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loud presents new opportunity around shared resources. Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing well known as ‘on-demand computing’ very useful for storage solutions, provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process data, development, and deployment of services and solutions over the internet. Cloud is promising regarding scalability, agility, and a pay-per-use model, cloud computing is an attractive option for enterprises, the most important ones which cloud provides are regarding “security” like centralized security policies; security infrastructure becomes less expensive.

But there is a dark side too as cloud also poses security risks, risks associated with the internet like hacking and malware infections. As a result, the fight for cloud security is harder than ever. As more companies make a move to adopt the cloud, the importance of securing cloud services is at an all-time high.

Recently, a research firm Gartner predicted that in 2016, security needs to be at the top of the action plan for companies as they extend their business processes to the cloud. Security measures will include securing data and accessing the security of cloud providers, the research firm said. First of all, companies need to evaluate the existing security measures implemented and finalize what systems and data are in the cloud. Companies should perform an adequate investigation of the cloud service provider before finalizing an agreement. Companies having a global presence should also evaluate the location of the stored data and how the services are implemented to avoid problems with data transfer restrictions and the system’s processing and response time. With enough upfront planning and combining the power of on-premise software and efficiency, scalability and security of the cloud, companies can have the best of both worlds and can substantially reduce the security risk associated with the cloud.

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COVER STORY

Smart Utility Systems: #1 Global Energy & Water Cloud Platform

38 A Glimpse into the Era of Cloud Computing

CXO Standpoint

22 Startups Should Emigrate to the Cloud

36 IoT Business will Boost the Economy in the Next Decades

24 IoT, Wearable Computing - Where Everything is Addressable

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Why Cloud to Rule the Future?

30 Are you Staying in Network Secure Zone?

24 Aerobyte: RedeďŹ ning Enterprise Security

20 CloudHesive: Securing Your Enterprise in the Cloud

26 Eze Castle Integration: The Standard in Financial Cloud Platforms

28 Green House Data: Transforming the Cloud Services Landscape

40 SYSPRO: Simplifying Your Success

42 Yardi Systems: Innovation. Experience.

Customer Focus.

34 Integral Networks: We are your IT Department

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Deepak Garg Founder & CEO

Smart Utility Systems: #1 Global Energy & Water Cloud Platform

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lobally, the utility industry is on the receiving end of several common issues such as aging infrastructure, ever-increasing demand-supply deďŹ cit, lack of skilled workforce, complying with the regulatory mandates, deregulation, and competition, etc. Adding to this, there is a pressure of the changing dynamics of the utility-customer relationship. The digitally and socially connected consumers of today expect their service providers (including utilities) to deliver value beyond the primary services. Since, utilities have been traditionally slow adopters of technology, and they are now facing additional pressure in terms of meeting the customers’ expectations. Against all the odds, Smart Utility Systems has emerged as a technology company that is trying to not only help utilities manage technology solutions for water and energy Sustainability but also help consumers realize the importance of the drought crisis on a global level.

SUS is partnering with utilities around the globe to help address the various challenges they face by leveraging advanced technologies such as Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, Analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT).

A Vision Driven Leader A technology and strategy leader with a strong vision and in-depth knowledge of the energy and utility industry, Deepak Garg, Founder and CEO, started this company six years back with a vision to contribute to the larger cause of addressing the challenges of Energy and Water Sustainability. He started SUS with the purpose of making a global difference, to the attitude and behavior of people with respect to energy and water use by transforming the traditional utility-customer relationship.

Along with the team, he developed #1 Energy and Water Mobile Cloud Platform to Empower and Educate globally everybody via two-way real time communication on Mobile and Web channels.

At SUS, Deepak brings innovation, vision and strategy. Owing to the varied experiences, he has gathered while working at several Fortune 500+ multinational companies, and his global perspective and entrepreneurial-mindset, Deepak has developed high-powered business and technology teams and positioned SUS to be the most sought after technology solution provider to

electric, gas and water utilities globally.

Deepak holds a MS degree in Computer Science with an executive management from the Stanford Graduate Business School and MIT.

What Gives SUS an edge above the other players in the Market SCM® leverage technologies like AI (Artificial Intelligence), Machine Learning, Predictive Modelling, Principles of Gamification, Big Data BI & Analytics to provide a best-in-class User Interface (UI) to ensure best-in-class customer engagement. The company help utilities improve their operational efficiency and maximize revenue realization, through mobile and cloud technologies.

“Our platform is the only cloud platform that facilitates a real-time, two-way communication between a utility and its customers to address any Self-Service, Customer Service and Operation Management like Demand Response, Smart Home Automation, etc. Leveraging SUS platform, utilities can collate and process the huge quantum of data and use built-in

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of cloud solutions for Customer Engagement, Mobile Workforce, and Big Data Analytics

to the Energy and Utility sector. Our solutions are fully customizable to fit the unique

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requirements of utilities of all sizes. We can help you improve the way you connect with your customers

analytics to convert the humongous data into actionable insights. Our platform help utilities streamline their business processes, improve operational efficiency, reduce cost and maximize the return on infrastructure investments,” says Deepak.

on usage, energy bills, energy and water conservation programs, etc. SUS is recognized as a thought leader in the industry for bringing the most innovative solutions in the market that also address the needs of endcustomers.

SUS lends Seamless Integration SUS cloud platforms can be seamlessly integrated with any back-end system that utilities use and reduces the deployment time, effort, complexity and implementation cost.

Not only this, SUS also offers configurable modules that can be customized according to the specific requirements of the electric, water and gas utilities.

SUS is transforming the utilities digitally by providing them Smart Analytics to change the transactionbased relationship between a utility and its customer into a more holistic and collaborative relationship.

Redefining Innovation SUS develop technology that connects and empowers utility customers to educate and share information in a user-friendly manner. Today, utilities are seeking ways to engage customers and inspire them to take actions in real-time. They recognize that customers want more in terms of two-way communication on energy/water consumption, outages, billing and energy efficiency programs.

It is important to take energy efficiency initiatives/measures to help the utility sector transform from traditional to a digital era through true customer engagement and analytical solutions.

In order to create an energy and water sustainable future and to keep customers updated, Smart Customer Mobile (SCM®) provides comprehensive customer engagement solution to the utility industry, educating and engaging customers worldwide while meeting their needs on the go. With a 360 degree view of customer interactions, Smart Customer Mobile (SCM®) is well known in the industry providing both customer and utility focused solution. Thus, helping utilities achieve greater customer satisfaction through effective customer engagement, educating end-consumers

Enhancing Customer Experience SUS has a central philosophy that drives its core values on how customers should be treated at all times. Their vision to deliver customer oriented services to their utility clients are what makes them customer centric.

SUS empowers utilities to make decisions that are for the benefit of the utility customer. They closely work with electric, water and gas utilities to meet the requirements that align with the utility’s core values, mission and vision and help them meet their customers’ expectations. Customer Service is part of their brand promise and SUS develops products that deliver true value to their clients with a customer centric approach. This focus is in-built in their product development and implementation. Through its award winning platforms, SUS help utilities improve customer experience and enable the utilities to engage, educate and empower their end-consumers.

Through built-in analytic tools, SUS help utilities identify their customers’ consumption trends and recommend energy saving and water conservation programs based on their historic usage and billing. SUS platform allows customers to report outages, leaks, thefts and other violations, thus, empowering them to take charge. This customized and targeted communication between utilities and their customers facilitated by SCM®

not only helps the particular utility to optimize its revenue realization but also improves customer satisfaction while enabling utilities to unlock the value of effective customer engagement.

SUS Innovative Award Winning Services and Solutions SUS endeavors to reach out to the best solutions to answer challenges faced by utilities.

Their Smart Customer Mobile (SCM®) cloud-based SaaS platform is an award-winning customer-engagement web and mobile platform that addresses key business challenges of utilities while supporting their smart grid or non-smart grid initiatives to maximize the ROI. Smart Mobile Workforce (SMW®) is a single integrated mobile workforce platform that helps utilities improve productivity and efficiency of utility employees by providing them a job, safety and asset related information in real-time on any device. Smart IQ (SiQ®) is an award-winning cloud-based data and analytics platform with built-in customer and operational analytic capabilities. This platform helps to deliver critical business insights based on the customer’s meter and usage data and makes use of the large amounts of data that utilities collect.

Addressing the Global Challenge: Drought SUS has been continuously addressing utility industry challenges by creating an energy and water sustainable future.

Besides their core utility solutions, SUS addresses California drought situation helping citizens with an innovative Smart H20 app providing them the ability to report violations related to water leak and waste water.

Through this app, SUS is educating customers with water conservation programs advising them to minimize the use of their water usage and adhere to water use state mandates. With this,

SUS stands out in the industry as a role model, emerging as the #1 company to address Energy and Water Sustainability, helping utilities in achieving their business objectives while educating customers to maximize the use of efficiency programs and increase the potential savings. As of today, utility customers are using SCM® platform with the ease to engage with their utility anytime, anywhere and on any device creating a sustainable future on earth.

