Holding YDUQS modernizes its IT Infrastructure by partnering with Cirion and Oracle

Mar 6, 2024

Holding YDUQS modernizes its IT Infrastructure by partnering with Cirion and Oracle

Updating the computing environment, with the migration to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, allows YDUQS to focus on its strategic objectives, while optimizing its costs, offering greater service availability and improving the student experience

São Paulo, March 6, 2024 – YDUQS, one of Brazil’s most important educational groups retained the technological services of Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology to migrate all the production databases of the institution to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer environment, thus updating their business support infrastructure.

YDUQS offers a diverse portfolio of educational institutions, including — Estácio, Ibmec, IDOMED, Wyden and Damásio, covering a wide range of courses and modalities.

In 2020, YDUQS sought to upgrade its IT infrastructure to tackle the growing challenges of the educational market. The institution needed a flexible, scalable and secure solution, which also offered high performance and availability for their critical systems.

Further to a rigorous selection process, Cirion was chosen as a technological partner, responsible for migrating all YDUQS production databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, deploying Universal Credits model, thus ensuring data resiliency by replicating the environment to another Data Center. The company’s new environment hosts business applications and offers greater availability of the service provided to their students, improving response time to their requests.

This solution provides the company with greater stability, flexibility and security, in addition to optimizing costs and allowing the institution to focus on its strategic objectives.

Benefits of the Solution

Migrating to Exadata provided YDUQS with several benefits, including:

Increased stability and performance: Optimized environment for Oracle Database, resulting in a significant increase in system performance and availability.
Flexibility and scalability: The solution is highly flexible and scalable, thus enabling a fast and efficient response to your needs.
Security and reliability: State-of-the-art security and reliability resources to ensure that the institution data will be protected.
Cost Optimization: Oracle’s solution offers a flexible payment model adjustable to customer needs. The institution pays a monthly recurring price for a set of basic resources (baseline), which guarantees predictability and cost control. In times of high demand, the institution can scale up the OCPUs (central processing units) and pay only for the baseline surplus. This flexibility enables IT cost optimization, paying only for the resources you use.

“YDUQS found the ideal partner in Cirion, since they provide us with daily management support, ensuring Oracle database maintenance and support. Thus our team is able to focus on our apps specifications and in our customers experience (students) sparing the complexities of support infrastructure,” said Rodrigo Coutinho, IT Director for YDUQS. “The new structure is the foundation for our business digital transformation”.

“YDUQS is a great example for the kind of challenges that Cirion can help you solve. Our professionals are trained to act from their first contact to daily operations support, evaluating IT needs based on our customers’ business demands”, said Rodrigo Oliveira, Data Centers Director for Cirion Brazil.

About YDUQS

YDUQS is an educational technology and services group, meant to raise the quality of university education in Brazil. It offers a diverse portfolio of educational institutions, covering a wide range of courses and modalities. It is the only higher education organization in the world with an “AA” ESG rating, awarded in October 2023 by MSCI, a global benchmark in evaluating corporate sustainability practices, placing them in the market top tier among publicly listed companies. Their commitment to sustainable development and the communities they serve is guided by a robust ESG strategy. Today, they are one of the largest educational groups in Brazil, home to some of the country’s most relevant educational institutions. For over five decades, their journey has been defined by a commitment to Brazilian development, the integration of digital culture and innovation, and inclusive education.

Learn more in: http://www.yduqs.com.br

About Cirion

Cirion is a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, 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 more than 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational clients, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, carriers, ISPs, and other leading companies. 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

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Infrastructure as a Service: Cirion extends coverage of its Bare Metal Cloud product to Colombia

Feb 26, 2024

Infrastructure as a Service: Cirion extends coverage of its Bare Metal Cloud product to Colombia

Minimum latency, provisioning speed, autonomy of use, and management are a few of the main benefits

Miami, February 26, 2024 – To offer computing capacity in different regions, with minimal latency and integrated into zones, Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, continues to expand its technological infrastructure in Latin America with the implementation of a new region of its Bare Metal Cloud service, a computing alternative for hybrid environments.

Bare Metal Cloud is a computing platform that offers dedicated, high-performance hardware, with self-management and pay-per-use, to host strategic applications. Bare Metal Cloud makes it possible to assign dedicated servers to any of the platform’s customers automatically, providing minimal latency, provisioning speed, flexibility of use, and management. Deployed in Cirion’s main data centers, it guarantees proximity to users and high levels of security.

During 2023, this technology was provided to Cirion’s customers in Brazil in São Paulo (SP), Fortaleza (CE), and the Northeast region, as well as in the cities of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Curitiba (PR).

Cirion is now expanding its Bare Metal Cloud coverage with a new region in its Data Center in Bogotá, Colombia. Throughout 2024, the company plans to continue its expansion to the cities of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico, and Santiago.

“Bare Metal Cloud is a service that offers automated computing capacity and is located close to large centers, so its solutions have very low latency. Additionally, the solution allows for absolute agility, as it is ready to use,” comments Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies.

