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The Myths and Lies About the Cloud Before You Migrate

Cloud computing continues as a priority in the head of the CIO. This is good news for those who live in this and companies are taking the cloud as a priority in the budget devoted to undertaking the digital transformation of their businesses.

Gartner in the annual CIO survey found that cloud is still held in the top three since the beginning of this decade. Cloud has become a mantra in every one of the projects that clients develop daily.

It is true that all reports show that the fears of companies when moving their data and systems to the cloud are becoming smaller, and also many technological barriers have been eliminated and each time there is a greater number of specialists trained around these services.

Not to mention the price war that has mainly benefited the consumer. But, yet there are still many myths around the cloud need some discussion.

Cloud is just for startups

It is true that the deployment and acceleration of cloud computing have come from the hand of big unicorns that have happened in the absence to be the mirror and scourge of traditional business models.

Spotify, Airbnb, Uber and others have been able to reach a lot of users without having the physical presence in most of the countries where they operate. The great advantage of these organizations is that they do not bring the backpack, either systems legacy or users. They really operate new products and services all in the cloud.

Cloud first and the cloud for all

Organization does not already have the first choice as the cloud to mount a new service. The reality is that, for now, the cloud is a panacea for everything. It is often better to let die or shut down legacy systems and to think to migrate and transform cloud services. The hybrid service architectures are increasingly in vogue.

The cloud saves money

Many analyzes of TCO and ROI that have already prepared and shared with customers validated cloud saves money. But the reality of many companies is not that the risk factor typically altered the whole equation – when you assume that the equipment and systems can remain stable and can be installed the first day for years or decades, there is nothing cheaper than the zero base budget.

The cloud is less secure than my installations

It can occur for any large organization in banking or even in the bodies of national security, but for the rest of enterprises that make up the business fabric of the country is much safer to have their services in the cloud, where the vast majority of suppliers have technology, people and processes to ensure the safety of your business.

Only for web environments and development

This has been the lever around which have grown cloud services, but increasingly critical services have embarked on the journey to the cloud. An increasing number of companies have their CRM, HR systems, talent management, recruitment and others moving to the cloud, and even offer platforms such as SAP ERP cloud has exploded in recent months.

Go to the cloud is to remove the data center

It is not always the case, or at least for the moment; we’ll see what happens within a decade. But the reality is that services from the network, whether electricity or telephony, today still need physical items at the customer. Who knows, maybe the services of information technology will be only fully delivered from the network.

Everything works better in the cloud

It is true that the cloud ceased to be a bottleneck for years, but with everything and that many services remain sensitive to latency and jitter, large organizations are still keeping some sensitive data in-house.

MadeIT built your cloud the way that meets your company’s specific needs and is comprised of security, bandwidth, storage, and power. We engineer all of these together into a custom solution that fits your exact requirements. The systems architecture staff at MadeIT helps our client build a solid, redundant and robust solution by either using the client’s suggested engineering or by working together with our team to develop a customized solution to suit their needs. We can support you in the Hybrid Cloud or when you are ready to move the Private Cloud, we can make that transition easy.

Extraordinary Online User Experience with MadeIT Managed Applications

MadeIT provides a broad range of solutions for infrastructure applications for web environments. Each solution is backed by experienced experts who support these web environments for some of the largest and most prestigious brands in the world.

Whether you need the web, middleware, database, business applications, or all of it, MadeIT will assist you. As an indispensable part of our Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, we offer Managed Applications Services to make sure you always have the applications at hand that you need. We ensure uninterrupted peak performance of your applications and critical infrastructure and thus provide continuous positive online experiences for customers and employees.

Now you have to use the choice and flexibility, managed services on dedicated or virtualized platforms. Reduce your IT spending and let our team of experts, the procurement, installation, configuration, administration, and monitoring of your database applications. With continuous maintenance, support, and management, you can focus more on the development and growth of your business.

