1Cloud makes it possible for Partners to purchase the capacity and services they require without large upfront capital costs and the usual purchase commitments. The pay-as-you-go business model helps businesses respond quickly and flexibly to accommodate changing business demands, improve the customer experience, expenses management and profitability.
Advantages include:-
-Cost effective – no initial investment in hardware and lower on-going costs with customers only paying for what they use with no minimum term
-Scalability – instantly scalable resources, up or down, on demand
-Private – highly secure environment
-Uptime – 100% uptime when built across Virtual1 datacentres
-Easy on-line ordering – using the dedicated 1Cloud Portal
1Cloud has been designed to meet the needs of Channel Partners, allowing them to further enhance their value proposition by offering cloud as they face pressure from their customers to provide cloud services. With easy ordering via the 1Cloud portal, introductory offers and discounts, Virtual1 are again demonstrating their commitment to the Channel.
Integrated into the Virtual1 network 1Cloud provides a fully automated platform giving partners the ability to build secure, resilient and scalable solutions that can resolve previous data security and privacy issues.
Tom O’Hagan, CEO, Virtual1 commented ‘we understand our Partners are facing increasing pressure from customers to provide the ability to design, price and manage cloud environments for their end-users. Virtual1 continues to manage the infrastructure whilst the Partners take charge of the end-user relationship helping them drive more successful business outcomes.”