The Parametrix Team

Parametrix Appoints Rick Wong as Head of Insurance

Parametrix, the provider of cloud downtime insurance, today announced it appointed Hiscox veteran Rick Wong as head of insurance. Wong will lead the Parametrix team focusing on broker relations and the development of the broker channel, a critical channel accounting for more than 70% of commercial insurance sold in the United States. An insurance industry …

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Parametrix featured on the Wall Street Journal

Sometimes it helps when others make the case for you. And we just got covered by the Wall Street Journal. “Parametrix sells insurance specifically to mitigate the risks of downtime events, compensating businesses for any losses, including lost revenue and the cost of recovery, when their cloud-computing provider or cloud-based applications service goes down.” Read …

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CFO cloud outage

CFOs: are digital perils accounted for in your risk management strategy?

Risk is inherent to any business operation. CFOs are particularly sensitive to risk, as it can undermine their ability to forecast revenue, cash flow and spend. It’s no wonder that public companies are required to identify risk and account for it in their annual  and quarterly reports. What does missing a risk factor mean for …

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Parametrix and Leavitt Group team up to help companies mitigate cloud downtime risk

Parametrix Insurance, the provider of parametric cloud downtime insurance, and Leavitt Group, the 14th largest privately-held insurance brokerage in the United States, today announced that ComTech-Leavitt Insurance Services, a member of Leavitt Group and Parametrix have partnered to help businesses that use the cloud reduce their exposure to the risks of cloud downtime.  “ComTech-Leavitt works …

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Scale, Security & Risk: 2022’s best cloud-related conferences to attend

From traditional trade shows to more networking  formats, new cloud-centric events reflect the growing complexities of managing data and services on the public cloud. For any business entrusting their most valuable assets to 3rd party IT providers, attending these events can help better manage resources, gain a better understanding of security, and set a holistic …

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Seven hour AWS cloud downtime causes major business interruption

On December 07 2021 at 15:18 UTC, 10:18 EST, several AWS services started malfunctioning, leading to a major cloud outage that lasted nearly 7 hours, brings down thousands of websites, including major services like Amazon, Tinder, Roku, Coinbase, Happy Games, Epic Games, Ring, Disney Plus and more. Seven hours after our monitors started showing availability …

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Parametrix, Founder Shield join forces to protect business from cloud downtime

December 7th, 2021 – New York NY and San Francisco, CA – Parametrix Insurance, the provider of parametric cloud downtime insurance, and Founder Shield, a tech-enabled, digital insurance platform, today announced that Founder Shield will be marketing and selling Parametrix’s cloud downtime insurance to their clients and prospects to help protect them from the risk …

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Parametrix adds four new members to executive team

Israeli insurtech startup Parametrix, which has developed a solution helping companies to quickly recover from downtime events in their cloud systems and other third party services, has announced four new hirings to its executive team. Liran Bouskila has been named as CFO, Jed Alpert as CMO, Sharon Haran as VP Europe, and Daniel Benjamin as …

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Parametrix and Socius partner to bring cloud downtime insurance to the market

Socius to enable brokers to work with clients on reducing the risk posed by operating mission-critical applications in the cloud November 17, 2021 – New York NY and San Francisco, CA – Parametrix Insurance, the provider of parametric cloud downtime insurance, and Socius Insurances Services, an independently-owned management liability and property/casualty insurance wholesaler, today announced …

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Mitigating the Risk of Business Interruption from Cloud Downtime

Insights: Mitigating the risk of business interruption from cloud downtime

Q3 2021 earnings were tremendous for the three largest public cloud vendors – AWS, Azure and GCP. Revenue from their cloud operations grew 37% YoY, with the next ten largest cloud providers hitting the 28% YoY mark. The main driver of growth is obvious. More and more businesses are opting for the convenience and affordability …

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