Start managed environments for critical workloads with just a few clicks.
Shift your valuable IT resources immediately to sharply focus on strategic initiatives.
Enjoy the security that brings a monitoring and application maintenance around the clock with it.
Get rid of time-consuming administrative tasks and concentrate on your core business.
Thanks to redundant data center infrastructure, you can ensure high availability of Web applications.
You decide the type of deployment: single simple instances or broader, complex implementations that require the creation of websites, ongoing management, and custom monitoring.
Scale your database for better handling of routinely collected, analyzed and stored data.
High availability of business-critical applications with round-the-clock monitoring
Get the best possible prices and license management.
Monitor proactively the performance of an application within your specific environment.
Monitor the end-user experience by measuring the application and web performance
Software installation and configuration
Management of web server software
Installation of the Web server software
Configure the Web server environment
Monitoring the web server environment
Proactive alert notification on technical customer contacts
Software updates

Our web-scale engineers have extensive experience in application and infrastructure management, distributed across multiple customer environments and based on Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP Perl Python and Microsoft (Windows, IIS, MS SQL, .NET / ASP and others).

MadeIT also supports Open Source Server Software, and tools range from security to functionality for monitoring to manage your web application and services from a single location. The easy to use management software is used to simplify the process of handling servers without the need of expert knowledge of server administration.

MadeIT manages commercial server software to maximize uptime and ensure your application does not negatively impact server performance. With years of hosting experience, we set up server side tasks to take care of the solutions that you need to succeed.

More Innovation and Less Management with MadeIT Dedicated Server

When safety and consistent performance are your top priorities, a dedicated infrastructure is a robust solution. However, sometimes it is necessary that you quick access to dedicated servers. Then you do not want to wait until the servers come online.

Whether this need is driven by compliance, high I/O performance or simply prefer to have applications in a dedicated environment running, MadeIT ensures that your environment is quickly online. Here we use standardized configurations. The server (s) includes a dedicated hardware firewall, monitoring tools, backup, outbound bandwidth per account and all the support that standard is involved in Managed service level.

MadeIT Dedicated Server Hosting provides a dedicated and tailored infrastructure for large, static workloads with high performance, security and compliance regulations. This allows businesses, public organizations, and educational institutions to meet their requirements for the safety, compliance, and accessibility.

Integration of dedicated managed services and virtual services into a single solution, leverages the best of both infrastructures. Organizations reap the benefits of virtualization technology: CAPEX reduced, simplified updates and dynamic changes. They also provide stable performance and appropriate infrastructure.

MadeIT provides managed hosting a private cloud for greater technical flexibility and better performance. We offer dedicated hosting virtual server cluster, and storage can be increased on demand. It is also possible to deploy virtual machines in any configuration within the limits of the infrastructure and software.

Scalability

Dedicated server hosting provides the agility to scale the device quickly, depending on the business requirement without affecting the investment budget.

Availability

Hosted in data centers, which offer 100% availability SLAs. Many of our facilities have the management and operation to optimize the device for reduction of credit risk due to human error.

Range

A global network of data centers provides you with the services and the coverage that you need.

Manage your IT Costs

Many IT departments have to make do with stagnant or declining budgets. With Dedicated Server Hosting, you can switch from capital investments in hardware and software to more easily predictable monthly operating expenses.

Minimize the Risks

With dedicated environments, you achieve a higher security than shared environments. They provide access to a suite of managed cybersecurity platform that helps you meet compliance and security policies.

Flexible Solutions

IT departments need to adapt their business quickly to the market changes. To respond promptly, we offer hosting solutions in data centers worldwide to direct access to the hybrid IT solutions.

Improved Safety

Your environment is protected by a managed, dedicated Cisco ASA firewall, monitoring, and backups with data retention.

Reliable Architecture

Your environment is running in state-of-the-art data centers around the world. Each server comes standard with redundant power, HVAC, and 100% network availability.