Satisfied Clients with Assuring Success “We are closely working with several top energy and utility companies who have benefitted greatly by the successful implementation of our platforms. The thing that most appeals to them are that our platforms seamlessly integrated with their existing utility systems without any extra time, costs and efforts in deployment,” assures Deepak. Further, he adds “Some of our clients in North America are amazed at how we have helped them establish a real-time, twoway communication with their customers through their preferred mode of communication via different channels and mediums.”

SUS’s clients have not only been able to maximize their ROI but also report much higher customer satisfaction. To sum it up in the words of one of their clients, “We knew it was time to take our technology to the next level, but we didn't want to settle for a solution that would give us more problems to solve in the end. SCM® took our customer engagement to the next level and made a significant impact in several business processes and objectives.”

An Edge Above Competition The utility industry continues to advance towards technological maturity as it continues to explore and

deploy new and emerging innovations such as advanced applications to modernize distribution grid, enhance customer engagement, analyze big data, integrate AMI data for grid management, effective outage management, workforce optimization, etc. SUS’ leverage the opportunity to provide a proven set of tactics and tools for building and maintaining a customer-centric business strategy that not only support energy efficiency, water conservation and demand side management (DSM) but also facilitates adherence to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives and state mandate regulations to conserve energy and water.

With an industry leading practice to support customer service operations, SUS helps utilities improve their performance through analytical capabilities with key KPIs and helps in streamlining utility business processes.

This business model for utilities ensures that they plan, operate and manage their integrated customer operations better, even though; they may be on different business platforms.

The relative costs associated with research and development are translated to higher customer value in competitive markets, increased ROI and operational savings thus translating into a strategic benefit for providing better customer experiences.

Secret of Growth: ‘Successful Team, Successful Company, Successful Clients’ “Our strategy and product development teams spend a significant amount of time on research to keep themselves updated about the latest trends, challenges, future scenarios and technological advancements that affect the utility industry,” expounds Deepak.

When developing new platforms or working on product enhancements, their focus remains on having a positive impact on the entire value

chain of the utility industry and to help address the global challenges of energy and water sustainability. “Our focus is not only being a solution provider, but a partner with the utilities in their journey of digital transformation. We do this by providing them with turnkey solutions that help them adopt a customer-centric business model thereby meeting their business objectives,” asserts Deepak.

TEAM- ‘Together Everyone Achieves More’ SUS teams are constantly striving to innovate best-in-class solutions using cutting-edge technology that can help utilities stay ahead of the curve regarding their digital transformation.

At SUS, their team makes the continuous efforts to make the entire digitization efforts of utilities as seamless and as simple as possible.

SUS has a team of highly skilled and talented developers working under the able guidance of their senior leaders who are experts from the utility industry with a collective experience of over 100 years.

Being the ‘Best’ amidst changing market dynamics SUS best in class, intuitive and user-friendly solutions in the area of customer engagement, workforce productivity, demand response management and data and analytics have made SUS the partner of choice for a majority of utilities globally.

They have partnered with different sizes of utilities to improve their business processes, achieve operational excellence, reduce costs, maximize their return on smart infrastructure investments and address their key challenges of customer engagement, workforce mobility, demand response, regulatory compliance, etc. The utility industry is undergoing rapid transformation with changing market dynamics, technological

advancements, changes in regulatory requirements and increased focus on reduced emissions. However, a key factor that is molding the business model of utilities is changing customer expectations. The utility industry is increasingly becoming customer-centric with an increased focus on customer engagement. At SUS, customer service is part of their brand promise and their aim is to deliver customer oriented services to their utility clients. Thus, their envision developing customer-centric solutions and services for their clients whereby empowering customers with data and allowing them to change their behaviors, thus achieving energy sustainability and water conservation.

SUS is driven by a vision to help revolutionize the way the world approaches energy efficiency and water conservation. Thus, product innovation and development is a key focus area for us. The company are also assessing and weighing various factors in high potential markets with the objective of expanding their geographic footprint.

SUS will continue to strive and develop innovative solutions that will contribute to achieve a sustainable future. Further, as part of their long-term strategy, they also look forward to strengthen their partner eco-system to build upon their delivery capabilities and be able to leverage opportunities in new avenues.

Expanding Geographical Footprints “We are now expanding our geographical footprint and helping utilities across the world in their journey of digital transformation. At the same time, we are also working towards diversifying our product portfolio and creating solutions that help demolish future challenges of the utility industry. Part of that process is also focusing on exploring new disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, home automation, etc. We look forward to continuing to deliver solutions that allow us the opportunity to help build the energy and water sustainable future,” expounds Deepak.

Moving to Cloud should be the Top Most Priority for any Business

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loud computing is radically changing the way the companies are operating, proving experts wrong, who, just a few years ago, dismissed cloud computing as just the technology fad, good for generating a lot of buzz but offering little practical value. Numerous companies of all sizes in a broad range of domain are moving to cloud-based software, platforms, and even cloud infrastructure which is not only streamlining the processes but also lowering IT complexity with better visibility and reduced costs.

The importance and usefulness of the cloud industries have made us to shortlist “The 10 Fastest Growing Cloud Solution Provider Companies.” Our cover story ‘Smart Utility Systems’, is one of the excellent global smart energy and water cloud platform provider company, focused on addressing the core challenges of global energy and water utilities. Also, the company is partnering with utilities around the globe to help address the challenges by leveraging technologies such as Cloud, Mobile Workforce, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). Deepak Garg, Founder and CEO of Smart Utility Systems, is the person behind the success of the company.

He is a technology and strategy leader with a strong vision and in-depth knowledge of the energy and utility industry.

It is always interesting to know the story behind every company. Insights Success Magazine, after an in-depth research and studies, has shortlisted; Aerobyte: Redefining Enterprise Security, CloudHesive: Securing Your Enterprise in the Cloud, Delphix: Your data has never done this before, Eze Castle Integration: The Standard in Financial Cloud Platforms, Green House Data: Transforming the Cloud Services Landscape, Innova Solutions: Empowering Enterprises to Transition to New Technologies, Integral Networks: Your I.T Services is Our Priority, Smart Utility Systems: The #1 Smart Energy & Water Cloud Platform, SYSPRO: Simplifying Your Success, and Yardi: Innovation.

Experience. Customer Focus. These all are the companies that are on the forefront in recognizing their best Cloud solutions with excellence while setting the industry standards.

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Aerobyte, Inc. aerobyte.com

Howard Hellman CEO

Aerobyte deploys security as a platform that optimizes existing on-premise systems and Multi-Cloud Environments, through trust, encryption, privacy, protection and safety.

CloudHesive cloudhesive.com

Jim Walker Founder and CEO

CloudHesive is a cloud solutions consulting and cloud managed services provider with a focus on cloud security, DevOps, and cloud managed services.

Delphix delphix.com

Chris Cook President & CEO

Delphix provides data virtualization and data masking solutions. Deliver new applications, features and upgrades to market faster with Delphix data.

Eze Castle Integration eci.com

Bob Guilbert COO

Eze Castle Integration, the premier ďŹ nancial cloud platform built to deliver the high performance, applications, connectivity and exceptional user experience demanded by the investment industry.

Green House Data greenhousedata.com

Shawn Mills Founder

Innova Solutions innovasolutions-usa.com

Dheeraj Nallagatla Senior VP

Innova is a global information technology provider, empowering enterprises to transition, to new technologies, embrace new service models and deliver the business value of IT.

Integral Networks, Inc. integralnetworks.com

Bryan Badger Founder and CEO

Integral Networks is a leading provider of technology solutions, infrastructure management, cloud solutions and value-added technical services to organizations of all sizes and from all sectors of the industry. Technology that moves with you.

Smart Utility Systems smartusys.com

Deepak Garg Founder & CEO

Smart Utility Systems (SUS) is the leading provider of cloudbased Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms for customer engagement, workforce mobility and big data intelligence and analytics to the energy, water and gas utility sectors.

SYSPRO syspro.com

Brian Stein

SYSPRO is a global leader in providing Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions for manufacturers and distributors.

Yardi Systems, Inc. yardi.com

Anant Yardi Founder & President

CEO

Green House Data delivers VMware cloud hosting, colocation, managed IT services, and disaster recovery solutions backed by 100% SLAs from highly secure, nationwide data centers.

Yardi Systems provides the design, development, and support of SaaS real estate investment management and property management software.

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Aerobyte: Redening Enterprise Security

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nformation Technology landscape is about to evolve and grow in a way like never seen. The cloud has brought capabilities of enterprise computing into affordable pieces for companies to explore like never seen for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) for both the consumer and the enterprise. As the number of IoT-connected devices will steadily increase, security issues will also multiply exponentially. In light of the importance of what IoT devices have access to, it is important for businesses to understand their risks.

information accessibility where others have failed.

