iThome’s Commitment to Technological Advancement

iThome, a leading technology information media in Taiwan, has a strong commitment to advancing enterprise IT knowledge and technological development. It hosts several professional technical seminars and exhibitions, such as CYBERSEC Taiwan and the well-established Cloud Edge Summit, both experiencing rapid growth. Since its launch in 2018, the “Taiwan Cybersecurity Market Map” has consistently gained extensive attention and support, becoming a vital reference for businesses during procurement and evaluation processes.

Empowering Cybersecurity with 8iSoft YODA

8iSoft YODA is a proprietary cybersecurity solution developed by Caloudi, focusing on enhancing risk assessment and vulnerability patching for enterprise information systems, capable of detecting and countering network threats in real-time. This product combines the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of AI with a wealth of cybersecurity expertise, providing users with multiple vulnerability remediation methods, ensuring comprehensive network vulnerability detection and management.

Caloudi’s Vision for Enhanced Security and Efficiency

Caloudi is committed to leveraging software and AI technologies to enhance the efficiency and information security of cloud resources, providing consumers with intelligent products and services. The company’s core management team boasts over 20 years of multinational experience in the IT industry. Caloudi is also a Microsoft, Google, and Amazon partner, holding the Microsoft Gold Partner certification and ISO-27001 compliance certification. Caloudi’s mission is to assist businesses in completing their digital transformation in the cloud, offering professional services through software and AI technologies.

Demonstrating Expertise and Innovation

By successfully securing a spot in iThome’s “Taiwan Cybersecurity Market Map” with its 8iSoft YODA cybersecurity platform, Caloudi once again demonstrates its expertise and technological innovation in the cybersecurity domain, providing industries with a comprehensive and reliable security solution. As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, 8iSoft YODA and Caloudi will persistently strive to deliver superior cybersecurity defense solutions, ensuring users remain secure amid rapidly changing cyber threats.

Know More:

iThome 2023 “Taiwan Cybersecurity Market Map”

 8iSoft YODA

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San Francisco, CA, USA — March 8, 2022 — Caloudi Corporation, a leading cloud-based ISV, today announced the availability of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Caloudi Corporation customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined codeless deployment and management.

Cloud consumption has reached its all-time high, with more organizations migrating to the cloud because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As time has progressed, developers and engineers have had to start fully utilizing various cloud-native resources.

Enterprises and corporations with a high level of cloud adaptation often struggle with the inability to identify anomalies and manage resources effectively while saving on cloud costs. Caloudi’s flagship product, Cloud Management Platform, provides AI-based smart insights, automates administrative tasks, and simplifies organizations’ cost and usage data through an interactive visualization dashboard. Despite data quantity and complexity, CMP is able to cater to the managerial needs of large enterprises with yearly Azure usage more than 33 million USD while providing smart cost-saving recommendations. Analyzing detailed usage and cost breakdown for cross-group projects is no longer tedious when creating custom filters of resource tag-level precision. The intelligent, intuitive, and interactive CMP serves as an essential aid to eliminate cloud management barriers of Azure and other multi-cloud customers.

Now is available to Azure users worldwide to experience

“Caloudi Cloud Management Platform (CMP) has been providing business managers of many regional organizations with an AI-based intelligent solution to plan cloud resources and to control costs,” said James Ying, Vice President of Caloudi Corporation. “Now, we are thrilled to expand global accessibility of Caloudi CMP through our Azure Marketplace offer.”

Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp., said, “We’re pleased to welcome Caloudi Corporation’s Cloud Management Platform (CMP) to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which gives our partners great exposure to cloud customers around the globe. Azure Marketplace offers world-class quality experiences from global trusted partners with solutions tested to work seamlessly with Azure.”

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

Learn more about Caloudi’s Cloud Management Platform at its page in the Azure Marketplace.

