Cirion deploys new multicloud environments in Mexico and Chile
Through Cloud Connect, Cirion promotes secure and efficient connectivity with leading cloud service providers
MIAMI, FL. September 28, 2023 Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, announces new multicloud connections in Querétaro (México) and Santiago (Chile), two key markets in Latin America which show a growing demand for cloud services.
The initiative aims to provide companies in the region with even faster and more reliable access to the benefits of the cloud, while ensuring secure and efficient connections. These two new multi-cloud environments with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Oracle join the existing one in São Paulo, as well as connections in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) to Microsoft, Buenos Aires (Argentina) to AWS, and Santiago (Chile) to Oracle.
The adoption of multi-cloud strategies has become a critical need for organizations seeking flexibility, resiliency, and performance in their cloud operations. Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Product, Innovation, and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies, said: Multicloud environments give companies the ability to use different providers without having to rely on a single one, optimize costs by selecting specific services from each provider, and become more resilient by distributing workloads across multiple clouds. With the deployment of new multicloud environments, Cirion is positioned as the ideal strategic partner for companies that want to maximize the potential of the cloud securely and efficiently.
In turn, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are strongly increasing their presence in Latin America. They are looking to expand their infrastructure, offer local services, establish strategic partnerships, and provide technical support and training to drive cloud adoption in the region. In this context, Girardotti mentioned: It is part of Cirions strategy, and we find it critical, to continue establishing connections with every CSP in most of the countries where we are present, especially in those where our Data Centers are predominant“.
Cirion’s Cloud Connect service is an integral solution that effectively addresses connectivity between local networks and cloud services. It offers numerous benefits, including focus on security, optimized performance, lower latency, and simple scalability.
Ecosystem of Cloud Connect Connections in Latin America
About Cirion
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networks, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communications and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
Cirion Technologies Joins MEF to Enhance Digital Transformation
The beginning of a new chapter in innovation and automation.
While a member of MEF since 2009 as part of other business groups, Cirion is now a member of the organization as an independent company.
MIAMI, FL,25 September 2023 Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, today announced it has joined MEF as the standalone company it became in August 2022 following Cirions divestment from Lumen Technologies. MEF is a global industry association of network, cloud, security and technology providers accelerating enterprise digital transformation.
Cirion values its MEF membership as the company that works in building the advanced features that enterprise customers, telecom operators and service providers require, and by joining MEF, will enable members to integrate with the Cirion network to enhance their own network coverage and performance. We will continue to develop and evolve its ecosystem of tools, products and services, forging our level of excellence based on a language and standards shared by our clients and partners.
A membership in MEF offers an opportunity to engage in business-driven collaboration with leading global organizations. Together, we enable dynamic, trusted, and certified services that empower enterprises to embrace their own digital transformation and grow their business. We welcome Cirion as the newest addition to our growing, vibrant community of MEF members who are working to progress our MEF 3.0 Global Services Framework, said Nan Chen, President, MEF.
We are eager to continue engaging with the MEF community as Cirion and collaborate to address the industrys business challenges to empower enterprise digital transformation, said Leonardo Barbero, President & Executive Vice President of Products and Enterprise Sales for Cirion Technologies. With the adoption of the MEF LSO framework, Cirion establishes the foundations for technological development, aimed at the automation of end-to-end services, both for traditional and digital services.
The MEF standards and certification process are already a well-recognized stamp of quality in the telecommunications and tecnology industries. We are delighted to join this prestigious organization to ensure this standard is applied to our digital infraestructure and seamlessly integrated into our customers networking operations.
About MEF
MEF is a global industry association of network, cloud, security and technology providers working together to accelerate enterprise digital transformation through a better-together ecosystem. MEF delivers service standards, LSO frameworks and APIs, and training and certification programs for services, technologies, APIs, and professionals. The MEF 3.0 Framework enables automated delivery of standardized Carrier Ethernet, IP, Optical Transport, SD-WAN, SASE, and other digital services across multiple provider networks. For more information and to hear the latest Executives at the Edge podcast visit MEF.net and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Cirion
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
Enterprises in Latin America are accelerating digital transformation initiatives, moving core applications to the cloud, and enabling work from anywhere.
Consequently, businesses across industries are embracing software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services as an integral part of their WAN transformation strategy, largely to gain cost and operational efficiencies.
Cirion captured a first-mover advantage in bringing to market a first-of-its-kind product and agreement package in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution in Latin America, trusting that this technology would provide a leap in quality for WANs. Enabling the next generation of network optimization, Cirions SD-WAN empowers organizations with intelligent routing, faster branch site deployment, centralized policy management, and direct internet connectivity to public clouds and cloud applications.
Cirion Technologies predecessor company, Lumen Technologies, was one of the first network providers in the region to launch a standard SD-WAN service. The forward-looking move back in 2019 demonstrated the companys commitment to innovation and in addressing unmet market demands, said Leandro Agion, Industry Director for Frost & Sullivan.
