APAC's leading distributor of cloud solutions and services, rhipe, announced that it has been appointed as an APAC distributor for Runecast, a globally leading predictive analytics solution provider for VMware, AWS and Kubernetes.

The ability to proactively monitor and receive alerts for technical issues as soon as they happen is vital to ensure the smooth management of multi-cloud environments and adherence to security compliance. Runecast uses AI and other technology for predictive issues management and security intelligence, delivering proactive risk mitigation, saving troubleshooting time and costs, and ensuring security compliance against security standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, PCI-DSS and CIS. Runecast recently won Computing's Cloud Security Product of the Year.

Dominic O'Hanlon, CEO of rhipe said, "With the proactive analysis that Runecast delivers, this solution helps our VMware partners to gain greater efficiencies and a transparent view of technical issues within their environments. Runecast will deliver significant value to our partners, saving them time and enabling them to focus on other business initiatives, while their technical environments keep running. We are pleased to welcome them to the rhipe vendor portfolio." 

Runecast was founded in 2014 by a team of virtualization professionals with a vision: to help VMware admins have better control over their environments. Its flagship Runecast Analyzer is a disruptive, patented technology that proactively scans IT infrastructures to identify and report on all known configuration, best practices and security issues that can be prevented within that system using VMware's own published documentation.

"We're thrilled to forge this partnership with rhipe and offer our predictive analytics solution for their partners who run VMware, AWS and Kubernetes throughout their service offerings," said Andre Carpenter, Senior Director, Channel Sales APAC at Runecast. 

Mr Carpenter continued on "We felt rhipe was the best positioned distributor to help us roll out our business across the region, and even from early on, we felt there was a clear alignment in values and goals between our two companies."

Users benefit from greater mission-critical transparency. Runecast Analyzer also runs securely on-premise (with offline capabilities, so that no data needs to leave the customer organisation). This is especially important to financial, banking, defence, healthcare and government sectors.

Runecast joins other vendors that have recently joined the rhipe portfolio, including Octopus Cloud and Nerdio.