Other key benefits are:

Reduces IT solutions’ time to market, with on-demand, real-time, dedicated access to customer servers.
Offers high-performance computing combined with the flexibility of the cloud.
Minimizes latency and optimizes security with dedicated servers hosted in Cirion Data Centers close to users and complying with the highest standards of international certifications (TIER III, ISO, ISAE, PCI).
Complete and remote control of computing environment’s logical configuration.

According to the international consultancy firm IDC, by 2026 40% of infrastructure, security, data, and network offerings will require cloud-based control platforms that enable extensive automation and promise significant reductions in ongoing operational costs.

With Bare Metal Cloud, Cirion offers greater cloud agility for the computing infrastructure through an innovative capacity as a service.

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 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 portfolio of networks and data centers, with extensive coverage throughout the Latin American region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com

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Latin America’s Leading Digital Infrastructure Provider Cirion Joins Connectbase Platform

Feb 20, 2024

Latin America’s Leading Digital Infrastructure Provider Cirion Joins Connectbase Platform

BOSTON, MA, USA – February 22, 2024 – Connectbase, the global marketplace for connectivity, is thrilled to announce that Cirion, a trailblazing digital infrastructure and technology provider with over 30 years of experience in Latin America, has officially become a featured seller on the Connectbase platform. This strategic collaboration will empower Cirion to showcase and automate the sale of its extensive suite of connectivity solutions. By loading its footprint onto the platform, Cirion aims to enhance accessibility for its buyers and other ecosystem customers, streamlining the process of purchasing cutting-edge digital infrastructure services.

Cirion’s integration into the Connectbase platform and API Fabric signifies a strategic alignment of goals. This collaboration will enhance Cirion’s ability to showcase and automate the sale of its connectivity solutions, providing an enriched experience for buyers within the Connectbase ecosystem.

Benefits of the Collaboration:

Streamlined Connectivity Solutions: Buyers within the Connectbase ecosystem will have streamlined direct API access to Cirion’s cutting-edge connectivity solutions and be able to quote Cirion’s services in Latin America.
Global Reach: Cirion, as a leading Pan-Latin American network present in 20 countries, will bring a expansive reach to the Connectbase platform, enriching the diversity of connectivity options available.
Innovation and Progress: Both companies share a commitment to innovation and progress, ensuring that customers receive the necessary connectivity and IT resources to meet the evolving challenges and opportunities in Latin America and worldwide.

Connectbase CEO Ben Edmond and Cirion’s EVP of Global Sales, Gabriel Holgado, issued a joint statement expressing their excitement about the partnership:

“We are thrilled to embark on this journey with Cirion. This partnership represents a union of expertise and innovation that will redefine the digital infrastructure landscape. Together, we look forward to empowering businesses with seamless connectivity solutions and driving progress in Latin America and beyond.”

About Connectbase

Connectbase is the leading global marketplace platform for the digital infrastructure and connectivity industry. Connectbase is a partner to the industry, enabling best-in-class deep, trusted location insights; next-generation applications for suppliers, partners and buyers, and is the world’s largest connected API Fabric for Service Providers. Connectbase’s industry-leading platform, The Connected World, serves over 360 providers globally, managing 2.7 billion locations across more than 150 countries. The Connectbase connected ecosystem which transforms network buying and selling processes is updated 80 billion times a month. Visit Connectbase at connectbase.com and follow us on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/connectbase-us/.

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Cirion partners with Tata Communications to Elevate CDN Services Throughout Latin America

Feb 20, 2024

Cirion partners with Tata Communications to Elevate CDN Services Throughout Latin America

Strategic collaboration will enable Cirion and Tata Communications to rapidly scale and become one of the largest Content Delivery Network (CDN) service providers in the region

MIAMI, FL, February, 20, 2024 – Cirion Technologies today announced it has partnered with Tata Communications, the global commtech (communications technology) player, to provide a world class content delivery network (CDN) in Latin America. The collaboration will empower Cirion to enhance its CDN capacity in the region and expand the reach leveraging Tata Communications’ global CDN network. The partnership will further improve the content delivery experience for customers of both Cirion and Tata Communications, ensuring fast and secure delivery within the region and beyond.

Ensuring fast content delivery and functionality is crucial in providing customers with engaging digital experiences. For this, reliable and efficient data flow is imperative. The strategic partnership with Tata Communications will allow Cirion to rapidly scale as market demand increases. Cirion will significantly increase its ability to seamlessly deliver high-quality rich media content throughout the region and become one of the largest low-latency CDN service providers across Latin America. Customers will also enjoy the facility of having a simplified configuration and management of their content delivery with real-time insights.

“The increasing rapid growth of data consumption and Internet traffic across major Latin American cities, caused by the exponential growth of mobile users, IoT devices, Cloud applications, among others represents new demands on networks, which have to continue optimizing and upgrading in order to scale and deliver the necessary performance required by users,” said Alejandro Girardotti, Senior Director of Products, Innovation and Strategic Alliances at Cirion Technologies. “These days, customers expect a very rich user experience coupled with good response times. Tata Communications’ strength in the media and entertainment services ecosystem was one of our main drivers to choose them to partner with for our CDN services and keep satisfied customers”.

