A Quick Onrego Update

June 3, 2014June 3, 2014Leave a comment

Our company, Onrego Ltd, has been accelerating a lot lately. It’s time for a quick review.

In few months Onrego Ltd is having its two-year birthday. Almost two years ago we started with a strong feeling and vision of how the world will change because of cloud. It’s been extremely pleasant to be able to witness how cloud services have developed within these two years but also how customers have progressed with their (cloud) strategies.

Onrego has also developed it’s cloud service portfolio a lot. Most of the solutions we have today can be found from our Finnish pages (Solutions). The latest add-on is our Self-Service Password Reset. Although it’s actually not a cloud service, but it can accelerate our customers towards to cloud. We have also gained new partnerships and today we are:

Microsoft Gold Partner Management and Virtualization

Microsoft System Center Alliance member

Microsoft Azure Circle Partner

Veeam Gold Cloud Provider

Cireson Premier Partner

Riverbed Partner

AppZero Preferred Partner

Let’s keep accelerating!

Greetings from Also Cloud Expo 2014

March 27, 2014Leave a comment

This week we had an opportunity to attend Also Cloud Expo 2014 in Wanha Satama, Helsinki, Finland. Onrego had a booth and I had a speech about how customers are making a movement from producing their own IT infrastructure to service management and cloudsourcing. Let’s summarize the event with couple of pics.

The first ever Also Cloud Expo had an amazing spirit. It was about collaboration between doers and partners, driving the industry to the same direction and not seeing each other as a competitor. It was seeing each other as an opportunity to build the future and a competitive cloud service portfolio that creates value to customers.

Big news was published just couple of days before Also Cloud Expo: ALSO acquired Nervogrid. The acquisition made ALSO the leading Cloud Broker and the whole Expo was guided by the same message: now MSP’s and IT resellers can start to build a cloud service portfolio for their customers with no need to develop and do everything again if someone has already done it.

Mr. Perttu Monthan (@monthan) opened the event, followed by Mr. Jukka Kortesniemi from ALSO and Mr. Ari Rikkilä (@ari_rikkila) from Nervogrid (or ALSO Cloud, nowadays).

Mr. Samuli Savo (@samusavo) from Marketvisio kept an interesting keynote about insights of cloud services.

Couple of key takeaways from Samuli are:

It is wrong to compare just the price tag of on-premises installation and cloud service. To most organizations, agility matters and is the driver towards cloud.
Customers tend to buy cloud services from their trusted advisors.
MSP’s and IT resellers should focus on their added value on value chain: why would customers buy cloud services from you, if they can buy it from cloud service provider, such as Microsoft.
IaaS will grow a lot in the near future (and companies need cloud based server and service monitoring systems to monitor decentralized datacenters, such as Online System Center by Onrego)
Cloud Brokerage will also grow a lot in the future: the takeaway for MSP’s and IT resellers is: use and resell cloud services that already exists and create your own place in the value chain.

My speech was right after Samuli’s great keynote. I wanted to share our experience and customer stories about how customers are shifting from producing IT by themselves to service management.

I started by talking about outsourcing and how total outsourcing cases have been disappearing while customers are shifting to cloudsourcing model. One great opportunity for MSP’s and IT resellers is the fact in which customers that are now doing everything by themselves, are ready to move from insourcing straight to cloudsourcing. This creates a whole new market. The market is called Cloud Brokerage.

Jarno (@jarnomaki)

Heterogeneous Server Monitoring using Online System Center

February 4, 2014Leave a comment

One of our friend had a problem. They have a hosting business with lots of Windows servers but also lots of GNU/Linux servers as well. They needed a monitoring solution that could easily give views to the hosted servers for them but also to their end customers. Onrego’s Online System Center, Server and Service Monitoring does the trick!

One great thing to know is that System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 does support several Unixes as well as GNU/Linux distributions. While Onrego’s Online System Center cloud service does include the latest version of System Center Operations Manager, we were able to start monitoring our friends’ hosting company’s GNU/Linux machines.

Using one cloud based monitoring solution for Windows and Unix/GNU/Linux servers (and for network devices if wanted) allows us to create comprehensive views to delivered services, that consists of several components, such as Windows-based database servers and GNU/Linux based front-end (read: web) servers.

