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Virtualization & Cloud Computing
Whether your business is just getting started on your journey to the cloud, have started on that journey already or if you have already reached the cloud platform, we can assist you in the various stages of your company's journey to the cloud. There are a lot of aspects of cloud that our clients need to consider before embarking on this journey. We have listed a few concepts below on this page that we like to make our clients avware of during our assesment process to make sure we design a cloud solution that meets all of our client's business goals. We have partnered with the top cloud platform providers today. Clouds come in all shapes and sizes. They help power your business by enabling other digital technologies such as DevOps, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Mobility, Big data and advanced analytics. Our expertise range from architecting, delivering and managing private, public and hybrid cloud strategies and will be your trusted technology partner. We can help you develop a strategic roadmap to address your business and IT challenges, with financial justification. Maximize performance, security and governance. Ensure minimal risk or disruption to your business. Identify workloads and IT business processes to develop a comprehensive cloud solution. Our process will demystify cloud computing and determine its relevance to your organization now and in the future. Our engineers analyze your current compute, application and storage infrastructure, interview key stake holders to understand your current environment. We will work with you to understand software and hardware life cycles and provide clear path to a cloud migration that will lower your TCO and transform your organizatuon to be agile and nimble and that technology is aligned with your business goals to acheive great business results.
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Benefits of Bitgroup' Cloud Services:
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Product & service innovation: Support rapid business growth with low start-up costs and less risk
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Time-to-market: Rapidly access unlimited ICT capacity and capabilities to reduce your project timescales
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Flexibility for future growth: Rapidly respond to both strategic and short-term business needs by scaling your IT environment to meet new demands
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Lower lifecycle costs: Reduce TCO and consume technology services in the most energy-efficient way – reducing your carbon footprint
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Manage peaks and troughs: Ensure costs reflect seasonal/uneven demand
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Cloud Oppurtnities:
Cloud computing presents opportunities for both business and social innovation as well as modernizing ICT. Cloud provides a platform for business units to develop and deploy new processes, systems and offerings that make them more competitive. Cloud also helps turn IT into a more effective and responsive business service. Ensuring on-demand access to pools of trusted infrastructure and services, cloud promises to de-couple business initiatives from the IT capabilities driving them.
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For IT, that means some fundamental restructuring and re-skilling; for business it means potential transformation in the speed, flexibility, efficiency, competitiveness and innovation of organizations – from large corporations and government departments to start-ups and SMBs.
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Our cloud solutions have the potential to remove many of the constraints associated with traditional IT. Instead of new initiatives being dependent on systems and software that take months, or even years to build-up, our cloud services can be provisioned to simply and effectively support your business needs — when needed and in the quantity required.
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Whether delivered by Bitgroup or through our cloud partners and consulting partners, cloud solutions present an array of opportunities that include cutting costs, underpinning growth, driving innovation and making business truly agile.
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Cloud for business growth:
Whether the business challenge is expanding into new markets, attracting and retaining new customers, executing M&A strategy or speeding up time-to-market for new products and services, cloud allows organizations to rapidly and easily scale up their operations to support business goals.
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Cloud for business agility:
Our cloud model, with its flexible infrastructures and on-demand pricing, is starting to reset the expectations for IT within business. It presents the opportunity for IT to be re-cast as an enabler of business agility — rather than an inhibitor of business change.
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Cloud for cost reduction:
Under constant pressure to reduce the cost of their operations, organizations of all sizes expect their IT to deliver more value for less expense. By eliminating up-front spend on IT and providing IT capability on a pay-per-use basis, cloud has the potential to restructure the IT budget, moving key applications and services to multi-tenancy architectures
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Hybrid Cloud:
Cloud adoption is surging as organizations seek the benefits delivered by new technologies such as mobile, social, big data and the internet of things. At the same time CIOs and their departments are increasingly faced with the issue of striking a balance between the many conflicting demands being placed on the IT infrastructure.
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How do you ensure that business units have the agility to act and deploy new solutions, increasingly cloud based, yet ensure governance and compliance are not compromised? How do you nail down data availability 24/7, across geographies and across devices and yet be certain that privacy and security will not be breached? How do you achieve all of this and yet have a prudent IT budget?
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The answer lies in a cleverly architected and seamlessly integrated Hybrid IT environment with a governance framework that matches the new pace of business, and the flexibility to adapt and evolve with changing business needs. By blending the best of cloud powered and on-premise IT, the balance that large organizations seek is the balance that Hybrid delivers.
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Cloud Security:
For organizations new to cloud, security is commonly the number one concern – so much so, it’s often seen as a significant barrier to adoption. However, for those further along the cloud journey, while security is seen as important, it is no longer a source of worry or apprehension. Instead, it’s simply another consideration in their risk management strategies and processes. In fact in many cases the level of security delivered by cloud services exceeds that found in existing IT services.
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So how can your organization adopt and embrace the cloud – reaping the benefits without compromising your business?
Bitgroup provides a clear and unbiased guide to help you understand and navigate the complexities of cloud security - ensuring your cloud journey is as trouble-free and beneficial as possible.
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Cloud security Key Considerations:
CIOs and their teams need to plot effective cloud security management strategies as well as understand the implications from an operational and technology perspective.
Not all clouds are equal:
It’s important to remember there are several different types of cloud – private, public, community or hybrid. The approach chosen has the biggest single impact on the level of risk and its manageability.
