CloudZone invests in Portugal and brings its cost-free cloud consulting services

Iftach Schonbaum
CloudZone
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3 min readOct 4, 2021

CloudZone, an Israeli founded leading top-tier, multi-cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP), announces a strategic investment in the Portuguese market and opens its first local office in Porto, Portugal. CloudZone joins forces with Flipkick, a recognized Portuguese cloud consulting and professional services company, to form CloudZone Portugal.

Cloudzone Portugal will accelerate organizations’ cloud journey in the Iberian Peninsula. Nuno Tavares, CEO and founder of Flipkick, will act as CloudZone Portugal country manager.

For over 8 years, CloudZone has successfully accelerated hundreds of global businesses across all segments, sectors, and verticals. It brings vast and diverse cloud knowledge, including best practices and cutting-edge solutions in technology domains such as Migrations, DevOps, Cloud Native, Security, FinOps, Big Data & Analytics, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (ML&AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and others.

Being a subsidiary of Matrix, the largest Information Technology company in Israel, CloudZone provides a one-stop-shop with a wide range of services including security, software development, outsourcing and solutions tailored for the Finance, Healthcare, Retail, Defense, Hi-Tech and Public Sectors.

“Unlike other consulting partners CloudZone leverages its strong alliance with the Cloud vendors to accelerate its customers by providing cost-free and unmetered consulting, customer support, FinOps (cost-optimization) and cloud reporting & governance system, in addition to value added services including Professional Services, 24x7 NOC and IT training programs.

Our cost-free service model and proactive management, aligned with customer priorities, helps businesses to migrate, evolve and innovate faster, to well-architect their cloud solution, to solve performance and complexity issues, to cut cloud costs wastage, thus improving agility and overall business results. After reaching maturity to accelerate hundreds of customers efficiently and successfully, CloudZone now strives to replicate its service model to new destinations and to bring those benefits to the Iberian region too”, said Erez Tourjeman, CloudZone Regional Manager, EMEA.

Nuno Tavares, CloudZone Portugal Country Manager adds “This is another sign that Portuguese technology companies continue to attract the attention of major international players. CloudZone long and successful delivery record brings a much-needed and dramatic boost to the local market supporting its outstanding up-trend”.

CloudZone started its strategic expansion into Europe this year, starting from the Iberian Peninsula, where demand for experienced, agile, personalized, and affordable cloud consulting services was identified. It already delivers to a few large Portuguese customers.

José Silva, Swogo’s CTO says “Having CloudZone’s team expertise at our service at no additional costs while optionally being able to use their value-added services to accelerate us proved to be no-brainer for our business”

CloudZone is AWS Premier MSP Partner

CloudZone provides migration and deployment services to businesses of all sizes and is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner with expertise in multiple cloud technologies including public, private and hybrid environments.

In 2020, CloudZone was awarded Amazon Web Services APN DevOps Partner of the Year award. As a certified AWS Premier MSP partner, with verified competencies including Migration, DevOps, Security, Well-Architected, Public Sector, Windows Workloads, VMware on AWS and more. CloudZone efficiently helps its customers technically and commercially through Amazon Web Services Partner Acceleration Programs.

João Tedim, Partner success manager at AWS Portugal, points out “We welcome CloudZone and its Agile & Proactive delivery experience to Portugal. Together, the companies are providing a complete cloud services and cloud management portfolio that will give customers of all sizes fast, flexible access to the cloud. Building on the existing relationship with CloudZone, now in Portugal, reinforces our commitment to the country, to accelerate cloud computing. Together, we will continue the work we have been doing, empowering any person or industry, sharing cloud computing knowledge, accelerating innovation and the Portuguese economy.”

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