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Guruprit Ahuja and Sabarinathan Sampath join RackNap as CEO and COO

Guruprit Ahuja (Ex-Director Middle-East & Africa, Acronis) and Sabarinathan Sampath (Ex-Professional Services Director, Ingram Micro Cloud) Take Leadership Roles at RackNap

RackNapMumbai – January 6, 2017 – RackNap, a unified cloud services automation and business cycle management platform, today announced the appointment of Guruprit Ahuja as Chief Executive Officer, and Sabarinathan Sampath as Chief Operating Officer.

The move is significant for the IT and cloud industry as both Guruprit Ahuja and Sabarinathan Sampath have held leadership positions in key organizations over a number of years. Their arrival will help cement RackNap’s position as the fastest growing cloud service delivery platform, enabling service providers to sell cloud services on their own infrastructure, as well as via third party cloud providers like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, and others.

Guruprit brings to the table 25 years of experience in Cloud computing platforms, Data center services, and Software solutions. Prior to joining RackNap as CEO, he was Director of Middle East and Africa at Acronis. Guruprit has served as Director of South East Asia, India, and Korea at Parallels (now Odin), where he successfully established relations with some of the key cloud players like Korea Telecom, Vodafone (India), Telekom Malaysia, Telkom Indonesia, and Star-hub (Singapore). Before Parallels, Guruprit was Business Lead – web hosting and cloud at Microsoft, driving web services adoption, and managing relationships with leading service providers and telcos.

On joining RackNap, Guruprit said, “Currently valued at $208.6 billion, the cloud industry is seeing a rapid growth. With huge investments being made in the cloud space by industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, AWS, IBM, there is a new breed of service providers who are traditionally telcos, systems integrators, hardware and software distributors, and now want to add cloud services to their existing product portfolio. However, to do so they need a solution like RackNap that automates provisioning and billing, offering customer self-service, support and CRM, inventory management, business intelligence, and multi-tier partner management capability.”

“In my role as CEO, my immediate focus is to establish mutually beneficial alliances with industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, AWS, IBM, and ensure that cloud service providers can use RackNap to launch complete suite of cloud services, and benefit from this multi-billion opportunity,” he added.

Sabarinathan joins RackNap as COO, with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry with specialization in Cloud Services Delivery. He will also head the Product and Technical Delivery function of RackNap. Sabarinathan joins RackNap from Ingram Micro Cloud (Odin), Singapore where he headed the Professional Services division covering Asia Pacific, Japan, and Russia helping big Telecom Companies, Hosters, Enterprise customers profit from the Cloud using Odin Service Automation platform. Prior to that, he held various roles as Head of Service Assurance and Programme Management Office, working for Hostopia, National Health Service and Cognizant Technology Solutions. His forte is Professional Services Delivery, Operational Excellence, building delivery teams from scratch, enhancing customer success, and helping them get maximum benefits of the software.

 

Our research has found that Cloud Service providers need help in choosing the right business strategy, and skilled manpower to be successful once they have chosen the automation platform for delivery of Cloud Services. In my role as COO, I’ll focus on extending to RackNap users our ‘Well Rounded Managed Services Package’, covering sales, marketing, billing, operations, and technical support. We will help cloud service providers choose the right business model, target right market segment, select appropriate product portfolio structure; thereby increase their average revenue per customer, return on investment, and above all, be profitable. RackNap’s consultative and partnership approach will differentiate us from other platforms in the market,” said Sabarinathan Sampath.

RackNap forecasts a rapid growth of customer base in both mature cloud markets like USA and Europe, and also strong emerging markets like India, South East Asia, and Middle East and Africa.  The platform has had several successful deployments in these emerging markets.

“RackNap enables us to manage billing and provision services from multiple cloud providers like AWS, Azure, VMware and Hyper-V plus. Apart from offering traditional web services like domains, web hosting, SSL; using RackNap, we are also able to plug in Next Generation Cloud Applications and offer it to our Cloud Partners with its multi-tier partner model,”  said Samir Jhaveri, Managing Director, XcellHost Cloud Services.

