Welcome to the cloud LEONID MAMCHENKOV Director of AlleoTech Ltd
Q Hey Leonid. It’s been a while since we spoke last. What’s that I hear about you starting a new company? Hey Paul. Yeah, it’s only been just over a year, but it feels like forever - one of the side effects of being a startup founder. Indeed, I’ve left my previous company back in February, and was working on a new one. We’ve incorporated AlleoTech Ltd in July and have recently celebrated the first mini-birthday - 3 month old. Q So what’s AlleoTech is all about? We are an IT infrastructure company. Q Do you mean servers and such? Yes, servers too, but we are a bit more than that. We help businesses with their IT infrastructure, be that an on-premise collection of servers, networks, and so on, or third-party hosting, or their cloud setup.
Leonid Mamchenkov Director of AlleoTech Ltd
organization that is not primarily dealing with technology. We can help save time and money with our expertise.
Q And why would any company need you guys? There are several reasons. Firstly, system administrators and DevOps engineers - those people who usually deal with IT infrastructure - are few and far apart. It is extremely difficult to find them, hire them, and keep them. They are also quite expensive. And on top of that, most companies don’t really have enough workload to utilize a full-time engineer. We already have a team of SysAdmins and DevOps engineers that we can share. Secondly, IT infrastructure, although vital for any business, is rarely a priority. IT managers and departments are usually trying to deal with e mergencies and don’t have the time or people to focus on their longer-term infrastructure needs. That’s where we come in and lend a helping hand. Thirdly, technology is moving fast and it’s difficult to keep up with, especially for people within an
Q Can you give me an example or two of how this works? Of course. We already have several clients in a variety of industries - from retail and maritime to marketing and financial services. Without naming any names (for now), here are a couple of things that we’ve done so far. First, a very technically capable company providing payment services, needed some help with their Amazon AWS cloud setup. Somebody else has done the initial work for them, but then they’ve decided to take over and do things in house. It turned out that Amazon AWS, as amazing as it is, is not very easy to navigate and figure out from the start. They were having a variety of issues - overwhelming costs, administrative complexity, performance and flexibility issues. We’ve come in just a few weeks ago and
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