The Perfect Robust Infrastructure for Your E-commerce Hosting Solutions

The world of e-commerce is fast and high-tech. Therefore, it is not the easiest task to keep up-to-date, but your customers do expect this from you. It is no longer enough to create your website, upload your products and wait for the arrival of the orders. At the same time it is difficult to stand out among the competition. And your customers buy just as easily at another shop, so how do you make sure that they stay with you?

Customer experience is king. Your website should be full of relevant content, interactive and should offer the same experience on computers, tablets and smartphones. Pages of your website should load quickly, navigation on the page should be easy, and your server must deal with both predictable and unpredictable spikes.

MadeIT gives you the performance, expertise and reliability you need to run your e-commerce strategy. We have the right expertise, the robust infrastructure and the specialist knowledge to be able to get the most out of your website hosting.

MadeIT Advantages

An e-commerce platform to choose is an important decision. It is the backbone of your online sales channel and is one of the biggest investments you can make. And this investment must deliver maximum performance.

At MadeIT, you can host any demand e-commerce platform. Whichever you choose, we have years of experience in hosting these environments. And this specialized knowledge and experience we use to help you configure, deploy and optimize the chosen platform.

When you sell products online, then security, risk and compliance is absolutely crucial. MadeIT helps you to design a solution that can take a beating. Together, we secure your website so that your business is protected. Check a number of advanced security and filter traffic to your store, stop intrusion attempts and scan your infrastructure vulnerabilities before they are exploited.

Your customers rely on you to properly regulate the security of financial transactions on your website. The personal data stored on you should remain confidential. An absolute requirement for an environment is to have PCI compliant and it constantly monitors your environment to burglary attempts. You do this by constantly scanning your network, catch hackers to install a firewall and always install the latest updates and patches. This is what we all do for you. Our managed cloud combines the unlimited power and scalability of the cloud with the safety and security of dedicated hosting.

Host your online store in the cloud for the ultimate in scalability and flexibility. It does not matter how much traffic generated by the visitors to your online store, cloud solutions from MadeIT provide a consistently fast buying experience. Would you reassure your customers by incorporating additional security, you easily attach a dedicated server to your cloud platform.

With our extensive portfolio of products and services, we have always the right solution for you. Our specialists are always there for you. We go beyond just hosting your website, we think along with you to achieve the desired growth and development of a first-class online shopping experience.

10 Most Important Things You Can Do With MadeIT VDI Solutions

Virtualization is not just for geeks or for those who runs enormously powerful servers. It offers something for everyone, and if you have not already wet your feet in the ocean of virtualization, then you are at serious risk of being left behind.

In its strictest sense, virtualization refers to running two or more operating systems on one physical PC. It may be that multiple operating systems to run alongside each other, with an additional software for management called hypervisor, operating system or run other operating systems within program windows. The first is generally limited to servers, and the second commonly used in desktop computers.

It is also Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which is an entirely different technology. It is where client computers connect to a server and access their own desktop environments, all of which is hosted on the server. Typically, remote desktops appear in the windows of the programs client computers, but mobile devices such as tablets are increasingly used to access desktop virtualization.

For example, Citrix XenDesktop allows hundreds of client computers log on to one server via remote connections. Each user in the VDI environment has their own personal account and, therefore, your personal workspace and applications.

Take advantage of MadeIT robust infrastructure to host as many or as few virtual desktops as you want. Our VDI solution seamlessly integrates with our other Virtual Infrastructure offerings such as Hosted Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Lync and much more. The scalability is limitless.

Some of the important things that you can do with the Virtualization technologies:

Run Legacy Applications

Do you have an application that does not work well in Windows 10 or Window 8, but Windows 7 or an earlier version of Windows? Simply take an old Windows CD and install it on a virtual machine. Then install your application.