Location is everything:
Knowing where data will reside is essential as the location has a significant impact on its privacy and confidentiality, as well as the legal obligations of those who process and store the data, given the varying regulatory frameworks in place in different legal jurisdictions.
One size does not fit all:
By identifying and classifying data, organizations can consider the most appropriate location in which to store particular information. For instance, if it’s too sensitive for a public cloud, a private cloud may prove a secure and viable alternative.
Join the dots:
Many of the risks associated with the cloud come about as a result of inadequate service integration. Organizations need to ensure cloud services are effectively joined up – both with one another and with inhouse systems and business services. It’s also worth considering an access-control approach that incorporates and integrates in-house, outsourced and cloud systems.
The burden of compliance:
Whilst organizations using cloud services remain responsible for the security and integrity of their own data, to comply with regulations it’s important to ensure the relevant regulatory, corporate, industry or other standards apply (legally or contractually) to the provider.
Who can you trust?
Evaluate the long-term viability of the cloud provider. Remember it may not just be your data at stake but your reputation, so it pays to work with a trusted partner.
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Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS):
Organizations globally are using the cloud to drive innovation in the way they deliver IT services, achieving greater agility, reducing costs and deploying new capabilities much faster than ever before. Bitgroup Cloud infrastructure solutions deliver the choice, flexibility and value you need from cloud with the high level of security and quality of service you’ve come to expect from enterprise-class IT delivered by Bitgroup. To fulfill your different cloud requirements, we offer a comprehensive range of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, spanning compute services, storage as a service and data and application management.
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We offer a variety of cloud options and are listed below
Bitgroup Cloud IAAS Trusted Public:
Provides a pool of scalable, robust, secure and standardizable, virtual IT resources, available on demand over the Internet on a cost-effective pay-per-use basis. Designed from the ground up with business users in mind it delivers reliability, availability and security while providing un-contended access to system resources with round the clock support that comes as standard. Bitgroup' Iaas Trusted Public cloud is delivered via our cloud partner' global network of data centers across the globe so you can take advantage of the same service on identical platforms wherever you operate around the world - with complete peace of mind.
Bitgroup Cloud IAAS Trusted Public Dedicated:
Dedicated IAAS option allows you the benefits of our cloud partner' Cloud operations and security monitoring but with the ability to use server, storage, and network environments reserved for your use, and these could be either virtual or physical resources. This makes IaaS Trusted Public dedicated an ideal environment for delivering your enterprise production systems while still leveraging the economics of the public cloud computing model. IaaS Trusted Public Dedicated widens the use cases for our public cloud – particularly for government and public sector bodies and financial services institutions that previously may have needed to deploy IaaS Private Hosted or private cloud for some of their workloads.
Bitgroup cloud IAAS Private Hosted:
For customers looking for the agility of Cloud IaaS to modernize their ICT infrastructure IaaS Private Hosted has been designed to ease the integration of IaaS with existing ICT systems. Also we know that in many cases you need to comply with geographically-specific regulations governing where data is stored and processed. In addition, you may need to take into account local consumer/customer sentiment on data privacy. IaaS Private Hosted delivers standardized, shared and reserved, on-demand virtual or physical compute and data storage services tailored to the specific needs of the local territory and addresses the issues of the levels of separation and control you need. This makes it an ideal solution for running your enterprise class production systems on, so enabling applications such as Oracle and SAP to be delivered on a pay as you go cloud IaaS basis.
Bitgroup Private Cloud Infrastructures:
Our private cloud solutions help you create a cloud computing environment that meets your exact needs, delivered from dedicated resources which can include a mix of virtual or physical servers. This ensures you gain all the benefits of cloud computing — including self-service and flexibility of resource usage — while knowing your environment is secure and under your control. A private cloud solution can be deployed on-premise within your own data center or as a hosted service in one of our global partner's data center. With Bitgroup integrated private cloud infrastructures, we have developed pre-configured and pre-tested IT infrastructure solutions with everything you need to deploy and run powerful consolidation, virtualization and IaaS cloud platforms. IT organizations benefit from increased operational efficiency, shorter time to production and reduced infrastructure-related efforts and costs by up to 50 percent.
Storage As A Service (SAAS):
Storage as a Service is a key element of our IaaS solution - providing a range of enterprise-class cloud-based storage solutions to meet your needs. It comprises a set of services to help you manage your data securely and cost-effectively.
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Backup As A Service (BAAS):
BaaS is a highly flexible, fast and efficient cloud-based backup and recovery service that can be used to secure cloud and traditional systems. It runs on IaaS Trusted Public clooud offering and with the BaaS self-service interface, a backup administrator can perform all of their typical duties including scheduling a backup, setting retention policies, monitoring backup progress, accessing logs and performing restores. All data is compressed and de-duplicated at source to reduce backup times and optimize your storage footprint. In addition, your data is secured, both in transit and at rest, with industry standard and FIPS compliant encryption.
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Our BaaS Appliance means you can place a vault in a specific location and manage and replicate that data using the central cloud service. Whether this be to support local offices and remote branches or to place data in a defined location, the Appliance gives the flexibility to deliver a cloud connected service with a huge degree of flexibility.
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BaaS can replace or complement your existing on-premise, tape based data protection solutions with one that is cloud-based, agile, scalable and simple to use.