Virtual Ark is a globally-focussed managed services company that uses Third Generation Software-as-a-Service (3G-SaaS) to provide Fortune 1000 organisations with on-demand access to their core business applications in the Cloud. The 3G-SaaS model offers substantial competitive advantages to enterprises through a “pay-as-you-use” system that reduces fixed costs for IT and increases flexibility for rapidly responding to market demands.
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Tuesday, 06 December 2011 00:00 |
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 Next generation managed services specialist Virtual Ark has raised $1.6 million to broaden the market reach of its Cloud application management platform to accelerate adoption of the new computing model. Australian company Virtual Ark is one of only four companies globally recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor for Infrastructure Services. Virtual Ark is now also supplying its Cloud management platform and managed services in the Australia New Zealand market following its entry to the US market. Virtual Ark will apply proceeds from its recent modest capital-raising to undertake product development that broadens the reach of its Cloud management platform to work with privately owned Clouds and Clouds built with the OpenStack open source solution. This development started after completion of a proof-of-concept project which was supported by Commercialisation Australia. Virtual Ark CEO Marty Gauvin said Australian companies were discovering that migrating services to the Cloud required new skills, processes and tools. “As customers gain some experience with Cloud services (IaaS – Infrastructure-as-a-Service) from companies like Amazon, Rackspace or with internal private Clouds, they soon discover that deploying and running enterprise applications on these Clouds requires very different skills, processes and new tools,” he said. |
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Thursday, 09 December 2010 00:00 |
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 Next generation outsourcing specialist Virtual Ark is perfectly poised to lower the cost of entry to global markets for “hyperdigitizing” companies that are in a fast-growing sector of the world economy.
Hyperdigitization – the accelerated digitization of a large and growing sector of the world economy – is described in a recent report by research firm Gartner. Key drivers of this growth are innovation, demand, the “platform effect” and the “Internet of things” in which many tiny devices have a unique IP address. Gartner reports that the "platform effect" will help to accelerate growth. “The use of existing services such as application ecosystems or electronic channels to market (will) assist new providers innovate and bring new services to market more quickly, with lower startup costs and reduced risk,” the reports says. “Thus, managed services providers for SaaS facilitate software developers taking their products to a global market with a lower cost of entry, and in turn use other network-based providers for the actual hosting.” Virtual Ark was mentioned in the recent Gartner report entitled “Hyperdigitization Creates Major Opportunity for IT Services Providers” published on August 19, 2010, by Rolf Jester. |
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