The Company will offer a variety of offerings and solutions to help clients accelerate their AI Journey

WinWire, a leading Microsoft Solutions Partner, announced the launch of its Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) to empower businesses to adapt this emerging technology in more agile and efficient ways.

Through its CoE, WinWire is launching an industry-leading 20 Generative AI Azure Marketplace Offerings, which provides numerous pathways for Enterprises and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) looking to adopt a Generative AI strategy. As inputs for its CoE strategy, WinWire has spoken with more than 600 executives in 2023, through a series of engaging and informative webinars on Generative AI, along with a recently completed AI in Healthcare Roadshow with Microsoft.

"At WinWire, we firmly believe that the technology industry is at an inflection point and Generative AI will transform businesses. Our mission is to guide our clients through understanding this technology and exploring the opportunities that make sense for them. Our investment in a Generative AI Center of Excellence reflects our passion for purpose-driven innovation and our unwavering pursuit of technology leadership," said Ashu Goel, CEO, WinWire.

"We believe that embracing cutting-innovative technologies such as Azure OpenAI services is the key to empowering businesses and fostering unparalleled growth. By responsibly integrating Generative AI into various business processes, we will enable enterprises to make data-driven decisions, improve efficiency, automate complex tasks and deliver personalized customer experiences," said Vineet Arora, CTO, WinWire.

WinWire and Generative AI

WinWire empowers businesses to kickstart their transformative journey with Generative AI. The company partners with Microsoft on their Azure OpenAI focus and has held joint webinars with Microsoft experts on topics such as the Power of Generative AI, the Generative AI based Copilot Framework, and Responsible Generative AI. 

Enhanced collaboration will expand cloud engineering capabilities to help global clients scale cloud-native development and solve complex business challenges with AI.

EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, today announced a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help enterprises solve complex business challenges, drive growth, and scale innovation through cutting-edge cloud solutions, services, and strategies. The agreement will focus on accelerating modernization, adopting cloud-native architecture, and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics to create customer value in key industries, including healthcare, life sciences, financial services, insurance, energy and gaming.

While cloud transformation has grown vital for achieving business success, many organizations encounter challenges in managing the complexity of cloud operations. This SCA leverages EPAM's 30 years of experience in engineering, consulting, and software development paired with AWS's solutions to help clients address cloud complexity and expand capabilities with greater agility, efficiency, and speed to achieve business outcomes. To help organizations modernize and become cloud-native, EPAM will build new offerings and products to support AWS-based business solutions and data platforms, as well as advance AI and machine learning capabilities.

"We're excited to expand our work with AWS to help our clients transform into adaptive, cloud-native organizations and stay competitive in a quickly evolving digital landscape," said Elaina Shekhter, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at EPAM. "Building on more than a decade of collaboration, we are able to further deliver advanced cloud capabilities and unique end-to-end experiences through our global team of expert consultants, designers and engineers."

As a part of the agreement, EPAM will establish a dedicated AWS Center of Excellence built on its more than 15,000 AWS experts who hold 5,000 AWS certifications. The SCA furthers EPAM's decade-long collaboration with AWS and has allowed EPAM to streamline the process of building infrastructure, applications and business platforms for clients while mitigating business risks.

"There has never been a greater time to bring operational efficiency to the resource-constrained healthcare industry. At XSOLIS, we rely on EPAM's expertise to help us leverage our AI-driven technology more rapidly and effectively to eliminate administrative waste and accelerate data-driven decision-making across our connected network of providers and payers," said Zach Evans, Chief Technology Officer at XSOLIS. "The expanded collaboration between EPAM and AWS empowers us to offer a more robust solution, leveraging cutting-edge cloud-native capabilities. This collaboration will positively impact our mission to create a frictionless healthcare system, with efficiency gains that benefit providers, payers and patients alike."

"EPAM has a proven track record of helping global enterprises accelerate digital transformation and navigate their cloud journeys to gain a competitive advantage," said Chris Sullivan, Vice President, Worldwide System Integrators at AWS. "Together, EPAM and AWS can help clients further modernize their businesses, applications and software to become faster and more efficient." 

As an end-to-end provider of digital transformation services with more than 50,000 team members across 50+ countries, EPAM delivers innovative cloud-enabled AI, data modernization, migration, data, and analytics solutions to many Forbes Global 2000 organizations around the world.

