If you’re in telecom or any industry that demands carrier-grade cloud, it’s easy to assume that the only real options are AWS and Azure. After all, the Big Cloud giants have built their reputations on capacity and scale.

But here’s the truth: What you gain in “scale,” you lose in control, transparency, and value.

Too often, businesses assume they must accept whatever terms Big Cloud puts in front of them – limited bandwidth, shared platforms, premium-priced “top-tier” hardware, storage performance capped around 60,000 IOPS, and extra fees for every essential service like managed support, firewalls, backups, OS licensing, and network speed.

The more you think about it, the more you wonder why you associate Big Cloud with high capacity. They may have it, but they don’t provide much of it to you unless you pay a veritable extortion. And when you add up those costs, it’s not capacity you’re getting, it’s extortion disguised as infrastructure.

The UBX Cloud Difference

UBX Cloud delivers true carrier-grade private cloud – all within a single 48U cabinet – and we do it without the fine print or hidden fees.

Here’s what comes standard:

• Top-quality hardware • Unlimited bandwidth • Four ways to access support • Dedicated Juniper vSRX firewall • Veeam enterprise backup • 100 percent uptime guarantee • OS licensing • 24/7 monitoring and managed security support • 100GE private network • 500,000 IOPS of storage performance • Tier 4 data facility • Private, non-shared resources for data storage

All of it in one comprehensive package and a fair price.

How Do We Do It?

By now you’re wondering how we provide all that when Big Cloud can’t (or won’t) even come close to offering it to you. There are several reasons.

First, we have excellent strategic partners who give us access to expansive storage capacity, including storage partners Pure Storage and Zadara Storage.

Second, we don’t oversell our capacity on the theory that all our subscribers won’t use it at the same time. We assume you need everything you’re paying for and we make sure there’s room for you to take full advantage.

Third, we recognize that providing top-quality data management makes the rest of our jobs easier, and it makes your operation more secure and more likely to continue operating without glitches.

Transparent Pricing. No Surprises. Real People.

At UBX Cloud, everything’s included upfront. No tiered pricing traps. No “add-ons.”’ No nickel-and-diming.

And because we operate efficiently, our clients typically pay about 50 percent less than what Big Cloud would charge for equivalent (or often inferior) performance.

When you need support, you won’t get lost in a ticket queue – you’ll get a real person who knows your name, understands your setup, and actually cares about solving your issue.

Big Cloud’s Biggest Myth

Big Cloud has done a good job of one thing, though: They’ve convinced a lot of businesses that only the biggest players can deliver carrier-grade cloud. But it’s just not true.

Not only can independent providers like UBX Cloud provide carrier-grade cloud, we can do it more economically, more reliably, and with better performance all-around.

We care about the value you receive because we care about the relationship we have with every customer.

Experience the Difference

If you’re ready for carrier-grade performance without the Big Cloud baggage, give us a call.

We’ll show you just how much better it feels to have the power, transparency, and support you’ve always deserved.

For those who are affected by the Microsoft and Amazon outages today – and who isn’t in some way? – you might expect both corporate giants would be trying to move heaven and earth to get the outages solved.

If you know anything about how these companies operate, you’ll know better than to have such luck.

The truth is, both of these companies are complete garbage when it comes to outages, and that’s because there is no economic incentive for them to care.

Microsoft and Amazon save money through multitenancy and oversubscribing. Multitenancy is when a single application serves multiple customers, or “tenants,” so each tenant’s data is supposedly kept private, but all the tenants have to share the available bandwidth.

Everyone accesses the same resources. It’s cost-efficient in theory, but it puts everyone at risk of an outage in the event of a single point of failure.

To top it off, they make it worse by oversubscribing, which is to say they allocate resources to more clients than they could actually accommodate if everyone tried to use the resources all at once.

It works out great for Microsoft and Amazon because they sell way more capacity than they could actually provide – and way more than they actually have to pay to maintain.

Have you ever bought tickets for a flight and were later told they were “oversold”? You sit there and wonder why they would sell more seats than they have, and they end up having to ask people to give up their seats. It sounds insane because it is, but it’s the same theory. They don’t think everyone will actually show up and they can just keep the money for the unused tickets.

If this theory holds and they never really get more users than they can handle, they’re fine. But when you have an outage, lots more people are affected.

You could probably get a 10 percent credit from Amazon or Microsoft if you work yourself to the bone, but it wouldn’t be worth the time and effort. No one expects you can get ahold of anyone at either company about the outage, so people just shrug it off and figure it’s a fact of life.

As a private company, if we did this poor a job providing service to our clients – and took this cavalier an attitude toward outages – our clients would leave us.

And we would deserve it.

We know that, of course, and we actually care about our clients, so we do everything to make sure their service is reliable. But Microsoft and Amazon don’t. Because they don’t have to. And because it’s not in their nature to.

Solution? Let UBX handle your cloud storage and data management needs. We actually care. Email me today at steven.panovski@ubxcloud.com. I’ll respond and everything.