What Liberty Center One does

Liberty Center One (legal entity: One Cloud Services, LLC) is a Michigan-headquartered, privately held provider of secure cloud hosting, data protection, colocation, and managed disaster recovery services, operating three owned Tier 3 data centers in Detroit, Cincinnati, and Dallas. The company, founded around 2007 and reporting an employee count of 11–50, runs its cloud platform on an OpenStack architecture layered with proprietary management tooling (Liberty Guardian automated monitoring, Liberty DR self-service failover, Liberty Deploy application templates, Data Protection Reports) on top of enterprise hardware from Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE/Nimble, Fortinet, Cisco/Juniper, and software from Veeam, Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, and Zerto.

The core product portfolio spans public cloud, private cloud, Citrix-powered Desktop-as-a-Service, VMware Alternative, Automatic Data Protection with immutable nightly backups and 50+ protected data copies across regions, Virtual Disaster Recovery with sub-5-minute failover and sub-15-minute RTO, cloud backup, colocation (10u/20u/42u cabinets and cages), and security services. White-glove cloud migration is included as part of onboarding. Revenue is generated primarily through subscription and consumption-based monthly billing for compute, storage, networking, DR, and colocation, with distribution via direct sales in the Midwest and Texas, an MSP/reseller partnership program, and a self-service portal (LCO.Cloud).

The company serves SMBs and mid-market customers with selective enterprise accounts, with named healthcare and regional Detroit/Cleveland/Pittsburgh segments, plus an explicit VMware-exit migration play. Strategic activity includes the 2017 acquisition of Zimcom Internet Solutions and the December 2021 acquisition of Enterprise Hosting LLC (via One Cloud Services, LLC), and a 2026 product cadence focused on platform self-service and automation. Leadership is concentrated around Founder & CEO Rex Smith, Managing Director Jason Huebner, and CTO Steve Searles.

Name

Liberty Center One

Legal name

One Cloud Services, LLC

Website

https://libertycenterone.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Liberty Center One is a privately held, Michigan-based regional provider of secure cloud hosting, data protection, disaster recovery, and colocation services, operating three Tier 3 data centers (Detroit, Cincinnati, Dallas) on an OpenStack platform and serving SMB, mid-market, and selective enterprise customers across the Midwest and Texas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Royal Oak

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Cloud Hosting Services: Public and private cloud hosting delivered on OpenStack infrastructure with enterprise-grade hardware. Includes compute, storage, networking, and security services. Revenue is generated through recurring monthly fees based on consumption of compute, storage, and network resources. Consumption-based utility billing model allows customers to scale resources on demand and pay only for what they use.
2. Colocation Services: Data center colocation including private cabinets (10u, 20u, 42u) and cage options at Tier 3 data centers. Customers retain ownership of their hardware while benefiting from facility power, cooling, connectivity, and physical security. Revenue generated through recurring monthly fees based on cabinet/cage space consumed.
3. Data Protection and Backup: Automated data protection, cloud backup, disaster recovery, MSP backup, and O365 backup services. Includes Veeam Cloud Connect for existing Veeam users. Nightly backups with 14-day retention included standard with all production storage. Revenue is bundled within cloud hosting subscriptions and may be sold as standalone managed backup services.
4. Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS): Cloud-hosted virtual desktops powered by Citrix, providing anytime, anywhere, any-device access. Delivered as a cloud service with predictable pay-as-you-go monthly billing. Revenue generated through per-seat or consumption-based monthly subscriptions.
5. MSP Partnership Services: Managed services offered to MSPs who partner with Liberty Center One for white-label or resale of cloud, colocation, and data protection services. MSPs can leverage Liberty Center One's infrastructure to serve their own end customers, generating revenue through markups on Liberty Center One's services.
6. Cloud Migration Services: White-glove cloud migration services including planning, execution, and post-migration support. Migrations are handled as an integral part of the overall infrastructure service. Engineers validate workloads in a non-routable environment before cutover. Included as part of the cloud hosting engagement at no additional cost, representing a customer acquisition and onboarding investment rather than a separate revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Liberty Center One is a regional IT infrastructure solutions provider delivering secure public and private cloud hosting, data protection, colocation, cloud migration, and disaster recovery services from Tier 3 data centers in Detroit, Cincinnati, and Dallas. The company combines enterprise-grade hardware (Dell, Pure Storage, Cisco, Fortinet) with its proprietary OpenStack-based platform and LCO.Cloud self-service portal, providing consumption-based utility billing, built-in data protection, and direct access to long-tenured engineers for white-glove customer support.