Access to Virus Infected Data

Have you ever sent a file that your antivirus program has detected virus program, but contains important data? Most virtualization software includes a snapshot functionality, which means you can create a “saved state” of the virtual operating system and your entire hard disk. So, you can revert to the original state whenever you want. You can create a snapshot on the virtual machine, open the infected file inside the virtual machine to access the data and if the virus causes chaos, just click to restore the snapshot of the VM.

Test Software and Updates

The virus treatment is not limited to malware. You can use your virtual computer to test new software, upgrades, or new software configurations before you deploy in your main operating system. Some VDI admin uses virtualization to create a copy of the operating system of an existing installation, plus your data, which then run to see if the configurations change or if the updates cause any damage.

If you operate thick client computers and want to be sure a Windows update before deploying it is fine, could do the same – just try it first on a virtualized machine.

Run Any Operating System

Want to give a try to Linux, but do not want to repartition your Windows operating system hard drive of your computer? Whenever you usually install on your computer, you can run almost any operating system in a virtual machine, including most Linux distributions.

If you run a Linux machine or webmail services, you can have a desktop version of Linux for occasional use, and it will also make easier communication with the server.

Create Backup of Your OS

Because the virtual operating system is contained in its entirety within a series of files, taking backup of your OS is as simple as any other file support. The same applies to virtualized server installations.

If you are running a virtual machine on a server to host the mail server and is felled by an attack by a hacker, operating all over again is as simple as restore files from backup.

Create Your Personal Cloud

If you are out of the office, no need to take your laptop with you. Just leave it running (with saving power off), take the mobile phone or tablet computer, access to the laptop via a Remote Protocol (RDP) Desktop over the Internet. This will allow you to access the same desktop environment to which it is used.

Run Web Development

VDI software allows the virtual machine to run without displaying a desktop (or other user interfaces). Mostly, the virtual PC is running in the background, while acknowledging all other connections, such as networks. For people who create websites, this offers you the ability to run their own private web server for testing.

Backup Your Server

You can create regular backups of existing server installations that could provide vital redundancy if a catastrophe occurs in the active server.

Secure Connection

Accessibility is imperative to a corporate environment. You can connect your offices to your VDI environment using a VPN, MPLS, or a direct connection. Multiple Internet carriers keep the connection live despite any provider network outages.

Reuse Old Hardware

By installing Citrix XenDesktop on your Windows server, you can re-use less powerful computers to thin clients, eliminating the need for an IT budget for updating a workstation. Customers access their personal desktop spaces on the server, and there is no noticeable difference compared to the performance of the operating system and applications locally.

XenDesktop includes intelligent technology to avoid standard thin client errors, such as the fact that videos and animations do not work well, by transferring some of the processing work to the client computer.

MadeIT VDI solutions also allow workers to access their computers from home, whenever the server is configured to be accessible to the public and have installed the appropriate client software. You can even use mobile phones to connect to desktop environments.

MadeIT Managed Hosting: Support of IT in the Transformation of Business Innovations

IT is no longer a back office, but a board matter and transformed the way business is generated and innovation are operated. Technology has today allowed innovative processes and systems – while daily operations more need to be managed including security, end-user applications, data analysis.

CIOs and IT teams today need partners who can solve their problems. You may need a complete solution to achieve a business objective or an IT service for a specific requirement. Managed hosting services can provide both a comprehensive approach to innovation throughout the technology lifecycle and a service that meets a specific need.

Instead of relying on multiple vendors in developing strategy, planning, design and implementation and ongoing management, organizations can choose a trustworthy partner, who accompanies them as a partner through the entire process.

MadeIT consulting and managed hosting implementation services provide end-to-end IT skills, including managed services, strategy, design, execution, planning, implementation and ongoing supervision of your applications or infrastructure, including support for hybrid IT models.

Why MadeIT Why Managed Hosting

Unlike traditional IT consulting companies that play an advisory role, MadeIT provides comprehensive, practical expertise with proven best practices based on thousands of internal and customer’s projects. We not only can make recommendations, but these validate our experience and implementation.

