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More and More Workloads Are Moving to the Cloud From Now to 2018

hybrid cloud Most companies hesitate to transfer their workloads between services and information in the cloud, so far although there have been many doubts about privacy and security.

According to the latest 451 Research report, based on interviews with over 1,200 IT professionals in different parts of the world, the level of enterprise workloads is in fact set to rise from 41% today to 60% in mid-2018.

The report also highlighted that 38% of the companies involved have a policy of type cloud-first; this means that the priorities of where to place all of their assets are just the cloud. Among other, acquisitions, mergers, updates, divestitures, new hardware and software are pushing more and more companies towards cloud adoption.

The cloud is suitable for any workload in all situations. Naturally, it facilitates and improves things. And if it is true that there is an inevitable transaction to be made in the transition from traditional infrastructure to a cloud, it is also true that more often than not it is a traumatic transaction. That’s why more and more companies will perform this migration to the cloud, whether on-premise, managed by a service provider or in a data center.

Part of the reason behind this growth of cloud adoption is that executives are going beyond the initial concerns about security and privacy. With more and more experience gained in this field, even the doubters against the cloud are overcoming initial fears and gaining more and more confidence in the cloud.

If it is quite simple to move the new cloud services, applications, and data, transfer existing services and information is another matter. The report noted that it takes time to change the way you do things, abandon a practice that already exists, and arrive at a new working structure. Also because, when things work, there is little incentive to change, even with the promise of a secure improvement after this change.

Finally, according to 451 Research, the strongest growth of the cloud will occur especially in critical enterprise categories, such as data analytics, and business applications.

MadeIT hybrid and private cloud is built in a 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.

MadeIT cloud architecture helps the client build a solid, redundant and robust solution by either using the client’s suggested engineering or by working together with the team to develop a customized solution to suit their needs.

MadeIT public cloud offers the benefit of operating in a virtual environment with limitless scalability. If your server outgrows its capabilities, the team can add memory, processing power, and storage almost instantly. MadeIT cloud is fast, accessible, and reliable. We provide 24/7 support using live chat, telephone, and ticketing systems.

The Switch to the Hybrid Cloud is Progressing Globally

hybrid cloud According to a study by Cicero Group and Veritas Technologies, the private cloud, and public cloud alliance continues to grow in business.

Three-quarters of companies worldwide continue their adoption of hybrid cloud, by definition involving the private cloud and public cloud. This is the salient point of a recent study sponsored by Cicero Group Technologies and Veritas.

The results show the importance of a sophisticated corporate strategy for information management and security. For the study, Veritas and Cicero Group interviewed more than 1,800 worldwide IT executives with more than 500 employees and managed by at least 75 terabytes of data.

This study was especially noted the pace of switches to different kinds of cloud and motivations. This flip-flop now applies to all types of data, including critical data, which implies to adopt a real strategy and real security.

Nearly 38% of the volume of data is currently housed in a private cloud (+7% in one year) against 28% in a public cloud (+ 18%). In Japan and Brazil, it is 50% of the volume that is currently in the public cloud. 74% of companies use multiple cloud providers, and 23% use at least four suppliers. It increases the pressure on IT departments to secure the data on all of these environments.

In the breakdown by sectors, the manufacturing industry is in the first place. The manufacturing industry takes 30 percent of their workloads in the public cloud. Second place goes to telecommunications companies with 24 percent, followed by health care and finance, each with 23 percent. The public sector constitutes 16 percent cloud adoption.

More than a third of respondents cite cost as the main argument for the public cloud use. However, security remains the main obstacle. Half of respondents named security and backup architectures as the main reason to avoid the public cloud. Nearly 41 percent expect an improvement by introducing a hybrid cloud – which is internationally the highest percentage.

Security is also the most important factor for the satisfaction of enterprises with public cloud offerings. Providers of public cloud solutions should communicate their benefits in terms of safety.

A significant number of respondents indicated that they would always run certain workloads within the enterprise and do not move to the cloud. 28 percent cited in this context named backup and recovery, 27 percent disaster recovery and 26 percent archiving or data warehousing.

About 81 percent of companies not using cloud in the implementation and ongoing support to the services of service providers. The heterogeneous and complex composition of cloud solutions is therefore likely to remain a challenge for IT departments.

Companies are increasingly using heterogeneous solutions. From the perspective of information management, this can increase the complexity. Organizations must be more vigilant than ever to see blind spots of IT and potential safety issues. Only way they can avoid unplanned downtime or even an information crisis.

The study recommends several steps – the organizations should help to remain agile to minimize the risks inherent in the implementation of hybrid cloud environments. IT professionals should focus more on information management rather than on infrastructure.

Your Scalable and Automated Infrastructure as a Service Solution

MadeIT’s Cloud Computing Services provide compute, storage, application and network services on-demand, which are directly integrated into your IT infrastructure. The MadeIT Data Centre is the forefront cloud-based computing solution that meets their simple, comfortable handling of a public cloud while providing the security and reliability that can vouch for the private cloud.

