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Alphaus enters Singapore cloud financial management market with Cloud Comrade win

Alphaus , a prominent mover in the cloud financial management space in Japan , has made a successful foray into the Singapore market in line with its strategic growth plans .

The company will provide its suite of cloud financial management ( CFM ) solutions to the Managed Services Provider ( MSP ) Cloud Comrade .
The overall value of Alphaus ’ solutions and support , with the ability for bespoke integrations to the financial services system , were key considerations for Cloud Comrade to switch to Alphaus ’ products as critical components for its business operations .
Signing Cloud Comrade , the first Singapore-headquartered AWS Premier Consulting Partner that is also a Google Premier Partner and Microsoft Gold Cloud
Platform partner , as a client gives Alphaus impetus in achieving its strategic goals for the Southeast region .
Andy Waroma , Co-Founder and Co- Managing Director of Cloud Comrade , said : “ As a cloud MSP , we enable several large organizations in the region with their Digital Transformation and migration to the cloud .
“ It is a critical success factor for both our clients and us that we not only have complete clarity on all the costs associated with the cloud infrastructure but are also making optimum utilization of any cloud resources deployed . The SaaS solutions from Alphaus for billing management and cloud cost optimization provide us with the requisite tools , information and intelligence to achieve these seamlessly .”

Red Hat and Nutanix form partnership to enable open hybrid multi-clouds

Red Hat , a leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions , and Nutanix , a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing , have announced a strategic partnership to enable a powerful solution for building , scaling and managing cloud-native applications onpremises and in hybrid clouds .

The collaboration brings together industryleading technologies , enabling installation , interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform , including Nutanix AOS and AHV .
Rajiv Ramaswami , President and CEO , Nutanix , said : “ This partnership brings together Red Hat ’ s industry-leading cloud-native solutions with the simplicity , flexibility and resilience of the Nutanix Cloud Platform . Together , our solutions provide customers with a full stack platform to build , scale and manage containerized and virtualized cloud-native applications in a hybrid multi-cloud environment .”
Paul Cormier , President and CEO , Red Hat , said : “ We have a vision to enable open hybrid clouds , where customers have choice and flexibility . Our partnership with Nutanix brings a leading hyperconverged offering to the open hybrid cloud , driving greater choice for our joint customers in how they deploy their containerized workloads and backed by a joint support experience .”
Red Hat OpenShift will be the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on Nutanix Cloud Platform . Customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) will be able to use an industry-leading cloud platform from Nutanix .
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