April 30, 2010: KVH to Launch Cloud Services for Corporate Customers － Delivering a Variety of IT Solutions through a Newly Developed, Scalable and Reliable Platform
Press Release: April 30, 2010
KVH Co., Ltd. today announced that it will launch KVH Cloud Services, a series of cloud computing services designed to bring the benefits of cloud flexibility to corporate customers in Japan. Newly developed at KVH’s highly secure and reliable data centers directly connected to KVH’s own networks, the new platform will deliver KVH Cloud Services at a level of scalability and flexibility previously unavailable in Asia. KVH will offer “KVH IaaS” (Infrastructure as a Service) and “KVH PaaS” (Platform as a Service) from June 1st, 2010.
Leveraging its leading-edge infrastructures based on the mission-critical needs of the financial industry, “KVH IaaS” offers high reliability and security through this new scalable and configurable multi-tenant platform. The platform delivers servers, networks, and storage on an as-needed basis for enterprise customers as well as IT service providers. With “KVH IaaS,” customers can realize scalability through rapid demand fulfillment, allowing them the flexibility to customize computing power at any given point in time. In addition, KVH’s swift provisioning ensures availability within hours to enable customers to meet tight project deadlines and budgets. Finally, wrapping these new services are enterprise-grade Service Level Agreements (SLAs) covering availability, performance, and incident response time to provide peace of mind to the customer by ensuring KVH’s commitment to service excellence.
“KVH IaaS” is capable of various delivery models, including the Private Cloud for enterprise customers and the Public Cloud for content providers or SaaS vendors. All delivery models satisfy the IT infrastructure needs of corporate customers and are supported by a uniquely developed proprietary Operational Support System (OSS). This OSS provides automated “no-touch” provisioning for accurate and economical IT resource configurations. “KVH IaaS” service offerings are fully managed and are supported by KVH’s 24 x 7 bilingual service desk.
As part of “KVH PaaS,” KVH offers Unified Communications and expands the portfolio throughout 2010 to include services such as Document Management and Workflow Management. Through “KVH PaaS,” KVH aims to market a full suite of “business infrastructure tools” that are essential to enterprise business activities.
Bill Chute, Vice President of the Managed Services Business Unit of KVH said, “Since its Tokyo Data Center opened in 2002, KVH has been strengthening its IT management service capabilities to focus on corporate customers’ mission critical needs. IT management is still a key priority for our customers to improve their operational efficiency, but at the same time, our customers seek further reduction of their total cost of ownership and require a more flexible and scalable IT system environment. Our new KVH Cloud Services will comprehensively meet these diverse needs and ensure customers benefit from our best-of-breed platform. With abundant experience in IT management and state-of-the-art infrastructure, KVH is delivering Asia’s leading information delivery platform.”
Endorsements from Partners
(Japanese Alphabetical Order)
■ Mr. Hiroyuki Tsutsumi Vice President, Service Provider Operations of Cisco Systems G.K.
Cisco Systems G.K. sincerely welcomes the announcement of "KVH Cloud Services." "Cisco Nexus 7000" will provides scalable and flexible network infrastructure “Nexus 7000 series switches” base in the cloud computing environment which is built at the KVH Data Center. We are convinced that "Cisco Nexus 7000" is a high-performance devise to provide customers with optimal solutions and will contribute to the future expansion of "KVH Cloud Services."
■ Mr. Yoichi Hosoi President of Juniper Networks, Inc
Juniper Networks, Inc. welcomes the commencement of "KVH Cloud Service." Our SRX series is an integrated service gateway including connectivity, security, and management which are essential to a corporate network. SRX series is as a major component of "KVH Cloud Services" infrastructure platform. Juniper Networks is convinced that "KVH Cloud Services" can flexibly respond to customer needs to construct a highly reliable cloud computing environment. We will continue to contribute to the development of KVH Services. ■ Mr. Shinichi Koide President and Managing Director of Hewlett- Packard Japan, Ltd.
Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd (Japan HP) sincerely congratulates KVH on its new cloud computing service, and is expecting the expansion and success of this new business. Japan HP is convinced that a highly reliable cloud computing environment that uses KVH's data center and network infrastructure as its foundation will be realized by utilizing "HP Proliant server," which has acquired a high market share, and using HP's Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) embedded server management technology to help manage the platform. With state-of-the-art technology and optimal solutions, Japan HP will contribute to the future expansion of “KVH Cloud Service" to flexibly meet customers' business requirements and their IT environments.
■ Mr. Ty McConney President of NetApp K.K
NetApp K.K. welcomes "KVH Cloud Services" offerings to corporate customers. NetApp storage, which is the storage solution for the platform, enables efficient use and sharing of resources with a unique storage virtualization technology and data management function. This component allows KVH to offer a secure, multi-tenant storage solution as part of its infrastructure platform. We are convinced that NetApp unified storage using "Data ONTAP," a single architecture operating system for storage, will expand its role as the storage foundation for “KVH Cloud Services” with the capability to respond to future requirements.
*All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
About KVH
KVH was established in Tokyo in 1999 as an Asia-Pacific IT/communications service provider. Through its facility-based optical fiber networks and data centers, KVH offers integrated communications and IT management solutions that include managed services, data networking, internet access, and voice services to business customers. KVH has a presence in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka (and in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai through affiliates) and serves over 1,700 corporate customers in broad industry segments such as financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, media, and e-commerce. More information on KVH can be found at www.kvh.co.jp.
