With the ‘new’ Fundaments, we focus as a full-service partner on developing and delivering high-quality IT environments for providers and users of Cloud services. In addition, the service portfolio will be expanded with public Cloud services based on VMware and Amazon Webservices. Domain name registration services and hosting activities will continue to be offered by Oxilion, as a label of Fundaments.
Bundling forces
Larik-Jan Verschuren, CTO of Fundaments: ‘Fundaments provides Cloud infrastructure services to the business market. In recent years, we have increasingly been asked by our customers whether we could also provide Managed Services; a service we already saw frequently offered to wholesale customers by our sister organisation Oxilion.’ Managing Director of Oxilion Raoul Werger, adds: ‘At the same time, we saw a growing division at Oxilion between the needs of private and small-business customers on one hand and those of large-business customers on the other. In the market for private and small business customers, we mainly make the difference for our customers thanks to a very good (online) service. For large corporate customers, the focus is mainly on personalised service and complete relief. The related Managed Services have been part of our services for years. We wanted to serve the wholesale market better and more effectively. By combining Fundaments' services and experience in serving the corporate market along with Oxilion's Managed Services, we have created a full-service provider of high-quality Cloud environments. The Oxilion label can now concentrate even more on delivering first-class care in the field of standard hosting solutions.’
Full service for business-critical Cloud challenges
Whereas with Fundaments we have until now mainly supplied Cloud infrastructure components, we can now also build and manage the entire Cloud environment. Advice and guidance on the development of high-quality Cloud environments are also part of the extended service. Larik-Jan Verschuren: ‘Through a continuous focus on market developments and technologies, we have evolved over the years as experts in creating high-quality Cloud environments. Based on this expertise, we want to help our customers excel in their business-critical online services and/or business processes. To do so, they must be able to fully rely on us and our solutions. In our vision, only the highest-quality solutions are good enough for this. That is why we do not opt for standard solutions. To create the most reliable solution for every issue, you have to be able to think freely and apply groundbreaking technologies where necessary.’
‘In addition, we recognise the acceptance of public Cloud with players like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. To leverage the best of these worlds, we will focus on integrating public Clouds into our services in phases, starting with Amazon Web Services. By specialising in using these public Clouds, we ensure expertise and direction in every Cloud migration. We ensure that our customers can focus on the actual migration to the Cloud: making applications ready for use, allowing the organisation to start working from the Cloud.
‘Information security remains an important part of Fundaments’ services. The organisation proves this by holding ISO 9001, ISO 27001, NEN 7510 and ISAE 3402 certifications. Johan Mulder, Sales Manager at Fundaments, says: ‘For our customers, a well-managed Cloud is of strategic importance, but often not a core activity. Outsourcing the Cloud at Fundaments is about determining the right ‘outsourcing strategy’ together. With the fusion, we offer a single point of contact, an important requirement when fully outsourcing the Cloud foundation. Together with our smart, secure and flexible services, we are able to completely relieve our customers."
