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A dedicated server has many advantages for your company and can be a perfect way to increase your confidentiality. An unmetered dedicated server is a form of outsourcing in which a client rents a server that might not be shared with any other customers. This ensures they have full control over the server and do not have to worry about their data being hacked or their server slowing down due to multiple users. Aside from the above, they can also select which web browser and hardware to use.

The following are the reasons to use a dedicated server:

A dedicated server, as compared to a cloud server, is the one that is developed to assist you and only you are. You may not have to worry about other users using the servers services because the server could notbe exploited by someone you do not give access to. This means that your server will work better and the programs will run much faster than if they were hosted on a cloud or SaaS server.

Cloud servers are intended to exchange information and have more storage capacity than dedicated servers. Cloud servers do not have powerful or fast reserves; rather, they are primarily concerned with storage. If you need storage, a cloud server is a way to go, but if you need quality and efficiency, a dedicated server is a way to go.

Dedicated servers are undeniably more versatile than other options, and that is the versatility that distinguishes them. A dedicated server, unlike other servers, can create different applications simultaneously. Dedicated servers are most commonly used for web hosting and e-commerce, but they can also be included in VPNs, email servers, CVS (custom virtual setups), and data storage. Dedicated servers are extremely flexible and should be preferred over some of the other options available. Because of the simplicity of a dedicated server, you can use it for almost anything, making it a much better choice when combined with its other advantages.

Dedicated servers are by far the most cost-effective servers available, giving you even more value for money. Cloud servers will appear to be inexpensive at first glance, but when you need more memory, the cost will increase, while a dedicated server can have more advantages and can support more clients at once than a cloud server. A dedicated cloud provider would be able to keep things running smoothly, from the network to the hardware. Dedicated servers are rented, which ensures that if anything goes wrong, the vendor will be kept liable and you will not be fined.

When purchasing a dedicated server, you have the option of customizing the hardware to your specifications. All hardware is configurable, whether it is more RAM, more hard disk space, or a faster CPU. Furthermore, if you need additional valuable resources, you can approach your server provider and request an update to accommodate your evolving business needs.

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China is pushing forward an internet society where economic and public activities increasingly take place online. In the process, troves of citizen and government data get transferred to cloud servers, raising concerns over information security. One startup called ThreatBook sees an opportunity in this revolution and pledges to protect corporations and bureaucracies against malicious cyberattacks.

Antivirus and security software has been around in China for several decades, but until recently, enterprises were procuring them simply to meet compliance requests, Xue Feng, founder and CEO of six-year-old ThreatBook, told TechCrunch in an interview.

Starting around 2014, internet accessibility began to expand rapidly in China, ushering in an explosion of data. Information previously stored in physical servers was moving to the cloud. Companies realized that a cyberattack could result in a substantial financial loss and started to pay serious attention to security solutions.

In the meantime, cyberspace is emerging as a battlefield where competition between states plays out. Malicious actors may target a countrys critical digital infrastructure or steal key research from a university database.

The amount of cyberattacks between countries is reflective of their geopolitical relationships, observed Xue, who oversaw information security at Amazon China before founding ThreatBook. Previously, he was the director of internet security at Microsoft in China.

If two countries are allies, they are less likely to attack one another. China has a very special position in geopolitics. Besides its tensions with the other superpowers, cyberattacks from smaller, nearby countries are also common.

Like other emerging SaaS companies, ThreatBook sells software and charges a subscription fee for annual services. More than 80% of its current customers are big corporations in finance, energy, the internet industry and manufacturing. Government contracts make up a smaller slice. With its Series E funding round that closed 500 million yuan ($76 million) in March, ThreatBook boosted its total capital raised to over 1 billion yuan from investors, including Hillhouse Capital.

Xue declined to disclose the companys revenues or valuation but said 95% of the firms customers have chosen to renew their annual subscriptions. He added that the company has met the preliminary requirements of the Shanghai Exchanges STAR board, Chinas equivalent to Nasdaq, and will go public when the conditions are ripe.

