RapidCompute, Pakistan’s largest local cloud service provider, and Cloudflare, the leading Internet performance and security company, have signed an enterprise partnership agreement to provide Cloudflare’s next-generation performance and security solutions to customers in the local market. The alliance comes at a critical time when the Pakistani market is still reeling from the latest series of cyber-attacks that targeted banks and cost millions of dollars.
The agreement includes all the leading web performance and security tools that Cloudflare excels at, including DDoS protection, WAF, DNS management, CDN and many more.
RapidCompute has been providing cutting-edge services to hundreds of its customers since its inception in 2011. The PCI-DSS and ISO Certified cloud provider plays host to a large number of banks, financial sector organizations and critical public and private sector institutions for whom digital security is of utmost importance.
Mr. Imran Khan, MD RapidCompute, spoke about the strategic partnership: “Organizations need a cloud and security plan that deliver high levels of protection without compromising on performance or speed. By partnering with Cloudflare, RapidCompute is providing a one-stop solution for security capabilities designed to protect web content and applications on the cloud.”
Cloudflare is one of the world’s largest networks that provides services to increase security and performance of websites and services to over 12 million web properties and offers great functionality such as SSL and content distribution. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, named the Most Innovative Network & Internet Technology Company for two years running by the Wall Street Journal, and ranked among the world’s 50 most innovative companies by Fast Company.
By signing up on the RapidCompute cloud, customers will be able to use easily configurable solutions by Cloudflare to secure their internet facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft, bot attacks etc. Customers will also be provided with a 24/7 enterprise-grade pre-sales support by both Cloudflare and RapidCompute.
Suman Rayala, Regional Sales Manager for Cloudflare, added “Cloudflare has a clear vision and strategy around the key issues on the minds of IT directors amidst their digital transformation initiatives. This is aligned with RapidCompute’s strategy, and we at Cloudflare are excited with this partnership by offering the complete spectrum of cloud-based security offerings, from the mitigation of high-volume DDoS attacks to the protection of application data breaches, all without compromising the performance of customers’ Websites. This new partnership will enable RapidCompute and Cloudflare to jointly deliver stronger value-added services to leading organizations in Pakistan, as well as help to make the Internet more performant and secure.”
To find out more about RapidCompute’s full suite of security services, visit the website or call 021-11-11-CLOUD (25683).