Aerobyte’s Security Platform provides comprehensive protection for all critical data points inside and outside any enterprise environment. It offers the management, monitoring, analytics, and configuration tools to automate security on a massive scale through Aerobyte’s SAFe Dashboard.

Meet the Maestro behind Aerobyte Howard Hellman, CEO of Aerobyte, brings 20+ years’ experience in providing sophisticated hardware or software based IT solutions. However, what differentiates him from others, is that Howard developed a vision for a trust-based security solution 15 years ago. Unfortunately, the available infrastructure resources at that time were not capable of supporting his solution. Howard has worked with major Financial, Energy and Healthcare Organizations putting customer needs above the companies and ensuring that every solution exceeds expectations from the moment their solutions are powered on. In addition to Howard’s excellent industry vision, his dedication to build lasting relationships and providing exceptional support is the anchor to his years of success in this industry.

Aerobyte, an enterprise security solutions provider, presents a unique approach to security, one that limits complexity by reducing the number of products and vendors once needed to operate a secure infrastructure.

Secondly, their approach to solving complexity through delivering a comprehensive security platform; one that offers companies the ability to centralize the protection of their data by embracing the implementation of Aerobyte’s SAFe Security Platform. Their flagship product Secured Architecture Framework everywhere (SAFe) enforces proper delivery of security fundamentals to protect information and ensure all the necessary controls are in place to provision, access and monitor security. Built from the ground up, Aerobyte’s SAFe Security Platform is the best-of-breed security product offering easy integration, control, and enforcement, so organizations have the ability to maintain existing investment and provide a clear security roadmap for protection well into the future.

Aerobyte: Experts in Enterprise Security The company’s security services include Edge to Edge Encryption as a Service, Endpoint Protection as a Service, Secured Enterprise Backup, and Disaster Recovery, and High-Performance Computing to deliver advanced analytics via private, public or hybrid cloud environment.

Aerobyte’s SAFe Security Platform is a Centralized Command Center which secures and protects every endpoint, no matter if they are remote, on-premise or in the cloud. Aerobyte so far has succeeded in protecting

Aerobyte deploys security as a platform that optimizes existing on-premise systems and Multi-Cloud Environments, through trust, encryption, privacy, protection and safety. Their solution focuses on protecting information

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Customer Satisfaction is our top priority, consider Aerobyte an extension of your team, and can tailor a secure cloud infrastructure to meet your business, operational and security requirements

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at the byte level and establishing trusted connections through strong authentication to access authorized information via group policy, role, and assigned permissions.

At the heart of Aerobyte Security Platform limits Encryption engine, which acts as a Security Broker through its core, that does protect an enterprise from any IoT, BYOD or

device at its endpoint, establishes trust and secure its communication from one endpoint to the other and solves the most complex security problems today.

Another crucial part of Aerobyte’s security platform is Client software SAFe Edge Interconnect’s, which turns any endpoint with an IP address into a trusted device and protects its Private Key from falling into the wrong hands.

Every endpoint is connected to its authorized endpoint using Aerobyte’s dynamic encryption tunnels. These secure tunnels provide numerous enhanced features over traditional SSL/VPN connections by encrypting and decrypting through its Multi-Point Trust Authentication functionality. Any communication stream is protected through several layers of encryption securing data as it travels over any network or topology from one endpoint to the other. Aerobyte’s SAFe Edge Interconnect allow for protection of every endpoint through certificatebased access control, securing authentication at the network adapter, Data Inspection, Encryption/Decryption, Compression to turn any endpoint into a hardened endpoint built on trust.

Future Roadmap Through the development and integration of their security platform, Aerobyte has always been years ahead of the Security Market. Through exceptional thought leadership, Aerobyte has a roadmap that will continue to build trusted connections to secure any Distributed Computing Environment. Aerobyte always will customize a solution for its clients that will meet and or exceed their business, operations, and security requirements.

In the future, they will incorporate Enterprise Application availability for any size customer through Orchestration, High Availability, Performance and Trust-Based Security with exceptional Reliability Availability and Serviceability.

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CloudHesive: Securing Your Enterprise in the Cloud

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e all tend to be wary of the unknown, which explains why many potential users are still skeptical of the cloud. That is why Jim Walker founded CloudHesive-to help customers understand the benefits of leveraging a cloud infrastructure to support their business strategy.

Based out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, CloudHesive is the only Florida based Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner with a Managed Service Partner (MSP) competency. They are focused on providing cloud consulting, DevOps, Security Operations (SecOps), and provides ongoing 24/7 cloud managed services for its customers.

CloudHesive is a new breed of cloud services provider that facilitates cost-effective, highly scalable, and secure cloud solutions. Their team of experts helps companies deploy mission-critical workloads onto a reliable platform to reduce operating costs, increase productivity and strengthen security. CloudHesive has partnered with some of the most notable cloud infrastructure companies to wrap traditional cloud offerings (public, private or hybrid) with cloud-centric security controls, such as encryption, endpoint security, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring throughout the environment lifecycle.

Unparalleled Expertise CloudHesive acts as a one-stop solution for cloud optimization by providing: Ÿ Consulting Services focused on cloud strategy, migration

planning, cloud support and professional services. Ÿ DevOps Services to assist with DevOps strategy, manage

CI/CD/CM environments, and provide automation and scripting. Ÿ Managed Security Services (SecOps) featuring Encryption as a Service (EaaS), endpoint security, encryption for data in flight and threat management.

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security controls, governance of release/change management processes, end-to-end monitoring and management, and 24/7 support.

An Innovative Leader Promoting Technology Growth Before Jim Walker founded CloudHesive, he worked for several distinguished SaaS and PaaS companies. The valuable experience and knowledge he gained afforded him the opportunity to create a company of his own. Most recently, Walker was the Global Head of Cloud Operations and Security for Pegasystems in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

While at Pegasystems, Jim was a member of the team that founded, incubated and grew the Pega Cloud service offering into a global solution.

Before joining Pegasystems, Mr. Walker was the CTO of Arise Virtual Solutions, an at-home contact center service company in Miramar, Florida. While overseeing the security and core technology platforms, Jim helped Arise become an international business process outsourcing company.

Jim currently sits on the board of directors for the South Florida Technology Alliance (SFTA), which helps promote the growth of the technology community in South Florida.

He is also a guest speaker on the topic of cloud computing at the University of Miami, as well as the initiator of the Amazon Web Services User Groups of Florida.

Security in the Cloud Managing security in the cloud is key. That is why CloudHesive partnered with some of the most reputable security providers in the world, including Vormetric, Alert Logic, Trend Micro, Tenable, Cohesive Networks, Sumologic, and vArmour.

The CloudHesive team integrates into critical internal administrative controls to help streamline business processes. By implementing proven security controls,

HIPAA, and SSAE 16. The CloudHesive team works with their customers to ensure proper cloud security controls are in place and up to date.

Jim emphasized, “We will work with your security team to ensure we are aligned with your annual audit schedule, so that commonly requested supporting documentation can be provided in an agreed upon time frame.”

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Jim Walker Founder and CEO

We partner with customers and guide them through the best cloud practices, so they can focus on their business and know that we are watching their infrastructure

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CloudHesive helps customers increase the visibility of their environment activity and protects them from new and developing threats.

In addition to cloud deployments, CloudHesive establishes and manages their customers’ on-premises environments. According to Walker, “We can deploy our security solutions

Disaster Recovery Plans CloudHesive utilizes Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM / SoftLayer, in some cases, a multi-vendor disaster recovery strategy. Jim mentioned that CloudHesive leverages AWS to place DR environments in a pilot light configuration.

This means if a disaster is declared, the environment can fail over to a warm environment on AWS that can be ‘lit’ and become fully production-ready in minutes.

In the multi-vendor approach, CloudHesive drives data to other cloud providers in the event of a disaster. This allows clients to avoid full dependence on a single cloud vendor for their hosted needs, resulting in more autonomy.

Peace of Mind The CloudHesive team improves clients’ operations by utilizing a DevOps strategy that provides scalable, flexible and agile cloud solutions. They also provide costeffective cloud services based on a pay-asyou-go model, coupled with the convenience of single billing. CloudHesive has leveraged cutting-edge technology to expand its global footprint throughout multiple industries, including high-tech, healthcare, retail, government, higher education, and financial services.

in a cloud model while managing a cloud, hybrid or on-premises environment, depending on our customers’ needs.”

“The future of CloudHesive revolves around continuous improvement in our managed services, SecOps and DevOps practices,” Walker said. “We are also working towards expanding our DevOps and cloud CloudHesive also understands the orchestration platform, so our customers can importance of compliance. In order for their clients to be successful, they manage workloads seamlessly across must be able to pass critical regulatory multiple cloud vendors.” and third-party audits such as PCI, NOVEMBER 2016|

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loud computing provides several competitive benefits to today’s startups. It provides the distributive IT computer software and hardware, that saves the prices of the business’s IT infrastructure. This feature is especially helpful for startups as they easily adopt emerging software without making numerous purchases.