According to a study by Frost & Sullivan, the global CDN market reached $14.68 billion in 2022. The consulting firm also projects the market to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.41% and reach $33.30 billion in 2029. During that period, the content delivery segment will see a growth rate of 4.58%, the edge computing segment (30.99%) and the security segment (15.71%) ¹

“Our infrastructure adapts dynamically and in real time to market demands, enabling an efficient management of critical applications and their data, which makes it possible for companies to identify market trends in advance and respond quickly, with solutions that stimulate future growth,” says Girardotti.

Dhaval Ponda, Vice President and Global Head of Media and Entertainment at Tata Communications said, “In today’s fast-paced world, swift and secure delivery of content is of paramount importance. Our commitment is to excel in this endeavor, ensuring that Cirion customers across the region experience seamless and efficient content delivery. Tata Communications has made significant investments in global media edge to support low latency CDN. And with this new partnership, we are poised to redefine the standards of excellence in content delivery, ensuring an unparalleled experience for customers.”

Many of the world’s leading media and ecommerce sites rely on Cirion’s programmable edge and proven customer service to grow their businesses and enable reliable content delivery to users around Latin America.

As a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider, Cirion counts on 50,000 kilometers of terrestrial long-haul and metropolitan fiber optics, as well as 36,000 km of submarine cables and 18 landing stations, setting a structure that allows it to operate with scalable networks capable of adapting to the increase in connected users without having them experience a slower navigation.

Tata Communications offers a world-class, digital-first suite of media solutions underpinned by a media platform built especially for global media, sports and entertainment segments. It manages the end-to-end production, distribution and delivery, including the management of media supply chain workflows of live and on-demand video content. Through its international licenses and various partnerships, TC’s core solution spans 190+ countries, comprising a world-leading Video Connect Network, build-for-media edge services, and a cloud-based Media ecosystem that powers the entire value chain to bring content from every corner of the world to screens worldwide.

About Tata Communications

A part of the Tata Group, Tata Communications (NSE: TATACOMM; BSE: 500483) is a global digital ecosystem enabler powering today’s fast-growing digital economy in more than 190 countries and territories. Leading with trust, it enables digital transformation of enterprises globally with collaboration and connected solutions, core and next gen connectivity, cloud hosting and security solutions and media services. 300 of the Fortune 500 companies are its customers and the company connects businesses to 80% of the world’s cloud giants. For more information, please visit www.tatacommunications.com

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

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CBC Tech and Cirion Technologies forge Strategic Partnership to expand Global Presence

Jan 19, 2024

CBC Tech and Cirion Technologies forge Strategic Partnership to expand Global Presence

MIAMI, FL, and BEIJING, January, 19, 2024 – CBC Tech, a next-gen Network as a Service Provider in Asia Pacific, has entered into a strategic partnership with Cirion Technologies, a leading digital infrastructure and technology provider in Latin America. This collaboration aims to significantly broaden market penetration and enrich customer offerings across Latin America, China, and Asia Pacific for both companies.

The partnership will enable CBC Tech serving as a pivotal partner, distributing Cirion’s infrastructure and IT services across 20 countries in Latin America to the customers in China and Asia Pacific. Leveraging CBC Tech’s extensive network and expertise, Cirion aims to meet the needs of the customers in China and Asia Pacific, with local touch and local support to deliver the best customer experience.

For CBC Tech, recognized for its innovative technology solutions, this partnership marks a pivotal opportunity to diversify and strengthen its product portfolio in Latin America. By integrating Cirion’s services into its offerings, CBC Tech is poised to enrich its service portfolio, providing customers with an expanded range of sophisticated solutions in Latin America.

Ricky Chau, Chief Strategy & Customer Officer at CBC Tech expressed excitement about the collaboration, stating, “Our partnership with Cirion signifies our commitment to expanding our global footprint to serve growing customers demand for services in Latin America. This collaboration will undoubtedly elevate our depth and breadth of services in Latin America for our customers.”

Gabriel Holgado, Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Cirion, shared his optimism, saying, Our alliance with CBC Tech strengthens our commitment to our customers in China and the Asia Pacific. We anticipate that this partnership will enable us to effectively respond to our clients specific needs.

The partnership between CBC Tech and Cirion is a testament to a strategic alliance focused on driving innovation, expanding global reach, and delivering top-tier services to customers across various regions. This collaboration is set to redefine the technology solutions landscape in Latin America, China, and Asia Pacific.

About CBC Tech

CBC Tech is a next-gen Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, offering patented SD-WAN fabrics across 70 cities in China and internationally. CBC Tech enables cloud-native network and security for enterprises over their SD-WAN fabrics, integrated with congestion-free IP and networks, mobile access, network appliance, multi-cloud connects, and cloud-based security to deliver superior application performance with an excellent customer experience. For more information about CBC Tech, visit the website at www.cbctech.com

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