Author: James Stickles

Greatresponder.com on Nov 02, 2012: The result of a merger between New Zealand Web hosting and cloud service provider, ICONZ, and its Singapore counterpart Webvisions, the company unveiled its new branding this week. ICONZ-Webvisions currently employs some 200 staff and has multiple hosting presences in more than 15 cities across 7 countries–Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and India. Its data centers serve more than 600 business customers in cloud hosting and managed services, said Peter Hendry, CTO of ICONZ-Webvisions, who sat in on the same interview. He added the company is partnering with Hewlett-Packard to offer cloud infrastructure products, while VMware and Microsoft are the notable software partners the company is working with.

Poh said: “Advanced hosting includes cloud hosting, dedicated servers, collocation, and managed services. The move allows ICONZ-Webvisions to harness the core competencies of both companies, and deliver consistency in services and seamless experience to our customers across every single country in the region.” Speaking to ZDNet Asia in an interview Wednesday, Poh Mui Hoon, group CEO of ICONZ-Webvisions, said one of her main goals following the merger would be to bring together the staff from both entities and tap their core competencies. In doing so, the company will now focus its energies on the “advanced hosting” part of the business.

The result of a merger between New Zealand-based Web hosting and cloud service provider, ICONZ, and its Singapore counterpart Webvisions, the company unveiled its new branding this week. ICONZ-Webvisions will now focus on providing cloud services to independent software vendors (ISVs) and midsize companies in Asia to grow its business.

China, especially, is an “interesting” market given its growth rate in cloud adoption. Citing a KPMG report, Poh said the Asian powerhouse only makes up 3 percent of the global cloud market, but this will rise to 19 percent in the coming years. Poh added while China only contributes some 5 percent of the company’s revenues today, it is likely to grow to 30 percent in the next five years. E-commerce and online games operators are two potential customer demographics in the Chinese market she said would help boost uptake of cloud services, particularly for IaaS offerings to power their online portals.

 

It was further informed in the statement that cloud best practice networks invested a huge time of more than three years to develop this cloud revenue program for the prospective web hosting service providers. They researched on different aspects and technicalities of the customers from many sectors like governmental organizations, enterprise sector, health care and SMB sector etc.

In the statement, it was also informed that “cloud best practice network is aiming to build knowledge base of cloud best practices that underpin a consulting and solutions program that assists customers to migrate successfully and profitably to cloud computing.”

In his website statement, Mr. Neil McEvoy, Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Best Practices Network said, “lthough the Cloud hype has been deafening, the reality is that it has yet to turn into meaningful revenue streams for hosting providers. Many are still focused mainly on traditional co-location and dedicated web hosting. The CBPN Cloud Revenues Program is a significant step forward in identifying the new services that will meet that need.”

This forum or the program of different cloud hosting vendors would focus on different aspects of support to the web hosting companies operating on the marketplace; this program would include technical support, template development, cloud migration professional services and many others.

It was further told in the statement that the strongest point of Savvis cloud services is its Symphony data bases, which provide the customers great flexibility and freedom to choose from the most exciting and effective databases of the globe like Oracle and SQL servers. Customers can choose any suitable database form these two popular database software in the industry of information technology.  This move came after about one month time of launching of Frankfurt data center by this cloud hosting company. Cloud hosting Savvis is expanding its operational footprints across the globe very aggressively. Provisioning of Symphony cloud database is one of the steps towards international expansion of the cloud services of Savvis hosting.

In his official statement Mr. Neil Cresswell, the managing director for EMEA region at Savvis said, “Savvis clients choose Symphony Database because its quick availability, pay-as-you-go model and instant scalability translates into reduced database expenses and complexity. We bring Savvis’ mission-critical expertise to the Symphony Database, providing performance levels and availability on par with your traditional data center.”

It was further informed that the customers have options to choose the suitable hardware for their services for; they can choose either Oracle Enterprise 11G RAC or MS SQL Server 2008 R. It was also maintained that these symphony database services would be provided from Borough UK data center to their customers in European area.