Thomas Collins , former COO of Accion Labs and former leader of GlobalLogic, takes over

Marlabs Innovation LLC., the global digital solutions company, today announced the addition of Thomas Collins as its new CEO. He brings 28 years of experience in various leadership positions in global companies. Prior to Marlabs, Collins was COO of Accion Labs and worked successfully at Accenture, Siemens, Atos and GlobalLogic. He is also the co-founder of AppliLog, a supply chain management software company, and Customer Experts, a business development consulting company. The company's co-founder and current CEO, Siby Vadakekkara, will become president.

Collins' appointment comes after an extensive search to recruit an exceptional leader who resonates with Marlabs' cultural values. Siby said: "I congratulate Tom on his new role. Throughout his career, he has been instrumental in formulating go-to-market strategies, winning notable clients and transforming teams into hyper-growth organizations. I am sure "Tom's experience in scaling digital engineering companies and helping clients drive transformation initiatives will accelerate our growth ambitions while delivering compelling value to our clients."

Recognized in the industry for his strategic leadership, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills, Collins holds a diploma in business administration from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

"It is an honor and a great responsibility to lead Marlabs," said Collins. "I was attracted to Marlabs' exceptional customer base and reputation for accelerating enterprise digital transformations. I would like to especially thank Siby and Matt Kinsey , managing partner of Marlabs investor BV Investment Partners, for trusting me to take on this role," Collins stated about his appointment.

Marlabs has continued on an accelerated growth path since its partnership with BV Investment Partners, and continues to provide high-value, high-impact services to clients in the pharmaceutical and life sciences, manufacturing and retail, as well as banking and insurance sectors. It acquired Extentor Tquila in 2015 to strengthen the capabilities of its Salesforce platform and earlier this year announced its expansion into LATAM with the acquisition of Monitora Soluções Tecnológica, based in Brazil, which will allow it to access new markets to grow, offering close capabilities. to shore customers while deepening technological capabilities.

Kyndryl, the world's largest technology infrastructure services provider, today announced the availability of new services for financial services organizations seeking to use Google Cloud to safely store and protect their confidential and sensitive data. Kyndryl's new services are designed to enable a unified, scalable and security-rich data platform to support customers' regulatory and compliance activities and requirements.

Kyndryl developed the new services on Google Cloud's reference architecture for financial services, with a focus on automation, security, and making compliance easier for customers. Customers can utilize Google Cloud's security solutions, such as Confidential Computing to encrypt their confidential data and Google Cloud Security Command Center to identify vulnerabilities and detect threats.

Kyndryl's financial services implementation for Google Cloud is tailored to meet the unique requirements and compliance standards of the financial industry. The new services feature many capabilities and differentiators essential to helping banks and financial institutions digitally modernize, including Kyndryl Consult architects and engineers; Kyndryl's experienced developer and delivery teams; Kyndryl Cloud Native Managed Services; and Kyndryl compliance and security expertise.

With its modular, industry experience-based approach designed for cloud security and privacy, Kyndryl is partnering with Google Cloud to meet the needs of financial services customers via an industry cloud approach that overcomes the inadequate and limited capabilities of generic services.

"We have developed innovative services with advanced security capabilities to help financial services organizations plan and implement their data and application environment in Google Cloud," said Meenagi Venkat, Vice President, Kyndryl Consult, Cloud. "Kyndryl brings 30+ years of experience with designing, building and managing mission-critical IT infrastructures to provide customers what they need to run and transact their businesses in the cloud with confidence and security."

"Services partners like Kyndryl provide the ongoing expertise and resources that many enterprises need for large-scale digital transformation projects," said Benjie Harrison, Director of Global Alliances, Google Cloud. "Kyndryl will now provide financial services companies with new solutions that apply Google Cloud's trusted infrastructure and security tools to help customers achieve their business transformation goals."

Kyndryl designed its financial services capabilities to take advantage of the Google Cloud security features and services that the financial services industry requires and relies upon, including:

• Confidential Computing for core financial services that encrypts data during processing to help prevent unauthorized access to the data.
• Google Cloud Sensitive Data Protection provides tools to discover, classify and mask sensitive data to help prevent it from being used in analytics or training of AI/ML models.
• Security Command Center (SCC) to maintain and govern regulatory and security compliance and provide rapid alerts on non-compliance, as well as remediation guidance.

To enable a rapid and smooth transition to Google Cloud for financial services customers, Kyndryl has focused on key enablers, such as an industry-specific design that accelerates onboarding. The services enable customers to adopt modern operations practices such as Infrastructure as code (IaC) and can be adapted to specific customer requirements and local regulatory requirements and helps customers confidently and securely build and solve business challenges.

