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Operate the Pace of Business with MadeIT Solutions

Submit faster new products and services, move closer to customers, increase the productivity of users. Never pressure of innovation on your business has been stronger. However, your existing IT infrastructure is gearing up to the goals of your company?

At the time of cloud and mobility, your computer model must be able to accommodate more users, more applications, and more data. According to IDC, the implementation of the third platform dedicated to the growth and innovation after the mainframe and client-server model requires an investment in Cloud Computing, social, mobile technologies and the Big Data. It also involves making fundamental changes to IT operations to provide access to self-service information and applications regardless of location, time and terminal.

Give the IT department the power to give more resources to users. IaaS offers more ways for your customers, your employees, and your IT department. While customizing the provision of IT services, the IaaS reduces costs of technology, training, and processes, and increases flexibility, responsiveness, and control of the IT environment. With the IaaS, your IT team no longer content to react to an endless list of demands but begin to implement a proactive partnership with the company.

Energize your business

Pioneer of virtualization, cloud computing base, MadeIT enables companies to innovate and prosper while saving a significant amount of dollars. Because virtualization and automation software from MadeIT cover the entire data center and virtual workspace, we are able to simplify the IT environment radically to help you achieve your goals business.

MadeIT Infrastructure is the basis for some of private, public and hybrid cloud environments. More customers rely on MadeIT to help them reduce costs, increase flexibility while maintaining control of their IT environments, and thus significantly improve the results of their business.

When your company chooses MadeIT and its extensive network of partners, the transition that you start is to evolve a traditional IT infrastructure progressively to achieve a virtualized cloud environment more flexible and efficient. Throughout this transformation, you enhance the value of more strategic IT investments.

Companies usually start their transition by virtualizing the infrastructure to consolidate investments and reduce costs. Subsequently, many opt for virtualization of critical applications and finally go to automation and higher levels of management to extend virtualization to the rest of the infrastructure, namely the storage, network, and security. These activities reduce operating costs and enhance service quality.

But it is only when virtualization has really become ubiquitous that your business can finally exploit IaaS at fair value. Companies that implement the IaaS considerable benefit of this operating mode, fundamentally different from their counterparts.

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, you can find it with us.

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.

Information Management and Business Continuity in a Company

First, we would like to clarify what is business continuity. It is a plan by which a company or organization plans how to respond to any eventuality so that the interruption of their business is minimal. In that plan the processes that you need to put in place to ensure the least impact to a disaster.

On the other hand, we have the management of information, considered as one of the most valuable assets of an organization. It notes that the importance of this management is always closely linked to the availability of the same.

And when we talk about availability, we mean access to this information at any time, and to guarantee the integrity of it. For this reason, many aspects come into play as such as where such information is hosted, if there is a replica of it, or if the confidentiality and data integration is assured.

The fact that organizations pay increasing attention to these situations makes coexist different technology scenarios from the point of view of IT. Customized solutions mostly implemented at the customer with solutions that are mixed cloud model – pay per use with the benefits and guarantees of services.

Specifically, the managed services model provides businesses increasingly demanded features and services, such as:

Flexibility
Scalability
Security
Availability

It’s a natural evolution of the traditional IT organization to move more towards managed service models to reap the benefits of both technology and cost. From these trends, three key findings can be drawn:

The proportion of resources allocated to traditional IT (good own infrastructure mode or outsourcing) will decline in the coming years. This is because companies need an agility that the traditional model cannot provide, and should look at certain external service providers.
Cloud-based models, whether public or private, are preferred by businesses, due to the need for greater agility. Therefore, they will absorb the growth in the budget-tech enterprises.
The private cloud model is the one that will attract larger budget in the coming years.

And in this scenario, MadeIT stands out as a technology partner capable of providing end to end solutions. For this, MadeIT relies on its infrastructure of data centers, on which deploys its cloud services, which can be integrated with data centers customers.

Thus, different cloud models can coexist, and business continuity solutions guaranteed to unforeseen incidents. Security, both physical and logical, is a transversal value to MadeIT that helps to ensure such continuity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.