Las Vegas, November 2023 – Cloud Kinetics has been honoured with the 2023 Geo and Global AWS Partner Award, recognizing leaders around the globe playing a key role helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, the Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of AWS Partners, whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation over the past year. Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognize partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they work with customers.

As a Premier Consulting Partner of AWS, Cloud Kinetics has spearheaded over 200 successful AWS cloud migrations and has consistently demonstrated deep expertise in delivering cutting-edge AWS technologies to help clients solve complex business challenges. With speciality certifications spanning Infrastructure Automation, Applications Modernization, Data & Analytics, DevOps and Storage, Cloud Kinetics sets itself apart as one of the few managed services partners in the region to hold key competencies across a broad spectrum of cloud services – going beyond cloud migration to empower enterprises to unlock additional value and efficiency through robust automation and data operations. Cloud Kinetics leverages specialist in-house expertise and strong and scalable operations in over 8 countries across Asia, as well as Australia and the United States to unlock digital transformation for its customers.

“We are honoured to receive the distinguished AWS Innovation Partner of the Year – APJ award. At Cloud Kinetics, we believe in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the cloud, to enable businesses to not only stay at the forefront of today’s economy but to also anticipate and address future challenges with confidence,” said Saleh M “Haji” Munshi, Group CEO of Cloud Kinetics. “Our longstanding relationship with AWS underscores our shared commitment to excellence, innovation and customer success, and we look forward to expanding our collaborations to ensure our customers derive greater value from the latest advancements AWS has to offer.”

For the second year in a row, Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards included a self-nomination process across several award categories, which are awarded at both the geo and global level. All AWS Partners were invited to participate and submit a nomination. Award submissions were reviewed by a third-party, Canalys, and selected with special emphasis placed on customer success use cases presented in the nomination form.

In addition, there were a number of data-driven award categories, which comprised a unique set of metrics that helped measure AWS Partners’ performance within the past year. Canalys audited the datasets used to ensure that all measurements and calculations were objective and correct in nature.

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global program focused on helping companies build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. The APN includes independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world, with AWS Partner participation growing significantly during the past 12 months.

A panel of AWS experts selected the winners based on strict criteria with third-party audit conducted by Canalys. Cloud Kinetics is excited to announce it has received the AWS Innovation Partner of the Year – APJ award recognizing organizations that deliver innovative consulting, professional, managed, and value-added resale services. Winners have demonstrated proof in delivering outstanding customer experience via an integrated lifecycle of services, from initial assessments, architecting, developing and deployment of cloud environments to ongoing migration and management of cloud infrastructure and applications.

The award comes to Cloud Kinetics on the heels of other industry accolades including the HashiCorp Focus Partner of the Year and the Channel Asia Cloud Tech Innovation Award, won for the third consecutive time.

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“The Channel Asia Innovation Awards 2023 brought the unique community together to celebrate the best of the best,” Foundry Asia editorial director Christopher Holmes said. “Representing the entire ASEAN ecosystem, more than 110 finalists make the shortlist this year from a pool of over 40 organizations, spanning partner, start-up, telco, vendor and distributor businesses.

The Cloud Innovation award recognizes the tangible value Cloud Kinetics brings to customers, enhancing customer innovation on the cloud. It is also the latest in Cloud Kinetics’ expanding portfolio of awards and competencies this year, including, recently, the AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year 2023, HashiCorp APJ Focus Partner 2023 Award, and the AWS DevOps Consulting Competency.

Cloud Kinetics wins this award for its focus on helping companies transform. With an emphasis on professional development, its workforce has seen a huge growth of certified professionals across cloud platforms. Customer success stories demonstrate the flexibility in approach and ability to meet and exceed customer expectations – IDG Channel Asia

With a growing ecosystem of cloud, applications and data partners, Cloud Kinetics offers end-to-end solutions that cater to customers’ unique needs across the different stages of their digitalization and digital transformation journey. Over 350 Fortune 100 companies, listed firms and cloud-native unicorns across industries have leveraged Cloud Kinetics’ multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, applications and data expertise to accelerate their digital transformation. 

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San Francisco, 27 October 2023 – Cloud Kinetics, a leading cloud transformation partner with strong & scalable operations in the Unites States, ANZ and Asia,  has been awarded the 2023 HashiCorp APJ Focus Partner of the Year award.