Kyndryl also applied its deep industry expertise and cloud native capabilities to create dynamic financial services based on an operating model that continuously governs and optimizes performance, aligns cloud pricing and spend with business outcomes, and provides composable cloud services that facilitate faster solutioning and time to revenue.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure options offer customers more choice and control for their cloud deployments

Oracle announced that it has been named a Leader by Gartner in the 2023 "Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure." The report evaluated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offerings in this area, including OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Alloy, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer.

OCI's distributed cloud portfolio meets customers' diverse needs by providing flexibility and choice with a wide range of deployment models, including multicloud, hybrid, public, and dedicated cloud offerings. OCI delivers a consistent experience across its distributed cloud by offering more than 100 cloud services with the same pricing and service level agreements. This enables customers — including those in highly regulated markets such as financial services, healthcare, communications, and government — to meet practically any use case with OCI, including enterprise applications, cloud native application development, analytics, AI, IoT, and more.

"OCI's distributed cloud is designed to give customers as much choice as possible in where and how they deploy cloud services," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Customers trust OCI to run their most demanding workloads and applications, including in their own data centers. OCI has been managing distributed hybrid infrastructure at thousands of customer locations across the globe, starting with Exadata Cloud@Customer in 2016, and we've continued to innovate with OCI Dedicated Regions in production at customer locations today."

Introduced as an industry first in 2019, OCI Dedicated Region offers the full set of OCI capabilities and SaaS applications in customers' data centers, and it enables customers to customize cloud operations and connectivity to address their regulatory requirements. Oracle's Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer offerings further extend OCI services to customers' data centers. Oracle partners can leverage Oracle Alloy, an award-winning cloud infrastructure platform, to build and deliver customized services to capitalize on the unprecedented growth opportunities of the cloud.

OCI's multicloud capabilities, including Oracle Database@Azure and MySQL HeatWave on AWS, enable customers to select the best cloud provider for their applications and databases. Via its public cloud, OCI operates 46 cloud regions across 23 countries, including an EU Sovereign Cloud to address EU data residency and data sovereignty requirements.

With up to 43% of cyberattacks targeting small businesses, the Qualys solution is a SMB- and SME-focused package offering vulnerability, patch and EDR capabilities in AWS Marketplace

Qualys, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, today announced the availability of its award-winning VMDR TruRisk, FixIT and ProtectIT capabilities in AWS Marketplace priced and packaged for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs).

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes it easy to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Qualys offering will help SMBs and SMEs get the most out of their cybersecurity budgets by reducing cyber risk across their infrastructure and driving business growth.

"The unified workflow of VMDR and Patch Management helps my team to detect, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities more quickly," said Gregg Neveu, Security Program Director at Act-On Software. "With Qualys security solutions now in AWS Marketplace, I can consolidate all my security solutions in one convenient market for ease of procurement and payment."

The package includes vulnerability, patch and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) capabilities. Customers will be able to access three of Qualys' award-winning products via a single engine:

• VMDR TruRisk – Brings the power of Qualys Cloud Platform and the capabilities of VMDR to small and medium-sized businesses. With VMDR TruRisk, smaller organizations can now access enterprise-grade asset visibility, vulnerability management, risk assessment, and prioritized remediation workflows.
  
  
• VMDR TruRisk FixIT – Provides all the benefits of VMDR TruRisk as well as Qualys Patch Management for risk-based detection and remediation. With VMDR TruRisk FixIT, customers can prioritize vulnerabilities and automate patching based on business criticality.
  
  
• VMDR TruRisk ProtectIT – Delivers all the benefits of VMDR TruRisk FixIT plus additional machine learning-based anti-malware and threat protection layered with business context via Qualys Multi-Vector EDR.

"Many smaller businesses don't have the budgets or personnel necessary to support an enterprise-grade cyber risk management program," said Pinkesh Shah, Chief Product Officer, Qualys. "By working with AWS to offer Qualys TruRisk SME- and SMB-focused packages, we can help companies access the security expertise they need to combat the growing risks of ransomware and stay compliant with regulations such as PCI, HIPPA, GDPR, and more."

Additionally, Qualys leverages AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to contrast and deploy its awarding-winning deep learning artificial intelligence (AI)-based threat detection platform. The Qualys deep learning AI built on AWS is the core AI platform used through the Qualys Cloud Platform. Using AWS, Qualys can scale its deep learning AI infrastructure to meet the needs of its large customer base.

On-Ramp Provides Modern Enterprises with Additional Avenue for Connectivity to Oracle Cloud Phoenix Region

Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced an expansion to its robust FlexAnywhere™ Platform with an additional Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect on-ramp for the Oracle Cloud Phoenix Region, providing direct and reliable access to OCI. This announcement follows Flexential's previous integration with OCI and the major expansion of the FlexAnywhere Platform earlier this year.

