CTERA Networks,
the leader in cloud storage enablement, today announced the release of a
certified Application Packaging Standard (APS) for its
storage-as-a-service offerings. This packaging of CTERA's service
delivery tools will allow cloud service providers (CSPs) using Parallels
Automation platform to sell, provision, manage and bill for CTERA-based
offerings and deliver backup and recovery services, enterprise file
sync and share services, and disaster recovery and management services
using CTERA cloud storage gateways – all from a single, integrated cloud
framework.
"With a total addressable customer base of
tens of millions of end customers, service automation is key to being
successful in today's cloud storage-as-a-service provider market," said Jeff Denworth,
Senior Vice President of Marketing at CTERA. "Our service provider
partners now have even more options to easily upsell cloud storage
services to their customers. CTERA dramatically reduces service
provider time-to-market, while also enabling the delivery of the
broadest suite of storage-as-a-service offerings to maximize revenue per
user."
By
packaging its Cloud Storage Services Platform for Parallels APS, CTERA
now enables simple and secure provisioning of white-labeled
cloud-storage services via Parallels Automation. Broadly used by cloud
service providers, Parallels Automation allows for the delivery and
consolidation of billing services with other hosted and cloud-based
services including CTERA's, as well as Microsoft Office365, Cisco WebEx,
McAfee Security and more.
Benefits of the integration include:
- Using CTERA's multi-tenant platform with Parallels Automation, CSPs
can provision services to new customers on the fly with pre-defined
workflows and flexible service plans, making them available on
self-service portals and app stores, and requiring zero additional
development or integration.
- CTERA's white-label-ready storage services enable CSPs to launch
their own branded storage-as-a-service offerings for cloud-based
endpoint backup, secure file sync and share and also remotely-managed
storage gateways.
- Parallels Platform facilitates automated payment processing
integration and fraudulent payment screening to ensure simple and
trusted transactions of CTERA-based cloud storage services.
Portugal
Telecom is one of the first CSPs to benefit from the new partnership,
enabling the launch of the company's new cloud service called Virtual
Disk 360. The new service allows for the storing and sharing of files
and folders in the cloud from any device.
"Portugal
Telecom is pleased with the partnership achieved between Parallels and
CTERA. Portugal Telecom and CTERA have worked successfully to provide
customers with the possibility of buying and automatically provisioning
our Virtual Disk 360 offering in the cloud within a few seconds," said Abel Aguiar,
Head of Cloud and Data Center Product Management at Portugal Telecom.
"The efforts made by both teams, alongside the ease of administering the
service through Parallels' Provisioning Platform, have allowed Virtual
Disk 360 to be one of the finalists in the 2014 Telecoms.com awards in
the category of Best Cloud Innovation."
"We
are excited to partner with CTERA, helping service providers benefit
from a simple and automated approach to delivering a broad suite of
cloud storage services to customers large and small," said Alex Danyluk, senior director, Alliances, Parallels.
CTERA is officially certified on Application Packaging Standard (APS) 1.2 and expects to be certified on APS 2.0 this quarter.