Exponential-e has revealed plans to disrupt the Cloud services market with the launch of its Cloud-ready network offering.

Exponential-e has addressed the on-going concerns over data security and privacy of Cloud, using the network to place the Cloud environment behind the corporate firewall and resolving enterprise Cloud data security and privacy concerns.

Key to delivering the disruptive cloud-model is Exponential-e’s VPLS Layer 2 network which allows for enterprise Cloud services to be delivered behind the corporate firewall.

Exponential-e CEO Lee Wade explained: "Enterprises have long recognised the potential benefits of Cloud services; cost, flexibility and scalability and secure infrastructure that in turn benefit the entire business. To date however, businesses have not been able to achieve those benefits, as they continue to be restricted by Cloud infrastructure that does not offer the data security and privacy levels that enterprises demand. By re-envisaging Cloud with the network at its heart, Exponential-e is able to provide a trusted route to Cloud adoption to the market."

Exponential-e research shows 56% of businesses have significant security concerns over adopting Cloud services. The major issues are caused by the unreliability of the Internet, which is not able to deliver the interoperability, support data security or mobility between Cloud environments, or provide the scale to enable the Cloud to become truly enterprise-grade. By refocusing on the network as an enabler for Cloud, Exponential-e has addressed these Cloud concerns and presented an integrated solution offering an end-to-end SLA.

Wade continued: "Our aim was to develop our VPLS network to deliver seamless interoperability between the Cloud and the network and we have achieved this. Over a third of our quarterly revenues to date are from organisations that recognise this and some, for the first time, are making that transition to cloud because they now have a route that doesn’t risk their data and security.

"The future of Cloud very much lies in the fusion of the network and the Cloud."