"As a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork and since the inception of Flexential Cloud Fabric in 2021, our commitment has been to expand boundaries and enable businesses to achieve more," said Ryan Mallory, chief operating officer, Flexential. "With this new on-ramp to the Oracle Cloud Phoenix Region, we are once again making it straightforward for our customers, whether they're longstanding members of our FlexAnywhere Platform across our 41 data centers or new entrants, to directly connect to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."

As enterprises rapidly adopt multi-cloud solutions, the demand for reliable network access to cloud data and applications has skyrocketed. The Flexential Cloud Fabric, coupled with Flexential's collaboration with OCI, addresses this demand head-on. It offers businesses the ability to craft direct, private, and ultra-responsive connections to OCI.

"By coupling this with OCI FastConnect on-ramps in key regions like Ashburn, VA, San Jose, CA, and Chicago, IL – and now Phoenix, AZ – we're ensuring that Oracle customers, no matter where they are stationed, can access their vital cloud data with unparalleled reliability," Mallory added.

Flexential's Cloud Fabric solution has enabled businesses like Core Health & Fitness to rapidly scale their IT infrastructure and grow their business. "Flexential has been pivotal in our journey," said Jake Kienholz, director of IT infrastructure and cybersecurity, Core Health & Fitness. "Their Cloud Fabric solution has truly empowered us to scale our IT infrastructure, positioning us aptly for exponential growth."

A recent Gartner study forecasts that "By 2027, more than 50% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to expedite their business projects." In the face of such projections, Flexential's continued enhancements to its Cloud Fabric ecosystem position it as a game-changer in the industry. By harnessing the Cloud Fabric's expansive U.S. reach, businesses can notably augment application performance and user experience, aligning seamlessly with long-term business growth objectives.

As enterprises grapple with the challenges of a multi-cloud environment, solutions like Flexential's Cloud Fabric are proving indispensable. With its latest Phoenix region on-ramp expansion, Flexential reaffirms its commitment to facilitating business success across industry sectors.

Collaboration expands revolutionary way businesses buy and use network services

Lumen Technologies is accelerating its vision to cloudify traditional network services and disrupt the telecom industry by integrating its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform with Equinix Fabric. This will enable Equinix's 10,000 customers to instantly buy, use, and manage Lumen® Internet On-Demand and future Lumen^® NaaS services.

"Offering businesses a quick and easy network buying experience is what makes our collaboration with Equinix so valuable," said Andrew Dugan, CTO for Lumen. "Lumen is bringing its NaaS platform to Equinix, giving their customers access to quick bandwidth boosts and personalized on-demand services. Together, we are solving business challenges so our customers can focus on innovation."

With business needs constantly changing, enterprise customers are asking for services that give them agility in how they run their networks. Lumen NaaS has that flexibility.

"Versa is dedicated to delivering top-tier Unified SASE and cybersecurity services around the clock. This NaaS solution from Lumen is a perfect fit, enabling us to achieve carrier redundancy without overpaying for circuits" says Kumar Mehta, Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Versa. "The ability to quickly activate connections and ramp bandwidth up or down contributes to cost reduction and directly leads to an improved customer experience due to prevention of network delays and disruptions."

How it Works

• An Equinix customer orders Lumen Internet On-Demand using Lumen's digital portal or API.
• The customer provisions a virtual connection in Equinix Fabric and connects it to the Lumen port.
• After the customer is connected to Lumen's NaaS platform, Lumen Internet On-Demand service activates in minutes, instead of months.
• Customers are in control of their service and can increase or decrease bandwidth as needed.

"Our customers rely on us to offer a premier interconnection experience that's made possible with the combined capabilities of Equinix Fabric and the service providers that make up our digital ecosystem," said Arun Dev, Vice President of Digital Interconnection at Equinix. "I'm thrilled with the work our teams are doing to integrate Lumen NaaS with Equinix Fabric so that our customers can have even more choice for on-demand Internet connectivity to support their hybrid infrastructure."

The NaaS Partner Ecosystem
Lumen launched its NaaS platform in August and will align with other key partners to expand its on-demand capabilities, including cloud, technology, and managed service providers.

Looking ahead, Lumen will broaden its hyperscaler partners to deliver new services under the NaaS umbrella. Additionally, the Lumen NaaS portfolio will expand to include security services, such as DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), and Edge services. All services will be available to customers within the Lumen partner ecosystem.