April 1st 2014
– The Finnish start-up Pilvi Cloud Company launched today at the
WorldHostingDays 2014 -event in Germany a unique cloud services web
store at Pilvi.com. The Pilvi™ Shop offers companies a user-friendly
market place for buying and managing cloud services from e.g. Amazon,
Google and local cloud service providers. Users receive one invoice
including all the services being used and can manage cloud costs and
risks efficiently.
Pilvi.com
is a market place for purchasing cloud services like e.g. global or
local and scalable server capacity from leading service providers. Users
can compare prices and functionalities of different services including
Amazon Web Services and Google Apps as well as services offered by local
service providers. Companies can buy and manage all the needed
IT-solutions at Pilvi.com.
”Companies
are facing severe challenges in buying and managing cloud services
transparently and cost-efficiently. Pilvi.com is just the kind of market
place and platform companies need all over the world. The cloud service
costs at Pilvi.com as much as buying the service directly from the
service provider”, comments Pilvi’s Founder and COO Lassi Virtanen.
”Pilvi.com
is globally a unique cloud services web store offering a new user
friendly platform for choosing and evaluating the most suitable service
for the large and the small company. Our target is to become the
‘Hotels.com’ of cloud services”, says Virtanen.
Managing the clouds efficiently
At
Pilvi.com users can evaluate the functionalities of leading services
and share experiences with other users 24/7. The platform is designed
for managing safe user control and service monitoring from one web user
interface. Users can also buy service packages, including different
cloud services.
”Pilvi.com
makes it easier to choose the right cloud service and have a real-time
outlook on costs and functionalities of the services. Pilvi™ Manager
offers tools for managing cloud services efficiently and without risks.
Even the existing cloud services can be managed with Pilvi Manager”,
says Pilvi’s Sales Director Antti Vehosmaa.
”Employees
buy cloud services with credit cards and the companies have to pay lots
of invoices. At Pilvi.com all the cloud services are centralized and
billed in one place and the company receives only one invoice. Users can
be sure that the cloud costs stay under control”, comments Vehosmaa.
The platform development has been funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation Tekes.