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Greetings from Also Cloud Expo 2014

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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.

Also Cloud Expo 2014

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.

Onrego at Also Cloud Expo

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.

Also Cloud Expo Marketvisio Samuli Savo

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.

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Jarno (@jarnomaki)

Meet Onrego and Onrego’s Cloud Services

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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

Also to Start Distributing Onrego Cloud Services

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Also Finland and Onrego has signed a contract in which Also starts to distribute Onrego Cloud Services in Finland. Also is the biggest distributor in Finland with 60 % market share and almost 2 000 active resellers over the country. Onrego’s Cloud Services are now available as well as for resellers but also for Managed Service Providers (MSP’s).

Also and Onrego has released a Press Release (in Finnish) about the contract between the two companies. Also starts to distribute Onrego Cloud Services to its Finnish resellers and MSP’s. For Also, this means a new add-on to Also Cloud concept and to Onrego, ability to reach large number of potential resellers and MPS’s.

As for the start-up of Also’s and Onrego’s cooperation, I had a chance to shake hand with Also Finland’s Managing Director Mrs. Mervi Airaksinen!

Also Onrego Deal

What does this mean to resellers and Managed Service Providers?

Most of the information for the resellers and MSP’s can be found from Also Cloud website, but I want to write down couple of reasons why Also’s almost 2000 resellers and MSP’s will benefit from the cooperation.

We have been seeing movement towards cloud services lately. Many corporations has been telling us that they are planning on moving everything to the cloud. And they mean everything from Active Directory to management tools. Another ones are telling us that they are expecting that most of their datacenter virtual machine workloads will be moved to hosters and IaaS providers in a near future.

In the mean time, governments of USA, UK, Australia and EU are driving Cloud First policies to accelerate cloud adoption.

For resellers, to be able to get Onrego Cloud Services through Also Finland, means that they can deliver Microsoft System Center products faster and more agile than ever before. It also means that resellers can benefit from the business model of cloud service. That means continuous monthly revenue.

We have been talking to number of Managed Service Providers too and we have seen a trend. A trend in which MSP’s no longer want to implement new tools (such as management ones) and spend lots of euros in investments, that has a flat payback time.

Managed Service Providers can benefit from Onrego’s Online System Center in their service production and stop spending valuable time in developing and maintaining tools for workstation management, server and service monitoring and service management.

Please learn more about the offering for resellers and Managed Service Providers from the Also Cloud website.