Now Onrego’s Cloud Has a Gold Lining!

March 19, 2013March 19, 2013Leave a comment

Six months ago I wrote Onrego’s cloud has a silver lining. Today I announce our cloud has a gold lining. It is about Microsoft Partner Program!

Again I have excellent news to share! Onrego has gained Gold status in Microsoft Partner Program in Management and Virtualization competency. Gold is the highest level in the program.

Gold Management and Virtualization competency means Onrego is one of the best advisors for customers in Microsoft management and virtualization solutions, such as in Microsoft System Center, Hyper-V and Windows Server. Gold level in Microsoft Partner Program is also our commitment to Microsoft and to Microsoft technologies.

Once again I want to thank our clients, Microsoft and the Onrego team! It’s a Bollinger time!

The Onrego Ecosystem

March 14, 2013March 14, 2013Leave a comment

A few blog posts ago I wrote that Onrego is gathering great partners in its ecosystem. Now it’s time to write a little more about The Onrego Ecosystem, what it’s all about and who are the members of it. And what is the most important: how can our clients benefit from The Onrego Ecosystem.

Since the first heartbeat of Onrego Ltd we started to build an ecosystem because it was obvious we couldn’t do what we were planning on doing just by ourselves. For example, with The Onrego Ecosystem, we can deliver Onrego Solution Accelerator service and MSI and App-V packaging services to our clients.

I have three case examples of how our clients have benefit from The Onrego Ecosystem and also how have the members benefit from it as well.

One great example of the power of Onrego Ecosystem is the major deal with Finnish municipalities. Our partner in this case is Centero Oy, that delivers MSI and App-V packaging services with us. Huge opportunity for Centero Oy and great addition to Onrego Online System Center workstation management that definitely greats more value to Finnish municipalities!

Another great example is Onrego Solution Accelerator and Microsoft SQL Server disasters. With Onrego Solution Accelerator our clients can have world class experts to help them with problems such as Microsoft SQL Server crashes. If servers are being monitored with Onrego Online System Center, our clients can escalate alerts to Onrego Solution Accelerator to get instant disaster recovery help for the matter. In one particular case our Onrego Solution Accelerator member Qumio Ltd saved the production of one of our client and prevented million euros lost when their Microsoft SQL Server had been crashed. Great work and great value to our client!

Third great example of The Onrego Ecosystem is our partnership with Verco Ltd. With Verco we can provide additional ITSM planning and implementation services to our clients on Onrego Online System Center Service Desk solution, based on Microsoft System Center Service Manager.

The Onrego Ecosystem consists of the following partners at the moment:

If you are interested about the services The Onrego Ecosystem can deliver, please do not hesitate to contact us!

If you think your company should be part of The Onrego Ecosystem, please do not hesitate to contact me!

Onrego Hit The Spot at TechDays Keynote

March 5, 2013March 5, 2013Leave a comment

Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager from Microsoft, kept his keynote speech at Microsoft TechDays Helsinki 2013 this morning and mentioned Onrego and Onrego Online System Center!

Jeff talked to Finnish IT professionals for an hour and a half of Cloud OS and virtualization. Great technologies such as Windows Server 2012 and System Center were mentioned many times in his speech, but one thing really hit the spot. In the end of Jeff’s show he pointed out that there is one domestic Microsoft partner that has all these great things ready to go as a cloud service and that one partner is Onrego Ltd.

I took a great picture of Jeff talking about Onrego and Onrego Online System Center:

Thank you Jeff for mentioning Onrego and Onrego Online System Center!

For more information of Onrego and Onrego Online System Center, Management as a Service solution based on Microsoft System Center, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

TechDays Helsinki Starts Tomorrow!

March 4, 2013March 4, 2013Leave a comment

Microsoft TechDays Helsinki starts tomorrow in Finlandia Hall, Helsinki. You can meet Onrego Boys there!

Microsoft’s biggest event for IT professionals and developers, TechDays Helsinki 2013, is about to begin. This year the event will be held in Finlandia Hall and approx. 1700 people are expected to enter. Although Onrego is not a partner of the event (we tried but partner packages were already sold out :(), you can meet Onrego Boys there.