Business managers ought not to invest a lot in highperformance computers because cloud computing permits access to centralized applications, that don't need to be installed locally. Businesses that migrate to the Cloud are more agile and effective, particularly when they can scale their IT infrastructure.

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For Startups, Cloud is Cheaper One of the unsophisticated ideas from the initial days of Cloud computing is that the cloud is cheaper; thus it saves startups considerable amount of cash. Through the Cloud, Startups gain access to great computing power at incredibly low cost and as far as IT infrastructure is concerned, it also allows them to own something. Startups will do nice things with less physical server hardware through virtualization.

By 2018, cloud computing market will surpass $200 billion and behind such anticipations one of the major reason is its affordability as 80% of cloud adopters believe that it helps their organization scale back IT prices.

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Scalability and Virtualization Cloud resources may be scaled up or down automatically; whereas human intervention is often needed to feature hardware and software in customary environments. The cloud environments are generally virtualized, whereas old settings comprise physical as well as virtualized infrastructure. With scalability and virtualization, you have to simply provision or de-provision resource for your convenience. For example, you can effortlessly add a minimum of 2 servers during a matter of minutes while not essentially reckoning on emails and phone calls. Cloud computing supports the unpredictable cycles of expansions that businesses are going through due to its scalable nature.

Businesses Open Up New Channels Through esteemed providers of Cloud computing such as Microsoft, ShowMax and Apple, you’re given the chance of restructuring your business. You can actually reconstitute it to a service-centric business from a product-centric business.

Reliability & Continuity is Improved The Cloud service providers have less period of time than most organizations with internal data centers. Cloud computing will affordably give redundancy sites, facilitating business continuity together with disaster recovery situations. The consequently managed and virtualized setting of the Cloud infrastructure permits higher and improved compliance with data management and privacy rules. In fact, it provides safer remote access to company data and quicker and reliable recovery of data systems and backup.

Quality is Improved with the Cloud Moving towards cloud computing means improved quality of IT provision as well as manageability. By using cloud computing, a business will simply be secured into its internal IT department and can effectively reduce dependence on internal IT. As a result, the requirement to give management attention and resources to IT infrastructure will be reduced. And the competitive dynamics of the Cloud to get IT infrastructure which is both efficient and effective will be used by the business. The capability to provision and setting up resources automatically means that substantially cloud services have better manageability.

For example, a business that has completed new channels through the Cloud services is Netflix. Netflix had to mass immense capacities of collections within the Cloud once Netflix started streaming services. By storing the large volumes of files in the Cloud, Netflix has time to figure out how the multitudes might systematically access them. Thus, Moreover, despite all the above-mentioned reasons for Netflix has been able to reinvent HR through the Cloud. adopting cloud computing; one among the foremost reasons for migrating to the cloud is that it is exceptionally powerful. Apart from better analytics, cloud computing Improved Collaboration Within the Cloud Cloud computing is improving collaboration and increasing helps business in accessing data and applications from anywhere, regardless of the device being used. Also, one user productivity too. The Cloud permits users to access must avoid storing confidential business data in mobile and services despite their location or device. Additionally, they PCs, since from there that can easily be stolen. Although are collaborating booms within the Cloud and can also share information with colleagues. Actually, collaboration is cloud computing brings lots of benefits that are too real to ignore, but that doesn’t mean there are no risks at all. quite easy as the Cloud requires no effort in maintaining However, the biggest risk is being surpassed in a and managing it. competitive situation by rivals who are quickly adopting the cloud.

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IoT, Wearable Computing - Where Everything is Addressable

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rom a financial perspective I liken that debate to a comparison of renting a car, from any of the national rental companies, versus buying a car - which comes down to how frequently you need it and whether the daily rental meets your particular needs.

That debate is further clouded by data residency issues (no pun intended), which may dictate against public cloud for sensitive data.

And as we all should know, not all clouds are the same. AWS and Azure is one shape and size; the private and

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public cloud providers in our data center is another shape and size, with multiple variations in between. IT applications can be generic but many are specialized/customized and don’t work on a generic AWS/Azure platform.

Production Industry, etc.) and speed, latency matters; therefore location matters (as well as direct connectivity).

This demand is/will be huge. As one pundit exclaimed: what happens when all of our refrigerators order milk at the same time!

Next up in the evolution is the IoT - internet of things - wearable computing - where everything is addressable - and including very time sensitive apps. In a nutshell, cloud is/can be relatively slow; and for any applications employing vast amounts of data (Netflix, Film and TV

As a relative newcomer to the industry with a background in finance, I would also perceive a huge knowledge and understanding gap between IT and the rest of most companies. IT can appear to the un-initiated to be the world’s largest, most complicated and expensive black box. I would perceive

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The happy news is that from my perspective, the options available to most companies of all sizes has never been better. Connectivity, processing and storage costs will continue to drop. There is no one set solution for companies but current and future technology is such that demands of all types can be met. Big public cloud, small public cloud, private cloud, dedicated, on premise, off premise, etc., high speed, big connectivity can all be accessed and utilized to minimize IT costs. But all solutions must be business based, working from the business need to the IT solution. And all IT solutions should be benchmarked to minimize cost.

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Lastly, all solutions must be based on rock solid and highly secure and redundant power, connectivity and cooling infrastructure. Grids will go down, not if but when. Mechanical devices, generators, UPS, HVAC will cease to function, not if but when (if maintained properly and replaced appropriately, very rarely). Loss of data is another when, not if. The problem is that it happens infrequently, so consequences are difficult to understand and inertia sets in.

People didn’t stop smoking when presented with proof that it would kill them in 50 years – the consequence was too far off and hence of low practical probability.

Data loss and outages have low frequency but are hugely impactful; Again, not if but when.

Regret is huge – ever lost your laptop, without having a backup?

that this may be a significant contributor to calls for complete IT outsourcing or at least cost reduction.

As a solution provider to end clients, this overall confusion can create significant impediments to adoption of best practices – including what should be simple but is not: back-up and disaster recovery. Over the past 25 years (most of the history of the internet), I have served on the Board of numerous companies, public and private, small and large; I can count on one hand the number of board room discussions concerning back-up and DR, or risk mitigation of any type regarding critical data loss.

These events, while infrequent but catastrophic, can be mitigated by best businesses practices which means frequent backup to a highly redundant infrastructure. But risk mitigation culture starts at the top.

At Canada151 Data Centers we try to keep a finger on the pulse of all changes in the IT landscape and we are keen observers and participants in the ongoing debate between cloud, private cloud (and all other variations), and dedicated infrastructure.

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Eze Castle Integration: The Standard in Financial Cloud Platforms

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inancial and investment companies require cloud platforms possessing high security and facilitating high performance and easy recovery as their data is critical and sensitive. The perfect cloud platform should provide: data safety from threats, convenience in operation and data recovery for any disaster situation.

Eze Castle Integration is setting an example of a perfect cloud platform for all investment and financial corporations. For more than two decades, Eze Castle Integration has been the premier provider of technology solutions to the investment management industry, servicing hedge funds, private equity firms, and other financial services organizations.

Services delivered via Eze Private Cloud Eze Castle Integration’s Eze Private Cloud is the standard cloud platform which meets all demands of financial as well as investment industries. It is the premier financial cloud platform built to deliver the high performance, applications, connectivity and exceptional user experience demanded by the investment industry. The Eze Private Cloud infrastructure spans three continents and is fully managed by Eze Castle Integration. Additional benefits provided by Eze Private Cloud include: Complete Managed IT - Eze Managed Suite: It is a fully hosted IT solution that provides flexibility and simplified IT operations. The solution combines a robust, highly secure private infrastructure via the Eze Private Cloud with key business applications and professional IT management.

Application Hosting - Eze Managed Infrastructure: This strand of the product features an enterprise-grade private environment with the latest hardware and software ideal for application hosting and custom solutions.

Hosted Voice - Eze Voice: It provides fully managed voice solutions that leverage the Eze Private Cloud infrastructure to deliver the premier quality of service and critical functionality required by investment firms.

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Power source of the Company Bob Guilbert, the COO of Eze Castle Integration, holds more than 25 years of experience encompassing IT/technology, strategy, business consulting, strategic partnerships and business development. Bob joined Eze Castle Integration in 2005 and today serves as the company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), overseeing the company’s business operations and delivery of outstanding client service.

Prior to joining Eze Castle, Bob was vice president of business development at Virtual Iron Software-a venturebacked start-up offering enterprise-class data center virtualization software. At Virtual Iron, Bob developed and oversaw all facets of business development and channel management. Bob has also held senior marketing and business development positions at Double-Take Software (formerly NSI), EMC Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Furthermore, Bob is fluent in German and graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

Journey of Growth For the better part of two decades, Eze Castle Integration has pushed the envelope for IT innovation and rebuffed the status quo. Since its launch in 2006 as a disaster recovery platform, the Eze Private Cloud has evolved into the highest performing, most secure cloud platform available and industry standard for financial cloud computing worldwide.

