service providers. Its infrastructure enables it to treat data centers like a utility — accessible and consumable as needed. By reducing the energy, water and space needed to operate, its data center solutions, combined with patented cooling technology, offer businesses a competitive advantage by improving reliability and their bottom line.

The Aligned Access portfolio of carrier-neutral connectivity solutions includes Aligned Cloud Access, a secure, private and cost-effective hosted or dedicated direct connectivity to leading CSPs. Services can be provisioned from 1Gbps to 100 Gbps instantly from Aligned Energy’s data centers in Ashburn, Dallas, Phoenix and Salt Lake City. 

It also features Aligned DCI Access, its secure, low-latency, high-resiliency and cost-effective Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Access, enabling connectivity from customers’ own facilities or managed infrastructure, to and between all Aligned data centers and connected CSPs.

The offering also includes Aligned Transport Access – Carrier-grade Layer 2 and Layer 3 transport service offering blended or dedicated IP and point-to-point, high-speed, low-latency connectivity through a variety of wholesale partners. 

Available in 10 Gigabit Ethernet increments as dedicated protected or unprotected circuits. Aligned On-net Access is a seamless, carrier-neutral provisioning and turn-up for highly reliable and low latency connectivity to customers, partners and service providers with no monthly cross-connect fees.

As an intuitive, Software-Defined Network (SDN), Aligned Access allows customers to seamlessly adapt their hybrid IT needs and expand their network service capabilities and footprint with highly reliable connectivity and low-latency transport.

“Aligned Energy is committed to providing carrier-neutral and open connectivity to extend the reach of our customers to the cloud, to their customers, partners and providers, and beyond,” comments Andrew Schaap, CEO of Aligned Energy. “These ideals, along with our powerfully-built services, ultimately promote better outcomes for customers both today and in the future, empowering critical expansion while facilitating a new path forward for data center connectivity.”