Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Techies

Some people are getting coal for Christmas this year.  But for those who have made the “nice” list... it’s a great year for some really cool gifts in technology.

If you’re looking to buy for the good little men and women into technology... I’d start with the basics.

This techie gift might sound unusual, but consider a new router/Wi-Fi device called EERO. Basically this is Mesh based Wi-Fi in the secured format that allows you to set up your Wi-Fi in your central location ….but get this.  You then plug in into a wall socket, and using the electricity in the wiring of your house, individual pods in those pods help you get a much better Wi-Fi signal in a more secure Wi-Fi signal.

Next one I really like is VR.  I'm all about virtual reality and there are number of different virtual reality solutions, from Google, Samsung and others. Now as much as I really like them, it's a new technology, so they're not the perfect virtual reality box or eyewear. But what they do is give you the belief that you are involved inside that game or the solution.

We're talking about Samsung’s VR solution, and Google VR - these are all great tools that you can use for virtual reality.

One of the gifts that every technologist must have is the Amazon echo, this comes in either a Dot, the original version or a wireless version called the Tap.  The Alexa app is fantastic. It has an ability to be able to utilize her for all the activities that you need such as your calendar, fantasy football or your day-to-day schedule. The voice recognition of Alexa is truly fantastic… with incredible third-party apps that are now available in the Amazon store there's freeware as well as paid apps that you can use with your Amazon Echo. It truly gives you the ability to have a voice automated assistant right there in your office, your kitchen, living room or your bedroom that will take care of your heat and cooling temperature settings and all other activities as programmed… truly a must have!

My last pick for this Christmas season is the new Nintendo called the NES Classic Edition.  It brings me back to my youth.  It comes preloaded with 23 of Nintendo’s most popular games including Mario and all the different activities that he had.  It’s definitely one of those fun toys to play on your phone or on a new handheld machine.  Forget Pokemon - we’re going with some major old school fun here.

Well, those are my choices for this year's Christmas gifts for us techies.  If you have one of us in your family, I highly recommend looking at them - I think there's some cool fun toys and remember Christmas is about giving!

God bless and Merry Christmas!

Unlocking New Business Potential: Real-World Business Scenarios for SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA’s combination of technology and simplicity provides improved performance in orders of magnitude.

Beyond the underlying changes in technologies powering this new wave of ERP with SAP S/4HANA, are new business capabilities that simply weren’t possible before. These are not merely incremental improvements based on processes that have existed before, but transformation change delivered to each department, unlocking new value to the business.

Here are four such real-world business scenarios:

1. Supply Chain
Legacy: In a legacy ERP solution, inventory information is distributed among multiple database tables. That may be fine when counting inventory at night in the warehouse. But a financial task called a Post Goods Issue (PGI) requires locking the tables so that the transactions can post. In a high volume environment, this locking means that everyone must wait in order to proceed. That can mean that truck drivers at a logistics center may be asked to wait several hours for the legacy database to complete a batch update.

S/4HANA: In SAP S/4HANA, the underlying data model is simplified and accelerated so that inventory data is processed in real-time – and truck drivers can get back on the road. The S/4HANA solution also has the intelligence
to propose solutions to supply chain problems – and then implement them automatically.

2. Sales & Marketing
Legacy: With legacy ERP, there is no way to monitor social media feeds without add-on solutions that wend their way through the system. As a result, sales and marketing professionals can’t follow their customers in real-time.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, your sales and marketing professionals can pull data directly from social media channels and analyze it in real-time. So they can identify trends, respond immediately to customers, and create targeted promotions. And they can market to an audience of one.

3. Forecasting
Legacy: With legacy ERP, forecasts can take days to produce – by which time they are stale.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, you can run infinite what-if simulations that combine internal and external data in real-time – and evaluate the impact of each scenario. As a result, you can be better positioned to capitalize on opportunities – and mitigate risk.

4. Finance
Legacy: With legacy ERP, closing the books on the quarter or the year can be a weeks-long process with dozens of tables required to manage financial data from business units, headquarters, and regions. The process can be prone to errors and delays.

