Tissat con su DataCenter Walhalla ha ganado el premio “ONDA CERO CASTELLÓN” en la categoría de EMPRESA

Si el año pasado fue la Cadena SER quien otorgó un premio al Data Center Walhalla (tras haber recibido el DataCenterLeaders Award en el 2010 reconociendo la excelencia en su diseño), este año ha sido la Cadena “Onda Cero” quien ha premiado a Tissat por su DataCenter Walhalla.

El mundo de la cultura, el deporte, la educación y las tradiciones se dió cita anoche, 30 de mayo, en el Teatro Principal de Castellón, en el acto de entrega de los XII Premios “Onda Cero Castellón”, con los que la emisora ofreció una fotografía fija de la sociedad castellonense, su tejido empresarial y su compromiso social y su emprendedurismo.

Con estos premios, Onda Cero Castellón, reconoce anualmente a personas, colectivos y entidades cuyo trabajo ha tenido una repercusión importante en el progreso, el desarrollo y la calidad de vida de la sociedad de la provincia de Castellón. El objetivo de estos premios es reconocer acciones que a veces, pasan desapercibidas para los medios de comunicación y, sin embargo, son parte de su historia y su progreso.

En la presente edición el jurado ha reconocido la labor de:

• la Asociación Cultural Nueva Jerusalem (Premio a la Iniciativa Vecinal),
• el ayuntamiento de Onda por su iniciativa de asumir los alquileres para desahuciados (Premio de la Integración Social),
• la website “Las Villas” (Premio de la Comunicación),
• el conde de Cirat por la donación de su legado a la provincia (Premio de la Cultura),
• el pintor César Díaz Naya (Premio de las Artes Plásticas),
• Juanjo Carratalá (Premio de la Música),
• el club Big Twin (Premio del Turismo),
• el Proyecto Campeones (Premio de la Solidaridad),
• Walhalla de Tissat (Premio de la Empresa),
• el congreso Enrédate (Premio de la Economía),
• el Centro de Tecnificación Deportiva de Penyeta Roja (Premio de la Educación),
• el club Marató i Mitja (Premio de los Deportes),
• la rogativa Catí-Castellfort (Premio de las Fiestas),
• la doctora Isabel Tena (Premio de la Salud)
• la Asociació Juvenil Enredadera Jove de la UJI (Premio del Medioambiente).

El codirector de Radioestadio y colaborador de La Brújula de Onda Cero, Javier Ruíz Taboada, fue el encargado, junto con la periodista de Onda Cero Castellón, Lorena Pardo, de presentar la ceremonia de entrega de estas distinciones, un acto público que la emisora organizó con el objetivo de que los premiados reciban el homenaje de la sociedad castellonense.

Los XII Premios “Onda Cero Castellón” cuentan con el patrocinio institucional del Ayuntamiento de Castellón y la Diputación Provincial de Castellón.

Se incluye el podcast de la entrevista realizada a nuestro Director General (Manuel Escuín) por Onda Cero en relación a este premio: pinchar aquí

Tissat and Open Up joint for offering Cloud Services

Tissat y Open Up se han unido para ir juntos al mercado de servicios cloud. Tissat apotará su oferta de infraestructura y servicios cloud, y Open Up sus servicios integrales para DataCenters.

 

Más en concreto, Tissat aporta a la alianza sus servicios cloud y de consultoría y su centro de datos Walhalla, el primero de nuestro país comercialmente disponible con certificación Tier IV.

 

Por su parte, Open Up contribuye con su conocimiento en la instalación y mantenimiento de este tipo de infraestructuras críticas, ofreciendo servicios de instalaciones eléctricas, cableado, logística, suministro y mantenimiento de centros de datos.

 

En palabras de Carmen García, directora de Tissat Madrid, “en un momento como el actual la expansión empresarial pasa por sumar esfuerzos y complementar nuestra oferta para poder ofrecer un servicio integral a nuestros clientes y ampliar el marco de actuación, no sólo a nivel geográfico, sino en lo que a oferta de servicios se refiere”.

 

Según Carmen Heredero, directora de Open Up, “la colaboración y suma de esfuerzos es una ventaja competitiva en el mercado actual, ya que se potencian las cualidades de ambas organizaciones. Este proyecto de colaboración nos permite ofrecer un servicio final en los Data Centers de calidad y alto valor añadido”.

CERN, another “big giant” that is going to use OpenStack (currently deploying)

CERN is another “big giant” that is going to use OpenStack. In fact, right now is deploying the OpenStack cloud this month, and it has already been in use by pilot testers with 250 new VMs being created each day.

 

The figures are impressive: 150.000 virtual machine, running on 16.000 physical machines distributed in two DataCenters (the oldest in Genève and the new one in Budapest) that will provide IaaS to Nearly 11,000 physicists across the globe working on official CERN experiments would be eligible to use this private cloud: “Scientists will be able to request whatever amount of CPU, memory, and storage space they need. They will also be able to get a virtual machine with the requested amounts within 15 minutes”.