Using Onrego Dashboard, a HTML5 browsed based dashboard, you can view alerts, services and servers using your mobile phone, tablet or of course your desktop or laptop computer.

You can deep dive into any server you wish to:

You can get a detailed you for a specific component or services, such as an ethernet interface with performance counter data:

Onrego Online System Center Heterogeneous Monitoring Windows Linux Dashboard Debian Linux Deep Dive eth0

You can even run built-in tasks or create your own tasks such as shell scripts or commands that are run on the server:

Onrego Online System Center Heterogeneous Monitoring Windows Linux Dashboard Debian Linux Deep Dive Take Action

And finally you can put together a service view that may consist of several server OS’s:

Onrego Online System Center Heterogeneous Monitoring Windows Linux Dashboard Debian Linux Distributed Application

As always, please do not hesitate to contact Onrego Sales for more information about Onrego Online System Center! Or you can visit our website www.onlinesystemcenter.com.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas…And a Happy New Year!

December 19, 2013December 19, 2013Leave a comment

Another busy year is soon coming to an end. We at Onrego have been keeping ourselves very busy, thanks to our customers and partners but also to our dream in which the world is very cloudy. We’d like to thank our customers, partners, friends and supporters and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Online System Center

The Onrego Crew

Onrego Is Now a Cireson Premium Partner

December 17, 2013December 18, 20131 Comment

While Onrego has been recognized as an innovative cloud services company among our customers, we have also been recognized as a very skillful and agile ITSM company that creates value for our customers by using System Center Service Manager as a tool to solve their ITSM challenges. Now Onrego can create even more value for its customers because Onrego is now a Cireson Premium Partner. Read more!

Microsoft System Center Service Manager is a powerful and clever ITSM Service Management tool for incident management, problem resolution and for change and release control. It also has a self-service portal as well as automation and orchestration capabilities. Microsoft System Center Service Manager fully integrates to other System Center systems management tools such as System Center Configuration Manager for managing devices, System Center Operations Manager to monitor servers and services and System Center Orchestrator to implement automation workflows that can be integrated to self-service portal’s service requests.

Onrego‘s Online System Center is a globally available cloud service for such tasks that many end-customer organizations and managed service providers do find modern, agile and very useful to use in their daily IT operations. While the world in some cases is not yet cloud ready, Onrego also helps organizations to get benefits from Microsoft System Center portfolio from their on-premise datacenters.

Now, Onrego has become a Cireson Premium Partner. Cireson is a company that focuses on deliver more value to System Center Service Manager users in designing and producing great add-ons to it. For example, Cireson Asset Management extends the capabilities of System Center Service Manager by adding asset management features to it.

Another hot add-on from Cireson is Web Console, that allows organizations to use System Center Service Manager using a web browser, smartphone or tablet.

While Onrego has been recognized as an innovative cloud services company among our clients, we have also been recognized as a very skillful and agile ITSM company that creates value for our customers by using System Center Service Manager as a tool to solve their ITSM challenges.

Now Onrego can create even more value to customers with Cireson’s add-ons. We have already sold and implemented those add-ons and we can deliver demos and hassle-free proof-of-concepts from Online System Center cloud service. Cireson’s products can be implemented on Onrego’s Online System Center or on end-customer organization’s on-premises System Center Service Manager. Depending on how ready your world is for cloud services.

Please contact Onrego Sales for more information and please ask for a demo or PoC!

Greetings from Microsoft Technet Tour 2013!

October 23, 2013October 23, 2013Leave a comment

Microsoft Technet Tour 2013 is on the road on this autumn in Finland! With topics such as Microsoft Cloud OS, Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and Hyper-V, Onrego is also attending the tour.

On last week’s Friday, Microsoft released R2 versions of Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012. While most of the IT pros around world started to downloadthe bits, we packed our packs and headed to a tour around Finland to talk about the new features and possibilities Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center and Windows Azure to hundreads of Finnish IT pros and business leaders.

The tour stops at the following cities: Vaasa 10/22, Oulu 10/23, Lappeenranta 10/29, Kuopio 10/30 and Jyväskylä 10/31. More details about the locations and time schedule can be found from Microsoft Finland’s Technet Blog article.