The ability to have fully automated public and protected cloud applications on the same platform, this cloud solution makes them particularly versatile. In addition, the data center embedded in our network are offered, as it is provided throughout via MPLS fiber network.

To meet customer requirements, companies must take advantage of many different services to outsource their data and applications. MadeIT cloud computing solutions offer a solution for all cases. Thus you get the best of both worlds and can the requirements in accordance with the services of a private or public cloud and dedicated hosting put together.

This applies to the following aspects weigh what exactly are your requirements and for a suitable model:

Agility: Which of your applications require a flexible and agile infrastructure and which do not?
Security: In which areas of work you can outsource data in the public cloud, in which not?
Performance: Does your application requires a separate environment or extends a part around in a public cloud? What do you need for dedicated resources?
Costs: Is it cheaper or more expensive to outsource data and processes in a cloud environment?
Licensing: Is it from the licensing and data protection regulations at all possible, to relocate certain data or processes in the cloud?

Colocation-Solutions

Thanks to MadeIT, the deployment, and management of ICT infrastructures is now easy and flexible. Select the desired infrastructure and the location and decide then what level of support and management of your choice.

Our infrastructure consists of the following components:

Compute: Our Data Centre is integrated into the MadeIT network that provides a scalable, on-demand cloud solution that can be configured as a private, public or hybrid cloud.
Storage: The solution offers various storage options. This is a variety of performance and security levels are available to meet your company’s needs perfectly.
Networking: Our platform is integrated into our network, which offers a unique level of performance and safety.
Security: In addition to the directly integrated network, security options include a number of security features available to help you better protect your platform.

The establishment and management of the entire ICT infrastructure as a service that is delivered over a secure network platform and offers integration cost optimization, performance, and efficiency.

We simplify the deployment and management of the ICT infrastructure and shape it more flexibly. Therefore, our customers can switch the service used depending on the business needs as necessary efficiently and economically.

What SMEs Need to Consider When Choosing Cloud Services

The selection of cloud services has grown over the past years in overwhelmingly large dimensions. But, as always when introducing new systems arises in connection with cloud services, the question of how the initial situation is where you want to go and how this is best achieved.

These considerations make first completely detached to particular services and offerings. The aim is usually to optimize existing structures and processes. A change in the cloud would result in the otherwise little sense.

At the end, you should be able to answer the question: What are the benefits cloud services over the present situation? Orientate yourself not to platitudes like ‘easy maintenance’, ‘cheap to run’, ‘global access’ or ‘scalability’, which is full of stories related to the cloud. It’s very individual to you and your company: What have you concretely from the cloud?

Important criteria in the selection

Among the most important criteria is one of privacy. At least some of your company departments deal with confidential customer data. Then there is the question whether and how these are banned in the cloud. Very important: Where are the servers of the provider? What privacy laws apply there? And who owns the data you provide on other servers?

When choosing a provider, check the Service Level Agreement (SLA). There you will find detailed information on the contractual and service relationship between you and the cloud provider.

In addition to these aspects, it also encompasses the scalability and availability. Besides data, the latter is probably one of the most important criteria for choosing a provider. Because you set for your workday on an application that is only accessible via the Internet, the service provider must ensure that this is always possible reach.

You may ask the providers as ask how the availability is guaranteed. Reputable providers have nothing to hide and answer this question usually tagged with redundancy. How important is the support of the party, also depends on the expertise from in-house? Are the technicians of the provider providing around the clock by phone, e-mail or chat support? Is there an emergency service in the evenings and weekends? And what does this service cost?

The cost is also crucial in deciding for or against a proposal. Pricing should you of course still be clear and fit for your business.

Moving to the cloud is not a rush job, because when a wrong decision is made, it is often challenging and expensive for you to roll back. You often not immediately noticed that you have chosen the wrong provider or the wrong product.

MadeIT provides maximized efficiently and minimized costs. MadeIT meets your company’s specific needs and is comprised of security, bandwidth, storage, and power. 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 cloud solution to suit their needs.

IT Leaders Have Little Time for Digital Transformation

A current study “The BT CIO report 2016 – the digital CIO” on behalf of the network and IT service provider BT clearly shows that while the CIOs around the world are driving the digital transformation, the processes, and systems of their companies and organizations are hindering the transformation.

Their importance at the management level continues to rise under the influence of digitization. More than seventy percent of the surveyed about a thousand IT decision-makers from eleven countries said that the role of the CIO in corporate governance in the past two years has become more important. And almost 43 percent of respondents stated that they spend more time today on issues that affect the company as a whole.

The flip side of this trend is that it becomes increasingly difficult for the IT chiefs at all to find time to develop creative solutions for daily business. Nearly two-thirds of IT decision-makers feel that the CIO spend more time on the existing IT systems to keep running than trying to find new solutions. CIOs have, therefore, irrespective of their ambitions in terms of digital transformation, a lot to do still with contaminated sites.

