Cloud

According to research (Cloud Adoption Report, Mc Afee 2019), companies using the cloud grow 19.3% faster than their competitors. In reality, simply moving your workload to the cloud does not instantly increase your value in the market. The first step to any cloud journey is defining the business objectives driving cloud service adoption. Whether you are already using or just exploring cloud technologies, you need to have a formal strategy in place to accelerate successful outcomes for your business and improve your ability to evolve.

We will lead your business leaders and IT Teams into defining your company’s cloud strategy in a way that is in line with your corporate objectives.

Our experts will build your strategy considering your unique needs as well as the risks and opportunities specific to your business. Your Cloud strategy program involves three deliverables:

• A Readiness Assessment
• A Strategy Document
• A Roadmap suited to your project (migration, application rebuilding, Saasification)

Added value: A comprehensive cloud strategy is not only the central piece of your migration process, it also provides a roadmap for future decisions. Having a firm cloud strategy in place will make it easier for your company to react efficiently to changing circumstances and support your organization’s business strategy.

Attracted by the endless possibilities the cloud offers in addition to the expectation of benefitting from environments that are both flexible and cost-effective, your organization may have already begun its transition. It is likely that you now have multiple cloud solutions, hybrid environments and such a complex ecosystem that you have lost control over your security level. With the introduction of these technologies comes a whole new set of risks and security challenges.

To alleviate these concerns, we take a proactive approach to your cloud security. Rather than chasing down threats after they make themselves known, our experts will implement complete backup automation solutions with integrated disaster recovery, implement multi-factor authentication, control accesses and encrypt your data. To ensure that you are properly protected against vulnerabilities, our teams conduct cloud security strategy assessments. They will identify gaps and add steps in your cloud journey roadmap to help you reach your desired security position.

Moreover, we will work with your IT teams to further strengthen your cloud environments and integrate security at all stages of the process chain by including DevSecOps best practices.

Added value: With the proper holistic security strategy in place, you will keep control over your critical assets and visibility over your threat landscape, and you will have the ability to respond to and recover from disruptions no matter where you are in your cloud journey.

Like any other business investment, your cloud must be governed. Agility, flexibility, faster deployment and cost optimization require governance considerations to ensure that the full benefits are reached.

Crucial for your cloud effectiveness, governance is a framework that not only covers cost optimization but also roles and responsibilities, resiliency as well as security and compliance issues. The set of policies ruling this framework, although necessary, can cause slowdowns. Traditional engineers sit between your development and operations teams and often act as roadblocks for every action that needs to be taken, hence decreasing the overall benefits of the cloud, such as speed and a quick time to market. With the pace of change and the growth of your cloud environments, it is critical that you develop a strong governance strategy.

Our teams will put controls and policies in place for:

• Cost optimization
• Resiliency
• Security
• Compliance

All of these while giving freedom to your development and operations teams to move forward independently. By leveraging automation, standard components and governance tools available in your environments, our Cloud Custodian Team can analyze, plan and deploy management policies and controls at scale.

Added value: An effective governance process ensures that you receive the agility, speed and cost-saving benefits promised by the cloud. Placing automation at the core of this process results in a streamlined access for users, and rules that will automatically establish, verify, and enforce budget and policy compliance.

The ongoing explosion in remote working has emphasized the fact that the right cloud architecture model can transform your business capabilities and can help you gain a competitive edge in the market. In our always-connected world, your employees and clients expect the best possible experience from your apps and services, including a high-level availability, performance and security.

Based on years of extensive experience, our architects apply their best practices, fine-tuned around your business to define your cloud architecture blueprints. As a second step, they will also help you design a comprehensive technical strategy and architectural roadmap to successfully transition your organization to a multi or hybrid cloud model.

Added value: A strong architecture that takes into account your business and applications future needs will lead to a more efficient and cost-effective infrastructure. Smart and foresighted design decisions are the key to the achievement of your business-critical objectives such as cost reduction, business continuity, data security, compliance, availability, and durability.

As the core component of your business network and application strategy, your cloud must continuously and without fail meet the expectations of your end users. The increased connectivity of the latter puts a heavy strain on your IT department to run your apps smoothly, quickly, securely and without interruptions.

On top of this, the low deployment costs associated with cloud services have led organizations to deploy more and more applications into the cloud. The disparate ecosystem of applications that results is making it complex to achieve complete visibility and control. Cloud management is therefore crucial for you to optimize and secure your applications, manage compliance and prevent data breaches and cyber attacks. With a combination of knowledge and cutting-edge software products, our qualified experts will provide a cohesive management strategy and process for your organization. We will manage:

• Monitoring
• OS Patching
• Backup
• Reporting (via PTC My Cloud)

Added value: An effective management of your multi-cloud environments will help your organization get a comprehensive view of its IT assets, minimize the risk of data loss, track costs, optimize cloud resources and, in turn, improve your cloud ROI.