Proact and Amazon Web ServicesA proven combination for successful cloud integration

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Proact and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are working in cooperation to securely bridge the shift in technology towards the cloud and enable organisations to take full advantage of the many public cloud opportunities on offer. Proacts expertise as a cloud integrator, the broad AWS service offering and global infrastructure are now combined to facilitate cloud adaptation and migration.

Changes in the market

Through the current digital transformation, technology is fostering entirely new business models as well as reshaping many existing processes. This coincides with the shift from traditional data centres built on hardware and software towards an IT as a Service delivery model, which is the conceptual blueprint for the cloud. Proact is dedicated to combining and coordinating these major trends, making the cloud an essential and readily available vehicle for business development.

As a leading public cloud platform provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers broad capabilities and flexibility. However, the wide range of cloud options and the ease in which they are sometimes deployed, can be a recipe for losing perspective and control, with internal users deploying services at will without proper governance. Data may end up in isolated silos and functions can be duplicated. The benefits of the cloud can thus quickly be negated by rising costs, added complexity and risk.

Using a proven combination for cloud integration

Combining Proacts solid experience as an IT infrastructure expert and cloud integrator with AWS comprehensive public cloud service portfolio, we can offer mix and match infrastructure to meet the business, governance and technical requirements of all workloads regardless of how they are served. We enable a cost effective, flexible, secure and low-risk cloud deployment where solutions are delivered, supported and billed through a single point of contact.

With Proact and AWS working together, there is no reason for viewing cloud migration as a difficult learning experience. From our legacy of delivering on-premises and hosted services, we understand your current environment as well as the hybrid world you are entering. We know that one size doesnt fit all. This is why our solutions are flexible and let you choose the optimal blend of cloud services, on-premises and hosted infrastructure to suit your specific needs.

Together, the resources of AWS and Proact, paired with our expertise, ensure that critical workloads are deployed on the right cloud, at the right price, at the right time. We help you bring together public, private and hybrid clouds into a single, unified and automated IT ecosystem.

Proact and AWS: Allowing you to embrace new opportunities

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With Proact in your AWS team, we help bring together public, private and hybrid architecture into a single, unified

and automated IT ecosystem.

Addressing the challenges for cloud adoption

Effectively sizing cloud deployments

Design cloud blueprints / security by design

architectures

Identifying which workload suits which platform

Matching internal security

policies with cloud services

Controlling costs without

inhibiting business

development

Minimising risks involved with

cloud transition

Integrating on-premises and hosted

applications with the cloud

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Defining and building the right cloud

At Proact, we see many customers today who have embraced the cloud as their strategic direction for IT service delivery. However, they do not strictly choose between the public cloud or a private, on-premises deployment. In our experience, customers want to utilise a blend of services, delivery and deployment options. Selecting the optimal mix requires detailed knowledge of all available options.

Proact has solid expertise and experience from deploying and managing the complex blend of private and public cloud services. Our implementation models can be directly applied to accelerate your cloud strategy while reducing time, costs and risks.

Proacts business cloud alignment knowledge helps identify the right workloads to be migrated to AWS platforms.

Roadmap

Proact designs and delivers the optimal AWS platform for your organisation.

Service design

Proact helps transform and migrate applications and data safely to the AWS platform.

Transformation and migration Proact helps reduce the risk and complexity associated with delivering a hybrid cloud service through integration of vital IT functions with AWS platforms.

Integration

Proact helps optimise billing, usage and perfor-mance to ensure your environments are running on the right platform at the right time at the right price.

Optimisation

Proacts guide to the cloud integration

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Value-adding services by Proact

Proact offers an established range of managed services which can be applied to assist your IT operations staff and complement the deployment of services within AWS. As your cloud partner, Proact can handle your daily duties involving alerts, patching software and managing and optimising AWS resources. This allows your own IT team to focus on project delivery and innovation that adds value to your enterprise. Proacts services include:

Service Management

Proacts Service Management can be utilised to provide remote monitoring and management of AWS infrastructure resources enabling customers to focus on more critical tasks. Proact will monitor systems 24x7 and take appropriate action on any issue, including patching and security hardening. Proactive management will be performed using statistics monitoring and analysis of repeat issues (where selected).

Premium Support Plus

Premium Support Plus provides unified event and utilisation monitoring for applications, operating systems and services within the AWS cloud, with Proact coordinating actions on all issues and alerts. The service can be used to enable a single, consistent view for monitoring IT services across multiple cloud providers and customer infrastructure.