Security

Comprehensive analysis, security program architecture and design, deployment and management of networks, applications, devices, and the cloud. Our range includes:

Strategy, Risk, and Compliance
Network & Application Security
Identity and Access Management
Data security

Design & Transition

Take advantage of the contact with a single provider with expertise in data centers by MadeIT with colocation, managed hosting and cloud.

Analyzes
Server-based migration
Moving the equipment to a data center of MadeIT

Disaster Recovery

Comprehensive disaster recovery services for design, deployment, and testing, which can be tailored to your business needs. Protection against unplanned downtime with:

Business impacts analysis
DR readiness
DR Design and Implementation
DR-inspection planning and support

Infrastructure and application management

Comprehensive management and support resources for each infrastructure technology in the world. Reduce costs, improve your service levels and reduce your risk:

Business Management
End User Computing
Remote Infrastructure Management
Application management

Cloud

End-to-end, practical support for your needs when it comes to cloud infrastructure, applications and SaaS, in the design, deployment, and management. Ask the right cloud solution with the best ROI for Business Innovation ready, with:

Readiness analysis
Development, integration, migration
Software Packages
Cloud application development

Agility

MadeIT provides an integrated, global infrastructure and IT services, which give you the flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements. We are determined to provide insights and designs that will improve your agility and competitive advantage.

Expertise

MadeIT comprehensive portfolio of infrastructure and IT services provide IT solutions that are tailored to your business needs, to maximize performance and bring your costs, the launch and the performance requirements to a common denominator. Predictable and flexible cost models and proven timely and budget-conforming supply maximize your IT investment.

Experience

Use best practices, resulting from thousands of internal and customer projects, as well as a pool of employees with practical IT experience and countless certifications, help desk resources to IT architects.

MadeIT Infrastructure Management Minimizes Your Risk While Improving The Service

Swap out every day administrative processes and minimize your risk while enhancing the service. Reduce your risk through proven techniques, tools and competent of MadeIT resource and take advantage of our expertise to strengthen your customer relationships through improved service performance.

The skills of MadeIT in the areas of infrastructure and application management allow you to outsource the day administrative processes associated with the provision of business applications and the underlying infrastructure, to a trusted partner – including servers, operating systems, network devices, storage, firewalls, and desktops.

These services support all devices, anywhere, without compromising brand, device type or geographic location. Also, MadeIT supports hybrid deployments (hosting, colocation, cloud) and offers service and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Features and Benefits

Proactive 24/7 monitoring
Operation utilizes global resources and leading service technologies
Real-time control and analysis of historical trends
Helpdesk for infrastructure and application management
Proven best practices for thousands of customers and internal projects
Improved stability, control, and transparency
Reduces risk, reducing downtime and improving business continuity
Management of servers, storage, networking, security and disaster recovery
Improves service and the user experience
Managed costs and budget compliance through automated, less burdensome management processes at the same time improving the efficiency and capacity planning
Infrastructure and administrative operations grow through economies of scale
Predictable and flexible cost models that are tailored to your business needs

Only with absolute control over the entire system, the IT department can minimize the risks. The strict access controls and modern encryption method used by MadeIT fulfill these requirements and also ensure that only authorized employees have access to the environment.

Access Control

Both for internal and external working groups can be defined specific resources within the cloud structures. It does not matter if it is private or hybrid cloud structures. Thus, a high flexibility for all employees is guaranteed.

Cost Control

The project costs of customers, employees or workgroups can be monitored comfortably and limit if necessary. Thus, it is impossible that these expenses can get out of hand.

Monitoring and Logging

All activities are logged. Incorrect behavior or fundamental errors can be as fast track, and the IT staff may initiate for the affected employees immediately appropriate training.

Multi-Cloud Management

The management of all used cloud environments is done centrally.

Multi-Tool Support

The unique configuration management enables support for multiple open sources as well as third party tools expanding the cloud structures during operation.

