CloudBlue and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate

CloudBlue was created with a clear vision: to be the world’s most reliable cloud commerce engine that connects businesses big and small to enable anything as a service with speed and scalability like none other—what we like to call hyper-scalability. We didn’t just want to accelerate your business. We wanted to revolutionize it. That’s why for over a decade, big investments and high-value partnerships were made to form CloudBlue. And at Cloud Summit, we announced our one-of-a-kind partnership with Microsoft.

One partnership, countless advantages

Ingram Micro and Microsoft have had a longstanding business relationship. And CloudBlue’s partnership with Microsoft takes that relationship to a whole new level. We know Azure is the leading enterprise-grade infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution, so having CloudBlue platform run on Azure just made sense.

Let’s look at the numbers. CloudBlue is already the most trusted and reliable cloud commerce engines, powering not only the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, but also the cloud operations for 200 of the world’s largest cloud service providers, including Sprint, CenturyLink, Cogeco, Telefonica, O2, One NZ, América Movíl, TIM, Advania, Telstra and Cobweb, which collectively represent more than 27 million enterprise cloud subscriptions and over $1 billion in annual subscription revenue.

Microsoft Azure boasts 70+ compliance offerings, making it the largest portfolio in the industry. Azure also serves more regions than any cloud service provider and offers more comprehensive compliance coverage, including meeting General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. It’s no wonder 90% of Fortune 500 companies trust their business to Azure.

Cloud service providers using our platform are the ones who benefit the most from our joint offerings. We’ve made it possible for cloud service providers of any size and with any business model to more easily automate, aggregate and monetize their own cloud and digital services as well as those from third parties.

Since teaming up, we’ve collaborated with Microsoft to give even more cloud service providers access to this winning combination of best-of-breed technologies. We want to make sure our customers stay ahead in the cloud market, while taking a sizable piece of the predicted $1.1 trillion cloud and IoT opportunity.

Fast and Fluid

In a rapidly changing digital economy, businesses need a flexible and secure platform to sell and scale their cloud offerings. That’s why we’re proud to give you access to an ecosystem that includes more than 200 pre-vetted ISV solutions and more than 80,000 resellers around the world. This saves you from having to learn how to manage subscriptions or figure out how to integrate a whole new set of platforms.

We not only save you significant time, we also give you the option to build and scale as you grow, without having to make large investments upfront. Our joint goal is to remove the barriers to entry and scale, so you can sell cloud no matter the size of your organization.

The bottom line?

You’ll see speed like never before. CloudBlue can help decrease your time to market and increase your speed to revenue, while enabling you to scale at much higher speeds. A total win-win. We do this by enabling software-as-a-service (SaaS) transactions, delivering cloud services, and making it faster, easier and more cost-effective to offer enterprise-level anything as a service (XaaS).

So, if you’re ready to take advantage of a globally trusted network, an easily scalable product and hybrid cloud capabilities, let’s talk. Meet with CloudBlue at Microsoft Inspire to start the next great revolution. Yours.

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Mike Jennett, Director of CloudBlue Platform Strategy, is an accomplished business and technology executive. With a deep focus on product development and go-to-market strategy, he plays a pivotal role driving strategic growth and market expansion. Mike’s career is characterized by his adeptness in driving technological advancements and his commitment to leading digital transformations with experience including IDC where he was VP of the Mobility and Digital Transformation IEP practices, and HP where he held numerous leadership roles. Mike’s expertise is also reflected in his published works and contributions to multiple tech publications. Mike holds a B.A. from California Polytechnic University.
Having previously to strategic product management, agile transformations, and user experience in CloudBlue, Taylor Giddens heads the Services & Solutions team where he ensures smooth delivery, operations and solution growth for our partners and customers.

The team includes technical account management, managed services, support, custom solution development, and customer enablement.

Prior to CloudBlue, his resume boasts leadership of some of the world’s largest companies during their digital transformations and marketplace launches. Taylor is a practitioner of servitude leadership when it comes to enabling his team to drive positive outcomes on the road to operational excellence.
Laurens van Alphen, a visionary entrepreneur with over 29 years of internet technology expertise, serves as Director of Technical Managed Services at CloudBlue, responsible for Operations and Delivery of CloudBlue SaaS.

As a Dutch racing champion and car enthusiast, he brings the same drive to the tech realm, steering Keenondots from a managed hosting firm to a global cloud enablement leader. Laurens is celebrated for his outcome-driven leadership, deep industry insight, and passion for balancing business innovation with client engagement.
Lincoln Lincoln is CloudBlue’s Head of Global Sales; having been with the company since November 2017. Leading CloudBlue’s global go-to-market organization, he’s responsible for driving accelerated and sustained mutual growth with CloudBlue’s customers and partners, as well as forming new customer partnerships across the Vendor and Provider ecosystem. As part of CloudBlue’s leadership team he is responsible the organisation’s revenue and continued market leadership by delivering and supporting products, services and solutions to organizations in established and new markets around the world.