Cirion´s digital infrastructure enables SD-WAN users to construct secure private networks across a combination of public and private infrastructures, including site-to-site encryption, regardless of the underlying access or transport technologies. The solution enables centralized management and control for businesses to route traffic on an application-by-application basis or by access type, enabling the connectivity of sites through a variety of backbone connections.
Additionally, the SD-WAN solution enhances enterprise network resources with the capacity to handle multiple types of access, such as broadband, dedicated Internet, and MPLS.
As part of its analysis, Frost & Sullivan found that Cirion has a strong base of network assets in Latin America to leverage across the SD-WAN portfolio, has strong partnerships with leading SD-WAN vendors, and has its own VNF platform. Moreover, Cirion is a market leader in the B2B segment and can target a wide scope of customer segments by providing the choice to deploy services that best suit customers price points and application requirements.
Cirion adopts a flexible strategy for SD-WAN service implementation, by partnering with different technology providers such as Versa Networks, Cisco SD-WAN (Ex-Viptela), Cisco Meraki, Fortinet and Velocloud (as VMware), to reach customers of multiple segments.
The companys SD-WAN service enable a new level of visibility and control over applications and traffic, prioritizing business-critical elements. Furthermore, the early launch of its SASE offering is a competitive advantage for Cirion because SD-WAN managed service providers must offer a clear roadmap to SASE.
This recognition by Frost & Sullivan validates our efforts to deliver a simple enterprise user experience with sophisticated capabilities and reinforces Cirions ongoing leadership in delivering a wide range of services that meet our customers needs, all while providing a high level of service, said Leonardo Barbero, President & EVP of Products and Sales for Cirion Technologies. Cirion is committed to accompany Latin American businesses to achieve their technological goals and continue on their digital transformation journeys.
About the Frost & Sullivan Award:
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Frost & Sullivans Best Practices Award recognizes companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development.
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About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin America´s progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
Cirion Expands Network and Data Centers Across Latin America
Through its extensive fiber footprint, data centers and network assets, Cirion aims to assist companies of Latin Americas most relevant industries in their path to digital transformation.
MIAMI, April 11, 2023 To better serve the growing demands of our customers and continue to migrate workloads to hybrid cloud solutions, Cirion, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, announced the expansion of its fiber network and data center capabilities across Latin America.
The expansions include new data centers and network infrastructure, with the addition of several new data centers across Latin America which will be interconnected with Cirion´s existing data centers, providing customers with increased redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities.
We believe in the development of the economies of the region, supporting digital business models, said Facundo Castro, CEO of Cirion Technologies. As Latin America’s leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, we are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest quality services and technologies and these expansions reflect Cirion´s continued commitment to providing our customers with the most comprehensive suite of solutions to support their digital transformation across the region.
During 2022, Cirion data centers facilities in São Paulo (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Quito (Ecuador), Cali (Colombia) and Lima (Peru) had approximately a 12% increase in installed capacity. In 2023 the expansion plans continue with the construction of a new data center facility in the Quilicura region in Santiago (Chile), another one in the industrial district of Macropolis in Lurin (Perú) and a new building in Cotia, São Paulo, in addition to the expansion of the installed capacity of the data center in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Together, they will increase more than 6 MW of capacity in 2023. Cirion data centers are implementing new monitoring infrastructure, control and management services while offering customers additional space for housing servers, networking devices and other computing equipment.
In 2023 Cirion is launching its new Bare Metal Cloud solution, service that offers automated computational capacity, located close to large commercial centers, so that companies’ solutions enjoy very low latency. With Bare Metal Cloud, Cirion brings greater cloud agility to computing infrastructure through an innovative as a service capability. This technology will initially be available to Cirion customers throughout Brazil with computing needs in São Paulo as of March, and the northeast region, as of April. And throughout the year, it will be available in the other countries of the region.
Regarding connectivity, Cirion has expanded its Latin America fiber network by deploying 1,187 kilometers of optical fiber, added 74 Tb/s of capacity to our terrestrial optical networks, and added peering capacity, allowing more than 27 Tb/s exchanges with other providers. In 2023, we will increase our submarine capacity by more than 23Tb in the different segments of the submarine cables, bringing our submarine network to a total capacity of 132 TB.
Moreover, 6 new nodes were added to the more than 700 of our network in Latin America to offer more services to more users (each new node represents a new market).
Additionally, the company recently announced it is investing in a high bandwidth Ethernet architecture to enhance experiences on its platform and deliver updated Ethernet services to more than 14 major Latin American cities, and the expansion of its secure SD-WAN Managed Service, delivering organizations with networks and security in a single, high-value-added converging solution.
“Our customers need faster, more accessible bandwidth to support technologies such as Internet of Things, augmented reality, voice and video apps, particularly in those industries where latency is critical, such as entertainment, content creation, e-commerce, and public cloud service providers,” said Leonardo Barbero, President of Products and Enterprise Sales for Cirion Technologies. Our top goal is to stay on top of new network demands and continuously deliver robust, high-quality services across our network and data center infrastructure. As demand increases, becomes more complex or changes, our platform will adapt to ensure were offering the best digital experience possible.