The other advantage of using MadeIT infrastructure management is that it provides not only a secure access to the cloud environment, especially for the timely provision of requested changes to the resources.

Build Your Dynamic Infrastructure With MadeIT Custom Solutions

Demand for the company’s IT solutions is rapidly changing. Depending on the projects and services, it may be necessary for the temporary use of additional resources, other time – on the contrary – enough will be less availability of servers and computing power. Previously set parameters and lengthy process of ordering additional services such as the dynamic adaptation of IT resources to business needs is a significant challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises.

MadeIT’s dynamic infrastructure allows you to use virtual servers and computing power located in the data center. Resources are used independently configured by the customer depending on the needs of the company. The service allows you to quickly adapt the business to the changing market situation, thereby increasing efficiency and optimizing costs.

Dynamic infrastructure enables the flexible and scalable use of virtual servers and their computing power depending on the current needs of the company. The service data processing and storage in a private cloud computing is available through efficient MPLS and IP VPN connections.

IT resources are managed by a convenient means that allow you to independently adjust and control the configuration of virtual servers. Thanks to the dynamic infrastructure, you can quickly and efficiently use resources including peak seasonal sales, or test new services and applications.

Thus, the company bears only charge for those resources they use, thereby optimizing IT costs. As part of the dynamic infrastructure, MadeIT delivers virtualized, and standardized systems adapted to the needs of the company, among others, network infrastructure, firewalls, and servers.

Colocation-Solutions

MadeIT can also take full control over the management of network infrastructure and operating system, leaving only the client control used applications. All services are performed in the cloud model, which guarantees access regardless of location, time or device used.

Using MadeIT managed services infrastructure, you get:

Access to IT infrastructure in the cloud model – virtual servers and computing power offered by MadeIT.
Flexibility – Flexibility and the ability to expand or limit the functionality and system resources depending on the needs of the company.
Monitoring resource – used in servers and computing power are visible in real time.
More efficient management – constant control of used resources enables more efficient management of consumption and costs while avoiding operational costs generated by unused
Optimization of costs – low investment costs depends on consumption.
Sustainable – thanks to virtualization and high MadeIT standards, IT equipment is used more efficiently, and thus is less harmful to the environment.
Compatible with IT environment – the ability to integrate with applications and devices in the company.
Guarantee of safety – a combination of virtual servers is encrypted, and the servers are located in highly secure and certified MadeIT data center.

Your benefits at a glance:

Highly professional scalable server hosting solution
More IT resources and flexible services anytime
Cost-effective, highly available and secure
Easily integrated into existing environments
Without substantial investments and no hidden costs guarantees
With many options for maximum business flexibility
Transparent monthly billing and licensing
Service Level Agreement with up to 99.9% availability platform

With Managed Infrastructure, you can always react flexibly to changing business needs – and easily access additional IT resources whenever you need them.

Investment Protection and Flexible Scalability for Networks

IT teams in companies need flexibility and business agility. These bind next generation new cloud technologies in the data center architectures. One of the most pressing questions is how to achieve flexibility and scalability to the increasingly unpredictable peak load during application intercept traffic and at the same time to meet the strict service level agreements (SLAs) performance.

Bringing these often results in conflicting objectives in line, assuming that each element of a larger data center infrastructure itself offers the capacity and performance according to the conditions.

Modern enterprise data centers are extremely dynamic. Among the current trends and events that increase the application loads regularly include:

Introduction of new applications – The implementation of new e-commerce and Rich media applications and other services leads to new and often considerable Network loads.
Introduction of new technologies – Some technology solutions such as application and Desktop virtualization can increase the network load in the data center significantly. Others, such as VoIP and video, create an equal even load because the increased traffic volume comes into play in all network areas.
Add new users – Mergers and acquisitions, geographic expansion, demographic extensions and increase the product range and organic growth are usual activities for virtually every company and can lead to a sudden increase in volume traffic data
The dynamic data center – The widespread adoption of cloud architectures and virtualization technologies transforming enterprise data centers into private clouds. As a result, it creates an environment that, in a very short time, if not automatically adjusted to a new and changed business needs – and the ability to changes in resource requirements to collect network performance and applications.

