Concerto rolls out Premium cloud infrastructure services offering

Concerto Cloud Services has rolled out a new "premium" cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering that it aims to differentiate from the enterprise grade services that, the company believes, are competing largely on price. The new offering aims to appeal to the enterprise demand for hybrid solutions delivered in a smaller, more protected private environment.

Built on scalable single-tenant pods, the solution offers improved security, reliability and performance, the company says. Customers will still be able to deploy and integrate third-party and on-premise applications in a hybrid configuration

"The cloud services industry is locked in a race to lower pricing, but the commodity play of public cloud simply doesn't work for complex, mission-critical applications like ERP," said Tony DiBenedetto, chairman and CEO of Concerto Cloud Services, in a statement. "We saw this moment coming, when organizations would demand a more secure, reliable yet flexible cloud services solution, not simply a cheaper one. That's what premium is, and that's what Concerto delivers."

Concerto's premium IaaS offering for enterprise customers meets a range of compliance standards including SOC 1 (SAS 70, SSAE 16), SOC2, SOC3, SOX, HIPAA, PCI, ITAR, FIPS 140-2 and Safe Harbor. Their disaster recovery plans include geographic diversity for secondary and tertiary backups, and aggressive RTO and RPO commitments. The service will offer dedicated service management and 24/7 customer support.

Like other major cloud providers, Microsoft is indeed looking for ways to making it easier for its Dynamics customers to host more robust enterprise infrastructure in its Azure cloud. Microsoft's November 2014 release of Lifecycle Services for Microsoft Dynamics AX has added a (still in beta) option to provision a high availability, geographically dispersed Azure server cluster for a production AX architecture. ...