The company has successfully built a world-class reputation based upon their customer-centric approach, tailored solutions for the financial sector and global team.

The firm’s global presence spans eight offices in the United States, as well as locations in London, Singapore, and Hong Kong and serves more than 650 firms worldwide, including more than 100 firms with $1 billion or more in assets under management. From startups to small and large established firms, it listens and caters to every client’s needs to ensure their businesses continue to flourish and IT infrastructures remain secure, resilient, available and robust.

detection systems, hardware and software firewalls, encryption and application filters.

Additionally, it is monitored 24x7x365 via a third-party intrusion detection and prevention security firm. The cloud infrastructure also undergoes weekly scans of the core Eze Private Cloud infrastructure and biannual External Vulnerability & Penetration Assessments.

Disaster Recovery and Backup Arrangements Eze Castle has extensive physical security, disaster recovery and backup plans and procedures. Eze Castle’s Business Continuity Plan provides procedures for successfully recovering people, business functions and systems in the event of an emergency. The BCP provides guidelines for effectively implementing procedures for operational recovery strategies, emergency response and crisis communication.

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We consider ourselves more than just a hedge fund technology or cloud services provider.

Technology is not just what we do-it’s who we are

Security as Priority Eze Castle Integration always keeps a keen eye on security and thus has built numerous layers of security into their cloud services. The Eze Private Cloud

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Additionally, their services extend beyond technology, connectivity, infrastructure, and security. ‘To be a thought leader and trusted resource in the eyes of the financial sector on a global scale’ remains the company’s mission.

infrastructure is architected using the latest Cisco and virtualization solutions rendering it highly resilient and secure.

It offers an isolated environment for data, resources, and applications to reside.

Beyond the core infrastructure, multiple layers of security are employed to protect all systems and data as appropriate. These include, but are not limited to, anti-virus software, host-based and network intrusion

The company has implemented recovery strategies to ensure a successful restoration of business after a disaster and from any location. These recovery strategies include geographically dispersed data centers and offices, remote access to critical applications, quarterly employee training and testing, and semi-annual disaster recovery testing.

Achievements and Goals Eze Castle Integration supports more than 650 clients around the world and is 100% committed to delivering superior and unmatched service that delights clients. Its core values support this commitment by reinforcing that the company must be fully accountable to all stakeholders-particularly clients and employees-while remaining focused on providing the best quality output.

“At Eze Castle Integration, we are excited about the future of the global technology industry and the role cloud services play,” asserts Bob Guilbert. Looking ahead, the exponential progression of technology and market shifts offer an infinite opportunity for innovation and growth, and Bob’s team looks forward to taking advantage of these as they expand their product offerings and continue to deliver innovative cloud solutions.

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Green House Data: Transforming the Cloud Services Landscape

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he business IT landscape is increasingly getting disrupted due to the onslaught of cloud, data science, artificial intelligence, and IoT adoptions on both consumer and enterprise sides. Hence, the talent community is keen on securing their career by moving to the cloud and other popular technology to ensure their employability for a decade or even more. While most IT service providers are still facing a dilemma to push cloud or push legacy and how much on which cloud, Green House Data is painlessly attracting top talents in the industry by offering a service focused, customizable cloud platform from their own data centers.

The company was founded in 2007 with a simple mission of providing the high-availability and raw power needed for the critical business infrastructure while remaining a transparent and a well-run company. The company is a boutique cloud provider which focuses on custom infrastructure solutions and great support. There is no “one size fits all” cloud. All of their IT solutions are designed individually for each customer.

Revolutionary Solutions & Services Green House Data delivers VMware cloud hosting, colocation, managed IT services, and disaster recovery solutions backed by 100% SLAs from highly secure, nationwide data centers.

Their services include: Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud IaaS, backup and BaaS, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Service, gBlock storage, gScale object storage, Security as a Service, Cloud Monitoring, patch and upgrade management, and enterprise application hosting (Office 365, SharePoint, etc.). Green House Data also offers an array of customizable DR solutions, DRaaS, inclusing regular failover testing to guarantee the efficacy of a DR event. Each DR solution is crafted around the

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customer’s ideal Recovery Time and Recovery Point to maximize business system availability and minimize storage and bandwidth costs. DRaaS from Green House Data is cost-effective, replicates faster, and offers improved recovery times in comparison to the competitors and traditional backup methods.

The company is passionate about sustainability, purchasing Renewable Energy Credits to support wind power generation and accounting for over 100% of the company’s annual energy consumption. Each data center facility is designed to be as energy efficient as possible, with PUEs as low as 1.14.

Clients facing compliance mandates or dealing with sensitive information often turn to Green House Data for compliance and security expertise. Every data center location is annually audited for SSAE 16 Type II and HIPAA compliance, and many customers maintain PCIDSS, GLB, or SOX compliance as well.

Meet the Maestro behind Green House Data Shawn Mills is a founding member of Green House Data and a technopreneur. Under his leadership, the company has undergone rapid expansion, launching cloud and colocation data centers coast-to-coast. Shawn has been chosen to speak at industry events and locations like Data Center World, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Cloud Computing Expo, and his writing has appeared in EdTech Magazine, Data Center Knowledge, and Manufacturing Digital.

Cloud Security as the Top-Most Priority Security in the cloud is extremely critical, and Green House Data monitors the gBlock Cloud on a 24/7/365 basis to guarantee accessibility and security. Security logs are collected and reviewed on a strict schedule. Intrusion

providers only secure up to the hypervisor level.

The gBlock Cloud is also available with Trend Micro Deep Security, one of the best products on the market for anti-malware, anti-virus, web reputation, integrity monitoring, and log inspection.

Dreaming Big, Achieving High “Green House Data has been a national provider for over five years, with facilities in Washington State, Oregon, Wyoming, New York, and New Jersey. The plan is to continue national expansion with the addition of new data centers and additional engineering staff throughout other markets across the United States,” said CEO Shawn Mills.

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Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS/IDS) are in place to catch unauthorized access before it happens or as early as possible. Every deployment undergoes a security audit

and hardening, with several available firewall products. Managed cloud servers include security features up through the virtual network and operating system level. Many other

Remarkable Examples of Successful Clientele With one of the lowest churn rates in the industry, many customers join Green House Data for the lifetime of their business.

Enterprises and the mid-market leverage the gBlock cloud, with all industries represented, including healthcare, energy, finance, IT services, developers, and manufacturers. Time and time again customers reference the customer service as the reason they choose Green House Data.

Here are few of them: “With some providers of IT services it can be a challenge, however, the team at Green House Data really does step up and do a great job for us,” said the Senior VP of IT at Blue Federal Credit Union.

“We did consider Amazon and Azure, but it was the personal touch in working with Green House Data that was the biggest driver,” said the COO of Association Voice.

“It has been rare that we’ve needed to call in for assistance, but every time we have, the response has been handled promptly and smoothly,” said a Systems Administrator at Trihydro.

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Are you staying in network secure zone? ne word can sum up the most common strategy for network defense - “boxy.” Building and maintaining a strong perimeter has a long and storied history. Consider a castle with its moat, high walls and drawbridge. That is how most networks are defended. In a box. Currently, the mentality is: “Do you want to protect a new system?” Put it inside the box. “Processing personal information?” Put it inside the box.

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This evolution started with the rise in mobile usage. Early on, traditional security teams focused efforts on stopping mobile usage. Eventually, they acquiesced and accepted mobile devices, but only those that were “approved.”

Ultimately, reason triumphed and mobile is now treated in a more logical fashion. While still four letters, “BYOD” is no longer a bad word. Unfortunately, we are now seeing the same cycle with cloud services.

While the “box” approach was successful in the past, it’s an antiquated model. And, while the conventional approach has been occupied with defending the castle from a ground attack, adversaries have deployed an air assault with the latest modern weapons.

Consumer is the new business

User’s choice Over the past decade, there has been a quiet revolution with how IT systems and services are used within organizations.

Fed up with a lack of options, viable solutions and a general disconnect with the business, users have taken matters into their own hands.

Consumer-focused services are making significant inroads into enterprises around the world. It is fairly common to see large volumes of outbound network traffic utilizing services such as Dropbox, Google Apps, Github or any number of other cloud-based applications. In fact, these services have begun to incorporate features and functionality specifically targeted to the size and scope of various business operations.

Think of this as a “bottom-up” approach. It is a sign that users in organizations are pushing technology adoption just as much - if not more - than a traditional “top-down” approach. Overall, this should be seen as a positive. The shift is now aligning IT with the actual focus of the organization. It is a move toward technology that works in the “real world,” instead of simply looking good “on paper.”

However, it’s not all unicorns and rainbows.

Crumbling walls While productivity might be up, it is extremely difficult to maintain a strong perimeter around this new blend of traditional, mobile and cloud infrastructure. There action to this is: “Then why try? Isn’t there a better approach?” This response is rational, but not the sentiment of a vast majority of the security industry.

