It is possible that this is the first time you have heard of CloudFire or Cortex, or that you see our logo; or you have just subscribed to our platform and want to know more; but even if we were already in contact, this article may be useful for you to learn more about our mechanisms and how our tools work.
CloudFire is constantly evolving and keeping up with our changes (editor's note sometimes it's hard for us too) it is quite challenging, precisely for this reason we decided to reveal to you what are the dynamics that drive us to constantly improve ourselves through our approach and the reason for the Cortex platform.
Who is CloudFire and what does it do?
To make everything clearer, we must first take a step back: who is CloudFire?
CloudFire, founded in 2017, is a Cloud Service Provider formed by a team of people who have gained their skills over the years in the world of System Integrator And of telephony. This has allowed us to develop a transversal attitude from solving IT problems and profiling services adapted to the needs of our stakeholders.
What characterizes us, in addition to our skills, is our curiosity that drives us to listen And get involved always. In this regard, we have set ourselves a goal: respond to the needs of the IT world by simplifying its procedures and always guaranteeing cutting-edge technologies and solutions.
Pursuing this goal, we develop and integrate powerful and highly scalable cloud solutions. To accelerate the IT innovation of our users, we have provided a single access point to resources so that you can operate more quickly and in total autonomy.
It is with these assumptions that it was born Cortex: the CloudFire platform that encompasses our mission and at 360 degrees responds to any need for managing infrastructure and Cloud services, placing at the center the user who can now optimize their IT resources alone and in an as-a-service mode.
Inside Cortex
The Cortex interface is constantly being analyzed and improved to make the user experience increasingly intuitive. The question will arise spontaneously: yes, ok but how is CloudFire different from other providers? What does Cortex have more than other platforms?
To answer these questions, we must start from the questions that we asked ourselves, to understand what the essential features on a platform and what needs they should meet.
Starting from our objective, revealed a few lines ago, we have outlined the main characteristics that Cortex should have:
- Autonomous management: in our opinion, what is needed is a platform that leaves you totally free to activate and use each service without any contractual obligation. So, on Cortex you can manage your resources at any time in total autonomy following the flows of your business;
- Pay-per-usage resources: the second characteristic is directly related to the previous one, because being pay-per-use makes it possible for you to pay only for the resources used for the time in which you use them. Making us, in this way, promoters of the flexibility that distinguishes the Cloud approach;
- Clear billing: how many times have you said: everything is fine, yes but how much does it cost? Don't give up, you are not alone and we at CloudFire, to avoid unpleasant surprises at the end of the month, have equipped the platform with a detail of “real-time” consumption. This detail accompanies the bill every month, to ensure that you know exactly which services you are paying for and how much;
- User experience: Last but not Least. The most common platforms often need courses to be used, so to simplify your view, we have created Cortex, which must be intuitive and make it simple and automatic to manage your infrastructure and services. When you see it, it will probably be just one of its phases, let's try to make it more and more effective. Don't hesitate to let us have your advice to improve it!
The CloudFire mindset
Cortex, as you see it now, is the result of years of work by a team that has supported and often clashed with reality that has not immediately accepted, with our own enthusiasm, this new approach. What prompted us to carry out the project without giving up can be identified in our mindset, which is contained in these points:
- Competence: years of experience and study make the difference in the world of Cloud computing and IT, and each member of the CloudFire Team has gained knowledge and experience such that for every challenge we try to find a solution;
- Support: given that Cortex provides all the tools to be used independently, for everything that goes beyond that you can find us here, always ready to support you even in businesses that seem impossible to you;
- Research and development: we have an innovative nature that allows us to find and implement new ideas every day. The research & development department is constantly working to offer you new solutions, test us too with new challenges!
- Openness to new scenarios: we work with opensource technologies, and consequently the concept of community is always present and intrinsic to our way of working. What we are able to achieve can be a starting point for others, and vice versa. Different scenarios and ideas can come from a single idea, so why rest on your laurels?
- Granular: our ideas and needs change every day, for this reason we adopt an approach that allows us to be highly flexible and that allows us not to limit users in their needs.
How can you use Cortex?
Assuming that everything depends on what your initial needs are, through Cortex and CloudFire you have the opportunity to find solutions that you thought you didn't need, all with the purpose of accelerating your and your customers' IT innovation.
- If you want services related to hosting, containers or even the renewal of your technological infrastructure, the service Public Cloud allows you to release your applications in a dynamic and always available cloud infrastructure;
- If you are uncertain about the steps to follow to manage your business telephony or that of your customers instead, Talky Time could represent a perfect tool. Its completeness in responding to any scenario in a simple and immediate way allows you to face changes related to communication and cloud phone systems in a few steps, fill any gaps in the field of Telco, up to integrating call management with Microsoft Teams® by simply doing: “forward, forward, end”;
- If, on the other hand, you need to protect your infrastructure, in the cloud or not, and have the data at any time, the Backup and Disaster Recovery plans are your solution. In relation to your needs, you have the option to choose between two market-leading solutions such as Veeam Cloud Platform and Acronis Cyber Backup;
- If you need a tool that can facilitate and improve your ability to collaborate internally and externally to your company, again from Cortex, you have the option to choose from several Collaboration solutions such as: Drive 4 business Ed Email.
Regardless of whether you have strong or weak skills in Cloud, Unified Communication, Backup and more, CloudFire accompanies you to automate IT processes and services through Cortex, thus increasing your productivity, control over consumption and we will also try to infect you with our enthusiasm.