S/4HANA: With SAP S/4HANA, all business units and regions are consolidated into a single table that can be viewed in real-time – any time. That presents the opportunity to generate an anytime, “soft close” that issues financial statements immediately so that the accounting department can focus more on business outcomes, then reporting.

Download our Case Study: Saving the Trucking Industry with SAP HANA

Are you ready to experience SAP HANA?
Don’t let the new digital world pass you by. Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo - What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is everywhere these days. From your photos to big enterprises, the cloud is touching every aspect of our lives. But do you really know what the mythical cloud really is? Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks answers one of the most common questions in technology... What is the Cloud?

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand. It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

The cloud is a network of servers, sometimes hundreds and thousands of servers, and each server has a different function. Some servers use computing power to run applications or "deliver a service."

For example, Adobe recently moved its creative services to the cloud. You can no longer buy the Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, etc.) in a box set. Instead, you must pay a monthly subscription fee to use each individual service. That's why it's now called the "Adobe Creative Cloud" instead.

Other servers in the network are responsible for storing data.
For example, when you take a picture on your smartphone, it is stored on your phone's internal memory drive. However, when you upload the photos to Instagram, you are uploading it to the cloud.

Meet with Approyo today… 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo - The Future of Big Data

Thanks for the Internet, which started 25 years ago, Big Data is everywhere and growing more and more each day. Join Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he talks more about the future of Big Data.

If it wasn’t for the start of the internet, we wouldn’t have Big Data as it is today. Every single piece of information that is out there today, from your car, social media and in the future from a chip in your head or contacts will be important. The future will be everywhere and anywhere. It will be more and more important for companies to understand every piece of information out there.

Now let’s put on our Google Glasses and look to the future!

The time for big data is now! Meet with Approyo today… 
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation.

Ask Approyo: Oracle and SAP

Recently Oracle acquired NetSuite. With this announcement, many people have been asking, what’s the big difference between Oracle and SAP? In fact, Approyo CEO Christopher Carter was recently featured in an article on Talkin Cloud about whether MSPs should offer Oracle and SAP. Hear directly from Christopher Carter as he talks about Oracle and SAP.
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Oracle
With the recent NetSuite acquisition, Oracle is making in-roads to the SMB market. The problem is, Oracle is not a true cloud based company. Oracle restricts you in one cloud, the Oracle Cloud only. Oracle tends to be a hodgepodge of several different applications from recent acquisitions. This makes for a complicated core solution.

SAP
SAP allows you to go to multiple clouds, whether it’s the SAP Cloud, Approyo or another SAP partner. This way have more options available to you. Additionally, SAP has made some similar acquisitions in the marketplace. Unlike Oracle, these acquisitions are add-ons to the core solution. SAP has been built from the ground up through years and years of expertise.

Now is the time for SAP and Approyo
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today.

Ask Approyo: Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds

Cloud computing broadly breaks down into 3 different models – Public, Private and Hybrid - choosing the right one starts with understanding business objectives and how best they align with the values each model delivers.

Hear from Approyo CEO Christopher Carter as he breaks down Cloud Computing:

Public Cloud
Think of Amazon, anyone and everyone can be on this cloud with you.
A Public Cloud is one that’s based on the standard cloud computing model where services, applications and storage are made available to users over the Internet ‘as a service’ – typically on a Pay Per Use model. While Public Clouds are appealing to many businesses as they reduce complexity and lead times, because the underlying architecture is fixed, there is less scope for customization for security and performance. There are many types of Public Cloud, the most common being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), Software as a service (SaaS) and Desktop as a service (DaaS) platforms – all of which we make available to the channel through our proprietary Cloud services. The economies of scale afforded by Public Cloud computing are what make this technology highly attractive.

Private Cloud
You own it. You and your network are segmented off. You don’t have anyone else on the same platform as you. Approyo runs this type of cloud for our customers.

Private Clouds consist of cloud infrastructure that is deployed solely for a single organization, whether managed internally or hosted by a third-party externally. They require a significant level of engagement from both management and IT departments to virtualize the business environment, and also mean evaluating how existing resources should be reallocated in the cloud. Private Clouds offer scope for advanced security, high availability or fault tolerant solutions that are not possible in a Public Cloud. However, as they are effectively ‘stand-alone’ solutions in their own right, building a Private Cloud still involves significant investment, and does not therefore deliver the shorter-term economies that Public Cloud can.