Just as with mobile adoption, the common security response to cloud services is to attempt to block user’s access and, instead, guide them toward an “approved” (and typically less usable) server. That isn’t embracing reality and, quite simply, is no longer feasible.

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The architecture diagram for current networks no longer fits cleanly into a simple box. Trying to wedge it into one is counterproductive and can lead to frustration among employees. It is imperative to accept the fact that the perimeter as it has been known is now gone. Which leads to the core of the issue- what strategies can be adopted to defend today’s networks?

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First, it is important to understand that traditional controls still have a place in modern defense. There is a need for firewalls, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, filtering, etc.

These traditional elements serve as a strong component, but they play a smaller role and cannot be considered the endall, be-all of security. Instead of focusing on individual components of the network, it should be viewed according to the way specific data flows.

systems are controlled by the enterprise, some are not. With this view, the real challenge comes to the forefront - how can the safety of orders (items purchased, quantities, shipping info, etc.) and processing data be ensured by at least three different entities? In addition, payment information resides on at least two systems. How does that affect Payment Card Industry compliance? This is the level where security should be applied - and it must be acted upon holistically.

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Take a typical e-commerce transaction, for example: In a traditional approach, each of these systems would reside in relative isolation. First, there must be a firewall on the site and anti-malware so it is “secure.” Second, the shopping cart is delivered to the user via HTTPS so it is “secure.” Third, the payment information is encrypted, thus it is “secure.”

Finally, the shipping system is only internal so it is “secure” through access control.

While none of these controls are bad, they do not take into account the realities of today’s networks. Now, shopping carts are provided via PaaS, payments are provided via SaaS ans all shipping is done through a third-party API. These providers inherently change over time creating more variables and avenues for breaches.

Data flow In addition to adding basic security to each system or service, it is critical to examine how data flows. When a high-level view of data flow is incorporated into the typical e-commerce transaction, the following occurs: It is immediately apparent that there is a variety of information shared across multiple systems. Some of the

The top priority for security must be monitoring. It is clear that controlling every element of the network can be overwhelming. With the variety of services, endpoints and connections, the aforementioned “box” model has been demolished. Thus, the traditional perimeter is gone. What takes place in networks requires more transparency to read and react accordingly.

A modern monitoring practice not only pulls in log data from network devices and application servers (as has traditionally occurred), but also logs and reports from IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and mobile systems. This in itself cteates a new challenge with an immense amount of diverse data needing to be processed. Fortunately, “big data” analytics can be applied to resolve this issue.

There is very little value in denying where network infrastructure design, and access, is headed. The soundest strategy is to welcome this reality and work to increase security of the current network to focus on monitoring. It is essential to be cognizant of data workflows within the overall enterprise. Once that is established, taking steps to protect data, regardless of where it is stored and processed, is far less daunting.

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Why Cloud to Rule the Future?

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loud Computing has surprised us by its vast uses and it is getting bigger and bigger. Take a few examples- Unlimited storage of the emails for infinite time, 120 hours of videos every minute are getting uploaded on YouTube, and to support new smartphones, a server gets activated every 10 seconds and these are just a few uses of Cloud Computing.

The future has a great promise when it comes to the cloud.

No doubt, cloud computing has taken off in the recent years with business applications and new innovations. But knowing where will be the cloud computing by the end of the decade can be very useful to the organizations.

Cloud computing is a kind of computer hard drive with a difference of storing and accessing data over the internet.

When the data is stored on the hard drive, it’s called a local storage and computing. How will cloud computing evolve?

And how will it affect the future? Are some of the questions an organization aims to find out the answers to. Here are some predictions for the companies that look to cloud computing being cost-effective in a long-term.

More Application Availability in the Cloud It’s estimated that by the end of 2020, more than a quarter of all applications will be available on the cloud. More than 58 percent of the companies spend about 10 percent of their annual budget on the cloud, while about 56 percent of the companies think cloud to be a strategic differentiator. As researchers predicted, there will be about 8.2 billion active

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mobile devices by the end of the decade with more and more applications to follow. Applications will be made available on the cloud to build and deploy applications that would lead to better technology and faster response time.

Migration to Private Clouds with More Education Companies are starting to know the differences between public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Companies opting to stay with the shared clouds will have the risk of the slower performance and more security threats, which would result in the migration to private clouds in the future.

Increased Hybrid Cloud Computing Some industry leader predicts that about 50 percent of the companies will have hybrid clouds by 2017. As we see a number of companies are adopting cloud, we see CIOs are crafting new and well though strategies, which includes hybrid cloud. If it was possible, then everything available in the businesses would have moved to the cloud because of today’s complex environment. Which is why hybrid gives more reasons for businesses like on and off premises which allow organizations to achieve the highest performance of on-premises solutions and also cloud business model’s management convenience.

Increased Growth of Cloud in the Market The cloud has been developing over the years and will be accelerating globally in the future. Enterprises have been relying on the cloud to market, develop, and manage supply chains, sell products and more. Industry experts expect

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cloud adoption to hit USD 250 billion by 2017. They also expect that the worldwide SaaS (Software as a Service) would grow at an outstanding rate of 20.2 percent every year. With the kind of growth SaaS is promising; it will not be surprising to say that companies will be looking for Cloud Computing as a service.

Increased Cloud Development More development will be going to the cloud. As cloud computing is evolving, we can expect more and more developers going towards the cloud development. An 85 percent of the new applications are being built with the cloud in mind, which expect to major resources going towards the cloud development. Companies can expect an increase in the third party, commercial and enterprise developers and API exchanges. Cloud development will also give us more reasons to adopt it.

More Innovation Due to Cloud The cloud space has given way to better products, services, and innovation due to increased competition. The cloud will make the traditional phenomenon that refers to how companies required to become like the competitors in order to achieve high mainstream success. With the kind of

growth and innovation, the cloud has given to the industry so far, and it would be easy to say that more innovation will be made due to the cloud.

End of Traditional Infrastructure Due to the evolving features of the cloud, software can be expected to almost completely stay away from hardware, since many companies are starting to search many applications available online by eliminating the need to keep buying new servers. Companies can expect software applications to get more complex and larger for scalability.

The emphasis will be mostly on modular software since applications tend to get larger. The modular software will require a novel approach to the technology by saying goodbye to the traditional infrastructure.

The Cloud Computing is leading the industry towards the revolution and only those companies will survive who will adopt the cloud computing, ultimately Cloud will be ruling the future.

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he importance of IT services required by business centers cannot be undermined. Every business or company has some information technology needs, influenced by what the company does, the tools used, and the size of the company. Outsourcing I.T services is not only less expensive regarding operational costs and costs associated with training or certifying IT staff, but companies also enjoy round the clock tech services either by phone or through remote computer access from the service provider. Many smaller businesses go with outsourcing their IT support because it is cheaper than employing a full-time IT staff. Still, at the opposite end of the spectrum, several large-scale organizations, with permanent IT units, often strive to focus on the bigger picture of IT strategy as their internal resources are overwhelmed by routine, day-to-day activities. Integral Networks understands the modern IT needs of businesses.

Their vast knowledge of IT, coupled with an amazing team of highly qualified individuals provide everyday solutions and best in class services - removing every issue in an organization and adding back the comfort in knowing the most important part of the company is being well maintained and secure.

Microsoft coined the phrase “Cloud.” Over the last 12 years Integral Networks has grown in Cloud, Managed and business continuity services while maintaining a focus on their core services, now called Integral Workspace.

Integral Networks: “We are your IT Department” Integral Networks specializes in a broad range of services, including tailored IT services and solutions for businesses of any size. They are committed to providing each and every one of their clients with high-quality service and support. The company combines services in order to provide customized help and support to the clients. Their innovative approach starts with a thorough investigation of what a client’s company needs to succeed, ensuring a perfect fit with client’s company services. Integral offers Managed Services – managing all of IT services, Cloud Services which includes managing Cloud Workspaces and Virtual Servers and Backup and Disaster Recovery.

Meet the Integral Networks Honcho Bryan Badger, Founder and CEO of Integral Networks was born and raised in the Yuba City/Marysville area. In the late 90s, he relocated to the Folsom area to work for a small retail computer shop called Haldane Computers where he provided onsite support and consulting services to residential and business clients.

Integral employs multiple layers of security. Integral works with a service called Threat Stop, a real-time IP reputation list that is integrated into all of their core routers. This block’s known or suspected inbound attacks, and in the event, something internally does get compromised it blocks the call home. Integral also employs multiple layers of antivirus both at the network, hypervisor and server levels.

Integral has 2 Form Factor integrated into all of their cloud solutions, as well as they have, employed strict access rules for all engineering staff. All Internal access is audited quarterly, as well as, all client access is logged and flagged for review if it does not originate from a known destination.

Bryan founded Integral Networks in 2005 specifically to provide what they called Hosted Desktops, well before

Integral’s Front Runner Strategies Integral’s biggest key strategy vendor is Relationships.

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to their employees. Along with investing in their continued growth by training, Integral Networks provides them a great environment to come to work daily that they enjoy.