 “RackNap has adapted as we scaled our cloud business, and has helped us manage our global cloud infrastructure in 50+ countries from a single pane of glass,” he added.

Guruprit and Sabarinathan will be instrumental in leading RackNap’s efforts to penetrate the cloud, datacenter, hardware and software distribution, telco, and hosting industry segments in months to come.

 About RackNap

RackNap is a Cloud Service Delivery and end-to-end Business Automation platform for cloud, datacenter, telco and web hosting industry. RackNap enables providers to sell cloud services on their own infrastructure, as well as via third party providers like Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM – Softlayer, and more. RackNap covers all facets of business operations – Marketplace and product display, Billing and pricing, Service configuration and delivery, Sales and marketing, Inventory and assets monitoring, CRM and support management, Multi-tier partner channel enablement, End- customer panel, and Business analytics. RackNap is a business unit of ZNet Technologies Pvt. Ltd. For more information, please visit www.racknap.com.

The Clement Palo Alto Celebrates Love and Romance with Special Valentine’s Weekend Package, Feb. 10-12

The Clement Palo Alto, which opened in March 2016, celebrates love and romance for its first Valentine’s Weekend with a special package featuring a variety of amenities.

Palo Alto, CA, January 09, 2017 — The Clement Palo Alto, which opened in March 2016, celebrates love and romance for its first Valentine’s Weekend with a special package featuring a variety of amenities.

The luxury all-inclusive hotel that boasts 23 spacious and richly appointed one-bedroom suites, starts your weekend off in style with Welcome Amenities that include early check-in, champagne with cotton candy and flowers.

That evening, guests will be treated to a specially created three-course candle-lit dinner paired with fine wines. After dinner, you can toast each other under a gorgeous full moon at the hotel’s cozy rooftop pool deck with fire pits. Keep in mind that the full moon rises on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 11.

The morning after your romantic night, savor a full breakfast with mimosas or Bellinis delivered to your room. Then luxuriate some more because you have a late check-out that day!

To make your romantic weekend complete, you can also book a relaxing and rejuvenating spa treatment with our partners at nearby LaBelle Day Spa & Salon for an additional cost.

Rates for this special Valentine’s Weekend start at $429 per night available Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 10-12.

Please call one of our staff member at (650) 322-7111 to book this special package.

About The Clement Palo Alto

The Clement Palo Alto opened its doors March 2016 and is one of the most innovative, personalized and unique luxury hotels in the country.

With 23 spacious and richly appointed one-bedroom suites, The Clement Palo Alto sets a new standard for personalized luxury accommodations in a contemporary residential-style atmosphere.

While unparalleled service is key to any great luxury hotel, The Clement Palo Alto takes its impeccable service to another level with an all-inclusive concept, including personalized concierge services, breakfast, lunch and dinner in an on-premise location of the guest’s choice. All wine, beer and cocktails, in-room mini-refrigerator (stocked with the guest’s favorites), and fully-stocked Guest Pantry available around the clock, are just a few of the amenities included in this all-inclusive experience.

In fact, The Clement Palo Alto is more than all-inclusive, it is all-exclusive, catering exclusively to the guest’s personal tastes and desires.

The Clement Palo Alto is ideally located across from Stanford University and next to downtown Palo Alto, with its award-winning restaurants, world-class shopping and upscale spas. It is just 45 minutes south of San Francisco and only 30 minutes north of San Jose, not only making it convenient, but easily accessible to the world-famous sights and myriad activities of both cities.

Overall, The Clement Palo Alto offers a unique, one-of-a-kind 6-star experience in the heart of Silicon Valley with unparalleled personal service, all-inclusive luxury and privacy in a warm, inviting and luxurious residential environment.

The Clement Hotel

711 El Camino Real

Palo Alto, California 94301

650.322.7111

www.theclementpaloalto.com

Contact:

Marci Bracco Cain

Chatterbox PR

Salinas, CA 93901

(831) 747-7455

http://www.theclementpaloalto.com