Hybrid Cloud
As the name suggests, a hybrid cloud comprises both private (internal) and public (external) cloud services. Typically a business might run an application primarily on a private cloud, but rely on a public cloud to accommodate spikes in usage. Customized rules and policies govern areas such as security and the underlying infrastructure, with tasks allocated to internal or external clouds as necessary.

What’s right for you? 
Your Data is important to your business. You want it to be secure, so no one else can touch your information. Connect with Approyo today and we will help your company navigate all the cloud options.

Ask Approyo: What are some advantages to in-memory computing technology in SAP HANA?

The SAP HANA platform permits online transaction processing and online analytical processing workloads using a single data copy on a single platform. It stores data in high-speed memory, organizes it in columns, and partitions and distributes it among multiple servers. This delivers faster queries that aggregate data more efficiently while avoiding costly full-table scans, materialized views, and analytic indexes.

Run smarter – SAP HANA enables true market differentiation by unlocking new growth opportunities, boosting competitiveness, and inventing new data-driven business models for increased market share. Imagine the increased effectiveness of your knowledge workers when they have real-time information about accounts payable and receivable. They can spend more time on higher-value activities and less time on clerical work.

Run faster – SAP HANA dramatically speeds up your core business processes for reduced operational costs, driving business at the speed of the market and boosting responsiveness. Removing the constraints of batch-driven processes enables processing and decision making to happen in the moment, dramatically changing the way you drive your business.

Run simpler – SAP HANA helps you simplify business processes with immediate insight to action for improved effectiveness, empowering people to decide and act in the business moment and boost productivity. Combining transactions and analysis in one single database enables simplification of IT, leading to lower costs and greater efficiency

Try SAP HANA and Approyo today
Approyo is the leader in SAP HANA and S/4HANA deployments. Bring your data and licenses, we’ll set up a POC/sandbox in our environment for you to see how SAP HANA works in the cloud and can help your business. Get started today..

Ask Approyo: What makes SAP HANA fundamentally different?

​​SAP HANA is different by design. It stores all data in-memory, in columnar format and compressed. Because SAP HANA is so fast, sums, indexes, materialized views and aggregates are not required, and this can reduce the database footprint by 95%. Everything is calculated on-demand, on the fly, in main memory. This makes it possible for companies to run OLTP and analytics applications on the same instance at the same time, and to allow for any type of real-time, ad hoc queries and analyses.

On top of this SAP built solutions to all the problems of columnar databases, like concurrency (HANA uses MVCC) and row-level insert and update performance (HANA uses various mechanisms like a delta store).

Additionally, SAP added a bunch of engines inside SAP HANA to provide virtual OLAP functionality, data virtualization, text analysis, search, geospatial, graph (will be available soon) and web. It supports open standards like REST, JSON, ODBO, MDX, ODBC and JDBC. There is as much functionality in there as a whole Oracle or IBM software stack, in one database.

Experience SAP HANA from Approyo
Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address can help your organization grow today and in the future. Let us show you! Set up a free consultation today. 

SAP to acquire Altiscale

Big news in the SAP Ecosystem! According to Venturebeat, SAP is acquiring Altiscale. 

Why is this important!

• Validates SAP and SAP HANA in the cloud
• Confirms SAP is all-in on Big Data! 

Altiscale provides us the ability to take everything into a cloud, take all the data and bring it into real-time with SAP HANA.

Altiscale is a four-year-old startup that specializes in cloud-based Hadoop and Spark services. Altiscale differentiates itself from these low-cost providers by combining high-performance Hadoop and Spark services with integrated ingestion, transformation, and analytical capabilities.

See the Benefits of Big Data SAP HANA today with Approyo!

Approyo can help your company deal with the changing world. Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions address these important questions and more. Let us show you today! Set up a free consultation today. 

Innovate in a complex world with Approyo and SAP S/4 HANA

The business landscape is increasingly digital, networked and complex.