Cloud Kinetics was recognized for enabling organizations across industries to operate seamlessly by streamlining their cloud infrastructure provisioning, security and networking to achieve unprecedented agility and operational efficiency with HashiCorp’s advanced solutions.

As a HashiCorp Hyper-Specialized System Integrator Partner, Cloud Kinetics is one of the few partners in the region to hold Certified HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP) certifications across HashiCorp’s core products: Terraform, Vault and Consul, with capabilities spanning Infrastructure-as-Code, Cloud Security and Service Networking.

The HashiCorp Partner of the Year awards honor exceptional partners within the HashiCorp Partner Network for their enduring commitment to building integrations for the HashiCorp suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products, which are used by enterprises around the globe. The 2023 HashiCorp Technology Partner Awards award was announced and presented at the HashiConf conference in San Francisco.

Thousands of companies use HashiCorp to provision, secure, connect, and run cloud infrastructure for their most important applications. Cloud Kinetics is a key ecosystem partner, and we are thrilled to recognize their contribution with the HashiCorp APJ Focus Partner of the Year. I am excited to continue our collaboration with Cloud Kinetics so that together, we can help our customers realize the full value of our combined solutions.Leon Jones, VP, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, HashiCorp

The HashiCorp Focus Partner of the Year award comes on the heels of Cloud Kinetics’ recent recognition as the first partner in the ASEAN, South Asia and Oceania regions to earn the HashiCorp Infrastructure Competency. Cloud Kinetics’ multi-cloud expertise and technical mastery of HashiCorp technologies have bolstered the infrastructure automation foundation of many organizations – a critical bedrock for modern enterprises seeking to scale and innovate.

We are thrilled to be named the HashiCorp APJ Focus Partner of the Year. This award is a great recognition of the work we are doing with HashiCorp to drive disruptive change for enterprises navigating the shifts in a multi-cloud world. We see our partnership as a critical force multiplier to address complex IT challenges and drive DevOps excellence for businesses of all sizes and industries, and look forward to more fruitful collaborations.Saleh M “Haji” Munshi, Group CEO, Cloud Kinetics

The recent wins mark a significant milestone in Cloud Kinetics’ growth trajectory and stand as notable additions to the company’s expanding portfolio of awards and competencies, including the AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year 2023, AWS DevOps Consulting Competency, as well as the IDG Channel Asia Cloud Innovation Partner award twice in a row. Building upon its achievements and customer success with multinational corporations, Cloud Kinetics will continue to help empower more small and medium-sized businesses and public sector organizations to harness automation as a strategic imperative to thrive in a digital-first era.

With a global presence in 8 countries, Cloud Kinetics is uniquely positioned to serve the dynamic needs of each local market. As part of its ongoing growth strategy, Cloud Kinetics will be making firmer strides in USA and Australia as well as expanding into Thailand in Asia to better empower enterprise clients in the regions to accelerate their digital transformation journey.

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The ASEAN Rising Star Partner of the Year award is presented to a consulting partner who has strategically grown their AWS business in the last 12 months from a revenue, scope and build perspective.

It recognizes significant contributions to AWS in specific areas relating to new-to-AWS customer acquisition, large strategic migration and modernization, and coverage to build capacity and capability of its AWS Partner Network (APN).

Cloud Kinetics has a laser focus on executing transformational cloud projects and collaborates closely with our in-country teams to establish a sound cloud agenda, with a well-planned modernization roadmap for businesses in their digital transformation journeys. We are grateful to them for bringing the AWS cloud to life for our customers, said a spokesperson from AWS at the Awards.

“We are extremely proud to have been recognized as AWS ASEAN Rising Star Partner of the Year. This award is a validation of the collective efforts of our team and would not be possible without the support from AWS, in enabling us to go above and beyond to deliver unmatched value to our customers,” said Saleh M “Haji” Munshi, Group CEO of Cloud Kinetics.

Announced across the year, AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the-cloud and traditional services and software partners whose business models have embraced specialization and collaboration. The awards honor partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they work with customers.

Many enterprises in the region are still in the early stages of their cloud journey and have yet to realize the full potential of the cloud. The future of cloud is an exciting one and we look forward to deepening our partnership with AWS to make it easier for more businesses to scale and drive powerful innovation in the cloud.Haji Munshi, CEO, Cloud Kinetics

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With the presence of senior leaders from AWS, AI Education, Cloud Kinetics, and special guests from partners, departments and organizations, the opening ceremony of AWS re/Start went very smoothly, and inspired many individuals to attend.