Our whole crew will be there and I’m also able to spend almost whole Tuesday meeting with friends and customers. Our CTO Pekka Onnela will be presenting “Datacenters without boundaries – System Center to managing your cloud” on Wednesday 2:30 – 3:30 PM and he is also attending the big cloud panel on Wednesday 3:45 – 4:45 PM with Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager from Microsoft Corporation.

I have couple of key takeaways for you. #1 Check out Samsung’s booth. I heard they have a unique management solution you should check. #2 Check out Jeff’s keynote on Tuesday. I heard he has some great news to share!

See you at TechDays!

Onrego Closes Major Deal With Finnish Municipalities

March 1, 20131 Comment

Great news! Onrego Ltd together with Centero Ltd has closed a major deal with Tiera Ltd, a Finnish service provider for Finnish municipalities, to deliver Onrego’s Online System Center to Finnish municipalities.

Tiera starts to deliver Onrego‘s Online System Center cloud service to Finnish Municipalities. Onrego Online System Center is an innovative systems Management as a Service solution based on Microsoft System Center technologies. The deal covers workstation and mobile device management as a service as well as software packaging provided by Centero.

The deal is an exclusive three-year contract with an extra three-year option worth of few million euros.

Please read more from the Press Releases:

In English:
http://onrego.com/news/7/53/Onrego-and-Centero-Closes-Major-Deal-With-Tiera-and-Finnish-Municipalities/

In Finnish:
http://onrego.fi/news/6/23/Tiera-Onrego-ja-Centero-solmivat-yhteistyoesopimuksen-kuntien-tyoeasemanhallintapalvelusta/

The original Press Release from Kuntien Tiera Oy can be found from here: http://www.tiera.fi/node/209

Onrego Has a New HQ!

February 4, 2013February 4, 20133 Comments

Onrego HQ made a movement on Weekend. We moved to a much bigger office with a much broader view to Microsoft and to sea. Let’s take a look!

I have great news to share! Onrego has moved! While our address (Keilaranta 4, Espoo, Finland) remains the same, we have almost quadrupled our space! When we started on August 2012, I wrote a post about our new office with a sea view and a location right next to Microsoft, Angry Birds and Nokia, just to name a few.

Here’s a couple of pictures of our new office:

A view from Onrego HQ:

“Lounge” meeting room:

Boardroom:

Our workplace:

As always, you are very welcome to visit and have a tasteful cup of espresso!

The Private Cloud Immersion Tour

January 24, 2013January 24, 2013Leave a comment

Onrego and Microsoft put together a roadtrip in Finland. We wanted to let everyone know about Private Cloud and Microsoft System Center, the possibilities of them and how they would benefit organisations.

The tour was branded as “Datacenters without borders”. The sessions were based on Microsoft Private Cloud Immersion (PCI) concept, which is like a backstage of Customer Immersion Experience (CIE), a concept to experience new collaboration technologies such as Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Sharepoint.

Our tour started from Lahti, went through Oulu, Tampere, Kuopio and Turku, and finally ended to Vaasa yesterday. We were able to gather tens of people to listen and experience new possibilities of modern datacenter management. We talked about the key drivers of Private Cloud, how to benefit from Microsoft Azure IaaS, how to implement modern datacenter management and Private Cloud using Microsoft technologies and also about the latest possibilities with self service and orchestration.

While Onrego’s Pekka Onnela kept most of the sessions, I had a pleasure to visit Kuopio and have a great time there with an excellent audience. But I didn’t have a change to taste kalakukko due to a tight schedule though.

I’m already looking for the next tour with Microsoft and in the mean time, if someone is interested about modern datacenter management and benefits of Private Cloud using Microsoft technologies, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

Next a couple of nice pictures of Onrego’s Pekka doing his thang.

Jarno

Accomplishments So Far And Happy Holidays!

December 18, 2012December 18, 2012Leave a comment

Holiday season is about to begin and most of companies also end their fiscal year. Whilst Onrego’s first fiscal year doesn’t end until July 2013 I think it’s time to put together what we have accomplished so far.

