Why Vela Cloud.
Handing over the environment your customers work in every day is a decision about judgement and experience, not price.
The question that matters
Why should a software company trust Vela with the cloud layer behind its application?
This is the only question that really needs answering. Everything else on this site is detail.
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Operating since 2000
Think Smart Group Inc. has provided cloud and technology services continuously for more than 25 years. Vela Cloud is a focused brand built on an established operation, not a new venture.
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Windows client/server expertise
Practical experience with the technologies mature business applications are actually built on, including the database, printing, scanning and integration behaviour that generic cloud providers handle poorly.
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Experience on both sides
Work with software vendors and with the customers who use their applications every day — which is where the real operational requirements surface.
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Operations, not just architecture
Infrastructure design combined with the support capability required to keep an environment running well long after the migration is finished.
Focus
What Vela deliberately is, and is not.
A platform built around one problem behaves differently from a service that treats your application as another workload.
One kind of customer
Established independent software vendors with mature Windows applications — not a general cloud practice serving everyone.
One kind of problem
Delivering existing software as a cloud service, rather than rebuilding it or reselling infrastructure.
A defined boundary
You own the software and the customer. Vela operates the cloud layer. The line is agreed before work begins.
An endorsed brand
Vela Cloud by Think Smart — a distinct platform brand standing on an established company.
Still to come
Company background and operational detail.
Additional credibility material will be published here as the site develops.
This page is a framework. Think Smart Group Inc. history, infrastructure credibility, security approach, support capability and company background will be developed here with Vela’s marketing consultant. No claims, certifications or metrics have been added that were not provided.
Common questions
Questions about why vela cloud.
Who is Think Smart Group Inc.?
Think Smart Group Inc. has provided cloud and technology services since 2000. Vela Cloud is its platform brand for independent software vendors.
Is Vela Cloud a new company?
Vela Cloud is a new brand built on an established operation. The experience behind it is the experience Think Smart Group Inc. has accumulated since 2000.
Why not simply use a large cloud provider directly?
Large providers supply infrastructure. Vela supplies the operating layer around it — application delivery, peripherals, onboarding, support and the day-to-day work of running a business application for someone else’s customers.
Let’s talk
Ask the questions you would ask any critical supplier.
We would rather answer them early than have them surface later.
A conversation, not a sales process