AWS re/Start is a free 12-week training program first launched in Vietnam that helps the underemployed develop their cloud computing skills and launch their careers in the technology industry. AI Education, Cloud Kinetics, and AWS re/Start are helping to build a new, diverse, and inclusive platform of cloud workforce by upskilling individuals who are looking for a thriving career in this field.

Right from the start, the program has proven to be extremely promising with more than 700 applicants, and after rounds of selection and interviews, the first course of AWS re/Start has started with 25 students. Currently, the number of candidates wishing to attend the program is increasing, and it is expected that new courses will be opened continuously in the future.

During the event, the special guests had a very profound sharing about the cloud computing industry and the great opportunities of the industry in Southeast Asian countries, especially Vietnam.
Bung Tran, co-founder and president of AI Education, said, “The talent ecosystem in Vietnam is experiencing accelerated digital transformation. However, there is a shortage of workers capable of meeting the new demands of the 4.0 industrial revolution. For example, the transition to cloud computing among Vietnam’s largest banks requires a skilled workforce capable of handling cloud-related jobs. AI Education aims to reskill and upskill the workforce in Vietnam and the neighboring countries. I am pleased that AWS re/Start is now available in Vietnam. The program offers new opportunities to learners who are currently unemployed or want to switch their careers to cloud, which will help reduce the cloud skills gap in the country.”

Conor McNamara, Director of AWS Commercial Sector in ASEAN, said, “AWS re/Start brings “net-new” talent into the workforce, establishing a win-win-win scenario for individuals to launch successful careers in the cloud, organizations to increase their competitive edge with in-demand talent, and communities to thrive and grow. We are proud to collaborate with AI Education and Cloud Kinetics to launch this program and build early cloud skills talent to support our customers in their cloud journey.”

Anirban Roy, Deputy CEO, Oriental Commercial Joint Stock Bank, said, “As we strive to move more of our workloads and applications to the cloud, it’s crucial to have skilled cloud talent on our team. We look forward to recruiting AWS re/Start graduates because they will come prepared to fill roles such as junior cloud associate and DevOps engineers. This program allows us to connect with potential employees that we otherwise may not have access to.”

Haji Munshi, CEO of Cloud Kinetics, said, “Cloud skills development is a critical foundation for organizations looking to embark on the digital transformation journey. By collaborating with AWS and AI Education, we will be providing real world scenarios and projects for the candidates to work on. We believe this will help fill the talent gap with true cloud practitioners.”

About AWS re/Start organizers:

Cloud Kinetics (CK) is a leading managed cloud service provider (MSP) with operations in 8 countries. CK specializes in cloud migration, complex cloud assessments & integrations, hybrid cloud optimization, data modernization, application modernization, and running mission-critical operations on the cloud.

As a Premier Partner of AWS, Cloud Kinetics strongly believes that this program will successfully incubate many key talents and human resources for the cloud computing industry in the future.

For more information about Cloud Kinetics, visit: https://www.cloud-kinetics.com

To learn more about AWS re/Start, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/training/restart

To apply for the program, visit: www.cloudcareer.vn

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Using AWS Backup, we provide a fully managed, policy-based backup solution, simplifying your backup management, enabling our customers to meet their business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. CK offers expertise in solutions that configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, etc, and we leverage AWS S3 Glacier for durable and cost effective long term data backup. If your organization is interested in leveraging AWS to help manage the exponential volume, increasing cost and expanding complexity of data storage, we are here to help.

DATA STORAGE Management Framework:

Our team of Certified Cloud and Storage industry leading solutions architects, consultants and engineer staffs work closely with AWS and other data protection solution vendors (ie. NetApp, Cohesity, CommVault, Veeam, N2WS, Druva, MSP360) to provide best of breed end to end backup, DR and any case of data protection solutions to our customers and partners.

Building on the success of our hybrid cloud and data storage offering in the past 5 years, Cloud Kinetics now has established a data experienced storage practices to serve our customer around data storage request.