Product overview

Liberty Center One (One Cloud Services) is a regional IT infrastructure solutions provider offering a unified cloud hosting and data center services platform. The core portfolio centers on public and private cloud hosting, disaster recovery, and data protection services built on OpenStack architecture. Key products include Cloud Desktops (DaaS) powered by Citrix, Virtual Disaster Recovery with 5-minute failover, Automatic Data Protection with immutable backups, and colocation services. The platform is managed through the LCO Portal built on OpenStack, with recent feature additions including Liberty Guardian (automated monitoring), Liberty DR (self-service disaster recovery), Liberty Deploy (application templates), and Data Protection Reports. Services operate from Tier 3 data centers in Detroit, Cincinnati, and Dallas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Liberty Guardian: Automated monitoring and self-healing infrastructure platform built into the OpenStack cloud environment for real-time health monitoring and automated recovery workflows.
• Liberty DR
• Liberty Deploy

Products and services

• Public Cloud Cloud hosting service delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure with instant provisioning and management of compute, network, and storage assets, built on Dell, Pure Storage, Cisco, VMware, and Citrix technologies.
• Private Cloud Dedicated private cloud environment providing full control of virtual machines with flash storage, network resources, compliance goals, and custom enterprise software licensing without hardware maintenance costs.
• Cloud Desktops (DaaS) Desktop-as-a-Service powered by Citrix offering anytime, anywhere, any device access to business applications, data, and IT services with predictable pay-as-you-go billing.
• Cloud Migration White-glove cloud migration service with engineer-supported planning, testing in a non-routable environment, and ongoing support after cutover to minimize downtime risk. Included as part of the cloud hosting engagement at no additional cost.
• Web Hosting Web hosting services for business websites and applications hosted on Liberty Center One's enterprise infrastructure.
• VMware Alternative Alternative to VMware infrastructure addressing Broadcom licensing uncertainty with comparable virtualization capabilities delivered on the Liberty Center One cloud platform.
• Automatic Data Protection Automated backup and replication service with immutable nightly backups retained for 30 days, more than 50 protected copies across multiple geographic regions, snapshots every 6 hours retained for 7 days, sub-30-second RPO availability, and ransomware protection. Included standard with production storage pricing.
• Disaster Recovery Virtual Disaster Recovery (VDR) service providing 5-minute failover to cloud with remote deployment in 1 hour, sub-15-minute RTO availability, sub-30-second RPO availability, continuous data protection, end-to-end data encryption, point-in-time recovery, one-click file and VM recovery, and geographic load balancing across Detroit, Cincinnati, and Dallas data centers.
• Cloud Backup Off-site data backup and protection service replicating data to Liberty Center One's geographically diverse data centers (Detroit, Cincinnati, Dallas) for redundancy and disaster recovery readiness.
• MSP Backup Backup services designed for managed service providers with multi-tenant capabilities and client management tools to support MSP end-customer data protection.
• O365 Backup Backup protection for Microsoft Office 365 environments including email, SharePoint, and OneDrive data, designed to protect against accidental deletion and ransomware.
• Security Security solutions including multi-factor authentication, DDoS protection, firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS, WAF, EDR, vulnerability scans, and next-generation antivirus protection, powered by Fortinet as part of the cloud platform security stack.
• Colocation Services Data center colocation offering private cabinets (10u, 20u, 42u) and cages with carrier-neutral connectivity, remote hands services, and full Tier 3 facility infrastructure including 24/7 on-site security, FM200/FE-25 clean gas fire suppression, hybrid cooling, and 60 MW critical power capacity across Detroit, Cincinnati, and Dallas data centers.
• MSP Partnership Managed service provider partnership program offering cloud hosting, data protection, and colocation infrastructure services for MSPs managing client environments, available through white-label or resale arrangements.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5-minute disaster recovery failover in under 5 minutes directly from the portal
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft technology integration across Liberty Center One's cloud platform. Products used include Microsoft software licensed through One Cloud Services as part of end user license terms governing Microsoft software used within Liberty Center One's cloud services. Liberty Deploy includes Microsoft RDS (Remote Desktop Services) as a pre-configured application template.
• CitrixcoreTechnology or IntegrationCitrix powers Liberty Center One's Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS/Cloud Desktop Service) offering, providing the underlying virtualization technology for cloud-hosted desktops delivered to customers on a pay-as-you-go monthly basis.
• VMwarecoreTechnology or IntegrationVMware virtualization technology is part of the cloud infrastructure foundation. Liberty Center One offers VMware Alternative services as a positioning against VMware's licensing changes under Broadcom. The platform supports VMware workloads in disaster recovery scenarios.
• Dell EMCcoreTechnology or IntegrationDell EMC hardware (Dell M640 blades in high-availability clusters with 2nd generation Xeon scalable processors) forms the compute infrastructure for Liberty Center One's cloud platform. Also uses Dell Rapid Recovery for data replication.
• Pure StoragecoreTechnology or IntegrationPure Storage provides all-flash NVMe storage arrays (Pure X Series for performance storage with 1.2M IOPS; Pure C Series for capacity storage with 150,000 IOPS) underpinning Liberty Center One's high-performance cloud hosting and data protection services.
• VeeamcoreTechnology or IntegrationVeeam software powers Veeam Cloud Connect off-site backup services, allowing customers to extend existing Veeam backups to Liberty Center One's cloud infrastructure with one-click file and VM recovery for VMware and Hyper-V environments.
• CiscocoreTechnology or IntegrationCisco networking technology (including Juniper also listed) provides network infrastructure within the data centers. Supports multi-homed bandwidth and enterprise-grade network connectivity across the cloud platform.
• Juniper NetworkscoreTechnology or IntegrationJuniper networking technology provides network infrastructure within Liberty Center One's data centers and cloud platform, supporting high-availability enterprise network environments.
• FortinetcoreTechnology or IntegrationFortinet provides security technology integrated into the cloud platform, including DDoS protection, firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS, and WAF capabilities as part of the comprehensive security stack.
• HPE/NimblecoreTechnology or IntegrationHPE/Nimble storage technology is part of the enterprise storage fabric that provides low-latency, high-performance SAN environments spanning large distances for mission-critical workloads.
• EMC (RecoverPoint)coreTechnology or IntegrationEMC RecoverPoint is used for data replication between Liberty Center One's data centers, enabling asynchronous or synchronous replication with sub-30-second RPO and sub-15-minute RTO availability.
• ZertocoreTechnology or IntegrationZerto powers data replication services, enabling continuous replication and disaster recovery capabilities across the geographically diverse data center footprint (Detroit, Cincinnati, Dallas).
• OpenStackcoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenStack serves as the foundational cloud platform architecture for Liberty Center One's cloud environment. The company's proprietary portal (LCO.Cloud), Liberty Guardian monitoring, Liberty DR failover, Liberty Deploy templates, and all cloud workload management run on OpenStack infrastructure.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Atlantic.Net: Managed hosting, cloud, and colocation provider with East Coast data centers. Comparable in offering SSD cloud hosting, dedicated servers, managed services, and HIPAA-compliant hosting to SMB/mid-market with similar regional colocation-plus-cloud model.
• GreenPages Technology Solutions: Cloud-first MSP that acquired Online Tech, offering managed cloud, colocation, and modernization services. Comparable in combining hosting/colo with managed-services economics; less direct overlap in colocation footprint but similar mid-market cloud services profile.
• Liquid Web: Managed hosting and cloud provider focused on SMB and mid-market customers with cloud servers, dedicated hosting, and managed WordPress/Commerce. Comparable in providing managed cloud infrastructure with white-glove support to SMB/mid-market, though more hosting-centric than colocation-heavy.