Microsoft’s Mr. Juha Karppinen opens the event with a presentation on Microsoft CloudOS followed with Mr. Antti Alila and Mr. Timo Salminen on Windows Server, Hyper-V and Microsoft VDI. Guys do also have couple of great demos of Windows Azure Multi-Factor authentication and Windows 8.1 Workplace Join and they even managed to show a demo in which an iPad (first time ever?) was used to access data at the workplace using Workplace Join and Windows Azure Multi-Factor authentication.

After a break Neoxen Oy‘s Esa Tervo gave a presentation of Windows Azure IaaS and how Neoxen has implemented Sharepoint sites on Azure Iaas and Mr. Kalle Rissanen from ArrowECS explained how to benefit from Veeam’s products on managing Hyper-V and VMware backups.

On the tour, Onrego’s presentation is about implementing self-service and automation using System Center Service Manager and System Center Orchestrator with half a dozen case examples of what Onrego has already implemented to its customers both as a cloud service (Onrego Online System Center) and as on-premises.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any requests in terms of Windows Server, Hyper-V, Azure, System Center and cloud services.

Greetings from ALSO Expo

October 21, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego attended ALSO Expo in Finland couple of weeks ago and made dozens of new contacts. Let’s summarize the expo with a few pics.

ALSO Finland, the biggest distributor in Finland, had it’s traditional ALSO Expo on October 10, 2013 in Tampere, Finland. Because the target audience for the expo was Finnish IT resellers and Managed Service Providers, Onrego attended the expo with it’s own booth. We made dozens of new contacts with meeting requests so I’d say the event was very successful for us.

There was also a couple of presentations and one of them was by Jukka Kortesniemi from ALSO. Jukka had a presentation concerning cloud services and what to expect from them in a near future.

Onrego had also a chance to attend Microsoft’s own pre-party at Klubi before ALSO’s own party after the expo. I’m very grateful to Mr. Jarkko Lainio from Microsoft Finland as he invited me to join him on the stage with Microsoft’s Mr. Markku Pulkkinen and Mr. Lasse Gerdt and to talk about Onrego and Onrego Online System Center and how Onrego benefits from being a Microsoft Gold Partner.

Finally, Also Expo ended with a much expected party with food and beverige. Evening’s special guest star was Jenni Vartiainen, the most popular female artist in Finland at the moment. What a great event!

New Features to Online System Center for resellers and MSP’s

October 9, 2013October 9, 2013Leave a comment

I’m proud to announce new features to Onrego‘s Online System Center, a Microsoft System Center based systems management cloud service for end customers, resellers and MSP’s around the world. Online System Center offers now a multitenant SCCM as well as brower based Onrego Dashboard for SCOM and ITSM Service Management with orchestration capabilities.

Onrego’s Online System Center is a Microsoft System Center based systems management cloud service for managing devices such as workstations, laptops, mobile devices and tablets, for monitoring servers and services and to benefit from powerful ISTM Service Management with on-premises orchestration capabilities.

Onrego’s Online System Center is suitable for end customers and resellers but especially for Managed Service Providers (MSP’s) all around the world, who wants to use industry leading Microsoft System Center products in their service production.

Onrego’s Online System Center is managed using a browsed based portal.

Online System Center, Device Management

Onrego’s multitenant System Center Configuration Manager 2012 allows MSP’s to manage all of their end customers’ devices from one point with one management console but they can still give secured access to end customers and allow them to see the assets they have.

Adding new tenants (end customers) can be an easier task with Onrego’s Online System Center. Just click “Create New” in Onrego Portal and enter a name and a mail domain name for a new tenant and you are ready to go with automatically created unique client installation packages for each tenant you have.

Online System Center, Server and Service Monitoring

With Onrego’s Online System Center, Server and Service Monitoring cloud service, MSP’s can monitor all of their end customers’ servers and service no matter where the actual server are located: at the end customer’s datacenter, on your datacenter or on IaaS providers.

Using browsed based Onrego Dashboard, MPS’s and their end customer’s can monitor alerts, servers and services using any device from anywhere.

