Why Partner With The World's Leading Cloud Provider?

Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both their international customer’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s e-commerce ecosystem. In January 2017, Alibaba Cloud became the official Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee. By harnessing and improving on the latest cloud technology and security systems, they tirelessly work towards their vision to make it easier for you to do business anywhere with anyone in the world.

Singles Day (also known as 11.11 Global Shopping Festival) in China and Black Friday globally have become the world’s biggest shopping events for consumers and brands alike, generating billions of dollars in sales. In 2017 Alibaba Cloud’s number was around twenty-five billion dollars; by 2018, they reached a little under thirty-one billion dollars. While it was common knowledge that Alibaba Cloud had reached thirty-one billion dollars during Singles Day in 2018, not everyone knew that the first billion dollars were reached during the first fifty-five seconds of the twenty-four hour period.

According to Gartner, Alibaba is currently the third-largest public cloud provider globally. Alibaba Cloud has twenty different regions that they operate in; among these twenty regions, they have fifty-eight availability zones.

Alibaba Cloud has a very large presence in China, but they also offer an expanding network of CDN nodes and deployment regions, including the first public cloud data center region in the Middle East and Indonesia. They also have a string of strategic data centers in Asia and a strong presence in North America, Europe, and Australia.

Alibaba can meet your compliance needs:

• Data Security and Privacy – Rigorous physical security measures safeguard their data centers, and the advanced logical security technologies prevent unauthorized access to their networks.
• Compliance – Alibaba Cloud adheres to domestic and international information security standards, as well as industry requirements.
• Supporting Data Portability in the Cloud under the GDPR – A research study by Yunfan Wang and Anuj Shah, Carnegie Mellon University sponsored by Alibaba Cloud.

One of the most unique capabilities that Alibaba Cloud has is that they have an SD-WAN like capability. This helps connect all their region’s globally. With Alibaba Cloud, you can offer your customers a multinational company that operates in different regions of the world and has true enterprise private connectivity. Their technology provides a fast lane in and out of China.

The Alibaba Cloud Enterprise Network allows multinational companies to send data in and out of China very fast. For example, if you have a 50mb bandwidth on this cloud enterprise network and then the following month you feel like your traffic is going to skyrocket you can adjust that in a matter of a few hours. This also means that afterward, when you expect the traffic to slow down, you can also adjust it to a lower amount.

To learn more about Alibaba Cloud, and other cloud services options, simply ask at Cloud Services.

How Every Business Can Enjoy Mobility Beyond Their Expectations

Why MetTel?

MetTel is a leading communications solution provider that integrates the most extensive selection of technologies into innovative and customized solutions for its customers. They provide forward-thinking control over all of your company’s mobile devices. Their managed mobility solutions are designed to reduce your IT burden and lower your costs. MetTel is in every single vertical, from the energy side to retail.

MetTel’s goal is to simplify mobility management and provide customers with a way to streamline and simplify the day to day operations. They consolidate vendors, platforms, and points of contact for service, billing, repairs, and provisioning.

Essentially MetTel has a lot of ways to customize deployments as well as their plans. Since they started their mobility department in 2011 they have grown significantly, they are currently able to ship over 350,000 devices per month, and that’s not the only way they have become.

MetTel makes sure each customer is assigned a dedicated project manager based on the size of the account; customers are also assigned a wireless care manager. What this means is that every customer will have a dedicated point of contact so you the partner no longer have to invest hours of your time trying to figure out how to help your customer. This provides more transparency in terms of who the customer is communication with as well as with the process MetTel will follow. MetTel also provides customized outlines for every single customer so that they are always aware of what the process will be.

With MetTel’s Bruin platform, you can intelligently control your entire telecommunications environment from a single portal. The important thing to keep in mind is that MetTel is not the third party, because MetTel is the carrier customers have full access to do everything via the portal. This includes:

• Single bill for multiple carriers
• Ticketing and integration
• Easy ordering
• Real-time provisioning
• Robust Reporting
• Live data for intelligent actions

There are a lot of functionalities and capabilities that customers gain when using MetTel’s Bruin Platform.

