Nuvalo simplifies cloud migration by assisting enterprise IT organizations identify, evaluate, negotiate and manage their ideal provider relationships.

A global consulting and brokerage firm, Nuvalo designs and procures solutions best suited for each client’s unique business and operational needs. Whether it’s optimizing colocation builds, mapping migrations to emerging cloud technologies, or simply sourcing IT services, Nuvalo advocates for you to secure the ideal solution and contract.

With today’s focus on moving from CapEx to OpEx models, while also maximizing business and operational efficiencies, Nuvalo leverages its perspective, technical expertise, market intelligence and in-depth provider relationships to facilitate a more efficient search and negotiation process than companies traditionally employ.

Manon Buettner Nuvalo Principal Manon is an accomplished data center and cloud services specialist with nearly 20 years experience designing, selling and implementing network, colocation and managed solutions for enterprise businesses.

Ms. Buettner founded Nuvalo in January 2010, parlaying her vast expertise with service providers into the role of trusted advisor to IT Executives. She’s worked with some of the most notable Internet, Gaming, Healthcare, and Financial Services companies to successfully deploy Production, IT and Business Continuity solutions in hosting markets throughout the nation. Manon works daily with Fortune 500-1000 companies, guiding her clients’ deployments of Production, IT and Business Continuity solutions in data centers around the world. Her customers include industry-leading Internet, Gaming, Healthcare, and Financial Services companies. By developing comprehensive data center and cloud strategies for her clients, Manon’s premise is to provide a strong long-term data center strategy that will contribute to a strong long-term business strategy.

Manon is active as a contributing writer in a number of industry-focused publications, and is a popular featured speaker at data center and network trade events throughout the West Coast. She is also the founding co-chair of Cloud Girls, a vendor-neutral community of female technology advocates focused on cloud education.