Cloud Solutions that enable your Cloud Transformation efforts

On the Cloud you are still responsible for user authentication and authorization, identity management, data encryption, and access control to protect data. Our proSkale Consultants can check for these issues and more:

• Cloud misconfiguration: When a user or admin unintentionally sets a security setting incorrectly and creates a hidden vulnerability.
• Data Loss: Regular Cloud back-ups can be a struggle because of the complexity of storage coupled with the pressure to cut costs. Portions of your data may not have a back-up.
• Unmonitored APIs: Cloud storage providers use many unique APIs – often not visible, making it difficult to monitor them.

Cloud costs are underestimated by an average of 23%. Moving to the Cloud often excludes the necessary monitoring and oversight. Cloud costs can quickly get out of hand without visibility on use and performance. Our Cloud Squadron solutions can:

• Create a unified visualization with granular billing drill down
• Track your cloud unit costs
• Monitor your cloud costs in real time
• Continuously optimize your infrastructure

Assess Readiness – Our solutions and expertise can quickly assess your readiness for new or expanded Cloud capabilities.

Map it out – Your journey includes:

• Alignment with the business strategy
• Preparation for transitioning and transforming to the cloud
• Planning decentralized vs centralized resources
• Defining service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Following and meeting industry-specific compliance requirements

Design the Architecture – Our Cloud Squadron brings the experience and solutions to design a world class infrastructure. Don’t do it alone.

It is very time-consuming and expensive to build Cloud migration expertise in house that you may only use once. Don’t wait – SKALE UP!

proSkale’s Cloud Squadron have the solutions to complete your migration successfully. We have an array of tools that:

• Find and classify your assets
• Identify what needs to be re-engineered
• Test migrated application and data

Don’t forget – Cloud migrations are also a great opportunity to expand automation.

Start simple and move on to more complex applications.

Remember – Integration with on-prem Legacy applications will always take longer than planned.

Security! Create a clear Cloud security model and policies before you migrate.

Pros of on-premise

• Single tenancy for compliance and regulatory needs
• Highly secure data encryption 
• You can customize your hardware based on your business needs 
• You have complete visibility of your data and have control to its access

Cons of on-premise

• Scaling the capacity up and down is highly inflexible
• High up front investment and maintenance costs
• Data backup and recovery solutions are highly complex to configure
• Risk of unexpected and costly downtime due to prolonged incidents
• Expensive end-to-end responsibility for all aspects of infrastructure provisioning, troubleshooting and managing data center power and cooling requirements

Pros of public cloud

• Increased cost savings – The multi-tenant model shares costs for hardware, compute, network, and some applications.
• Competitive edge – Cloud service providers innovate and add more business applications to their platforms – you gain these advances at virtually no additional cost or installation complexities.
• Mobility – Your employees and customers can access their applications and data from anywhere.
• Data Warehouse and Data Lake capabilities – Public Cloud service providers have invested heavily in innovating and providing cutting-edge Data Warehouse and Data Lake solutions on the Cloud.

Cons of public cloud

• Outages – In the last 2 years there have been multiple outages impacting businesses for a prolonged time.
• Dependence on robust internet connectivity to access the cloud environment
• When it comes to moving to a public cloud, there is a security risk to your organization’s data. Your mission-critical data is stored on third-party resources, and you should conduct a thorough security audit before deciding on the public cloud.

Pros of multi-cloud

• Vendor lock-in – Multi-cloud avoids vendor lock-in. You gain more flexibility and agility to manage your enterprise IT infrastructure.
• By leveraging multiple public cloud offerings, you can select the best-of-breed technologies offered by these providers. This also gives you the flexibility to quickly change to a new technology in the industry.
• You can increase your infrastructure performance by using high speed connectivity links between these multiple providers. 
• If your primary service provider’s data center experiences a major outage, your company can improve its resilience and business continuity by switching to a backup cloud provider.
• Strict data handling requirements set-out by some regulations can be met by architecting your IT landscape across multiple service providers.