Nearly 80 percent of large companies and organizations pursue global or a “multi-speed” approach: technology-driven initiatives are driven at different speeds and priorities – with the CIO as a driving force. This requires more creativity, flexibility, and a more dynamic business model. The BT study found that two-thirds of CIOs also found that rapidly alter the key performance indicators (KPIs) with which their own performance is measured. The digital transformation moves precisely in the heart of all its activities.

In most companies, which were covered by the new BT study, different departments are busy to procure and use without involving the IT department IT products and services. Apparently, IT departments are increasingly pleased with a cross-divisional, business support role. In this role, IT is focused on particular data security, providing an efficient infrastructure and that there is no duplication of work within the company.

These altered responsibilities subject to the new role of digital CIO, the acts of all corporate divisions as enablers. Here the IT chiefs agree on the main technology trends: cloud, mobility and collaboration and data (big data). According to the report, already one-fifth of the world’s companies are moving to fully cloud-centered infrastructure. Almost half of the companies are already receiving more than half of their applications and their infrastructure from the cloud.

The CIO is one of the most demanding positions in business today. The digital CIOs are the pioneers of change. To be successful, they need now strategic partnerships within and outside of their company. MadeIT is well positioned to be their digital enabler.

MadeIT managed, and cloud services help your customer relationship will benefit from real-time big data analysis; further expansion of cloud connectivity; new possibilities to comply cloud services to the needs of individual organizations and sectors; and new security and professional services capabilities that will support all of these investments and CIOs thus enabling to take bold decisions that are required in their digital journey.

In response to the outstanding acceleration of the digital transformation, MadeIT has the right products and services in cloud, mobility, collaboration and data to accelerate the implementation of cloud strategy.

Managed Service: The Model for Business Continuity and Business Resilience

A 20-minute interruption systems an organization can lead to losses of more than $15,000. Cloud becomes the most effective platform for the restoration of failures and data protection in case of disaster recovery.

Information technologies form the core for the development of new businesses in all economies in the world. The digital transformation is the challenge that CIOs and executive leaders of all organizations put on the table. While data security is increasingly threatened, what is the platform that is imposed for disaster recovery? Again everything is in the managed services cloud, but how to face these kinds of challenges for business continuity? Here are some keys.

Technology takes center stage in business

To the extent that technology takes center stage in business, risk and costs of data loss is greater. According to the IBM Global study on the Economic Impact of IT Risk, an interruption of 20 minutes can cost the organization over one million dollars. A major disruption, which lasts on average seven hours, may involve costs above $105,000 for a company that billed on average 2 million a year.

The resilience determines the competitiveness of organizations

The policies and integrated technologies to reduce downtime in enterprise systems constitute an active fault resistance and risks of data integrity. It’s no wonder that organizations are willing to invest resources to ensure that systems, data, and applications are almost always available; to protect them from risks ranging from human error to the weather.

These efforts into a strategy for disaster recovery and business continuity involves the recovery of infrastructure and downtime in systems. Concepts that are recognized as recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Thus achieving business level ensure business continuity for its external and internal customers also face competition.

Cloud is positioned as the most effective paradigm

Cloud is positioned as the most effective paradigm for the deployment of policies and solutions for disaster recovery and improved business resilience under different schemes. Currently, companies can adopt plans for disaster recovery cloud models services ranging from the “pay as you go” to hiring a more complete and aligned recovery needs of each business where availability of critical data is guaranteed.

These models can help organizations control costs resilience while more easily scalable solutions flexibility to accommodate growth or times of peak activity.

Managed services provide a flexible way of adaptation to the environment and regulations

The contingency statement from the cloud can help organizations comply with government regulations and industry: as accountability laws, standards Consumer Protection, and data protection in the Payment Card Industry, among other industries and government regulations.

Outsourced disaster recovery

Gartner predicts that in 2018 the number of organizations that use an outsourced disaster recovery service, exceed the number of organizations that you use a disaster recovery in-house. This means that organizations need a service provider who has the vision and the ability to orchestrate suitable resilience solution from the combination of technologies and emerging services.

Digital universe is expanding

The digital universe is expanding, and ensure business continuity becomes more complex every time. According to Forrester, one of every three companies said they had suffered some kind of failure or disaster affected the continuity of their business. The problem is complicated, but the solution does not have to be.

MadeIT offers a wide range of quality hosting products, all designed to give you the very best possible conditions to host your site or to run your business. From small shared accounts, through reseller accounts, virtual private servers and up to fully managed dedicated servers.

We will help you get everything set up the way you want it and monitor it to make sure it stays that way. We also have 24/7 technical support and disaster recovery on hand to get you through those difficult situations that sometimes arise. You can count on us to keep you running.

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.

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.

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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