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Aptum Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Grant Duxbury, Director of Pre-Sales Solution Engineering at Aptum, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

At Aptum, Duxbury has responsibility for leading the customer solutions, supporting product development, and assisting the organization grow and deliver hybrid multi-cloud managed services. Prior to joining Aptum in 2019, he spent 10 years as a Senior Solution Architect with Sungard Availability Services supporting their fortune 500 customers with private/public cloud solutions using AWS, VMware, Open systems, and a vast array of Disaster Recovery solutions for all platforms including x86, Sun, Mainframe, and open systems. Duxbury started his career in network security and software development providing enterprise remote management and security services to companies around the world.

Aptum Technologies enables customers to unlock the potential of their data infrastructure to drive tangible business outcomes and maximize the value of their technology investments. Aptum’s Data Center, Cloud, Hosting and Global Network solutions, underpinned with expert Managed and Professional Services, offer genuine choice and adaptability combined with international reach spanning North America, Latin America, Europe and the United Kingdom. Aptum is a portfolio company of Digital Colony, a global investment firm dedicated to strategic opportunities in digital infrastructure.

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Aptum Joins the Vendor Forum

Pete Goldin
Editor and Publisher
APMdigest

Grant Duxbury, Director of Pre-Sales Solution Engineering at Aptum, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.

At Aptum, Duxbury has responsibility for leading the customer solutions, supporting product development, and assisting the organization grow and deliver hybrid multi-cloud managed services. Prior to joining Aptum in 2019, he spent 10 years as a Senior Solution Architect with Sungard Availability Services supporting their fortune 500 customers with private/public cloud solutions using AWS, VMware, Open systems, and a vast array of Disaster Recovery solutions for all platforms including x86, Sun, Mainframe, and open systems. Duxbury started his career in network security and software development providing enterprise remote management and security services to companies around the world.

Aptum Technologies enables customers to unlock the potential of their data infrastructure to drive tangible business outcomes and maximize the value of their technology investments. Aptum’s Data Center, Cloud, Hosting and Global Network solutions, underpinned with expert Managed and Professional Services, offer genuine choice and adaptability combined with international reach spanning North America, Latin America, Europe and the United Kingdom. Aptum is a portfolio company of Digital Colony, a global investment firm dedicated to strategic opportunities in digital infrastructure.

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While companies adopt AI at a record pace, they also face the challenge of finding a smart and scalable way to manage its rapidly growing costs. This requires balancing the massive possibilities inherent in AI with the need to control cloud costs, aim for long-term profitability and optimize spending ...

Telecommunications is expanding at an unprecedented pace ... But progress brings complexity. As WanAware's 2025 Telecom Observability Benchmark Report reveals, many operators are discovering that modernization requires more than physical build outs and CapEx — it also demands the tools and insights to manage, secure, and optimize this fast-growing infrastructure in real time ...

As businesses increasingly rely on high-performance applications to deliver seamless user experiences, the demand for fast, reliable, and scalable data storage systems has never been greater. Redis — an open-source, in-memory data structure store — has emerged as a popular choice for use cases ranging from caching to real-time analytics. But with great performance comes the need for vigilant monitoring ...

Kubernetes was not initially designed with AI's vast resource variability in mind, and the rapid rise of AI has exposed Kubernetes limitations, particularly when it comes to cost and resource efficiency. Indeed, AI workloads differ from traditional applications in that they require a staggering amount and variety of compute resources, and their consumption is far less consistent than traditional workloads ... Considering the speed of AI innovation, teams cannot afford to be bogged down by these constant infrastructure concerns. A solution is needed ...

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