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Infrastructure Managed Services in the Cloud www.appsassociates.com Cost, Availability, Performance, and Security Managing Infrastructure as a Service Is Not As Simple As It May Seem As organizations adopt Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) they need to develop processes for controlling their costs, ensuring high availability (HA), and optimizing performance. Managing IaaS is different from managing on premise infrastructure with different technologies and different tools. Also, prices vary depending on service levels that an organization may need, and maintaining the right balance between cost, performance and scale is a juggling act. Considerations for Optimizing Your Cloud Managing Complexity across multiple divisions or regions to optimize your cloud usage across the whole enterprise can be challenging and there are many, sometimes conflicting, variables that must be considered and brought in to balance. Underlying everything your cloud infrastructure needs a strong foundation, balancing performance, cost and security with clear processes and procedures for Governance, Change Management and Automation. Fig 1: Infrastructure Managed Services provided by Apps Associates G O V E R N A N C E C H A N G E M A N A G E M E N T A U T O M A T I O N P E R F O R M A N C E S E C U R I T Y C O S T CLOUD MANAGED SERVICES
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Cost, Availability, Performance, and Security
Managing Infrastructure as a Service Is Not As Simple As It May SeemAs organizations adopt Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) they need to develop processes for controlling their costs, ensuring high availability (HA), and optimizing performance. Managing IaaS is different from managing on premise infrastructure with different technologies and different tools. Also, prices vary depending on service levels that an organization may need, and maintaining the right balance between cost, performance and scale is a juggling act.
Considerations for Optimizing Your CloudManaging Complexity across multiple divisions or regions to optimize your cloud usage across the whole enterprise can be challenging and there are many, sometimes conflicting, variables that must be considered and brought in to balance. Underlying everything your cloud infrastructure needs a strong foundation, balancing performance, cost and security with clear processes and procedures for Governance, Change Management and Automation.
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Performance - Apps Associates will ensure that your cloud infrastructure is configured the right way to meet your requirements. We help you to select the right server instances and I/O type to optimize performance within your budget. We monitor performance metrics to identify both resource over provisioning and under provisioning and make corrections as necessary. We analyze performance trends to help you with long term planning.
Cost - There is often a trade-off between cost and performance in IT so we work with our client you to optimize resource utilization to minimize your total cost of ownership. We fine-tune resource allocation to business applications to lower costs and we take the mystery out of cloud billing with more consistent cloud cost management.
Security - We ensure that our clients follow best practices for cloud security and continuously monitor their cloud environment. We validate potential security threats and manage risk notification to employees. We also manage incident notification and triage.
Governance - Cloud Governance models help organizations to manage cloud operations to meet industry guidelines and compliance requirements. Governance also includes management of the purchase process for new cloud instances. It is essential to have management processes in place for both the technical solution and cost management.
Change Management - Cloud solutions can help your IT delivery to be more agile but without proper change management it could become chaotic. Consistent change management is the key for scalable yet consistent delivery of cloud services. Apps Associates maintains a configuration management database and audit trails for compliance and validation.
Automation - Automation is a key element of cloud solutions. It can eliminate human error and speed up mundane, repeatable tasks. In a virtualized world, provisioning storage or server instances can be automated and Apps Associates can help you to establish a library of automated tasks.
Cloud Management through Partnership
Apps Associates will work closely with your organization so we understand your processes and current configuration. We’ll take a joint approach so we can quickly establish the processes and rules so that we can apply best practices to your cloud environment and balance performance and cost.
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