The right technology is an essential element for success, so it is important to invest wisely. You need to select cost-effective IT that will be right today, but also continue to support your organisation in the future. Integration, excellent cyber security and employee mobility are important considerations.
Without expert guidance, IT decisions can be made based on latest buzzwords, rather than what is best for your company. It is important that your Cloud migration streamlines, secures and enhances your work rather than distracts from it.
A complex IT estate is expensive and arduous to maintain and manage in-house. You have to pay for the hardware and the people to manage it, as well as for repercussions from problems caused by hardware failure or human error.
In-house platforms often suffer from a lack of agility, flexibility and scalability. Teams struggle to quickly and easily manipulate their set-up to suit the organisation where it is today and where it wants to be in the future.
Relying on older platforms can make integrating with latest technologies difficult. Modern applications may not be compatible with your legacy environment, with SaaS products complicating rather than streamlining your estate.
A strong cyber security posture is becoming more difficult to achieve and maintain as attacks are more prevalent. When your platforms are on-premise, they are solely your responsibility and all security concerns reside with you, not with specialists.
Employees are increasingly working remotely, in varied locations. Your applications need to be supported by platforms that can facilitate mobile working with high availability, security and connectivity.
Cloud Services are split into four categories, with the differentiators being how much responsibility the service provider and customer have respectively. These are: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS).
There are three main Cloud environments: Public, Private and Hybrid. Public Cloud is computing that is delivered through the internet and access is shared across organisations. Private Cloud means only your organisation has access, unless otherwise specifically permitted. Hybrid Cloud is any environment that uses both Public and Private Clouds.
Managed Cloud Services simplify billing and maintenance of the environments that keep your organisation running. Rather than going it alone and trying to build relationships with large corporations, you can work with smaller specialists who culturally fit your organisation better. This means you benefit from industry-leading technology alongside dedicated services and support.
Organisations can outsource their networking applications, functions and services to a Managed Services Provider who will remotely operate, monitor and maintain networks including WAN and LAN.
The security of your IT and data is vital to the success of your organisation, therefore there are measures put in place and standards to look out for that ensure a provider is delivering a secure environment. A key one is ISO 27001.
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