Marvelous Examples of Satisfied and Successful Clienteles Across the board, Integral’s clients love them and continually praise them for their exceptional service. “We believe in treating our clients the way we’d want to be treated, to provide them with red carpet service and develop relationships with each of them as we would with our friends,” expounds Bryan.

Their clients continually recommend them to others which are the basis of their company’s outstanding growth over the past 11 years. Here’s what a few have to say: “I appreciate the follow-up call and detailed voice message. Thank you!” - says Mogavero Architects.

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They are very tightly intertwined with Citrix, Atlantis Computing, and Dell.

Deep vendor relationships allow them to get early access and conversations around new technologies and trends that they are seeing and developing.

Integral always has a step ahead of their competitors.

“Thank you for the fast, friendly and patient service, as usual,” - says Electronic Scrip Incorporated.

“My experience was great! I am always pleased with the assistance that I get!” - says Lake Wildwood Association.

“My request was expedited very quickly, and I was called with an explanation,” - says Meridian Worldwide Transportation Group.

Flourishing Future Integral’s future road map will include further collaboration with its key vendors for its cloud services. Bryan assures that the company will continue to grow and increase their user base on their cloud services.

Integral’s goal is to increase staff by 10 times in the next five years.

“Our 2nd biggest strategy is our employees,” says Bryan which states www.integralnetworks.com that the Integral’s success is attributed

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IoT Business Will Boost The Economy In The Next Decades -By José Antônio Scodiero, Director & Founding Partner of FAST COMPANY BRAZIL

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he world of the Internet of Things promises to be the main engine of the global economy in the next years. In developing countries, such as Brazil, the opportunities will be even bigger.

Considering the size of the local market and the pressing need that Brazil has in increasing the innovation rhythm, technology usage and development, the country can already be seen as a big global player by companies from this sector. In this moment, the more accurate motto for companies that want to act or are acting in Brazil is “Innovate or Die.” After a cycle of more than 10 years of continuous growth, that put the country in evidence on the global landscape as part of the select group of so-called BRICs (Brasil, Russia, India and China) and that stressed even more its leadership in Latin America, Brazil is now entering, in the past two years, a moment of political tension that has reflected directly in the economy. The moment now is of reviewing and restructuring. But in spite of the perception of some foreign executives and entrepreneurs that this is not a good time to invest in the country, it is clear that Brazil had a virtuous cycle of many years and reached a higher level.

All this indicates that, for sure, not all is lost. Far from it. The time is for opportunities.

With the stabilization of the smartphone market, there’s a great potential for the technology industry - especially in the semiconductors area - in business

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involving connected cars, agriculture, livestock, smart cities, among others.

To fully use this opportunities, it is necessary to understand in which ways it is possible to develop the best technological solutions to different regions. And the solutions to problems from different countries can only be found locally.

for smartphones. Therefore, it is less costly to invest in IoT.

In the technology world, the innovation chain has inverted itself recently, with the large domain of big multinational companies giving space to startups and new entrepreneurs. This movement creates a pulverization of opportunities. It is no longer something Investing in the right time and in the concentrated, in the domain of few big players like it used to be. There is right moment Despite the low participation of Brazil space for companies from outside the country and also for the appearance of in the semiconductors industry, the country has a great potential to use the new local players that can learn and develop their own systems and foment Internet of Things and to develop in this sector. It is a field in which no one the industry. has the advantage yet: we are, The technology giants, that lost a wave theoretically, in the same level as United States and China. Besides that, of opportunities that emerged with the mobile business (smartphones, tablets a chip to a sensor for IoT is cheaper and M2M), now are moving rapidly so and easier to develop than one made

CXO Standpoint

José Antônio Scodiero Director - Founding Partner of FAST COMPANY BRAZIL With over 30 years of experience in areas like information technology, personal computing, semiconductors, entrepreneurship and startups, José Antônio Scodiero has already acted as a high level executive in several big and successful international corporations like: IBM; Apple Computer; OkiData, where he was president of the Brazilian subsidiary, and more recently; AMD, leader in the semiconductors segment, where he held the position of Vice-President for the Latin America region. José Antônio Scodiero is graduated in Electronics Engineering with specialization in hardware and microelectronics and has an MBA in Corporate Administrations by Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP).

José Antônio Scodiero Director - Founding Partner

they don’t miss out on the opportunities that the IoT segment will bring. There are several examples in this direction and IBM is one of them, since its announcement, in December of 2015, to return to the consumer electronics market, ten years after selling its computer division to the Chinese Lenovo. The problem is that there are a lot of companies, big and small, repeating the same strategies in the search of its own space in the technology market. This needs to change. The motto “Innovate or Die” also needs to be applied in the planning.

IoT as a transforming agent of an economy As well as in great transformations of the past, the revolution caused by IoT will change the entire landscape of the career scenario. It is estimated that in time, it will be possible to see 20 to 30 million jobs migrate, and some functions might disappear, thanks to robotics, intelligent machines and artificial intelligence (AI), that will infiltrate in new corporate areas and automate the positions that are

As an entrepreneur, he founded lots of startup companies since the 90’s, having created his first company when he was only 24 years old. In 2009 he founded Fast Company Brazil, with the objective of catapulting multinational organizations, from sectors like digital technology, semiconductors and software that are seeking to install subsidiaries in the Brazilian and Latin American markets.

In 2010 he obtained the certification of Corporate Governance from the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC) and started acting as a consulting advisor in companies in 2011. In 2012, he became president of the task force of semiconductors of AMCHAM - American Chamber for Brazil and USA. Still in 2012, Scodiero was also elected Director of SBMICRO - Brazilian Society of Microelectronics, where he remains until the end of 2016. repetitive and transitional.

But what it seems like bad news is in fact a readaptation, from work stations focused on operational to opportunities in areas that demands data analysis, ability to solve problems, think creatively, innovate and work within a team. Nothing too distant from the profile that today is comprehended as a good professional. It is an evolutionary movement, driven by technology.

If the job openings in operational work stations tend to drop, the opportunities to professionals that seek qualification and even reinvention will grow a lot. It is a market that, according to IDC, will grow about US$1, 7 trillion until 2020. This amount needs, and will be, shared among the professionals that manage to keep up with the demands of the market.

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A Glimpse into the Era of

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oday, much like electricity, one can easily access any kind of information through internet whenever they need. All this became possible just because of cloud computing. This new cost-effective as well as an environment friendly methodology for both users as well as service providers is a win-win solution.

Irrespective of the core competency of one’s business, Information Technology (IT) is becoming ubiquitous. But, queries on the acquisition and management of IT systems still baffle several business owners. This newest methodology Cloud Computing has made their lives more comfortable and easier by enabling the user to access IT solutions remotely whenever required.

Clearance of the Cloud Being an Internet-based computing solution, Cloud, on demand denotes a set of shared resources, software and information provided to computer devices. Over the network, information tasks are assigned through a combination of connections, service and software in the cloud.

This on-demand approach to IT resources can be laid down for use with infrastructure, applications or platforms. Also, customers can avail fixed plans, by which there is a flat fee and their data center is managed by the company or they can go for a variable plan where on virtual machines they can access the solutions online and pay per use. Reducing the energy costs for running and cooling hardware, there is a need for reduction in hardware components as an

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incidental benefit in various companies. Furthermore, as this process reduces carbon dioxide emissions, it is more eco-friendly.

Universal Acceptance Over the next five years, International Data Corporation (IDC) is expecting global spending on IT cloud services to grow almost threefold. And the pace with which expenditure is done on cloud computing will be accelerated, capturing 25% of the growth than in the earlier years. The cloud market is estimated to grow up to 1 billion dollars in India.

Especially, concept of cloud is favorable for the small as well as medium enterprises as tremendous cost cutting in IT is enabled through this. Today, it has seen demand from the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) segment, from online media companies, trading companies and manufacturing companies. This estimates that SaaS (software-as-a-service) market to grow by 35% from the current million dollars. The IaaS (Infrastructure-as-aService) market is at 3-4 million dollars currently and is expected to grow with 50-60% growth rate. Although different studies give different estimates, but this will be the upcoming market trend.

Also, it is believed that this concept will spread across segments. As this shared computing resource is percolating to healthcare industries, banking, BPO and finance segments while startups and SMEs are becoming aggressive about it.

Highlights

Accruing BeneďŹ ts Cloud computing provides various advantages to its users.

Firstly, it helps in conserving energy so it is eco-friendly. It minimizes the expenditure on IT infrastructure and also it beneďŹ ts cost economy and resources. Additionally, pooling of resources is leading to load balancing, superior performance and entire use of server capacity.

Accessing solutions remotely indicate that the user can be found anywhere. These processes of remote access help in strengthening the security and monitoring systems. Since, virtual memory systems are running simultaneously, breakdown does not affect operations as service providers stack multiple virtual machines.

Also, it enables the IT head to keep focus on strategies that are aligning IT usage to company requirements.