It takes our peers 7-10 years to go public, said Xue.

ThreatBook compares itself to CrowdStrike from Silicon Valley, which filed to go public in 2019, and detects threats by monitoring a companys endpoints, which could be an employees laptop and mobile devices that connect to the internal network from outside the corporate firewall.

ThreatBook similarly has a suite of software that goes onto the devices of a companys employees, automatically detects threats and comes up with a list of solutions.

Its like installing a lot of security cameras inside a company, said Xue. But the thing that matters is what we tell customers after we capture issues.

SaaS providers in China are still in the phase of educating the market and lobbying enterprises to pay. Of the 3,000 companies that ThreatBook serves, only 300 are paying, so there is plenty of room for monetization. Willingness to spend also differs across sectors, with financial institutions happy to shell out several million yuan ($1 = 6.54 yuan) a year while a tech startup may only want to pay a fraction of that.

Xues vision is to take ThreatBook global. The company had plans to expand overseas last year but was held back by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weve had a handful of inquiries from companies in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. There may even be room for us in markets with mature [cybersecurity companies] like Europe and North America, said Xue. As long as we are able to offer differentiation, a customer may still consider us even if it has an existing security solution.

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Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. But for the foreseeable future, it will have to offer X86 processors, probably from both Intel and AMD, because these are the chips that most IT shops in the world have most of their applications running upon.

We talked about that, and how AWS will be able to charge a premium for that X86 compute at some point in the future, in a recent analysis of its Graviton2 instances and how they compare to its X86 instances. Other cloud providers will follow suit. We already know that in China, Tencent and Alibaba are eager about Arm-based servers, and so is Microsoft, which has a huge cloud presence in North America and Europe.

There is no such explicit need to support a particular switch or routing ASIC for the sake of cloud customers as there is for CPUs. And that is why we believe that AWS might actually be considering making its own switch ASICs, as has been rumored. As we detailed way back when The Next Platform was established, AWS has been building custom servers and switches for a very long time, and it has been concerned about its supply chain of parts as well as vertical integration of its stack for the past decade. And we said six years ago we would not be surprised if all of the hyperscalers eventually took absolute control of those parts of its semiconductor usage that it could for internal use. Any semiconductor that ends up being a part of back-end infrastructure that cloud users never see, or part of a platform service or software subscription that customers never touch, can be done with homegrown ASICs. And we fully expect for this to happen at AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. And Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, too. And other cloud suppliers that are big enough elsewhere in the world.

This is certainly true of switch and router chippery. Network silicon is largely invisible to those who buy infrastructure services (and indeed anyone who buys any platform services that ride above the infrastructure services), and in fact, the network itself is largely invisible to them. Here is an example of how invisible it is. A few years back when we were visiting the Microsoft region in Quincy, Washington, we asked Corey Sanders, the corporate vice president in charge of Azure compute, about the aggregate bandwidth of the Microsoft network underpinning Azure. You know, I honestly dont know and I dont care, Sanders told us. It just appears infinite.

The point is, whatever pushing and shoving is going on with AWS and Broadcom, it will never manifest itself as something that customers see or care about. This is really about two hard-nosed companies butting heads, and whatever engineering decisions have been already made and will be made in the future will have as much to do with ego as feeds and speeds.

There is a lot of chatter about the hyperscalers, so lets start with the obvious. All of these companies have always hated any closed-box appliance that they cannot tear the covers off, rip apart, and massively customize for their own unique needs and scale. This is absolutely correct behavior. The hyperscalers and largest public clouds hit performance and scale barriers that most companies on Earth (as well as those orbiting Rigel and Sirius) will never, ever hit. Thats their need, not just their pride. The hyperscalers and biggest cloud builders have problems that the silicon suppliers and their OEMs and ODMs havent thought about, much less solved. Moreover, they cant move at Cisco Systems speed, which is find a problem and take 18 to 24 months to get a feature into the next generation ASIC. This is why software defined networking and programmable switches matter to them.