Online System Center, Service Management

Online System Center offers also a very poweful ITSM Service Management for MSP’s with ticketing features, self service portals and automation capabilities. Onrego’s Online System Center has a very unique feature: you can add on-premises orchestration components located at your end customer’s datacenter to Online System Center and gain increased profitability automating tasks and providing easy to use self service portals to your end customer’s end users.

All of the services included in Online System Center are suitable for MSP’s and resellers around the world. We can also offer white label version of Online System Center if you want rebrand the cloud service.

Please visit Online System Center website to learn more and contact Onrego Sales to book an online meeting to see a demo and to learn more about the possibilites Online System Center can do for your business!

Meet Onrego and Onrego’s Cloud Services

September 2, 2013September 3, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego Ltd, the producer of Online System Center systems management cloud service, is attending to a number of seminars and webinars this fall. Come to meet Onrego and discuss about the opportunities of Onrego’s Cloud Services!

So far we have witnessed ramp-ups of collaborative cloud services, such as Microsoft Office 365 and business apps and services translating into SaaS. But what we haven’t yet seen is the movement of IT infrastructure to the cloud. There are Microsoft’s CloudOS vision and Cloud First acts driving us to cloud services. We have talked to a large number of corporations and Managed Service Providers and the trend is clear: IT infrastructure is moving to cloud.

Now, Onrego is concentrating on cloud services that benefits end customers as well as resellers and Managed Service Providers. During this fall we are having a number of seminars and webinars where we are presenting our cloud services and the movement we are about to witness in a near future.

You can meet us at the following events and we are ready to discuss with you about the interesting opportunities cloud services can do for your business.

The following list includes events Onrego is attending this fall. This list does not include private events and there are still a few events to be added later this month.

Date	Event	Where	Organizer	How to attend?
September 3rd	Online System Center webinar	Online	ALSO	http://cloud.also.fi/news/37/55/Onregon-pilvipohjaiset-jaerjestelmaenhallintatyoekalut-webinaari-3-9
September 25th	Also Cloud & Onrego seminar	Microsoft Finland, Espoo	ALSO	http://www.alsoevents.fi Koodi: OSC_Seminaari
September 26th	Also Cloud & Onrego seminar	Tampere	ALSO	http://www.alsoevents.fi Koodi: OSC_Seminaari
October 10th	Also Expo	Tampere-talo, Tampere	ALSO	http://alsoexpo.fi/etusivu/
October 22th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Vaasa	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561255&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 23th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Oulu	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561257&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 29th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Lappeenranta	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561258&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 30th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Kuopio	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561259&Culture=fi-FI&community=0
October 31th	Microsoft CloudOS Tour	Lappeenranta	Microsoft	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032561260&Culture=fi-FI&community=0

Onrego to Join Aalto Start-Up Center to Accelerate Growth

August 20, 2013August 20, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego Ltd has been approved to Aalto Start-Up Center. Aalto Start-up Center works under Aalto University School of Business and is known for accelerating Rovio’s and Supercell’s growth. Only 20% of applicants are approved and Onrego is one of them! Aalto Start-Up Center is a business incubator located in Helsinki, Finland. It works under Aalto University School of Business and has been accelerating Finnish start-ups from 1997. Couple of well-known startups Aalto Start-Up Center has been helping are Rovio and Supercell. Aalto Start-Up Center is a well-respected and wanted business incubator. According to the company, only 20 % of applicants are approved to join Aalto Start-Up Center. We at Onrego are very pleased to be able to join and get help on accelerating the growth of Onrego.

Onrego’s vision is to provide cloud services for MSP’s and resellers on a global basis to help organizations to benefit from the cloud era. We will see lots of movement towards cloud services in a near future. One of the driving force is the Cloud First policy. For example, President Obama and the government of United States of America is one of the first ones driving eagerly Cloud First policy. Lately, we have seen countries such UK and Australia starting their own Cloud First policies and now the EU has started Cloud for Europe project, with a modest target of trying to reach EUR 250 bn economy boost to European economy. Onrego is working very hard together with Microsoft to be able to provide cloud services that able organizations to move to the cloud. Aalto Start-Up Center will be helping Onrego on its path to fulfill the vision.

For more information about Onrego and Onrego’s vision, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Jarno

JarnoMaki.com

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