About Caloudi Corporation

Founded in 2018, Caloudi Corporation develops and delivers intelligent cloud solutions to industries and corporations beginning their public cloud adoption journeys. Built upon a versatile R&D team located in the USA, Canada, and Taiwan, Caloudi yearns to elevate consumers’ cloud adaptation quality through cloud management software innovation and bridge the gap between on-premesis and cloud. Caloudi’s dedication to simplify the cloud journey shines through in its activities as an ISV that develops corporate-level SaaS solutions, as a Microsoft gold CSP partner, and as a Microsoft Advanced Specializations (ASP) partner with migration and consultation capabilities.

For more information, contact:

Caloudi Corporation

info@caloudi.com

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Caloudi Corporation, a fast-growing cloud solutions provider specialized in AI and Multi-cloud solutions announced today it has earned three Microsoft Azure Advanced Specializations:

– Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure
– Linux and Open Source Databases Migration to Microsoft Azure
– Modernization of Web Applications in Microsoft Azure

Caloudi achieves outstanding results again, receiving two professional certifications.

Last month, we have earned Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure. This month, we have successfully achieved Linux and Open Source Databases Migration to Azure and Modernization of Web Applications in Azure. We were able to demonstrate knowledge, extensive experience, and success in Linux Migration with our abilities to migrate production workloads running on RHEL and various databases in Microsoft Azure. For Web App Modernization, we were able to exhibit our success in migrating and deploying production web application workloads with DevOps methodology and also managing Azure app services.

Only partners that meet stringent criteria around customer success and staff skilling, as well as pass a third-party audit of their migration practices, are able to earn Microsoft Azure Advanced Specializations. According to Microsoft, Partners who attain an advanced specialization receive a customer-facing label that communicates their deep knowledge in a specific area and verifies their extensive experience and proven success in implementing Microsoft services or solutions. Advanced specializations are for partners who already have an active and relevant gold competency.

About Caloudi

Caloudi is a palpable presence in cloud solutions who helps clients through provisioning and gaining control over their cloud resources. With the expertise in AI-based analytics and Hybrid & Multi cloud support, customers will always be proactive through using AI-based detection, forecasting, optimization, and anomaly detection functions in Caloudi’s CMP.

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Founded in Taiwan during 2006, this middle size corporation of 50 employees is a publishing house catered to the taste of knowledgeable individuals of working age.

This corporation has published books in various categories and genres such as inspirational, art design, business management, literary novel, and information technology. Embracing the responsibility to share knowledges to the public, this corporation hopes combine technology and humanism and deliver its readers a high-quality and enjoyable reading experience.

Challenge

This publishing house is facing a rise in the number of visitors accessing their current website, which includes e-commerce options and book previews. However, the response time of their website cannot respond to a larger audience. Therefore, they wish to migrate their website to Azure to utilize scalability functions of cloud. Some requirements include code re-designing without diminishing current functions and the addition of monitoring systems.

Choice of Cloud Migration- Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a smart, cost-effective public cloud that assists organizations to remain competitive and profitable. By adopting Microsoft Azure, organizations can optimize cost, speed up the delivery of solutions, and focus on higher impact work.

About a year ago, Microsoft Azure has launched a new web apps migration choice-Azure Migrate for the migration of .NET web applications to Azure App Service simply with the help of Migration Assistant tool.

Solution

We could segment our solution into three parts, compute, design, and database.

Our proposed solution for the computation aspect is to migrate on-premises website to Azure and altering into an App Service. The App Service allow the use of Azure Backup alongside scalability and high availability custom settings. The design of our solution is to use Azure Key Vault for privacy control, use Managed Identity to save the retrieved data from Key Vault, and adopt suggested ASP.NET website settings according to App Service Migration Tool. Lastly, database is not altered since other on-premises integrated systems includes the use of current SQL Server, but a Hybrid Connection is deployed for the connection of Intranet and Azure.

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A small size company of 20 employees was found in 2018, headquared in Taiwan, is a technology consultant and service company focusing on living space, atmosphere, and lifestyle improvement. Services of this corporation include multiple workspace platform, and various apps on App Store and Google Play.

Since modern working environment has gone through drastic change, this company have developed online operation platforms and sharing systems. This company also embrace collaborations with Internet of Things, mobile payment, and other service partners, aiming to create a new economic model between working and living space.

Challenge

This company aims to adapt to Cloud-Native technology for their community service integration platform, adding new functions to their current platform, and alter it into web application without changing their core system structures.

For cloud adaptation, they wish to migrate their on-premises platform to Azure. For security, they would like to adopt API for password management. Requirements for additional functions include large batch email-based notification to inform their community, adaptation of CI/CD, and more measures for monitoring this platform. 

Choice of Cloud Migration- Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a smart, cost-effective public cloud that assists organizations to remain competitive and profitable. By adopting Microsoft Azure, organizations can optimize cost, speed up the delivery of solutions, and focus on higher impact work.

About a year ago, Microsoft Azure has launched a new web apps migration choice-Azure Migrate for the migration of .NET web applications to Azure App Service simply with the help of Migration Assistant tool.

Solution

Our proposed solution for web application adaptation is to migrate Windows and SQL server to SQL Databse, Windows and Web server to App Service, and Windows and API server to App Service.

Security measures include web server configuration, app service networking settings, and dynamic encryption. On-site emails are sent through Sendgrid purchased through Azure Marketplace. Version control and CI/CD is achieved through Azure DevOps Repository and Pipelines. Lastly, using App Insights to monitor web server, web page, API, and performance.

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This small yet promising startup of 20 employees is a custom-made hat company founded in USA in 2019. The core business of this startup is the production of custom handmade hats, caps, and patches and with over hundreds of varieties. This company gives its customers the choice to customize their very own hat through selecting patches and hats individually while they combine your choices to make a unique hat.

Challenge

The most recent goal of this corporation is to introduce IT systems and systematic approaches into their business. As this corporation expand in both human resources and overseas sales, they require a stronger system to satisfy customer demand within limited processing time. Therefore, several months ago they have started adopting Redmine for project management, collaboration, and issue control.

Now they would like to strengthen their security and backup system through Azure migration while updating Redmine to the latest version.

Choice of Cloud Migration- Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a smart, cost-effective public cloud that assists organizations to remain competitive and profitable. By adopting Microsoft Azure, organizations can optimize cost, speed up the delivery of solutions, and focus on higher impact work.

According to Microsoft research, they had proudly stated that 50% of new VMs running in Azure were running Linux and Linux-based image cores comprise 60% of Azure Marketplace Images. In addition, organizations can enjoy scalable storage, stronger data security, task automation, and plenty of cloud services while utilizing Microsoft Azure to meet each company’s cloud usage demands.

Solution

After consulting with this corporation, we have provided a solution integrating both Redmine and other services that satisfies their future needs while fulfilling their security and backup requirements. The solution we propose includes the use of Redmine Certified for Bitnami built on top of Debian Linux configured for Production Environment.

Redmine, PHP, Apache, MySQL, and Ruby has been integrated and secured using SSL Certification of Let’s Encrypt. More security configurations include a convenient point-to-site VPN Gateway for SSH login and Network Security Group setting allowing only Redmine Administrator to access Linux VM through SSH.

Customer Benefits

The adaptation of Linux Migration has leveraged the optimized Redmine solution, decreased customer’s time spent by approximately 30% for security check and manual updates, which also leads to the decrease managerial cost. The improved security settings becomes less of a concern since Bitnami is configured to automatically update images on marketplace during security breaches. 

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This recognition should be regarded separately from Microsoft Gold Partner Status. Only partners that meet stringent criteria around customer success and staff skilling, as well as pass a third-party audit of their migration practices, are able to earn the Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Azure advanced specialization.

As companies look to modernize their applications and take full advantage of the benefits that cloud computing can deliver, and with the recent end-of-support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2, they are looking for a partner with advanced skills to assess, plan, and migrate their existing workloads to the cloud.

Caloudi achieve Windows Server & SQL Server Migration Advanced Specialization

“Advanced specialization in Windows Server & SQL Server Migration is a recognition of Caloudi’s extensive knowledge and technical capabilities we provide to our customers. This is a valuable form of validation and endorsement for our company in the cloud industry. We’re proud to be the first to earn a Microsoft Azure advanced specialization in East Asia and are looking forward to build a stronger connection and creating an even better cloud experience to our customer” said KC Su, Technical Director of Caloudi Corporation.

Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner (OCP) at Microsoft Corp. added, “The Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure advanced specialization highlights the partners who can be viewed as most capable when it comes to migrating Windows-based workloads over to Azure. Caloudi Corporation clearly demonstrated that they have both the skills and the experience to offer clients a path to successful migration so that they can start enjoying the benefits of being in the cloud.”

About Caloudi

Caloudi is a palpable presence in cloud solutions who helps clients through provisioning and gaining control over their cloud resources. With the expertise in AI-based analytics and Hybrid & Multi cloud support, customers will always be proactive through using AI-based detection, forecasting, optimization, and anomaly detection functions in Caloudi’s CMP.

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A mid-size big data corporation founded in 2014 with 80+ big data pioneers, headquartered in San Francisco, California has developed a data infrastructure solution that allows customers to deploy, scale, manage and explore your data across hybrid infrastructures in one centralized interface.

This corporation also have operation teams in London, Switzerland, Taiwan, Australia, and UAE. The data pioneer utilized its expertise to generate simple storytelling visualization analytics solutions out of complex data associations and relationships.

Challenge

This corporation has won a government bid for the creation of a public-facing promotion website. The requirements of this website include public access availability incorporating a Content Management System. Therefore, they have already built an on-premises WordPress CMS website prototype built upon Ubuntu Linux. Features of their prototype includes ImageMagick, a transcoding/resizing program that resizes photos and PDFs before passing onto My SQL database.

Their next goal was to migrate to Azure to satisfy the needs of public access, high data traffic, storage, scalability, and several additional demands. The main additional demand is customized adaptation and storage of various files (images and PDFs) in preparation of their future App Service conversion project. Since they wish to preserve their use of certain Linux WordPress plugins, they have made the decision to conduct Linux OS migration to Azure with the help of Caloudi.

Choice of Cloud Migration- Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a smart, cost-effective public cloud that assists organizations to remain competitive and profitable. By adopting Microsoft Azure, organizations can optimize cost, speed up the delivery of solutions, and focus on higher impact work.

According to Microsoft research, they had proudly stated that 50% of new VMs running in Azure were running Linux and Linux-based image cores comprise 60% of Azure Marketplace Images. In addition, organizations can enjoy scalable storage, stronger data security, task automation, and plenty of cloud services while utilizing Microsoft Azure to meet each company’s cloud usage demands.

Solution

To achieve a secure, on-demand, public-facing, CMS-based promotion website, we have planned a migration solution catered to migrate their CMS-based website to Azure.

We have segmented our solution into three parts: computation, network, and security. For computation, On-premises Linux Server is migrated to Azure and becomes Ubuntu Server. Applications such as Apache, WordPress, PHP, ImageMagick has been installed to the Ubuntu VM. Whereas images and documents are stored in both disk and storage account. Other custom settings include Azure Backup for auto-backups and VM Scale Set for Salability and High Availability settings. Next, network solution includes isolated database using Azure Database for MySQL with Azure Firewall for IP protection. Lastly, we have deployed Azure Bastion Service with the setting of Network Security Group to secure remote access.

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Requirements

Below are the requirements shown on Microsoft’s website.

The requirements to earn an advanced specialization are designed to identify specialists in specific solution areas that have high customer demand and relevance. The requirements will vary depending on the advanced specialization being sought and may include the following:

1.    Attain and maintain a Gold Cloud Platform Competency
2.    Demonstrate your company meets the Azure Consumed Revenue performance thresholds
3.    Have a minimum number of unique individuals who pass specific certifications
4.    Meet additional requirements, including but not limited to:
(1)Advanced or third-party certifications (2)Microsoft technology-performance indicators (3)Public case studies (4)Architecture review

Advanced Specialization vs. Gold Competency

A competency measures a partner’s broad technical capability in Microsoft product or technology. An advanced specialization measures more in-depth capabilities in a specific solution area. In order to become an advanced specialist, Microsoft partners will need to acquire the matching Microsoft Gold Competency beforehand.

Advanced Specialization Categories

Currently there are six different advanced specialization categories.

• Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure
• Linux and Open Source Database Migration to Microsoft Azure
• Modernization of Web Application to Microsoft Azure
• SAP on Microsoft Azure
• Windows Server & SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure

Why should I acquire an advanced specialization?

Under the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more organizations are relying heavily on the cloud. Besides, analysts have estimate that the demand in cloud will continue to rise in the foreseeable future. Being an advanced specialist means that your enterprise possesses extraordinary knowledge in a specific area. Thus, earning an advanced specialization brings greater exposure to customers and greatly increases the opportunity to generate profit for your enterprise.

Start your journey as an advanced specialist

To learn more about advanced specialization, you can refer to Microsoft’s advanced specialization web page.

About Caloudi

Caloudi is a palpable presence in cloud solutions who helps clients through provisioning and gaining control over their cloud resources. With the expertise in AI-based analytics and Hybrid & Multi cloud support, customers will always be proactive through using AI-based detection, forecasting, optimization, and anomaly detection functions in Caloudi’s CMP.

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Founded in 2015, a leading technology corporation merged with AR/VR Research Group of one of the most prestigious research institute of Taiwan, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). After the merge, this corporation with a head count over 100 received fund by internationally recognized ventures and development funds including National Development Fund, Alibaba Entepreneurs Fund, Taya Venture, etc. Headquartered in Taiwan, with approximately 50 members, this corporation has branched in Silicon Valley of US, Europe, China, and Hongkong.

Their cutting-edge expertise in AR/VR content platforms leads to their global strategic partnership with Google, Intel, ARM, Microsoft, ASUS, etc. Services of this corporation includes AR/VR adaptation in the real estate, design, furnishing, e-commerce, and tourism industry, expanding their global market to 20+ countries in North America, Central America, Europe, Asia, and Middle East.

Challenge

This corporation’s technical employees frequently travel overseas to support their customers. Therefore, a secure easy-access network to their company’s resources such as virtual machines is crucial to their customer success objective. Their most recent approach is to connect to the company VPN/SSH for VM access, but this method is cumbersome to their employees.

Their VMs are split between various regions of VNet, which drastically increases the complexity of resource access. Other than the inconvenience of the current approach, this corporation has concern about the possible security breach during the pandemic. As more companies began to work at home, more attacks on company network is anticipated. Therefore, they deliver this difficulty to the Caloudi Migration team.

Choice of Cloud Migration- Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a smart, cost-effective public cloud that assists organizations to remain competitive and profitable. By adopting Microsoft Azure, organizations can optimize cost, speed up the delivery of solutions, and focus on higher impact work.

According to Microsoft research, organizations save up to 80% of their spending on Windows server and increase 25% in IT productivity using Microsoft Azure. In addition, organizations can enjoy scalable storage, stronger data security, task automation, and plenty of cloud services while utilizing Microsoft Azure to meet each company’s cloud usage demands.

Solution

We proposed Azure Bastion solution in order to tackle this global on-demand accessibility and security issue.

Our plan of approach involves the deployment of Bastion Resource in VNet and using RDP/SSH to connect to VM. Since Bastion Resource allow the use of entirely private company VM without the use of Public IP diminishes the possibility of successful cyber-attacks. This solution introduces simplicity, mobility, and automation to VM access. Members of this corporation can simply connect to VM through Azure Portal using any browser that supports HTML5.

A click on the “connect” button after selecting RDP/SSH connection option is all that is needed to access VM with minimal cost and secured connection. During times where VM connection is no longer needed, Bastion Resource can be cancelled effortlessly and re-deployed at ease using ARM template.

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