Ultimately, these companies fought for disaggregated switching and routing to drive down the price of hardware and to allow them to move their own network switching and routing software stacks onto a wider variety of hardware. That way, they can grind ASIC suppliers and OEMs and now ODMs against each other. The reason is simple. Network costs were exploding. James Hamilton, the distinguished engineer at AWS who helps fashion much of its homegrown infrastructure, explained this all back in late 2014 at the re:Invent conference, which was five years after the cloud giant had started designing its own switches and routers and building its own global backbone, something that Hamilton talked about back in 2010 as this effort was just getting under way.

Networking is a red alert situation for us right now, Hamilton explained in his keynote address at Re:Invent 2014. The cost of networking is escalating relative to the cost of all other equipment. It is Anti-Moore. All of our gear is going down in cost, and we are dropping prices, and networking is going the wrong way. That is a super-big problem, and I like to look out a few years, and I am seeing that the size of the networking problem is getting worse constantly. At the same time that networking is going Anti-Moore, the ratio of networking to compute is going up.

The timing is interesting. That was after AWS had embraced the merchant silicon for switch and routing ASICs from Broadcom, and it was six months before Avago, a semiconductor conglomerate run by Hock Tan, one of the richest people in the IT sector, shelled out a whopping $37 billion to buy semiconductor maker Broadcom and to take its name.

You dont build the worlds largest e-commerce company out of the worlds largest online bookseller and then create an IT division spinout that becomes the worlds largest IT infrastructure supplier by being a wimp, and Jeff Bezos is certainly not that. And neither is Tan, by all indications. And thats why we think, looking at this from outside of a black box, AWS and the new Broadcom have been pushing and shoving for quite some time. And this is probably equally true of all of the hyperscalers and big cloud builders. Which is why we saw the rise of Fulcrum Microsystems and Mellanox Technology from 2009 forward (Fulcrum was eaten by Intel in 2011 and Mellanox by Nvidia in 2020), and then the next wave of merchant chip suppliers such as Barefoot Networks (bought by Intel in 2019), Xpliant (bought by Cavium in 2014, which was bought by Marvell in 2018), Innovium (founded by people from Broadcom and Cavium), Xsight Labs, and Nephos. And of course, now Cisco Systems is trying to make up to them all by having its Silicon One ASICs available as merchant silicon.

Tan buys companies to extract profits, and did not hesitate to sell of the Vulcan Arm server processors that Broadcom had under development to Cavium, which was eaten by Marvell and which last year shut down its own Triton ThunderX3 chip because the hyperscalers and cloud builder customers it was counting on are going to build their own Arm server chips. And with old Broadcom having basically created the modern switch ASIC merchant silicon market with its Trident and Tomahawk ASICs, the new Broadcom, we speculate, wanted to price its ASICs more aggressively than the smaller old Broadcom would have felt comfortable doing. The new Broadcom has a bigger share of wallet at these hyperscalers and cloud builders, many of whom have other devices they build that need lots of silicon. So there is a kind of dtente between buyer and seller.

Were not going to hurt each other, are we? Something like that.

We also have to believe all of this competition has directly or indirectly hurt the Broadcom switch and router ASIC business. And hence we also believe Tan has asked the hyperscalers and cloud builders to pay more for their ASICs than they would like. And they have more options than they have had in the past, but change is always difficult and risky.

We dont know what switch ASICs the hyperscalers cloud vendors use, but we have to assume that all of these companies have tried out their homegrown network operating systems on each and every one of them as they tape out and get to first silicon. They pick and choose what to roll out where in their networks, but the safe bet in recent years has been Broadcom Tomahawk ASICs for switching and Jericho ASICs for routing, and maybe having Mellanox or Innovium or Barefoot as a testbed and negotiating tactic.

This tactic may have run its course at AWS, and if it does, the cause will be not only hard-headedness and pride, but the success that the $350 million acquisition of Annapurna Labs back in 2015 just when AWS was hitting a financial wall with networking at the same time as Avago was buying Broadcom and the Tomahawk family was coming into being specifically for hyperscalers and cloud builders in demonstrating that homegrown chips can break the hegemony of Intel in server CPUs.