Consider just a few statistics:

• 90% of the world’s data has been generated in the last two years
• In the next two years, we’ll see 40% growth in business networks
• By end of 2020, there will be 9 billion mobile users worldwide…
• And 212 billion “things” will be connected

SAP S/4 HANA and Approyo can help your business

A new business suite of applications designed to run simple in a digital and connected world. Built on the advanced in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and designed on the most modern user experience, SAP Fiori.

• Complete choice of deployment – cloud and on-premises
• Instant value across lines of business and industries
• The ultimate sophistication: simplicity

The benefits?

• Reimagined business models: Simplify business collaboration – connect to people, devices, and business networks in real time
• Reimagined business decisions: Get insight on any data from anywhere in real time – to drive faster business impact
• Reimagined business processes: Focus on the essential tasks in real time – with the flexibility to adapt quickly
• Reimagined user experience: Get the job done across lines of business with a personalized, simple user experience on any device

Start Your Journey Now with Approyo

Approyo can support you in your journey through predefined migration, system conversion in the cloud, and deployment packages for quick time-to-value. Schedule a free 1:1 consultation today…

SAP HANA continues to see growth through Q1 2016

SAP released its Q1 financial report this week. SAP's transformation to a cloud software company continues to accelerate, with the company reporting 33 percent growth in cloud subscriptions and support revenue in its first quarter.

Q1 SAP Highlights:

• Cloud Revenue Up 33%
• SAP S/4HANA momentum continues, now exceeding 3,200 customers
• Growing operating profit amidst industry transformation in contrast to main peer
• High visibility into strong second quarter and full year pipeline across all regions
• indicates increasing momentum as the year progresses – SAP firmly reiterates outlook

Approyo continues to see major momentum with our SAP HANA Cloud offering. 

Our vision is to be the world's most customer centric Enterprise SAP HANA Solution Company. Our certified SAP HANA environments are designed and tailored specifically to the needs of your business in order to ensure you achieve your dreams of success.

Recently, Approyo was recognized among 20 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers 2016 by CIOReview.  Plus, we expanded our reach to Latin America and throughout Europe to continue to meet the demand of our customers and the market. Combined with our global growth, we are seeing high demand for SAP HANA cloud solutions throughout North America. 

Now is the time to ride the wave of momentum for SAP HANA
Our SAP HANA and Big Data solutions can help your company today. Let us show you with a FREE SAP HANA consultation. Schedule your consultation today…. 

Top 10 Reasons to Choose SAP HANA

Top 10 Reasons to Choose SAP HANA as Your Platform for Innovation – for Today and for the Future

1. Compete as a Real-Time Business - Lead with a new business platform
2. Run Your Business Smarter, Faster, Simpler - Unlock significant business value
3. Drive Big Business with Big Data - Unleash the potential in your industry
4. Capitalize on the Reinvention of Enterprise Software - Reinvent your business with the company that invented enterprise software
5. Use the Best Technology in the Industry - Leverage superior technical features to enable Big Data 
6. Benefit From an Open Architecture - Support for all of your technology investments
7. Leverage a Platform Ready for Prime Time - Unlock significant business value
8. Streamline IT Landscape to Reduce TCO - Reduce IT complexity and costs
9. Choose From On Premise or Cloud - Provide security, privacy, and availability
10. Deploy at Your Own Speed - Optimize your landscape to transform your business

Approyo is leading digital transformation in 2016 with SAP HANA. Schedule a FREE Big Data Consultation today.

Choose from On Premises and Cloud

SAP HANA allows you to choose and change your deployment options anytime.

On Premises - Run all SAP solutions on SAP HANA

• Build or deploy your own solutions on SAP HANA
• Maintain all within your firewall
• Upgrade or leverage existing infrastructure

Hybrid - Leverage the SAP Cloud portfolio

• Migrate some solutions to the cloud
• Create or deploy new software- as-a-service apps via SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud or a public cloud
• Use cloud hosting and managed services

Cloud - Build, run, and deploy applications in the cloud

• Enable faster innovations
• Simplify landscape
• Migrate or build new applications in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud to help ensure enterprise-grade support 

SAP HANA allows you to deploy the way you want. Let Approyo help you choose the best solution for your business. Schedule a SAP HANA consultation today.