Migration Services

Through surveys, workshops and custom scorecards we help identify and classify workloads suitable for migration to AWS. We recommend the right AWS solution and develop a roadmap including detailed ROI analysis.

Optimisation Services

When the AWS solution is successfully deployed and services migrated, Proacts optimisation services can be engaged to continually improve cost, performance and security, including rapid implementation of enhancements. We also provide ongoing guidance as AWS platforms and services continue to evolve.

Professional Services

Proact can assist in architecting the AWS design, setup of accounts and integrating identity and access management with your current IT environment. Our Professional Services experts connect AWS resources to your enterprise network and migrate workloads to the various AWS services.

Security Information and Event Management as a Service (SIEMaaS)

Provides a monitoring and management solution for intelligent bridging of multiple security frameworks. Proact will review and report against logged information, and if required, manage the resolution of security incidents.

Storage as a Service (STaaS)

Provides a dedicated storage system within a data centre with an AWS Direct Connect link into the AWS cloud. STaaS can provide enhanced storage features for AWS services or add the capability to replicate production storage off-site, where AWS is used for disaster recovery failover.

Database migration

Proact can provide database consultancy to design, implement and assist the transition of an on premise database to the AWS Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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The critical issues when building your hybrid cloud

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Key benefits of Proact and AWS

Reliable, predictable serviceClear and measurable reliability targets assured via Service Level Agreements.

Consistent securityCoherence between applications and the enforcement of security policies across the hybrid infrastructure

Cost controlUnified, transparent billing to provide accountability and cost control for the entire hybrid infrastructure.

Rapid deploymentStreamlined, self-service provisioning to increase productivity, ensure consistent standards and reduce time to market.

GovernanceTransparent policy enforcement to control resource location, data storage and transfer.

Reduced operational riskMake it easier to maintain control of information security, cost, governance and compliance.

Secure, controlled migrationProact offers a complete set of services for assessment, planning and migration to AWS.

Comprehensive automationPlatform and application automation including backup, disaster recovery, application deployment, auto-scaling and provisioning. Automated bursting to AWS.

Business cloud alignmentRely on Proact to identify and map workloads to the best suited cloud. Our mission is always to use the right cloud for the right job.

Multi-cloud integrationTake full advantage of on-premise, private, hybrid and public cloud services integration, enabling a true multi-cloud strategy.

Reliability and uptime are critical parameters for businesses today. Digital transformation brings vulnerability, where outages strike directly at the heart of the enterprise. This is why Service Level Agreements are needed, and these should be carefully considered. With Proact, SLAs are designed with your enterprise requirements in mind, flexible in terms and with clearly defined penalty clauses.

Service level requirements

Regulatory demands are increasingly affecting the IT infrastructure, and more specifically, how and where data is stored and shared using cloud services. As your migration towards the cloud progresses, Proact provides advice on governance issues to maintain an environment where you stay in control and in sync with the evolving regulatory landscape.

Staying in control

The public cloud is sometimes associated with security weaknesses, sometimes unnecessarily so, because enterprise-ready cloud services can certainly meet the highest standards for security. Proacts expertise in implementing AWS platforms in a secure enterprise context is a fundamental part of our cloud integration offering.

Security

For a multi-cloud environment to perform as expected, effective business cloud alignment is essential. From our experience as a cloud integrator, Proact can help specify the requirements and design the optimal solution for enabling information exchange and coherent systems management in a hybrid infrastructure.

Cloud alignment

Proact is Europes leading independent data centre and cloud services provider. Proact supplies business benefits by helping companies and authorities to reduce risk and costs, and above all to supply them with flexible, accessible and secure IT services. Proacts cloud service operations manage 70 petabytes of information. Proact has completed more than 3,500 successful projects all over the world to date.

The Proact Group has more than 720 employees and operates in 15 countries in Europe and in the USA. Proact was founded in 1994, and its parent company Proact IT Group AB (publ) has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol PACT since 1999.

Proact IT Group AB | Box 1205 | SE-164 28 Kista | +46 8 410 666 00 | www.proact.eu

How to know when you need a cloud partner Please consider the following statements and whether they apply to you:

We are considering or already using public or hybrid cloud

We want to develop a multi-cloud strategy

We are running a mix of workloads - both standard and complex applicationswith variable consumption

We have multiple global locations with remote users

We want to drive change and transform how we deliver and consume IT services

We are looking to optimise existing IT infrastructure

We consider IT a business-critical function

We have complex environments subject to frequent change (new applications,migrations, consolidation)

We find it challenging to recruit skilled personnel or retain staff

We need to update, modernise or perhaps even phase out our current data centres