So thats the landscape within which AWS may have decided to make its own network ASICs. Lets look at this from a few angles. First, economics.

What we have heard is that AWS is only spending around $200 million a year for Broadcom switch and routing ASICs. We believe the number is larger than that, and if it isnt today, it surely will be as AWS grows and its networking needs within each datacenter grow.

Lets play with some numbers. Take a typical hyperscale datacenter with 100,000 servers. We dont care if they are compute servers or storage servers, by and large, on average, there is something on the order of 200,000 CPUs in those machines. From the people we talk to who do server CPUs for a living, you need to consume somewhere between 400,000 to 500,000 servers a year meaning 800,000 to 1 million CPUs a year for the cost and trouble of designing chips, which will cost somewhere between $50 million and $100 million per generation. This does not include the cost of fabbing these chips, packaging them up, and sending them to ODMs to build systems. AWS clearly consumes enough servers in its 25 regions and 80 availability zones (which have multiple datacenters at this scale each).

Now, depending on the network topology, those 100,000 servers with 200,000 server chips will require somewhere between 4,000 and 6,000 switch ASICs to make a leaf/spine Clos network to interlink all of those machines. Assuming an average of two datacenters per availability zone (a reasonable guess) across those 25 regions, and an average of around 75,000 machines per datacenter (not all of the datacenters are full at any given time), thats 12 million servers and 24 million server CPUs. Depending on the topology, we are now talking about somewhere between 480,000 and 720,000 switch ASICs in the entire AWS fleet. Servers get replaced every three years, on average, but switches tend to hang on for as long as five years. Sometimes longer. So that is really like 100,000 to 144,000 switch ASICs a year. Even if it is growing at 20 percent per year, it is nothing like the server CPU volumes.

But, that is only counting datacenter switching. Those numbers do not include all of the switching AWS needs, which will be part of its Amazon Go stores and its Amazon warehouses, themselves massive operations. If the server fleet keeps growing, and these other businesses do, too, then Amazons overall datacenter and campus and edge switching needs could easily justify the cost and hassle of making networking chips. Add in routing, and a homegrown ASIC set with an architecture that spans both switching and routing as Cisco is doing with its own Silicon One (which Cisco no doubt would love to sell to AWS but good luck with that), and you can pretty easily justify an investment of around $100 million per generation of ASIC. (Barefoot Networks raised $225.4 million to do two generations of its Tofino ASICs, and Innovium raised $402.3 million to get three Teralynx ASICs out the door and have money to sell the stuff and work on the fourth.)

Now, lets add some technical angles. What has made Annapurna Labs so successful inside of AWS is the initial Nitro Arm processor announced in 2016, which was used to create a SmartNIC what many in the industry are now calling a Data Processing Unit or a Data Plane Unit, depending, but still a DPU either way for virtualizing storage and networking and getting these off the hypervisors on the servers. The new Nitros get damned near all of the hypervisor off the CPU now, and are more powerful. These have spawned the Graviton and Graviton2 CPUs used for raw computing, the Inferentia accelerators for machine learning inference, and the Trainium accelerators for machine learning training. We would not be surprised to see an HPC variant with big fat vectors come out of AWS and also do double duty as an inference engine on hybrid HPC/AI workloads.

Homegrown CPUs started out in a niche and quickly spread all around the compute inside of AWS. The same could happen for networking silicon.

AWS controls its own network operating system stack for datacenter compute (we dont know its name) and can port that stack to any ASIC it feels like. It has the open source Dent network operating system in its edge and Amazon Go locations.

Importantly, AWS may look at what Nvidia has done with its Volta and Ampere GPUs and decide it needs to create a switch that speaks memory protocols to create NUMA-like clusters of its Trainium chips to run ever-larger machine learning training models. It could start embedding switches in Nitro cards, or do composable infrastructure using Ethernet switching within racks and across racks. What if every CPU that AWS made had a cheap-as-chips Ethernet switch instead of an Ethernet port?