About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com
Cirions Housing and Colocation Services: Credit Card Data Transit Securely through their Data Centers
Its data centers in the region have obtained PCI-DSS compliance after a successful evaluation process assessing compliance with its requirements. This ensures the security of credit card data passing through the company’s data centers, and is aimed primarily at preventing fraud, attacks, and data loss.
BUENOS AIRES, May 04, 2023 – To continue ensuring the security of customer information, Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, has finalized the 2023 assessment process for the PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), and maintained compliance with requirements 9, 11.1 and 12 (applicable to service providers) in its data centers in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Curitiba (Brazil), Bogota (Colombia XV and SUBA) and Cali (Colombia), Quito (Carcelén) and Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Santiago (Chile) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Additionally, there are the Landing Station in Lurín (Peru) and the Teleport in the Argentine capital.
For any company working with confidential data, such as personal or banking information, adopting security measures is critical as it helps organizations and administrative entities protect and transmit more confidence to their users.
This compliance validates the security of credit card data transiting through Cirion’s data centers, and its main objective is to prevent fraud, attacks, and data loss.
PCI-DSS is an international security standard established by the PCI Security Standards Council, an organization founded by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB and Discover, for companies that store, process, or transmit card data.
This compliance represents an important competitive differential and signals the market that we meet the corporate demands of our customers in e-commerce, banking, finance, and other associated industries who need the peace of mind from knowing that their IT services are hosted on a service provider focused on its customers information security, commented Alexandre Simcsik, Director of Data Center Operations at Cirion.
Cirion operates one of the most interconnected carrier-neutral data center platforms in Latin America, with 18 data centers of its own. Its portfolio of services offers an IT platform to support business applications with cloud and security solutions, as well as infrastructure such as Hosting and Colocation, developed with an architecture based on strict physical and logical security standards to offer reliable services.
To learn about all of the companys certifications and compliances to ensure and maintain the level of quality of its services, access this link.
About Cirion:
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networks, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communications and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region.
Cirion Technologies strengthens its leadership team in the Andean region
María Claudia Rey joins the Cirion team in Bogotá, Colombia.
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, March 27, 2023 To strengthen its regional leadership team, Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, today announced the appointment of María Claudia Rey as Vice President of Sales for the Andean Cluster Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
María Claudia takes on the position with responsibility for developing, leading, and executing Cirion’s commercial strategy for the Andean Region, coupled with the expansion of its infrastructure, products, and services to support its customers’ ongoing digital transformation and value creation.
María Claudia has a degree in Economics from Javeriana University, is specialized in Corporate Finance at Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración CESA and holds a PDD from INALDE. She has over 25 years of experience leading high performance teams in several companies and has worked many years in leadership positions as President and Vice President of sales and customers, in technology companies such as Links, Atento, Compuredes, Arus, and most recently as commercial and business Vice President at PROTECCIÓN S.A., a pension and severance fund in Colombia.
Married for over 24 years to Felipe, María Claudia has two children Santiago and María José and is passionate about family, friends, and sports, highlighting her preference for marathons and a healthy lifestyle. She is part of the womens community on Boards of Directors, and she is certain that gender equality strengthens both women and organizations.
“This new challenge is a privilege for me, even more so in a company with Cirion’s track record in Latin America. In an industry that constantly adapts to the evolution of new technologies, Cirion innovates, gets ahead, and is dedicated to delivering the best customer experience, supported by a professional, talented, and passionate team that understands the needs of organizations in Latin America. I am very happy to join this team and I am confident in the success of this new professional stage in my life,” comments María Claudia.
About Cirion
Cirion is a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber networks, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communications and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin Americas progress through technology. Cirion serves over 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational customers, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, wireline and wireless carriers, ISPs, and other leading businesses. Cirion owns and operates a portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region.
Cirion values its MEF membership as the company that works in building the advanced features that enterprise customers, telecom operators and service providers require, and by joining MEF, will enable members to integrate with the Cirion network to enhance their own network coverage and performance. We will continue to develop and evolve its ecosystem of tools, products and services, forging our level of excellence based on a language and standards shared by our clients and partners.
Cirion captured a first-mover advantage in bringing to market a first-of-its-kind product and agreement package in a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution in Latin America, trusting that this technology would provide a leap in quality for WANs. Enabling the next generation of network optimization, Cirions SD-WAN empowers organizations with intelligent routing, faster branch site deployment, centralized policy management, and direct internet connectivity to public clouds and cloud applications.
The expansions include new data centers and network infrastructure, with the addition of several new data centers across Latin America which will be interconnected with Cirion´s existing data centers, providing customers with increased redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities.
María Claudia takes on the position with responsibility for developing, leading, and executing Cirion’s commercial strategy for the Andean Region, coupled with the expansion of its infrastructure, products, and services to support its customers’ ongoing digital transformation and value creation.