Network usage patterns and the total exposure can also occur due to many unpredictable factors to which IT has no direct influence such as new marketing campaigns, promotions, and numerous other business initiatives. It is also not possible to say when a new technology, a new services or content will spread suddenly rapidly.

These are regular events in our everyday business. The challenge for IT is not in being able to prevent it – as in many other types of threats in the IT environments. The point is rather to ensure that the Network and Application Infrastructure should have a capacity sufficient to cope with these scenarios.

The reactive approach is too risky

One possible approach for CIOs is to respond to the increase in demand for IT flexibility. Each increase in demand requires to evaluate the situation and then to plan hardware upgrades and implement hardware or install additional systems.

The proactive approach at the other end is too costly. A proactive approach to the capacity of the network and application infrastructure has usually led to over-provisioning systems to the otherwise expensive and disruptive hardware upgrades.

The MadeIT solutions

Based on a highly secure and redundant network infrastructure, MadeIT provides fully automated infrastructure with the right level of performance, flexibility, functionality and economy. It enables seamless scaling and connecting your database server, web server, e-mail mail servers and application servers through a private network without data charges.

A fully scalable network with a future

MadeIT server instances can be interconnected, or additional services can be added on the fly. With our comprehensive IaaS services portfolio, you have the future of opportunity to be creative and add hybrid hosting solutions of all kinds and provide seamless users experience.

A private network for your data

The private network is built on our redundant network infrastructure, and no other party has access to your VLAN. We offer a complete Layer 2 network and Layer 3 services, to ensure the expansion of future MadeIT products.

Reduced network costs and no data transfer

Thanks to the fair-use of bandwidth, you can reduce your data costs in comparison to a public network dramatically. Virtual Racks make physical racks redundant and you can transform granular infrastructure in a fully integrated and scalable infrastructure without manual intervention.

Complete automation simplifies network management

The private network solution offers tremendous flexibility and control in providing or scaling the infrastructure thanks to the user-friendly customer center or the API. Add devices or remove them as needed – without downtime and without modifying the IP addresses.

How to Create a Roadmap for Successful Managed Services and Cloud Migration?

It is very likely that your company has experimented with the cloud. Maybe you have moved the website of the company to a service-based on-demand cloud infrastructure. It is possible that developers are testing new applications in the cloud before publishing them. Chances are your fellow online business subscribe to several Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, whether IT has participated in the decision or not.

However, no company has succeeded experiencing without a proper roadmap. To maximize investment and the value achieved in managed services and cloud solutions, all businesses whether large or small, should start with a road map. Each company must make their own decisions where and how cloud solutions are needed to be adapted to meet your needs.

What a roadmap will do is to ensure that each of the actions on the cloud that the company takes to respond to current needs remain valid in the future. But where do you start? The development of a roadmap for managed services strategy has to be overwhelming and involves a bit of planning, duties and collaboration.

Why Custom Services?

The custom managed service is a flexible business model. Its general features speak of a broad set of business challenges, and specific cloud services offered by different providers can vary widely in their ability to meet the needs of a company. Companies can go to the custom cloud services to achieve some (or all) of the following advantages:

Deferral of capital investment: When budgets are tight, many companies prefer to spend the same operating budget rather than commit a capital investment in hardware with a long payback.
Faster time to market: The cloud applications can be deployed in a few minutes, hours or days instead of weeks or months earlier, allowing the companies to respond more quickly to changes occurring in the market.
Application Scalability: The cloud solutions adapt to fluctuations in use without performance degradation, so the company does not have to redesign systems for use in working tips.
Improved quality and consistency: Applications that are created, tested and implanted into solid managed services and cloud platforms have fewer errors because developers are working with proven templates and can easily replicate the production environment.
Resilience: Many companies choose cloud solutions to support their business continuity plans and disaster recovery, ensuring compliance and best practices for data availability.

