Platforming IT Services with CloudSmart
CloudSmart – The path to optimized, efficient and secure IT service delivery
CloudSmart organizations understand all their options for platforming IT services and are leveraging that knowledge to optimize their use of public cloud services and on-premises infrastructure.
Public Cloud Services
Public cloud has completely changed how IT organizations think about the economics of delivering IT services. Cloud services from our partners Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services allow you to quickly create a secure and scalable infrastructure while reducing the time and money spent to plan, procure and manage it. You can provision infrastructure for all or some of your workloads, create a hybrid environment that is functionally consistent with your on-premises infrastructure and reduce and optimize costs. Public cloud services have specific advantages when you need to innovate rapidly or avoid significant upfront expenses and they are often uniquely suited to support test/development and cloud-native use cases.
Datacenter Infrastructure
CloudSmart organizations continue to deliver certain IT services “on-premise” because of performance, security or other constraints that rule out public cloud or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) options. Whether on-premise means your own datacenter or a co-location facility, the infrastructure platforming those services should enable some of the same benefits that make cloud so attractive—it should be flexible, standards-based, scalable and orchestratable. Modern compute and storage infrastructure solutions from our partners HPE and Dell Technologies deliver those needed capabilities, and their innovative consumption-driven solutions allow for cloud economic and cloud operational models inside your own datacenter.
Data Protection & DR
Protecting your organization’s data today is much more than just making sure you have a backup copy offsite. The amount of unstructured data has exploded. Organizational data is located in datacenters, public clouds, SaaS applications and at the edge. There is a constant need to protect against evolving ransomware and other security threats. And just having multiple copies of data isn’t enough – you must be able to safely recover that data and return IT service delivery to your organization.
We believe these challenges require a more holistic view of data protection, including leveraging modern solutions that were designed for a CloudSmart IT architecture, and creating updated DR processes that are testable and enable safe, rapid and flexible recovery of IT services.
CloudSmart Workshop
Every organization can use some help to become CloudSmart! Are you just getting started on your cloud adoption journey, or maybe looking to adjust course mid-stream and take advantage of new cloud technologies? Perhaps you’re already leveraging cloud to deliver most or all your IT services and are ready to optimize in specific areas such as cost management or ensuring service availability.
You need an experienced guide, working with you to identify where you are, where you need to be and determine the best path forward. Wherever you are on your journey, an IT Partners CloudSmart Workshop can help you keep moving forward, faster!