Before joining CloudBlue, Lincoln was AppDirect’s Regional Director, Asia Pacific & Japan, responsible for forming, building and leading AppDirect’s business and operations across the APJ geography. He built and led AppDirect’s fastest growing and highest performing region globally within 3yrs.

Before joining AppDirect, Lincoln was EMC’s Practice Manager, Cloud Service Providers, APJ, working with the leading Service Providers to maximise their Cloud Business presence & market success. Lincoln joined EMC in 2007, and has over 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, having been based out of Singapore, Australia and the UK. Prior to EMC, he was in range of sales and channel positions at Symantec and VERITAS.

Lincoln has an Honours degree in Business Administration from Kingston University in the United Kingdom.
Brent Clooney is the Executive Director and Associate General Counsel for Ingram Micro Inc., and lead counsel for CloudBlue.

Brent is a Canadian based corporate lawyer with more than 20 years of experience as a strategic legal advisor both in private practice and as in-house counsel to large multi-national companies. Prior to joining Ingram Micro in 2008, he worked at a well-respected corporate law firm in Toronto, Canada and later served as general counsel for Toshiba Canada. During his 15-year tenure at Ingram Micro, he has held positions of increasing complexity and responsibility, and since being promoted to his current role in 2022, Brent is the legal lead for both Ingram Micro’s Canadian and global cloud businesses, as well as CloudBlue.

Brent holds a law degree (LL.B.) from Queen’s University, a Psychology degree (B.A. Honours) from Lakehead University, and has been admitted to the bar in Ontario, Canada since 2002.
Anurag serves as the Head of Product Management for CloudBlue and is responsible for product direction and driving innovation. His leadership has been marked by a keen focus on customer needs, growing the ISV ecosystem, and ensuring the continual evolution of CloudBlue’s product portfolio.

Anurag joined Ingram Micro in 2017 and has been instrumental in, positioning CloudBlue as an industry leading monetization platform for MSP’s, Telco’s and Distributors. Previously Anurag worked at Oracle and Microsoft where he managed many technology projects and programs.
As VP of Engineering of CloudBlue, Rony oversees the development and engineering efforts of the company. He is a recognized leader with more than 25 years of experience in Technology and Product.

Prior to joining CloudBlue Rony lead the R&D efforts at Tripwire acquired by Thoma Bravo, and Cedexis acquired by Citrix. Rony is a leader with extensive experience in transforming both complex technology problems into products that customers love and disjointed organizations into agile high performing teams.
Coen is a distinguished leader and entrepreneur in the realm of cloud technology. Currently serving as CEO of Keenondots and the Global Director of CloudBlue SaaS. He is passionate about driving innovation, fostering collaboration, and leading high-performing teams to achieve transformative results.

With a background as Managing Director of INTO Cloud and a pivotal role as Director of Products of KPN, he brings a wealth of experience in steering organizations through the complexities of the digital landscape.

Beyond the boardroom, Coen is a marathon enthusiast, demonstrating endurance and discipline in pursuit of both professional and personal goals.
Alyson has over twenty years of experience in demand generation, marketing automation and data management. She is responsible for leading the strategy and direction of the company’s brand, performance, and digital marketing.

Prior to CloudBlue, Alyson served as Ingram Micro’s Director of Global Business Intelligence Marketing Automation driving channel partner campaigns. Her tenure in marketing leadership at prestigious companies such as Western Digital, Ocean Institute celebrates redefining marketing campaigns and building top performing teams based on trust, experimentation, and results.

Alyson resides with her husband and three children in Orange County and is an active volunteer and donor within her children’s sports and education programs.

Darek Tasak is leading Customer Success & Value Creation for CloudBlue. In his role, he looks after CloudBlue customers globally during the entire lifecycle of our relationship: from the initial on-boarding, through in-life account management, always ensuring they build successful businesses leveraging our technology. Additionally, he is also in charge of Partnership & Alliances, as well as Pricing Management for everything we commercialize.


Before CloudBlue, Darek managed Ingram Micro’s Services division for hi-tech customers in Europe & APAC. His prior experiences include also launching and leading pan-European services business for TDSynnex, as well as strategy consulting with Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

As President of CloudBlue, Uddhav is a distinguished leader and visionary with nearly two decades of platform-building experience. He is an industry leader in digital commerce, the subscription economy, and monetization platforms.


Notably, at SAP, he spearheaded the transformation of their platform business into a multi-cloud platform-as-a-service, offering enterprise and developer-friendly subscription models. At Pure Storage, he championed the efforts to successfully disrupt the storage industry by creating revolutionary Storage-as-a-service, AIOps-as-a-service, and Disaster Recovery-as-a-service offerings with cutting-edge features and establishing a sophisticated subscription commerce infrastructure that is channel-friendly.


At CloudBlue, Uddhav guides and empowers businesses to rethink their monetization strategies by unlocking the power of digital ecosystems and marketplaces. CloudBlue provides enterprises with a mature multi-tier, multi-channel marketplace and monetization platform that enables usage-based subscription models and global delivery of Anything-as-a-Service solutions. Uddhav has played a pivotal role in shaping the future of the subscription economy through his innovative thinking and impactful contributions.

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