Way Forward Over the years, cloud computing has given a paradigm shift from the way IT has been used till now. Its nascent stages

are still prevailing, but, the service providers are optimistic based on their own experience. For example, in May 2008, NetMagic within 8 to 9 months of launching Cloud 1.0 acquired 100 customers. And in next year by September 2009, the company experienced 400% growth by launching their Cloud 2.0 virtual machine model. According to the resources, cloud computing contributes 10% of NetMagic’s revenues to the tune of about 4 to 5 million dollars.

In addition to building its own products, CA Technologies formerly known as Computer Associates International has also acquired several companies including NetQoS, Oblicore and 3Tera to enter into new and adjacent markets, substantially upgrading existing offerings to its clients. This segment is not only generating substantial interest amongst users and service providers but also these are the examples of IT companies wanting to come on board the cloud wagon. Alike as this presents each with a viable solution to their business needs. Indeed, cloud computing promises to be the next big thing in IT.

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Fastest Growing

Cloud Solution Provider Companies

SYSPRO: Simplifying Your Success

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good ‘Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),’ portrays the systematic workings and process of the company. It facilitates all the procedures of the company and integrates all aspects, leading to better visibility, better operations and and improved bottom-line.

For startups, implementing an ERP solution acts as a milestone, because the need of ERP is realized when company’s operations bloom beyond traditional manageable ways.

SYSPRO is an ERP solutions and services provider who has created a strong footprint in the market because of its customer-oriented solutions and innovative technology.

With nearly four decades of experience in the manufacturing and distribution ERP marketplace, SYSPRO has over 1,600 ERP Partners, more than15,000 customers and have achieved an impressive 98% customer retention rate. SYSPRO has a fully-document award winning implementation methodology and their software is available in the cloud, on-premise or via mobile device.

A Driving Force Behind SYSPRO’s Technology Brian Stein is CEO of SYSPRO USA, is charged with making final decisions in the best interests of the company on matters such as organizational structure, competitive positioning, ethics and transparency, financial management and technological direction.

Stein’s background includes over 30 years’ computer

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software experience, much of which has been involved with comprehensive manufacturing and distribution software systems. His footprint in the software community has established him as an influential and innovative leader, which has been a driving force behind SYSPRO’s growth in the industry.

SYSPRO ERP Software SYSPRO has only one product: SYSPRO ERP Software.

The current version they are providing is SYSPRO 7.

Having just one product which delivers unlimited solutions allows the SYSPRO team to focus completely on enabling customers to leverage the powerful technology within the solution.

Sold in Modules SYSPRO ERP is sold in modules, allowing customers to select only the modules that they require upfront.

Customers can add modules to their system as their company grows and requirements change. The modules cover every aspect of Finance, Manufacturing and Distribution, as well as advanced reporting capabilities, planning and automated workflows. Therefore, systems can be as basic or advanced as the customer’s needs demand.

Deployment The product offered by SYSPRO can be deployed onpremise or in the cloud. Cloud ERP Solutions for SYSPRO allows customers to benefit from the full functionality that

also gives the client the freedom to fully customize without the help of a developer.

Leveraging Technology to Enhance User-Interface Stein, along with his team, always has an eye on customer feedback, which helps them to continually enhance the system. This ensures their customers have access to the latest advancements in technology when they need it.

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We provide a solution that is easy to adopt and intuitive to use, putting you in complete control of your business

this software has to offer without having to purchase and maintain the entire IT infrastructure. Clients just simply need to pay a regular subscription for the use of the system.

SYSPRO also provides mobile product offering, SYSPRO Espresso, which provide clients real-time access to their business information at any time, from their preferred mobile device. Espresso

Stein and his team also understand that data is the lifeblood of the organization and the integrity and security of that data is a top priority. Hence, SYSPRO incorporates system-wide facilities aimed at securing the system from unauthorized access. Over and above this, security can be set throughout the system by the operator or by role.

Securities can also be set per operator against transactions, activities and even fields.

Maintaining a fair Margin from the Competitors SYSPRO powerful technology and commitment to customers has already made them a leading ERP solution, and they maintain a fair margin from the competitors with their services like SYSPRO BusinessLive which is a monthly subscription-based option that provides the full SYSPRO ERP solution, delivered via the cloud. They also have Managed Services-IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), which is a rental option on only the hardware, i.e. client would be responsible for the purchase, licensing and maintenance of the software.

Overall, SYSPRO is an impressive company with a strong, innovative product that enables customers to stay competitive within their own industries.

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Yardi Systems: Innovation. Experience.

Customer Focus.

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loud technology has changed the world by reducing the necessity of data storage equipment and providing flexibility and easy access for both personal and professional endeavors. As a result, cloudfirst strategies have impacted nearly every industry. Cloud and mobile technology enables users to get a rich experience of wireless technology in real time. Yardi Systems is leveraging cloud technology to enhance both the consumer and professional experience with real estate engagement. The real estate industry is vast and diverse.

Yardi is equipped with the resources to upgrade the technological aspect of nearly every real estate vertical.

A Company Applying Technology in Real Estate With the mission to provide clients with superior products and outstanding customer service, Yardi Systems has delivered technology based solutions to the real estate industry since 1984. What began as simple “out of the box” DOS property management and accounting software has sinced evolved into cloud-based mobile platforms for real estate. The software developer leverages its cloud technology to offer full business solutions for every real estate market, including multifamily, single family, affordable, public, senior and military housing as well as office, industrial, retail, and self storage market segments.

management software that features a single database and works with any browser. Yardi Genesis2™ is Yardi’s costeffective Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that combines the client’s operational and accounting data in one system with mobile access anywhere with an internet connection.

With Genesis2, clients can manage several rental property types on one platform, including residential, commercial, condo and HOA, self storage, and mixed portfolios.

Yardi Voyager Yardi Voyager® is a fully integrated end-to-end platform with mobile access for larger portfolios to manage operations, execute leasing, run analytics, and provide innovative resident, tenant, and investor services.

With a solution and “single-stack” product suite designed for every real estate market including commercial (office, retail, industrial), multifamily, affordable, senior, public and military housing, Voyager helps clients to meet all their property management and accounting needs using a single database to run their entire business.

Furthermore, Voyager automates workflows and provides system-wide transparency that enable clients to work more productively and collaboratively than ever before. Using any browser, Voyager gives them instant access to their data.

Yardi has two platforms to choose from, the Yardi Genesis2™ platform for smaller real estate firms and the more comprehensive Yardi Voyager® platform for mid to large sized property owners, managers, and investors. Both platforms include accounting, operations, and ancillary processes with mobility for residential and commercial portfolios.

And as SaaS platforms, Voyager and Genesis2 frees clients from managing the technology, so they can focus on their business, with confidence in Yardi’s 99.5% up time.

Yardi Genesis2 Genesis2 is exclusively developed for companies with small to mid-size portfolios. It streamlines property management and accounting with rental property

Initiator and Developer of Yardi Anant Yardi, Founder and President of Yardi Systems, in 1982, recognized the need for an integrated accounting and property management software for the residential

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company through over 30 years of steady growth, remaining the President and sole owner as Yardi Systems became a leader in real estate asset and property management solutions.

Anant Yardi

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For every real estate market, we are committed to providing industry-leading asset and property management software solutions that allow our clients the opportunity to consolidate operations on a single platform. This way they can take advantage of the benets of having all business data in one place, from the standpoint of efciency, business intelligence, customer service and cost

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marketplace. As the director of systems development for Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys) and with 14 years of programming experience, he was confident to design such a product.

In 1984, “Basic Property Management” was created for the Apple II computer and was sold to his first customer, Sabaco Realtors. Since then, Mr. Yardi has directed the

Today, Mr. Yardi continues to serve as President of Yardi Systems, and his vision is the driving force behind the development of effective and innovative software solutions for global real estate portfolio management.

He has been recognized as one of the early pioneers in the commercial real estate automation industry, a “visionary in respect to automation systems and the resultant benefits in property operations,” according to Realcomm, when they honored him with the distinguished “Digie” award. He was inducted into the Multi-Housing News “Hall of Fame” the same year, and his company continues to receive industry accolades.

Mr. Yardi has earned an M.A. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and worked for 14 years developing programming methodologies and directing systems development at Burroughs Corporation prior to establishing Yardi Systems.

Future of Real Estate Technology Under Anant Yardi’s leadership, Yardi Systems continues to develop and deliver software and services with the highest commitment to quality, innovation, responsiveness, and customer focus. With over 30 offices, 12 data centers and 5,100 employees worldwide, Yardi is ideally suited to help its client effectively manage their portfolios more efficiently and competitively.

Yardi works with clients who own and manage many types of real estate, from Commercial (office, retail, warehouse) to Multifamily (apartments, condos, affordable housing, military housing), Senior Living to Self Storage. With the large spectrum of clientele, Yardi has successfully responded to the shift to Cloud and mobile technology and is well positioned to continue their history of adapting technology trends to equip the real estate industry.

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