Here is the important thing to remember. The people from Annapurna Labs who made the move over to AWS have a deep history in networking and some of their closest colleagues are now at Xsight Labs. So maybe this talk about homegrown network ASICs is all a faint as AWS is testing out ASICs from Xsight Labs to see how they compete with Broadcoms chips. Or maybe it is just a dance before AWS just acquires Xsight Labs as it did Annapurna Labs after choosing it to be its Nitro chip designer and manufacturer ahead of its acquisition by AWS. Last December, Xsight Labs announced it was sampling two switch ASICs in its X1 family, one that had 25.6 Tb/sec of aggregate bandwidth that could push 32 ports at 800 Gb/sec and a 12.8 Tb/sec one that could push 32 ports at 400 Gb/sec using 100 Gb/sec SerDes with PAM4 encoding.

It would be difficult, but not impossible, to put together a network ASIC team of the caliber that AWS needs. But as we pointed out, the Annapurna Labs people are a good place to start. And we fully realize that it takes a whole different set of skills to design a packet processing engine wrapped by SerDes than it takes to design and I/O and memory hub wrapped by a bunch of cores. (But when you say it that way. . . )

A little history is in order, we think. It all starts with Galileo Technology, which was founded in 1993 by Avigdor Willenz to focus on wait for it developing a high performance MIPS RISC CPU for the embedded market. This chip Galileo created ended up being used mostly in data communications gear, and was eventually augmented with designs based on PowerPC cores, which eventually came to rule the embedded market before Arm chips booted them out. In 1996, Galileo saw an opportunity and pivoted to create the GalNet line of Ethernet switch ASICs for LANs (launched in 1997) and eventually extended that to the Horizon ASICs for WANs. At the height of the dot-com boom in early 2000, Willenz cashed out and sold Galileo to Marvell for $2.7 billion.

Among the many companies that Willenz has invested in with that money and helped propel up and to the right was Habana Labs, the AI accelerator company that Intel bought for $2 billion in 2019, the above mentioned Ethernet switch ASIC maker Xsight Labs, and Annapurna Labs, which ended up inside of AWS. Guy Koren, Erez Sheizaf, and Gal Malach, who all worked at EZChip, a DPU maker that was eaten by Mellanox to create its SmartNICs and that is now at the heart of Nvidias DPU strategy, founded Xsight Labs. (Everybody knows everybody in the Israeli chip business.) Willenz is the link between them all, and has a vested interest in flipping Xsight Labs just as he did Galileo Technology and Annapurna Labs (and no doubt hopes to do with distributed flash block storage maker Lightbits Labs, where Willenz is chairman and investor.)

Provided the price is not too high, it seems just as likely to us that AWS will buy the Xsight Labs team as it is to be building its own team from scratch. And if not, then maybe AWS has considered buying Innovium, which is also putting 400 Gb/sec Ethernet ASICs into the field. With its last round of funding, Innovium reached unicorn status, so its $1.2 billion valuation might be a little rich for AWSs blood. A lot depends on how much traction Innovium can get selling Teralynx ASICs outside of whatever business we suspect that it is already doing with AWS. Oddly enough, that last round of money may make Innovium too expensive for AWS to buy.

If you put a gun to our heads, we think AWS is definitely going to do its own network ASICs. It is just a matter of time for economic reasons that include the companys desire to vertically integrate core elements of its stack. This may or may not be the time, despite all the rumors going around. Then again, everything just gets more expensive with time and scale. Whatever is going on, we suspect we will hear about custom network ASICs at some point at re:Invent perhaps even this fall.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), a global data center solution provider, announced its next-generation server systems supporting the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors featuring built-in AI and crypto acceleration which are optimized for the most popular AI frameworks to boost performance over their previous generation of processors.