KVH Co., Ltd. today announced that it will launch KVH Cloud Services, a series of cloud computing services designed to bring the benefits of cloud flexibility to corporate customers in Japan. Newly developed at KVH’s highly secure and reliable data centers directly connected to KVH’s own networks, the new platform will deliver KVH Cloud Services at a level of scalability and flexibility previously unavailable in Asia. KVH will offer “KVH IaaS” (Infrastructure as a Service) and “KVH PaaS” (Platform as a Service) from June 1st, 2010.
Leveraging its leading-edge infrastructures based on the mission-critical needs of the financial industry, “KVH IaaS” offers high reliability and security through this new scalable and configurable multi-tenant platform. The platform delivers servers, networks, and storage on an as-needed basis for enterprise customers as well as IT service providers. With “KVH IaaS,” customers can realize scalability through rapid demand fulfillment, allowing them the flexibility to customize computing power at any given point in time. In addition, KVH’s swift provisioning ensures availability within hours to enable customers to meet tight project deadlines and budgets. Finally, wrapping these new services are enterprise-grade Service Level Agreements (SLAs) covering availability, performance, and incident response time to provide peace of mind to the customer by ensuring KVH’s commitment to service excellence.
“KVH IaaS” is capable of various delivery models, including the Private Cloud for enterprise customers and the Public Cloud for content providers or SaaS vendors. All delivery models satisfy the IT infrastructure needs of corporate customers and are supported by a uniquely developed proprietary Operational Support System (OSS). This OSS provides automated “no-touch” provisioning for accurate and economical IT resource configurations. “KVH IaaS” service offerings are fully managed and are supported by KVH’s 24 x 7 bilingual service desk.
As part of “KVH PaaS,” KVH offers Unified Communications and expands the portfolio throughout 2010 to include services such as Document Management and Workflow Management. Through “KVH PaaS,” KVH aims to market a full suite of “business infrastructure tools” that are essential to enterprise business activities.
Bill Chute, Vice President of the Managed Services Business Unit of KVH said, “Since its Tokyo Data Center opened in 2002, KVH has been strengthening its IT management service capabilities to focus on corporate customers’ mission critical needs. IT management is still a key priority for our customers to improve their operational efficiency, but at the same time, our customers seek further reduction of their total cost of ownership and require a more flexible and scalable IT system environment. Our new KVH Cloud Services will comprehensively meet these diverse needs and ensure customers benefit from our best-of-breed platform. With abundant experience in IT management and state-of-the-art infrastructure, KVH is delivering Asia’s leading information delivery platform.”
Endorsements from Partners
(Japanese Alphabetical Order)
■ Mr. Hiroyuki Tsutsumi Vice President, Service Provider Operations of Cisco Systems G.K.
Cisco Systems G.K. sincerely welcomes the announcement of "KVH Cloud Services." "Cisco Nexus 7000" will provides scalable and flexible network infrastructure “Nexus 7000 series switches” base in the cloud computing environment which is built at the KVH Data Center. We are convinced that "Cisco Nexus 7000" is a high-performance devise to provide customers with optimal solutions and will contribute to the future expansion of "KVH Cloud Services."
■ Mr. Yoichi Hosoi President of Juniper Networks, Inc
Juniper Networks, Inc. welcomes the commencement of "KVH Cloud Service." Our SRX series is an integrated service gateway including connectivity, security, and management which are essential to a corporate network. SRX series is as a major component of "KVH Cloud Services" infrastructure platform. Juniper Networks is convinced that "KVH Cloud Services" can flexibly respond to customer needs to construct a highly reliable cloud computing environment. We will continue to contribute to the development of KVH Services. ■ Mr. Shinichi Koide President and Managing Director of Hewlett- Packard Japan, Ltd.
Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd (Japan HP) sincerely congratulates KVH on its new cloud computing service, and is expecting the expansion and success of this new business. Japan HP is convinced that a highly reliable cloud computing environment that uses KVH's data center and network infrastructure as its foundation will be realized by utilizing "HP Proliant server," which has acquired a high market share, and using HP's Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) embedded server management technology to help manage the platform. With state-of-the-art technology and optimal solutions, Japan HP will contribute to the future expansion of “KVH Cloud Service" to flexibly meet customers' business requirements and their IT environments.
■ Mr. Ty McConney President of NetApp K.K
NetApp K.K. welcomes "KVH Cloud Services" offerings to corporate customers. NetApp storage, which is the storage solution for the platform, enables efficient use and sharing of resources with a unique storage virtualization technology and data management function. This component allows KVH to offer a secure, multi-tenant storage solution as part of its infrastructure platform. We are convinced that NetApp unified storage using "Data ONTAP," a single architecture operating system for storage, will expand its role as the storage foundation for “KVH Cloud Services” with the capability to respond to future requirements.
*All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
About KVH
KVH was established in Tokyo in 1999 as an Asia-Pacific IT/communications service provider. Through its facility-based optical fiber networks and data centers, KVH offers integrated communications and IT management solutions that include managed services, data networking, internet access, and voice services to business customers. KVH has a presence in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Osaka (and in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai through affiliates) and serves over 1,700 corporate customers in broad industry segments such as financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, media, and e-commerce. More information on KVH can be found at www.kvh.co.jp.