 

This approach let media publish that:

  

150,000 cloud virtual machines will help solve mysteries of the Universe

  

OpenStack, Puppet used to build cloud for world's largest particle accelerator.

 

 

 

The full new and more details can be read in:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/150000-cloud-virtual-machines-will-help-solve-mysteries-of-the-universe/?utm_campaign=Tweets+Q2+2013&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=42817

Tissat becomes part of the “UK CloudStore” (G-Cloud)

 

I am absolutely proud of announcing that TISSAT has got into the “UK CloudStore”, a UK Government marketplace designed to make the process of selecting Cloud services easier, simpler and quite cheaper for Public Sector Procurement Officers.

 

 

This success becomes more important because the UK Government has just confirmed that it has adopted a 'Cloud First' policy (similar to the US one), making it mandatory for buyers of IT products and services in central government to consider purchases through the cloud as their first option: Cabinet Office Minister said that the policy will drive wider adoption of cloud computing in the public sector, boosting business through the G-Cloud programme's CloudStore, and ensuring the public sector buys IT in a 'quicker, cheaper, more competitive way'.

 

  

This is the TISSAT's press release:

 

Tissat, 07th May 2013 – Tissat, Spanish company specializing in the Mission-Critical Outsourcing and Cloud Computing services, has been successful as a supplier under the Governments G-Cloud framework within the United Kingdom. Thus, Tissat becomes part of the UK Cloud Store, a platform for suppliers to offer their services for Cloud computing created by the British government.

 

Thus, the British government intends to promote maximum transparency in procurement of such cloudservices within the public sector. These enable a channel for the acquisition of products and services, as a catalog “on line” that contains all the information from various providers and the services they offer.

 

Moreover, being successful suppliers  it may be seen as a product and/or service with good value for money, quick and efficient offering quality solutions at reasonable prices.

 

 

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About Tissat

 

Tissat, Spanish company leader in asset management technology and provider of Cloud Computing services, ContactCenter and Business Development, possess an excellent position in the provision of services and application development for the end client, under a model of efficiency and management energy management unique at European level. Its new CPD, Walhalla (Tier IV) represents an industrialization model of own designed CPD own ready to host cloud computing services and able to provide international hosting.

UK Cloud Store (G-Cloud Services)

Roughly a year ago, the UK government opens CloudStore procurement system: a marketplace designed to make the process of selecting Cloud services easier, simpler and quite cheaper for public sector procurement officers. The market place is known both as “UK Cloud Store” and as “G-Cloud Services”, and now the third RFP (Request For Proposals) to become a G-Cloud provider is just finished.

 

Unfortunately this governmental policy is the only one in Europe, in fact with that step the UK Government seems to me (let me say that I’m Spanish and I’m proud of it, so I’m not biased) to be the only European one that, even earlier to be published, is practicing European Cloud Computing Strategy announced by Ms. Neelie Kroes (the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda) on September, the 25^th: removing regulatory barriers, building trust in the market,  building the business case for cloud adoption, protect consumers’ rights to control their data, promoting standardisation and interoperability, and so on.  So, by the way,  I cannot  understand how UK is place in the 7^th place in Business Software Alliance (BSA) report about “the best 24 countries prepared for the Cloud”; just after other European countries as Germany, France, Italy, and very closely followed by Spain in the 9^th position.

 

About that kind of governmental policies, let me repeat my very particular opinion: disregarding what other important laws (as the ones stated in the BSA report or in the European Digital Agenda recommendations) and governmental policies (also analyzed by the great Consulting companies), the US Government with its “First Cloud” policy and the UK Convergent with its “UK Cloud Store” that pursue to foster the Cloud market in the US or UK Administration organisms are quite incentive and will help to foster the private Cloud market too. Of course the private initiative is important, but some kind of public incentive will accelerate it specially in Europe (where public sector influence in IT business is more important than in USA.); indeed, the US government is practising that policy, may be for different reasons, or for that ones and others.

 

G-Cloud sales data is now made publicly available by the Cabinet Office as a spreadsheet, a great example of the transparency agenda within government. The current data covers all G-Cloud sales over the last 13 months. And that data are a probe of my opinion, (please let me mention that I’ve copied some pictures from Andy Powell’s post ):

 

13 months Summary: from 2012-03 until 2013-03:


 
 
Total spend by month:
 


If we drawn this data, the picture shows a exponential growth curve with a sharp rise in sales during March this year, something that has been blogged about by various people:




Besides the spent by lot has been the following:


That clearly shows a bigger interest in Consulting Services.


Moreover, relating to the most active agents, in one hand, the 10 top buyers (by spend) have been the next organisms:




And, in the other hand, the 10 top providers (by sales) have been the next companies: