Amsio Expands SaasNow as a Service Solution in Europe with Interxion

Interxion’s Pan-European footprint enables Amsio to deliver a better user experience and meet strict data sovereignty laws
LONDON – 22nd October 2015 – INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, today announced that Amsio has selected a further seven of its data centres from which to launch its new SaasNow as a service solution.
The solution takes the power of SAS Visual Analytics and Visual Statistics and makes it available in the cloud on a flexible, scalable, pay-per-month basis. It allows enterprises to benefit from a self-service environment for business intelligence and big data analytics, with no need to invest in infrastructure or SAS licenses.
Amsio became a key partner of SAS in 2010 and helped to develop SaasNow, which is run on a shared platform with dedicated virtual machines (VMs), hosted and managed by Amsio. It has been designed with SAS partners in mind, offering a global contract that enables them to register free of charge and get set up within one working day. Partners can then deliver live SAS Visual Analytics environments to their customers in just 30 minutes.
Currently the solution is colocated at Interxion’s Netherlands data centre, but in order to meet European customer demand and comply with strict data sovereignty laws Amsio looked to Interxion to help them roll it out in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain and the UK.
Gerben Van Leeuwen CEO Amsio commented, “User experience and data privacy are two of the critical success factors for any good cloud solution and we knew that in order for us to launch SaasNow as a service these aspects needed to be world class. The fact Interxion has over 500 carriers and data centres in 11 countries meant we could host the solution in multiple geographies, alleviating latency issues and enabling us to meet local data sovereignty laws.”
Vincent in’t Veld, Director of Cloud at Interxion commented, “Through our Pan European footprint and densely connected data centres, we can enable Managed Service Providers and Software providers like Amsio and SAS to expand and re-invent their business models, delivering on demand services with an improved experience and compliant to local data regulation.”
“SaasNow breaks down barriers to adoption of SAS Visual Analytics, enabling a much wider range of companies to quickly benefit from its capabilities,” says Hylke Visser, SAS Global Partner Manager for Amsio. “The partnership with Amsio has allowed us to develop a brand-new business model with great potential for our partners and their customers throughout Europe and beyond.”
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About SaasNow
SaasNow is a Dutch innovative startup and provider of the eponymous self-service BI & business analytics solution. The company offers SAS partners a pay-per-month cloud solution based on SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics software to unleash the power of analytics to the business professional. With a self-service portal they can gain valuable insights from their data without being dependent on their IT-department. SaasNow is currently available in 166 countries worldwide and powered by Amsio, a leading Dutch hosting provider. www.saasnow.com
About Interxion
Interxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving a wide range of customers through 40 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications.
With over 500 connectivity providers, 20 European Internet exchanges, and most leading cloud and digital media platforms across its footprint, Interxion has created connectivity, cloud, content and finance hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest. For more information, please visit www.interxion.com.
About Amsio
Amsio has been offering a large variety of cloud- and managed services for 14 years. Our focus lies in offering and delivering a complete service package to our customers and partners. We do this out of three certified data centres and via our own IP network. With a driven team of experts, Amsio helps customers and partners by translating complex cloud-infrastructure questions into solutions, so that they can focus on their core business. Amsio is not only a hoster in cloud infrastructure, but also a partner and trusted advisor. This has convinced hundreds of customers to choose Amsio as a business partner. www.amsio.com
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Amsio
Gerben van Leeuwen
G.vanleeuwen@amsio.com
+31 88 8007522
 
Interxion 
Richard Dorgan
richardd@interxion.com
+44 20 7375 7000