Cloud Solutions

Today, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, immediate, and fluid. It takes a special kind of organization to compete in this world. It takes an organization with the ability to learn quickly to close the expectation gap between what customers and citizens expect and what the organization can deliver. It takes an organization that is “instant on”. In an “instant on” model, the business and technology are one and the same. Technology is fully embedded into the organization to accelerate the delivery of application services from months to days. As businesses and governments accelerate demands on technology, IT is increasingly tasked with finding the most effective way to deliver technology-enabled services. This is one of the driving forces behind the recent rise in the use of cloud computing. Cloud computing provides organizations with newfound levels of collaboration, agility, and speed.

Public Cloud

The public cloud allows organizations to dynamically provision and scale applications from a service provider. Both Microsoft and Google have Enterprise cloud solutions for organizations that are mature and stable. The decision to go to the public cloud has many drivers, from cost to management. When there is a lack of internal IT expertise or if there is an upcoming license refresh that’s necessary, and capital expenditures are limited, a migration to the public cloud for such services as messaging or backups may be beneficial. SynchroNet has experience migrating enterprises to Google Apps and Microsoft 365.

Private Cloud

The move to private cloud represents an industrial revolution for IT, applying industrial manufacturing techniques to the provisioning of IT services, gaining standardization and automation. Standardization is central to achieving much greater operational efficiency. Private clouds not only facilitate standardization but dramatically increase the returns on standardization. Deploying standard infrastructure from a template catalog of applications is orders of magnitude faster and easier than building each application from scratch. Similar gains are available from centralizing and standardizing high availability, network management, and security.

Hybrid Cloud: The Best of Both Worlds

Hybrid cloud combines the best of the public cloud with the best of the private cloud and eliminates many of the pitfalls. Most enterprise organizations will use a Hybrid approach to their cloud strategy for several years to come. With a Hybrid strategy, organizations don’t have to worry about compatibility or service provider lock-in.  The entire hybrid infrastructure—datacenters and public cloud together—come together in a “single pane of glass” management framework.  The Hybrid Cloud can provide reliable workload transfers between private and public clouds, giving companies the freedom to move from one service provider to another, or from a private cloud environment to public clouds and back.