Onrego Ltd has been alive and operational for five months. When most companies end their fiscal year in couple of weeks, Onrego still continues its first fiscal year until July 2013. Why is that? Well, there are three reasons. First, Onrego Ltd was established in July and begun operational in August, so it kind of automatically made our fiscal year to be from August to July. Second, we wanted to have the same fiscal year period as Microsoft has. That makes us to live in heartbeat synchronization. And third, I see no sense why December should be last month of fiscal year. June or July is more logical since you’d do your homerun towards summer vacation and you’d start with a clean desk after the vacation.

While our fiscal doesn’t in this month, let me do a brief summary of the start of Onrego’s journey. As I wrote in my previous post, we have had over 150 meetings with clients and partners. I’d say that is quite a lot for our size of company. I have personally been involved in most of them and that for example has given me very valuable feedback from our customers and also given me lots of customer understanding to be used as a fuel for upcoming Onrego cloud services.

Although we have only been operating for five months by now, we have still being able to generate a 6 figure turnover in euro at the end of December 2012. When we started we planned a budget. Planning a budget for company that has not yet started can be rather difficult because we had no historical data to compare and back then we didn’t have any products or services to sale. But we made a budget and I can tell you that our sales is actually following the budget very closely. That is a very good accomplishment for our team!

I also wrote in my “The Onrego Working Methods” post in September 2012 that we have milestones that 1) guide us but also 2) rewards us. We have 34 milestones set for our fiscal year 2013 (starting from July 2012 and ends July 2013 = 13 months) and so far we have achieved 12 of them! I’d say that is also a great work!

Here is nice dashboard of what we have accomplished so far:

We are having great discussion with great customers and I’m looking forward to start working with them in 2013! But now it’s time for the Onrego Boys to take a short break and spend some time with their
families and so we wish Merry Christmas and happy holidays for all of you!

The Future is Cloud Based!

December 10, 2012December 17, 20122 Comments

A month ago Onrego launched its first cloud service, Online System Center. Back then I posted about the launch of Online System Center and as a post-speech I wrote that Online System Center is not going to be the only cloud service Onrego is going to develop and produce. Let’s dive a little deeper into that subject.

We have had over 150 meetings with clients and partners since August 2012 and with the information gathered from the clients, we have drawn a clear picture of what kind of cloud services should be available next. But before diving deeper into the upcoming Onrego cloud services, let’s put together a few (mega)trends we have been seen so far. First, Microsoft System Center is the systems management solution corporations are going to implement. There is no question about that. Direct quote from one meeting: “we are not going to look any other management solution than Microsoft System Center”. Second, large corporations want to have scalability and flexibly especially to pricing models. They want to buy services as “pay-as-you-go” model with monthly fees. Third, within the next two years we are seeing that the most of the workload in companies’ datacenters have moved to hosters and IaaS service providers, but only to hosters with scalable pricing model. Fourth, many companies want to implement System Center Service Manager as the service desk tool and forget their service providers’ tools. Needless to say that Onrego Online System Center hits the spot for the most of these (mega)trends.

But now, let’s roll a little deeper into Onrego‘s future. Onrego‘s vision is to develop and produce cloud services that (1) allows our clients to get rid of their own datacenters and local area networks, (2) allows our clients to translate their current IT infrastructure into scalable and flexible one, and (3) allows our clients to have the very best IT infrastructure solutions with instantly ready use, with no upfront investments and with monthly billing. In other words, we produce IT Infrastructure as a Service. This includes services such as VDI as a Service, Active Directory as a Service, Datacenter Management as a Service, Top Level Experts as a Service, Cloud Orchestration as a Service, and so on. We started with Management as a Service (Online System Center) since being able to manage and monitor devices and servers is one of the core features of healthy IT infrastructure. Please see the following diagram of what Onrego‘s future is about to be.

We have also been building an ecosystem for Online System Center and later for Onrego online services and at the moment; our ecosystem consists of half of dozen well selected partners who are working with us and with our clients to make future be available today.

For partners and resellers who wish to be part of this journey I welcome you to contact us and arrange a meeting with us.

For organizations who are interested about these kinds of services I encourage you to ask us for a visit so that we can discuss together how our services would benefit your business.

I predict that the year 2013 will be very interesting! We will be seeing lots of companies starting to move their IT infrastructure services into cloud and lots of new service implementations that are cloud based. Whilst cloud based IT infrastructure will not be future anymore in year 2013, I predict we are also seeing hybrid solutions as well.

Jarno

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