Magento Expands its Cloud-Based Commerce Ecosystem with Microsoft and Joyent
eBay Enterprise, an
eBay Inc.,
company, announced today that Microsoft Azure and Joyent are joining
its Magento Hosting Partner ecosystem—further expanding the company’s
global cloud-hosting solution options for retailers and brands. This
expands the global footprint of Magento’s existing roster of partners
who are delivering cloud-hosting solutions, including Rackspace and
Peer1, to offer a greater choice among leading enterprise-class cloud
infrastructure providers. As merchants look to create innovative,
scalable customer experiences as part of their commerce strategies in
2015, cloud solutions are a natural choice because they offer faster
time to market for new deployments, greater flexibility to scale
capacity during peak periods, a global footprint to facilitate
international expansion, and lower capital expenses.
“Our cloud partners provide access to cost-effective, scalable, and
more secure infrastructure to retailers on a global scale,” noted Craig
Hayman, President of eBay Enterprise, “which complements Magento’s
unique worldwide developer network and their ability to deliver
customized, innovative commerce experiences. Together, this powerful
ecosystem allows merchants to have total creative control while also
delivering solutions to fuel their growth.”
Today, thousands of Magento sites utilize cloud hosting to optimize
their commerce operations. High growth retailers, such as fashion
accessory brand Kendra Scott, rely on Magento platforms in the cloud to
keep pace with brisk holiday sales. “I love the ability to easily expand
during critical peak periods when we need the extra bandwidth and then
just as easily turn that capacity off with our managed cloud solution
from Rackspace,” said Tria Foster, Vice President of eCommerce and
Loyalty for
Kendra Scott Design.
Rackspace,
a long-standing Magento Platinum Hosting Partner, delivers reliable,
high performance managed services for the full Magento stack. This
includes architecture guidance that increasingly takes advantage of the
cloud’s ability to quickly respond to changes in customer traffic—a key
benefit of deploying Magento platforms in the cloud for customers like
Kendra Scott.
Delivering Premier Cloud-Hosting Solutions for Merchants
Magento Hosting Partners
offer customers a choice of powerful, flexible, and reliable
cloud-hosting solutions which can be tailored to support their needs in
ways cookie-cutter platforms cannot. The addition of Azure and Joyent to
the Magento Hosting Partner program signifies Magento’s leadership and
continued focus on enabling virtually unlimited flexibility in both
software and infrastructure options.
Microsoft Azure, a new
Magento Platinum Hosting Partner, offers a complete platform so merchants can get everything they
need from a single cloud solution. An open and flexible platform
supporting any operating system, language, tool, and framework, Azure
provides merchants more choice and control to help them move faster, do
more, and save money.
“We’re excited to collaborate with Magento to deliver eCommerce
solutions that meet the needs of the most demanding merchants,” said
Vibhor Kapoor, Director of Product Marketing at Microsoft Azure. “Backed
by the world-class experience of Microsoft, Azure blends an
enterprise-proven, hybrid cloud with one-click setup and easy-to-use
monitoring technology to provide Magento merchants a platform with the
scalability, flexibility, and reliability to achieve global success.”
Joyent, a new Magento Silver Hosting Partner, offers
a high-performance public cloud infrastructure purpose-built for
fast-growing and innovative eCommerce companies who want to build
reliable, resilient, and seamlessly scalable applications. Joyent has
developed reference architectures that are pre-configured and optimized
to specifically fit the needs of Magento merchants, and offer
unprecedented ease-of-use, including pre-configured, push-button
deployment. Also, Magento merchants benefit from Joyent’s
container-based cloud, which offers exceptional performance and security
for eCommerce applications.
“Partnering with Magento is a natural fit for Joyent. We share a
common focus of delivering secure, scalable, and best-in-class solutions
to merchants, for whom performance is paramount,” said Joyent
CEO, Scott Hammond. “When you combine Joyent’s high-performance
infrastructure capabilities with Magento’s industry-leading commerce
software, companies get the flexible, cost-effective experience they
need to be successful.”
More About Magento in the Cloud
Magento is also facilitating cloud deployments by supporting flexible,
custom cloud pricing and by developing cloud-hosting educational
resources for merchants. Pricing information can be obtained directly
from the
Magento sales team.
Details on the pros and cons of cloud hosting, as well as
recommendations for using Magento platforms in the cloud, are available
in a new whitepaper, “Understanding Magento Cloud Hosting,” posted at
our
Magento Cloud Information Site.
Magento merchants also benefit from a broad set of Technology
Partners offering commerce tools and features optimized for use with
Magento platforms, as well as an experienced network of Solution
Partners who are well-versed in quickly deploying and scaling Magento
platforms in the cloud to support rapid growth.
Magento at NRF
eBay Enterprise and Magento will be showcasing their technology solutions, including their cloud-hosted offerings, at the
National Retail Federation Big Show January 11-13, 2015, in New York City at the Jacob K. Javitz Convention Center. eBay Enterprise and Magento will be located at
booth #3163.