Direct peers

• OneNeck IT Solutions: Mid-market managed cloud, colocation, and DR provider owned by Telephone and Data Systems. Comparable in delivering hybrid cloud, colocation, DRaaS, and managed services to mid-market/enterprise customers with multi-region Tier 3 facilities.
• Flexential: National colocation and cloud provider with broad geographic footprint and a strong DR/backup product portfolio (FlexAnywhere, FlexColo). Comparable in offering Tier 3 colocation, managed cloud, DRaaS, and hybrid IT to mid-market customers, though considerably larger and broader geographically.
• 365 Data Centers: Regional colocation, cloud, and managed services provider with Tier 3 facilities across secondary US markets. Directly comparable in offering retail colocation, managed cloud, connectivity, and DR services to mid-market customers in geographic markets like Liberty Center One's Midwest focus.
• Expedient: Pittsburgh-based (with Cleveland and additional Midwest markets) provider of cloud, colocation, and managed services. Comparable in targeting mid-market/enterprise regional buyers with multi-site DR; similar consumption-based cloud posture and Hyperscale-AWS partnership approach.
• INAP (Internap): National provider of data center colocation, managed hosting, and cloud services. Comparable in offering retail colocation, dedicated hosting, private/public cloud, and DR services with hybrid IT positioning, though broader geographic reach.
• US Signal: Grand Rapids, Michigan-based provider of cloud hosting, colocation, managed services, and data protection across multiple Midwest data centers. Directly comparable to Liberty Center One in geography, service portfolio, and target customer profile (mid-market enterprises).

Broad incumbents

• Rackspace Technology: Global multi-cloud managed services provider offering cloud, security, data, and application modernization across all major hyperscalers. Comparable in providing managed cloud, DR, and migration services to mid-market/enterprise with similar white-glove, engineer-led engagement model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A2 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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