Happy birthday WaveCom - today we celebrate our 23rd year of operation
On April 26, we celebrate our birthday - we get 23. During our existence we have accomplished a lot. Here's a little recap from our founding until today.
2001 – established a wireless fixed network
2005 - VoIP phone service
2011 – data center in Tallinn
2013 - Cloud services
2014 - Acquisition of Tantum Group OÜ
2015 - Acquisition of TorqHost OÜ
2016 - IP call center service
2017 - VMware Cloud cloud service
2018 - Innovative data center
2018 - ISO 9001:2015
2019 - ISO 27001:2013
2020 - First and only VMware Cloud Verified service provider in the Estonia
2021 - VMware Disaster Recovery partner
2022 - Veeam Silver Cloud & Service Provider status
2022 - The new era of cloud servers and data repositories
2023 - ISO/EIC 27017:2015
2023 - Zero Carbon Committed
2023 - Modernization of communication networks and DDoS protection
2024 - VMware/Nvidia GPU Cloud for AI/ML hosting
How did we do in 2023?
The past year has presented us with many challenges. The most drastic change was related to our major platform manufacturer VMware, which affected our services offering and which impact we still feel to this day. Despite this, over the past year, we have achieved a number of success stories in expanding the quality of our services and its related ecosystem.
For example, in 2023, we raised the information security bar for services to a new level – we achieved the first ISO/IEC 27017 certificate in Estonia at the time of its obtaining. ISO/IEC 27017 certification demonstrates our company's commitment in providing services that meet high information security standards. In addition our existing ISO 9001 and 27001 certificates were also successfully renewed last year.
In addition to security topics last year we also made ourselves a green transition - in our data center we now rely 100% only on green energy, backup generators use biodiesel and cooling systems are configured to work in an energy-saving way. In addition to data center hardware reuse, our energy-saving solutions, and automation, help us to provide server and cloud services in an energy-efficient manner with minimal carbon footprint. This was also recognized by the Zero Carbon Commited recognition given to us by VMware last year.
In addition to compliance and the green transition, we also made technology innovation - we launched the first GPU Cloud service on the Estonian market, which is fully automated with Nvidia vGPU support at VMware Tanzu Kubernetes. At this time we were also with this solution a technology innovator all over the world. This solution allows our customers' AI/LLM, data science or 3D modeling projects to take to the next level and benefit of global innovation right in the backyard. If you are interested, you can read more here.
What challenges we have ahead of us this year?
What challenges we have ahead of us this year?
The challenges for this year started already with the processes that began at the end of 2023. The biggest impact is the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom and the related activities of our cloud services offerings. In that regard, we are currently creating a new, alternative cloud platform that is designed for a price-sensitive customer, but is not inferior in quality to our current VMware Cloud cloud. The new Cloudstack Xenserver is currently in beta testing and ready for launch in May.
Another our important challenge is the continuation with the green transition we started last year - in addition to being green, we are expanding our outlook throughout ESG framework. In this regard, we are committed to conducting business in a responsible, ethical and sustainable way. Our goal is to offer environmentally friendly IT solutions, following regulations and best practices. One specific activity in 2024 is to add the ISO 14001 environmental management certificate into our list of certificates.
In addition, in 2024 we will also continue with technological innovations. A comprehensive value proposition of information security solutions has been added to our portfolio, which is based on Checkpoint techology. Whether it's central IT systems, the cloud or users, we have a comprehensive solution for everyone. We will also continue to improve our technological solutions in the form of Nvidia's AI/ML solutions, having recently acquired Nvidia's partnership status and providing additional solutions to developers in our GPU Cloud ecosystem.
Another small teaser for this year – as one of the collaborative projects, we will soon have a unique, fully automated full stack DevOps platform coming to market as a full SaaS offering. The solution creates a ready-made environment for the developers to start writing code right away without any concerns of the underlying infrastructure, integrations and security (also compared to global cloud solutions). So stay tuned!
In conclusion , we have before us a winding, bumpy and challenging path that gives us opportunities to do new things, do them better and at the same time to grow ourselves. The purpose of all this is to be a provider of high-quality Cloud services for our existing and new customers.
As a custom with all birthdays, we want to thank all our current customers and cooperation partners for their loyalty and support in our common journey - without you, we would not be the ones who we are today and got here where we are. A deep bow for you! And together we will conquer the new peaks!