Data Storage Management Lifecycle

OFFERING:

Data Protection as a Service

VERITAS+AWS VTL+S3: Integrate no. Virtualization backup software with AWS VTL to backup customer on-premise data to AWS S3

NetApp AltaVault + S3: NetApp Altavault is able to integrate with most existing backup solution to enable it to move backup data AWS S3 and Glader

CloudBerry + S3: CloudBerry is cost effective backup and DR Solution to AWS for windows and virtualized environment

N2WS + S3: Veeam N2WS Solution is AWS EC2 native backup to S3 Solution

Disaster Recovery as a Service: We utilize CloudEndure to offer customer Draas to AWS for any customer environment- physical, Hyper-v, VMware and openstack

Hybride Backup as a service (VMC): Integrate with VMC on AWS and Cloud Storage to offer Hybride on AWS backup Solution

Storage as a Service: Provide different tier to meet storage I/O performance requirements.

Veeam Backup as a Service: provide Veeam managed as a services to simplify customer backup operation

Software as a Service

Cloud Volume ONTAP for AWS: A Cloud Storage Management solution that delivers secure proven data management service for AWS, Provide protection, Visibility and control for your cloud based workload.

Disaster Recovery as a Service: Backup and replicate VM to AWS Druva Saas services with one click DR recovery Function

Archival as a service: Tiering 7 Years archival data to long term retention purpose

Backup as a services: Enterprise Scale on an open platform integrate with your existing backup software and public or private cloud storage provider of your choice

Assessment: This assessment is ideal for large enterprise multi-vendor environments. We can provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the performance, configuration, and capacity of your entire heterogeneous infrastructure.

Consulting: Rely on professional services for turnkey processes to elimination readblock and enable faster solution adoption.

Migration: smooth Your transformation with proven Methodologies and best practices to reduce risk and impact to your business

Managed Services: Trust Cloud Kinetics seasoned expertise to manage support and optimization your on-premises and Hybrid-Cloud workloads so You can deliver great business value.

Success Stories:

HiLife: Building smarter living with Cloud Kinetics and AWS
Digiworld accelerates business growth with AWS and Cloud Kinetics

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Digital literacy is no longer the knowledge of effectively using our mobile apps or engage on social media. Businesses are increasingly faced with the ultimatum of going digital or going bust, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns of physical establishments.

The onus is now on the businesses to technologically reinforce themselves in today’s economy, which they can do by combining internal efforts and getting the required help from experts providing digital transformation services.

Digital literacy’s role today

The need for digital transformation

A joint survey by Microsoft and IDC Asia Pacific showed that approximately 75 percent of Singaporean businesses had to accelerate the digitalization of their operations to survive through COVID-19. These enterprises took significant hits to their revenue, due in no small part to forced closures and reduced operating capacities from lockdowns, thereby hastening the transition of processes and offerings to online platforms to ensure operational and business continuity.

The findings exemplify how going digital would aid businesses in optimizing digital tools and platforms (such as internet browsers and software applications) to strengthen the quality, efficiency and productivity of operations. This emphasizes the need for businesses and their employees to be digitally literate so that they can further understand the digital gaps in their operations and determine which digital solutions are required, in addition to becoming competent in fully utilizing such tools.

One example of a digital skill that is transforming how businesses operate (and for others to easily adopt) is social selling, a lead-generation technique that involves salespersons directly interacting with prospective customers through social media platforms. A study showed that 39 percent of B2B professionals experienced a significant reduction in the amount of time taken to search for potential leads with social selling as opposed to traditional non-digitized sales methods such as cold calling.

Why digital literacy is now crucial

Digital productivity

A study in 2020 saw 43 percent of participants deeming the lack of digital skills as the biggest hindrance to their digitization projects. With the increasing role of digital transformation occurring in the world today, it is imperative that businesses have the capacity to maximize the utility of the digital tools available.

Dedicated efforts to digital literacy will equip the workplace with the ability to critically analyse the features of these digital tools and identify if these tools are in the most updated versions. Businesses can assess if the existing tools require upgrades while reducing their own cognitive load of understanding the technicalities of these tools, hence maximizing the productivity of their processes.

Cybersecurity awareness

Digital literacy incentivizes businesses to make more well-informed decisions regarding the potential digital threats present in the online environments. With notable digital breaches such as the 2020 Twitter breach, which saw prominent figures being indirectly involved in a bitcoin scam, it is ever more crucial for businesses to possess the digital knowledge and skill to protect itself from online threats.

Businesses can use their digital literacy to also proactively develop sound practices in safety measures like effective password management and using open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools that will strengthen corporate immunity to potential cyber-attacks or data threats.