With these new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, formerly code-named Ice Lake, QCT has expanded its QuantaGrid and QuantaPlex server portfolio to fully support the new innovations that Intel pioneers for the most demanding workload requirements. Optimized for cloud enterprise, AI, HPC, network, and IoT workloads, 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors achieves greater security with Intel Software Guard Extension (Intel SGX), Intel Total Memory Encryption (Intel TME), Intel Crypto Acceleration, and Intel Platform Firmware Resilience (Intel PFR) to enable enhanced collaboration using shared data without compromising privacy.

We are strongly committed to providing our mutual customers with the latest data center technologies, said Mike Yang, President of QCT. To get businesses up and running with ready-to-adopt solutions we have expanded our portfolio with offerings that not only fully utilize Intels 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, but also include QCTs own innovations and serviceability designs that reduce complexity while providing users with more flexibility when running their specialized workloads.

The latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable platforms offer significantly more general compute performance, built-in AI acceleration and cryptography, and security capabilities that open up new ways for organizations to help protect their data and securely collaborate, said Lisa Spelman, Corporate Vice President of Xeon and Memory Group at Intel. These new platforms unleash new levels of flexible performance and security for our customers and cloud data center leaders like QCT.

QCT systems incorporating the new core architecture can deliver up to 40 powerful cores per CPU, PCIe Gen4 support, and 8 DDR4 memory channels per socket supporting the Intel Optane persistent memory 200 series for increased memory, so customers can expect better data center performance for their workloads, while enabling enterprise cloud services such as video analytics and CDN.

QCT servers that support the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors:

For more information on QCT and QCT products visit: http://go.qct.io/intel-icelake-processor-products/

About Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT)

QCT is a global data center solution provider that combines the efficiency of hyperscale hardware with infrastructure software from a diversity of industry leaders to solve next-generation data center design and operational challenges. QCT serves cloud service providers, telecoms and enterprises running public, hybrid and private clouds.

Product lines include hyperconverged and software-defined data center solutions as well as servers, storage, switches and integrated racks with an ecosystem of hardware components and software partners. QCT designs, manufactures, integrates and services its offerings via its own global network. The parent of QCT is Quanta Computer, Inc., a Fortune Global 500 corporation.

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HashiCorp, the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, today announced HashiCorp Vault is now generally available on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). Designed to remove complexity and help reduce operational burden and overhead, HashiCorp Vaults identity-based security platform is now available as a fully managed service operated and supported by HashiCorp experts.

HCP Vault enables organizations to get up and running quickly, providing immediate access to Vaults best-in-class secrets management and data protection capabilities. With HCP providing the resilience and operational excellence needed, organizations no longer have the burden of managing Vault themselves. Individuals and organizations benefit from day zero readiness with a modern cloud security solution that offers the ability to quickly and easily secure applications, access, and data.

The largest, most secure organizations in the world rely on the expertise of HashiCorp, said Armon Dadgar, co-founder and chief technology officer, HashiCorp. We know that cloud security is critical, but we also understand companies struggle to onboard and implement security solutions quickly, which is why we introduced HCP Vault, to make that journey easier and faster for individuals and organizations. Weve supported thousands of commercial Vault clusters, and HCP Vault brings that expertise directly to users.

HCP Vault Customer Adoption Vault Enterprise is widely adopted by the largest companies in the world. Nearly 25% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the 20 largest U.S. banks rely on Vault to secure their most sensitive data. During the HCP Vault beta, more than 1,300 organizations participated, underscoring the interest in a managed service offering for secrets management and encryption. Lufthansa Systems and paradime.io were two of the participants in HCP Vault beta program.

Lufthansa Systems is a leading airline IT provider. Based on long-term project experience, a deep understanding of complex business processes, and strong technological know-how, the company provides consulting and IT services for the global aviation industry.

"More than 350 customers worldwide rely on the know-how of our IT specialists. Accordingly, Lufthansa Systems' cloud strategy is based on reliability, service, and ease of use. HCP Vault offers simplicity at the touch of a button, said Steffen Wagner, senior enterprise architect, Lufthansa Systems. Its proven and reliable service offers hosting options for EU-based companies and relieves clients of the hassle of building their cloud infrastructure. We rely on HCP Vault and Terraform Cloud for Business and look forward to scaling up with them."

paradime.io is a SaaS platform that delivers collaborative DataOps for its customers who trust paradime.io to securely store credentials for their data development environments. paradime.io uses HashiCorp Vault to securely store and safeguard access to secrets, and became interested in HCP Vault to change how they automated secrets management.