Each type of services either public or private, on-site or hosted Infrastructure response to different needs. Therefore, there is a unique approach to custom solutions that is best for all companies. It is also the cause why it is so important for each company to develop its own strategy for cloud.

5 Steps to Build a Road Map

Below are guidelines that help companies create a roadmap:

Communicate: The adoption of managed services and cloud benefits the entire company, not just the IT department but all important aspect of businesses. Communicate your plans early with senior management and your fellow business line, emphasizing on the advantages of them. Talk to the senior management team on how a corporate IT strategy based on the cloud can encourage innovation and increase market responsiveness while reducing investment in capital. With business line managers, show how the cloud can streamline your application requests through IT, reduce time-out to market and improve collaboration. Report on the cloud can benefit your project in two ways. First, it may compel in the budget priorities that need to support the project; And in second place, ensure the cooperation of the business line managers when considered the applications that need to move to the cloud.
Create an inventory of your workloads: Try and not move everything to the cloud, at least in the foreseeable future. But you need to think about which workloads should be migrated and when. And you need to start with an inventory. This can be a big task or small tasks depending on what you choose. Obviously, the department already has the list of current applications it manages, but you can expand the inventory to include workloads that are not currently automated or are partially automated such as business analytics functions carried out promptly using spreadsheets in a functional department. By capturing these workloads, IT occupies a better position to make decisions regarding all the extent of cloud options, including the integration of software functionality. When making the inventory, pay particular attention to traditional applications that have become cumbersome or showing poor performance. They may be candidates for a complete redesign that may include redo for optimum performance in the cloud.
Evaluate workloads: The suitability of custom services is a function of several subjective and objective criteria, including security, availability, and accessibility how applications interact with other workloads. A good starting point is to assess how critical and how strategic is the workload for the company.
Assigning workloads to cloud services and initiate migration: A flexible model of cloud solution offers many environments, cost counterparts, performance, and functionality. The hosted private clouds provide a high degree of security and performance monitoring. A hybrid cloud may be the best choice for workloads that feed on various sources, including the private cloud in their own With a variety of solutions on the market, choose a trusted and expertise provider with the broadest portfolio, flexible and service-level agreement performance that meet your needs.
Manage the cloud: Make sure the vendor offers a robust set of management tools that allow you to optimize the cloud. Make sure you know how you are using the cloud. Periodically check usage reports either to bill departments or simply to ensure efficiency. Choose a managed service provider that offers management tools to be utilized in the traditional IT environment, or by supporting standards that enable tools to access your current console. That way you can manage the entire environment coherently and streamlining administrative functions and maximizing value for the company.

Select MadeIT As Your Trusted Partner

For businesses that have limited resources or skill to the roadmap, the smart alternative is to choose an expert provider with whom they assist in the early stages of the roadmap. Thus, the partner can help you understand your options, evaluate your workloads and managing migration. For you to develop your strategy, the provider must have a broad knowledge of adoption patterns of clouds and share best practices. What’s more, the provider must provide a comprehensive set of offers that fit your roadmap.

For many companies, MadeIT and its vast network of certified partners are the choice for the cloud to help them start their journey to the managed services. Leveraging decades of experience in managing corporate data centers, MadeIT can provide professional services to help you create a cloud strategy, evaluate workloads, assess resilience plans and security risk, migrate to the cloud and even provide the back monitoring and management of cloud services. MadeIT can also help optimize your center data in its own facilities, virtualization products and services, and private cloud that are integrated into the new cloud environment.

You can choose from a range of private, scalable and secure cloud to maximize profitability without compromising safety and availability. Increase investment in the data center on site, by creating a hybrid cloud that optimizes resources, offering scalability and flexibility.

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