Digital dexterity and adaptability

The successful outcome of new technological adoptions (such as utilizing workplace collaboration tools like Zoom or conducting cloud migrations) is reliant on how adaptive employees are to new technologies. A comprehensive digital understanding of digital tools such as cloud networks, enables businesses to become more agile towards tweaking their work processes according to these new platforms.

A business could leverage their acquired digital knowledge and methods to innovate business solutions that address existing operational issues. For example, using IoT to enhance shipment monitoring technology (like installing RFID tagging on shipment containers for real-time tracking) is possible only when the logistics company in question possesses the know-how of the process.

Building and improving workplace digital literacy

Internal efforts

Regular training for employees helps keep them attuned to the ever-evolving technological updates occurring in the digital world. Personal awareness of cyber threats is also fostered where employees can translate their own individual online security practices into the business’ digital footprint.

Periodic performance audits can also be supplemented to regular employee training as it would illustrate how efficient the workplace currently is at understanding and managing their digital environments. These audits can be integrated into cyclical appraisals which would indicate specific areas of improvement needed to be addressed to ensure a higher rate of continuity towards digital literacy in the workplace.

Getting outside expert help

External parties – such as professional digital transformation companies – can address the intellectual and technical disparities that exist between a business and the technology it wishes to adopt through services such as cloud consulting.

For instance, a client of ours was previously undergoing a cloud migration but required external help in automating the migrating process. By facilitating the transfer of the client’s data to the ARMS (Arcus Region Migration Automation) platform plan, we managed to provide a self-service toolkit that enabled our client to swiftly migrate their data while allowing for different departments to independently collaborate digitally on the platform. The result of this solution was that the client was able to achieve a migration cutover with zero error and with minimal downtime.

Thriving in the digital age

An environment that encourages continuous digital learning is imperative to the digital literacy of the workplace due to the constant upgrades of our technological world. As the trend of digital migration continues to penetrate corporate infrastructures, the depth of digital education will be magnified for all working professionals.

Empowered by digital literacy, the quality of online collaboration and problem-solving initiatives will be improved. Such growth only adds to the fundamental efficiency of data governance, enhancing a business’ readiness to not only survive, but flourish in the digital age of today and tomorrow.

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• Assessment & Strategy

Do not allow legacy applications to slow you down. Our App Modernization services help you to review your monolithic applications footprint and implement a strategic roadmap using accelerators, platforms and partners to modernize your app portfolio.

• Technology Modernization

We help you to evolve your legacy applications using modern frameworks and architectures. These drive improved technical value, harness cloud-based development and make your portfolio digital-ready.

• Architectural & Platform Modernization

Adopting a platform-driven approach to cloud migration is the key to get the most value from your cloud investments. Our team enables such adoption using Containerization, Kubernetes, Serverless and Event-based architectures.

• Purpose-Built Architecture

Our tailor-made approaches are directed to kick start the modernization journey to achieve cost-effective modernization. As the technology landscape is constantly evolving, it is important to take a phased approach to modernization to minimize business risk, drive revenue and integrate new capabilities.

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Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts. It combines time series data with additional variables to build forecasts for customers looking to leverage their historical data to produce accurate forecasts. It uses Machine Learning to run the data through various prediction models and selects the most accurate one.

Amazon Forecast in Arcus
Cloud Kinetics, Amazon Forecast Partner has gone one step further and has integrated Amazon Forecast in their Cloud Management Platform (CMP) – Arcus. Our Managed Services clients and other customers get access to cloud spend forecasting feature in the Arcus Platform. The feature is built on Amazon Forecast and provides a powerful visualisation of cloud spend across various levels of slice and dice of cost data. This helps business decision-makers to maintain a clear view of their Cloud spends across regions, services and tags.

The in-built Forecast of cost has proved to be a solid game-changer to our customer stakeholders as they are now able to budget their IT spend with confidence based on their own usage patterns across regions, services and cloud providers. – Ramesh Nistala, Chief Product Officer, Cloud Kinetics

The forecast is granular to the level of services used and this helps the business make better budgeting plans as they support their digital transformation initiatives.

Contact us if you are looking to forecast customer demand and related inventory levels, predict key financial metrics such as revenue, expenses, and cash flow across multiple time periods and monetary units, planning staffing levels, advertising inventory, and raw material for manufacturing or for your unique business case where we can help.

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