Fleet Automation Products

When you’re using intelligent devices, you need them to maintain connectivity at all time no matter where they are. With MetTel’s Single SIM, your devices will never go offline, even if they’re far from home. The IoT Single SIM facilitates global business by auto connecting to the strongest signal worldwide, monitoring status and collecting data on anything, from a sensor to a truck.

• One World – With always-on connectivity that isn’t dictated by device, carrier or location, MetTel’s Single SIM effectively decreases your mobility costs around the world.
• One SIM – No other SINGLE SIM can securely connect your devices automatically to the IoT with the strongest signal via the world’s largest communications network.
• Always Connected – MetTel’s relationship with 650 carriers worldwide and their roaming agreement in more than 165 countries let you always stay connected no matter where you are or what device you are using.

MeTel also provides Fleet Management Solutions. Their easy to use mobile apps and web-based software enable you to manage your entire fleet or mobile workforce while ensuring visibility, safety, compliance, and more. It helps customers eliminate messy paperwork and give it gives your mobile workers powerful tools to do their jobs better, while also giving you insights into your business. You are also going to start seeing and hearing more about AI, as it is feeding into the video and monitoring aspect of drivers.

To learn more about MetTel, and other options for mobility management solutions, simply ask at Managed Services.

How Any Business Can Have Network Connectivity Anywhere

Viasat provides broadband services in the marketplace to 96 percent of the US population. They have been around for thirty years as a company. Viasat is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, secure, affordable, fast connections to impact people’s lives anywhere they are on the ground, in the air or at sea. Today they offer three types of unlimited plans in the marketplace. Unlimited in the telecom world means you get a certain amount of data up until a threshold, and although this is no different with Viasat what you need to do is take a look at how their unlimited plans compare to what else is out there in the satellite market.

Viasat also offers a variety of metered plans, ideal for primary or secondary connectivity.

Both plans shown above cover 96 percent of the population, but there’s another area of the country that’s less populated, Viasat also has a few plans for these areas. For those of you who are familiar with Viasat, you’ll remember they had a part of the country that had 5×1 service, as of a few months ago they upgraded that service to 12×3.

All Viasat Business Plans include the following:

• Priority connection – Businesses get the speeds they need during peak hours
• Persistent IP addresses – Up to 3 persistent IP addresses free of charge
• Equipment lease – Plan cost includes all the hardware needed to get connected
• Fast installations – Typically 3-5 days
• Business-class support – Highly trained US-based team available to support business needs 7 days a week

Although most of what Viasat sells is primary service; it is also great for backup.

• Reliable & Diverse connectivity – Not shared with local ISPs terrestrial infrastructure
• Single point of failure is gone
• NEVER worry about losing the ability to complete Point of Sale transactions
• Reliable broadband gives you the ability to keep cloud and data applications running
• Perfect pairing with SD-WAN

So, why Viasat for your business?

• They are 10x faster than DSL – Whether you run a farm, warehouse, medical office, restaurant, national retail chain or other types of business, you now have broadband capabilities that can keep up with your operations. Their satellite internet is the first of its kind, providing broadband speeds up to 100 Mbps in select areas.
• Fast installs – No need to wait! Viasat business internet is typically installed in just 3 to 5 days after placing your order, so you can get up and running immediately.
• They’ve got you covered nationwide – They provide a one-stop solution for business with multiple locations, enabling critical business applications such as voice over IP, point-of-sale transactions, cloud backup, file downloads, online collaboration, and more. They help you seamlessly connect, no matter where your business is located.
• You get a diverse backup connection – Businesses that rely on continuity and SD-WAN choose their satellite internet as a secondary connection because it provides a diverse and resilient connection when cable and fiber connections go down.

To learn more about ViaSat, and other options for network connectivity, simply ask at Network Connectivity.