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RoundWorks IT – bringing easy, affordable cloud to UK businesses
Based in the heart of the East Midlands, UK, RoundWorks IT is a vibrant Managed Service Provider that works with micro-businesses, small businesses, charities, public sector organizations and larger enterprise customers. RoundWorks is using Virtuozzo cloud to make IT easier, more affordable and more flexible for its clients.
Founded in 2016 by Managing Director Luke Watts, and Technical Director Matthew Riffat, RoundWorks prides itself on straight-talking, efficient and transparent delivery of IT solutions. The company now has a tight-knit team serving more than 100 customers, and a reputation for stellar customer service.
“Our aim is simple: to be a 5-star IT service provider for our customers. We pride ourselves on transparency, honesty, and we deliver our services with a smile,” says Luke.
“Our customers are in manufacturing, robotics and automation, dentistry, care homes, recruitment agencies, web agencies – it’s a real mixed bag, but what do they all have in common? They need us to fully manage their IT environments, from IT support through to cloud infrastructure projects, and everything in between.”
Modernizing IT for businesses
Like most MSPs, RoundWorks IT solves customer problems using the technologies best suited to each use case. RoundWorks has now adopted Virtuozzo’s MSP cloud as a cost-effective, easier-to-manage alternative to large public clouds, especially for bespoke application hosting.
“Cloud is now a standard part of customer projects,” Luke explains. “Covid really accelerated the way all businesses had to re-think IT, especially on-premises IT, and how they modernize working practices. We still manage on-prem environments, of course, but the trend now is helping customers migrate to more flexible cloud solutions for applications, data, backups, security, desktops and more – and we’re here to help you migrate that traditional IT to the cloud.”
Luke Watts
Size isn’t everything
According to Luke, the large public cloud brands that most people know – such as Azure and AWS – can actually be very costly for businesses, especially as they grow and need to scale their cloud resources. As a managed services provider, RoundWorks looks for solutions that have the performance, reliability and flexibility to meet different application hosting needs in the cloud, and Virtuozzo provides a much-needed alternative.
“Virtuozzo cloud offers the sweet spot,” says Luke. “It removes a lot of the configuration complexity, and allows us to spin up cloud resources for your business very quickly. It’s also very cost-effective for the core cloud resources most businesses need. And most importantly, it offers true uptime guarantees – uptime you don’t always get with the bigger players.”
Game-changing cloud through local partners
RoundWorks IT was introduced to Virtuozzo by Teknov8, a UK distributor that specializes in identifying unique, game-changing technologies for its MSP and reseller partners, and making it easy for partners to adopt them, sell them and grow.
“Teknov8 actually came to the rescue in early 2021 after a previous supplier introduced an untenable billing model change,” says Luke. “We don’t have a massive list of vendors and partners – we only work with companies who deliver, who are quality, who are on our side and support our mission, and that definitely includes Teknov8, and now Virtuozzo.”
A breath of fresh cloud air
Luke and the RoundWorks IT team often find that customers don’t know about or care about the specific cloud infrastructure that supplies resources for their projects. They only care about reliability, security, ease of use and fair pricing. Virtuozzo cloud meets all of those needs.
“Virtuozzo is a breath of fresh air as a cloud partner. It’s quick and it’s easy, hassle free. It ticks all of our boxes as an MSP and as a supplier of cloud technologies, and our customers love it because it’s fast, reliable and it’s priced well.”
More information
To get friendly, expert IT services for your business, contact RoundWorks IT at https://RoundWorks-it.co.uk.
To learn more about Virtuozzo’s MSP cloud, and get a free trial, visit https://virtuozzo.com/hybrid-cloud.
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