Only Approyo Delivers High-Performing HANA-as-a-Service with Samurai

Samurai offers flexible subscription pricing for a fully managed simple SAP HANA Solution. Samurai makes it easy for companies to implement SAP HANA right away with a low monthly cost.

Why Samurai?

• Worry-free SAP HANA
• Fast Implementation in minutes
• Low Cost
• Flexibility

For the monthly charge of ONLY $5,000.00 per month, you get it all! 

• 64GB SAP HANA license ($160k value)
• Production ready cloud service WITH FULL SLA
• 24 x 7 Customer support
• Full managed services of Cloud infrastructure and HANA
• A dedicated HANA team to ask questions ANY time you have them

Sign up for a free SAP HANA Consultation to learn more

Is SAP HANA right for your organization?

Not sure if SAP HANA is a big enough value for your operations?

Let Approyo help and evaluate your landscape to reveal the estimated time and cost savings. Our complimentary SAP HANA Consultation will provide you with details on what real-time processes will be accelerated and what insights can be gained to determine if SAP HANA is the right solution.

Faster Rollout

• Rapid deployment leads to increased ROI
• Deploy in less than 30-days (70-100% faster vs on-premises rollout)

Conserves Cash

• Shift CapEx to OpEx, minimizing up-front costs and reducing Infrastructure TCO an average of 28% or more (based on 3 years)
• Hosting and network services from the SAP-certified leader with customers around the globe

Maximum Flexibility

• Grow the HANA database, add new apps, and expand geographic footprint with the greatest speed, lowest cost, and least disruption

Reduce IT complexity

• Let Approyo focus on the solution so your IT doesn’t have to accommodate a net new platform or manage yet another system

Sign up for a free consultation today! 

Approyo Introduces Pay-As-You-Go SAP HANA

Approyo recently launched a new subscription-based offering of the SAP HANA platform code-named “Samurai”. In addition to providing the in-memory computing platform as a service, Samurai will offer managed services, licenses and full infrastructure capabilities.

Samurai offers increased flexibility for companies looking to move to SAP HANA or who have yet to fully utilize their license capacity. Samurai includes: managed and implementation services, hosted SAP HANA system architecture and infrastructure services and managed SAP license services. In addition, customers will have access to the newest updates to SAP HANA, including the newest release SAP S/4 HANA.

“Simplifying the process of leveraging SAPA has always been one of our biggest goals,” said Marcus Retrac, President of Approyo. “With Samurai, we are able to provide a new, cost efficient and simple way to leverage SAP HANA. Now companies of any size have no excuse for missing out of HANA.” 
Approyo’s Samurai starts are $5,000 per month and includes a 64GB SAP HANA license, production ready cloud service with full SLA and 24x7 customer support.

Read the full Press Release

On-Premises vs. Cloud Solutions

Cloud computing continues to grow throughout the United States and the world. 2014 was the first year where a majority of workloads will processed in the cloud versus traditional on-premises
solutions. In addition, by the end of this year, end user spending on cloud services will reach
$180 billion, out pacing on-premises. Why are a majority of business, large and small moving to cloud computing?

Download our Whitepaper: On-Premises vs. Cloud Solutions:

• Cloud computing allows you and your employees easy access to applications and data from different computers and devices.
• Cloud computing lets you start up or grow your business quickly.
• Potential to be greener and more economical.
• You may be able to cut back on system hardware.
• A cloud computing application may make integration easier.

Check out the Whitepaper from Approyo today!

Approyo and TIP Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership

Partnership delivers SAP Certified Integration for Quality Management Assurance and Shop Floor Execution Software Solution.

Approyo and TIP Technologies are proud to announce a new strategic partnership creating a collaborative solution for Discrete Manufacturing organizations deploying SAP ERP and Supply Chain Management solutions. The newly formed alliance provides a focused QMS/SFE solution and delivers an immediate measurable ROI. TIPQA™, a well-established solution, is implemented around the world supporting Aerospace and Defense, Medical Device, and Automotive manufacturing organizations.  The partnership will allow both companies to offer TIPQA™ within a state-of-the-art SAP ecosystem.

