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Datapipe to Offer Managed Services for Microsoft Azure Customers
[February 17, 2015]

Datapipe to Offer Managed Services for Microsoft Azure Customers


Datapipe (News - Alert), a global leader in managed hybrid IT solutions for the enterprise, today announced managed services support for the Azure public cloud. Datapipe Managed Cloud for Azure utilizes the cloud platform and Datapipe's extensive suite of managed services, tools and experience to get customers up and running in their new Azure environments quickly, with the security and performance required to deploy and scale enterprise class applications. This managed public cloud offering from Datapipe is one of the first to provide customers a single pane of glass for infrastructure services that work on Azure.

The new suite of managed services extends Datapipe's expertise in planning, building and running managed cloud environments to customers utilizing Azure. Datapipe customers will have the advantage of designing and deploying managed hybrid cloud solutions that use their existing Microsoft (News - Alert) technology while taking advantage of Azure. Datapipe Managed Cloud for Azure includes these benefits:

  • 24x7x365 monitoring, alerting, response and resolution support
  • Unified management of applications across Azure and Hybrid environments
  • Best practice architecture planning, implementation, migration, operation and optimization
  • Customized governance and data policy management to met security and compliance requirements
  • Azure account and identity management
  • Flexible, consolidated billing
  • Industry leading Service Level Agreements (SLA)



"We are extending the value we deliver to customers through the addition of Managed Cloud for Azure to our portfolio," said Rob Allen, CEO of Datapipe. "These new services will enable Datapipe customers to more effectively plan, build and run enterprise applications on Azure. This collaboration with Microsoft further strengthens our leadership in offering the choice and control of managed cloud and hybrid IT solutions."

"Datapipe's capabilities to manage hybrid environments and ability to incorporate Microsoft infrastructure into hosted private clouds as well as integrate with Azure's public cloud environments make the company a natural fit to work with Azure," said Aziz Benmalek, general manager Hosting Service Providers Business, Microsoft. "Microsoft is an established leader in the public cloud market with infrastructure and platform services through Azure, and we're pleased to see Datapipe offer services for Azure customers."


Today's announcement comes on the heels of Datapipe's acquisition of GoGrid, bringing proprietary orchestration and automation technologies and 1-Button deployment for Big Data solutions to the company's global client base.

About Datapipe

Datapipe is the only global managed service provider to future proof IT for the enterprises. The company leads the industry in deploying and managing multi-platform hybrid IT solutions, including public, private and hybrid clouds integrated with traditional IT environments. By automating IT, Datapipe supports the continuous development and delivery of secure, highly available enterprise class applications. Datapipe also delivers operational excellence through proven ITIL processes via a global team of experienced professionals and next generation data centers in New York Metro, Ashburn VA, Silicon Valley, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, Dallas, Amsterdam, Iceland, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore.


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