Customer Success Story
A Win-Win for Joe’s Datacenter with Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure
- More value and choice for customers
- Faster, more profitable growth for Joe’s Datacenter
Joe’s Datacenter is a successful U.S. Cloud Service Provider with a unique brand and ethos. Founded by Joe Morgan in 2008, Joe’s has grown to become a full-service cloud provider with customers across the U.S. and internationally.
By partnering with Virtuozzo, Joe overcame multiple issues with his previous cloud platform and built a fast-growing full-service cloud business.
Joe Morgan,
founder & owner,
Joe’s Datacenter
“Virtuozzo has mastered the service provider experience, from day one to go-to-market. As a result, Virtuozzo is the greatest partner I’ve ever worked with. Period.”
The search for a strong cloud infrastructure partner
Where did that journey begin?
A few years ago, several of Joe’s Datacenter clients, especially the Managed Service Providers (MSPs), were concerned that they were losing customers to hyperscale cloud providers.
What they needed was a way to develop a new cloud offering that could be white labeled through Joe’s Datacenter, and then delivered to their end user. To ensure total end-to-end performance and reliability, Joe needed a strong cloud infrastructure partner as well as a data backup and recovery partner.
Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, Joe’s Datacenter was founded by Joe Morgan in 2008. Today, Joe’s Datacenter provides managed services and cloud services to domestic and global clients, ranging from other service providers to small and medium sized businesses, as well as enterprises.
Compatibility problems
After conducting extensive research on various cloud enablers, Joe opted for a company that seemed perfect on paper. However, he quickly ran into compatibility problems with respect to his existing datacenter architecture, because the cloud enabler had limitations on what brand of hardware could be used with its cloud products.
To address this challenge, Joe purchased a Storage Area Network (SAN), which turned out to be not just a huge upfront capital expense, but also difficult to scale. Maintaining the SAN was yet another challenge.
Joe was used to relying on his own 24/7 datacenter field technicians to support any product or service he sold. With the SAN, he was forced to use the SAN provider’s engineers, which caused delays and incurred additional fees.
Billing and support issues
Other difficulties related to the cloud solution emerged with respect to integrating billing and support ticketing systems, a costly licensing model, and proper deployment of other features Joe needed.
The original cloud platform was detracting from, rather than enhancing the services offered by Joe’s Datacenter.
Enter the solution…
Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure
Learning of his cloud platform challenges, Joe’s data backup and recovery partner referred him to Virtuozzo.
Virtuozzo was then selected to remedy the situation and Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure, in particular, completely changed Joe’s outlook.
Built on OpenStack, a cloud platform standard already familiar to Joe, Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure resolved his previous cloud enablement issues.
Purpose-built for service providers
Virtuozzo was purpose-built to be white labeled to service providers, and offered the features and functionality required to support end users:
up or down
(e.g. billing and support ticketing)
agnostic
Enabling a huge range of Joe’s services
Using Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure, Joe has expanded his service offerings to include:
Virtual Private Servers
A great option for those who need scalability and high reliability. VPS are sold individually for ease-of-use and deployment.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
An all-in-one remote working solution that enables access to virtual applications and desktops on any device, anytime, anywhere.
Public Cloud
Joe’s Public Cloud delivers high scalability and performance with hyperconverged Infrastructure that simplifies management to keep costs low. Joe’s Public Cloud offers similar functionality to the large public clouds, but saves customers up to 60 percent for the same services.
Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service
Joe’s integrated disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) minimizes recovery time by making sure critical workloads are available in Joe’s public cloud. That means users can count on Joe’s to get back to business quickly when disaster strikes.
Private Cloud
Each hardware cluster is custom built, and private cloud delivers high scalability and performance with hyperconverged infrastructure that simplifies management and keeps costs down.
Backup-as-a-Service
Joe’s backup solution protects company data so Joe’s can always restore your critical business systems locally. In case of a serious outage, backup files and systems’ images will be safe.
Reseller Hosting
A web hosting solution custom-designed with the most advanced hosting architecture. The goal was the fastest and most scalable hosting solution powered by our public cloud.
Being able to provide these cloud services to customers is a win-win, giving customers more value and choice, and providing new revenue streams for Joe. Customers only pay for what they need or what they use.
Service providers and enterprises can now leverage Joe’s Datacenter as a one-stop-shop for all of their cloud and infrastructure needs – and working in partnership, Joe and Virtuozzo are co-creating the future of alternative cloud.