“The partnership with TIP Technologies allows us to enhance our solution offering,” said Marcus Retrac, President of Approyo. “TIPQA™ is a great complement to our industry leading SAP HANA solutions and we are proud to be able to extend our partnership and offer this significant benefit to our customers.”

“Our partnership with Approyo continues to keep us at the forefront of the market with a versatile offering that provides clients an integrated, best-in-breed solution for streamlining shop floor and quality operations, while delivering a new standard for measuring quality,” said Mike Miller, CEO and Founder of TIP Technologies. “We believe this collaboration is a perfect fit for our customers who operate within the SAP ecosystem, and will empower customers with the tools they need to deliver quality products and advance in today’s competitive market.”

Customers are already seeing the benefit of this new partnership. TIPQA™ is off-the-shelf quality assurance software that is scalable and highly configurable. With Approyo’s focus on the SAP ecosystem, and the certified interface for SAP, the solution can be configured for each organization to meet specific requirements supporting other business systems.

“The implementation of the latest TIPQA™ software with the SAP Certified Interface has significantly impacted our manufacturing processes at Labinal Power Systems by reducing duplicate entry in our receiving inspection process,” said Craig Parker, Quality Administrator. “Initial improvements indicate a projected 25% decrease in receiving inspection flow time, which will provide an exceptional return to our organization.” 

Read the full Press Release.

Approyo Reaches Milestone with 50th SAP HANA Client Cloud Solution

Approyo, a leading SAP HANA Solutions Provider, announced the successful launch of the 50th SAP HANA client cloud solution. Approyo's 50th SAP HANA Cloud Solution was built for our customer, SearchYourCloud.

"The approach used by the Approyo team was exceptional,” said Simon Bain, CEO of SearchYourCloud. “Their guidance and support during the purchasing and setup stages were second to none, and since moving away from AWS and on to the Approyo servers, we have not just cut costs, but also increased access speeds and enabled ourselves to concentrate on the application stack and not have to worry about our servers, as we know the backups and network and hardware are in good hands."

"Approyo has been providing SAP HANA-based solutions to a wide range of customers that are expanding their business presence," said Marcus Retrac, President of Approyo. "This milestone represents our core belief that SAP HANA cloud solutions from Approyo are scalable for companies of any size, from small and mid-sized companies to enterprises."

Approyo has been providing SAP HANA in the cloud for the last three years. We believe SAP HANA is suitable for companies of all sizes. The entire platform is built using the best solutions in the market. This allows clients to benefit immediately from SAP HANA, without the massive upfront cost structure typically seen with those bare metal solutions.

Click here for the full press release.

Certifications for SAP HANA Production Environments

Cloud computing is everywhere these days. According to a recent study, businesses in the United States will spend over $13 billion on Cloud Computing and hosting services by 2015. With more and more cloud options available, the level of expertise and facilities provided by solution providers are becoming increasingly important factors. To design, manage, and operate the critical infrastructure your business depends on, you need the most authoritative, evidence-based, and unbiased guidance. For the best SAP HANA technology solutions, Approyo has partnered with PCM. This partnership provides businesses with the best expertise and facilities in the industry.

SAP HANA Certified Experts
SAP HANA is an in-memory database that massively improves performance of existing SAP applications, and enables business transformation via real-time analytics and transaction execution. Approyo recently completed certifications for SAP HANA Operations Services and SAP Infrastructure Operations Services.

Enterprise Class Facilities
Today’s high-density, consolidated, converged or virtualized data center is a complex environment. Every decision in the data center is critical and mistakes can be costly.

PCM data centers are purpose built Tier III facilities defined by the Uptime Institute’s tiered classification system. These enterprise class hosting facilities provide security-rich, controlled environments and high availability design features for business critical applications environments that need protected against natural disasters, power outages, network issues and unauthorized access.
SSAE 16 and PCI DSS purpose built Tier III data centers adhere to strict operational standards and offers a security-rich, controlled environment designed from the ground up for high availability.

Read the full Whitepaper