Episode 23- PhoenixNAP - Great Things with Great Tech
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Intro (0:00)
Starting out in a cupboard in the 90s (1:34)
Early business and hosting days (2:51)
Opening of Malta office in 2004 with bonus poorly spoken Maltese (3:30)
High touch Managed Web Hosting (4:20)
Consolidation and creating a communication Network Access Point (5:50)
SecureServers.com in 2011 (7:30)
#IaaS with VMware and Cloud Director (10:20)
Customer Portal and offering automation (12:00)
Backup and DRaaS with Veeam and Zerto (13:10)
Solving the challenges of Backup as a Service (15:50)
The state of DRaaS ... it's not there yet (19:15)
Global expansion in 2015 (22:20)
Gartner (23:50)
Shifting to Bare Metal, Microservices and Cloud Native (25:30)
Building Bare Metal VMware Cloud and #Kubernetes services (31:00)
Infrastructure Services of the Future (35:10)
What makes a great partner (37:05)
Shout-outs, Wrap-up and callouts (38:30)
☑️ In this episode I talk with William Bell, EVP of Products at PhoenixNAP. PhoenixNAP was evolved from the need to consolidate network connectivity and offer colocation and cloud to Phoenix. From there it grew world wide by offering scalable, secure, and reliable, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. PhoenixNAP uses a custom portal and their own set of APIs to enable the rapid creation of cloud services. Strong in IaaS, Backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service, I talk with William about how developing security products and looking ahead to the next wave of infrastructure hosting for cloud native workloads based on Bare Metal Cloud offerings is allowing pNAP to innovate and lead in the service provider market.
☑️ PhoenixNAP was founded in 1996 and started trading as that entity in 2009. The company is headquartered in the Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona
☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned
VMware, Veeam, IaaS, BaaS, DRaaS, Kubernetes, Containers, DELL, Cisco, NetApp, Zerto, VMware Cloud Director, Terraform, Ansible
Web: https://phoenixnap.com/
Bare Metal Cloud: https://phoenixnap.com/bare-metal-cloud
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