"With HashiCorp Vault we are able to safely store our customers' credentials. Our team was interested in HCP Vault for the added benefits it reduces the operational burden on our team, so we can focus on our platform and not running security infrastructure, said Yasin Zaehinger, founding backend engineer, paradime.io. Integrating with HCP Vault is simple and straightforward. Robust authentication and secret injection with Kubernetes pods, detailed audit logs on usage patterns, along with managed clusters give us an enterprise-ready solution, without having to maintain clusters, manage upgrades, or worry about downtime. The power and flexibility of Vault, along with the strength of the brand and community awareness, allows us to integrate Vault as a trusted component of our platform and partner with HashiCorp and their in-house knowledge and expertise, without needing to manage everything ourselves."

HCP Vault Partner Ecosystem Snowflake, MongoDB, Refactr, and Appagaeis are each HCP Vault launch day partners, with integrations available today. Each solution was verified and approved by HashiCorp.

We are delighted to partner with HashiCorp as they announce the general availability of HCP Vault. MongoDB Atlas integrates with HCP Vault to provide a seamless cloud experience for deploying secure applications, said Andrew Davison, VP cloud products, MongoDB. The largest, most security-conscious organizations in the world rely on the expertise of HashiCorp and MongoDB to uphold data privacy.

HCP Vault helps to remove the barrier to entry, allowing individuals and teams to get up and running quickly, for organizations large and small and across every vertical, said Michael Fraser, co-founder and CEO, Refactr. Refactr's DevSecOps Solution Delivery Automation Platform supporting HCP Vault marks a new milestone in the Refactr-HashiCorp partnership and we look forward to continuing to enhance our joint offerings to deliver solutions that solve problems for our mutual customers.

Customers are demanding that cloud security is set on day zero, says Yonghui Cheng, co-founder and CTO, Appaegis, With HCP Vault, Cloud Architects and Cloud Developers benefit from day zero readiness, offering modern cloud security to quickly secure applications, access, and data from the first moment. Appaegis Zero-Trust Isolation Access Cloud has been validated with HCP Vault to consolidate identity, access and credential management thus allowing customers to gain visibility, control and ease of management and delivering zero-day protection using zero trust on day zero.

About HCP VaultHCP Vault is a HashiCorp-managed service for secrets management and data encryption. HCP Vault includes both the open source and enterprise versions of Vault, the best-in-class security automation platform. HCP Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data.

HCP Vault enables organizations to leverage all of the security and power of Vault without the overhead, complexity, and maintenance of managing it themselves. HCP Vault clusters fit into any workload and scale with adoption and offer flexible packaging to fit developers, teams, and organizations of different sizes, while also providing push-button deployment, fully managed upgrades, backups, and monitoring, so organizations and developers can focus on adoption and integration.

The HashiCorp Cloud Platform is available with initial support on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

HCP Vault Availability HCP Vault is now generally available with hourly and annual pricing. To get started with HCP Vault visit http://www.hashicorp.com/cloud-platform.

Supporting Materials and Getting StartedTo learn more about HCP Vault, join us on Wednesday, April 7 at 9 a.m. PDT for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform Vault product announcement live stream with Armon Dadgar. Register here: https://hashi.co/2O67xAo.

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About HashiCorpHashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorps open source tools Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Boundary, and Waypoint are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise and managed service versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-datacenter functionality. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, though 85 percent of HashiCorp employees work remotely, strategically distributed around the globe. HashiCorp is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton, Geodesic Capital, GGV Capital, IVP, Mayfield, Redpoint Ventures, T. Rowe Price funds and accounts, and True Ventures.

For more information, visit hashicorp.com or follow HashiCorp on Twitter @HashiCorp.

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