Public cloud service providers (think AWS, Google, Oracle, and Azure) provide on-demand computing services and infrastructure which are shared with other tenants.
The benefits of a public cloud model include unlimited scalability (up or down), the ability to pay as you go (PAYG) – and only for what you need, a lower entry cost to innovation and prototyping due to shared resources, and lower capital expenditure..
However, getting there, staying there, and thriving isn’t always as simple as it sounds.
Shifting from an on-premises, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure to public cloud requires careful planning, preparation, and ongoing monitoring, as well as specific (and often hard to find) cloud management expertise and skillsets.
Your public cloud environment needs to be constantly optimised to ensure you are tracking usage costs, minimising redundancy and waste, and taking advantage of discounts for running large workloads\
And like any environment, it needs to be backed up and disaster ready.
What Public Cloud as a Service (PCaaS) means for you
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Public cloud convenience
Benefits:
- Scale IT in minutes, not weeks
- Eliminate IT hardware procurement cycles
- Reduce IT risk
- Access to Enterprise cloud technologies
- Includes backup & disaster recovery
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CIO/IT Managers
Engineers
Our Public Cloud as a Service Partners
Why Public Cloud?
While the public cloud offers many advantages, there are also areas of complexity that require specific expertise to successfully navigate.
Benefits
Improving customer services
Unlimited scalability as well as greater redundancy and high availability
Cloud data analytics to determine resource and service usage utilisation
Flexibility to store large volumes of accessible data
Reliable infrastructure
Challenges
Scarcity of IT cloud professionals to build and manage modern cloud applications
Complex cost models which make it difficult to track IT spending and data egress fees
Limited control of IT stack – the service provider decides how and when to handle configurations
Data separation issues due to multi-tenancy, latency challenges for remote users, and compliance with industry/country-specific regulations
Vendor lock-in
With Public Cloud as a Service, we’re here for you.
Cloud is supposed to make life simple, but in reality, it requires expertise and knowledge to prevent issues such as crowd sprawl, security, cost management, compliance, and more.
With Public Cloud as a Service, we can make the day-to-day management of your public cloud less complex while reducing risk.
Painless migration and set-up
We believe that transformation doesn’t need to be a challenge. We can help you to lift and shift your current infrastructure and workloads from on-premises, hybrid, or private cloud to the public cloud of your choice (or even move from public cloud to another environment). We can also optimise and monitor how your infrastructure is set up to maximise performance and control costs.
Day-to-day cloud management
Just because you’re in a public cloud environment, it doesn’t mean your infrastructure takes care of itself. Yet, your IT team is likely already working to capacity. We have the in-house VMware skills and experience needed to extend your team. We can carry out essential, everyday tasks like security, patching, patching, upgrades, provisioning, and configurational maintenance – so you don’t have to.
Backup and disaster recovery
In public cloud, security is a shared responsibility between you and your cloud provider. While they may be responsible for securing their hardware and software infrastructure, the responsibility for securing and backing up your data and applications is unequivocally yours. Our Public Cloud as a Service includes provisioning a geo-redundant cloud copy of your data and applications and long-term tertiary storage. We can do this in either your public cloud or, if you prefer to diversify your risk, with Global Storage.
Cloud assessment service
If you are unsure if public cloud is the right environment for your business, we can assess your needs and make cost and benefit-based recommendations. We can also outline other options to help mitigate costs and diversify risk.
