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    Our Cloud Process

    The Team That Your Team Will Love

    Your technical team will love us because of our proven process that ensures a predictable and successful outcome.

    Our Focus

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    Scalability

    SecurityFocus_Protect

    Security

    Cloud_Agility

    Agility

    Enabling planned, designed, managed, executed and continues to support our entire Skype footprint. We rely on them to offer rock-solid advice before, during and after any project.
    Shawn Bristow

    Ralph Bellandi CIO at MKTG

    Process72_Introduction

    Introductory Meeting

    • Your team meets with our engineers and project managers. 
    • Discuss your current cloud migration strategy. 
    • Discover existing architecture. 
    • Walk us through how you would like to reduce or eliminate your data center footprint. 
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    Technical Review

    • Cloud Readiness Assessment. 
    • Our engineers assess your current workloads. 
    • We look at your infrastructure to see if it’s ready for specific digital transformations. 
    • We discover how your team works together.
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    Planning and Design

    • Determine the right workloads for the cloud. 
    • Our team provides recommendations based on insights we’ve gathered from your organization. 
    • We work collaboratively on a  transformation plan. Can you start mining data differently, take advantage of data analytics, and leverage the use IoT? Do you need to ramp up applications faster for a new product or service offering?  
    • The plan will include cost management, economic assessment, monitoring, performance tuning, application optimization and securing workloads.
    Implementation

    Project Deployment

    • You’re provided with a dedicated solutions architect from our team.
    • They follow our game plan using Microsoft “best practice” methodology.
    • They track milestones and deadlines based on our deployment SOW.
    Support

    Managed Services

    • The solution is verified through a formal testing process by your dedicated engineer.  
    • Training is provided to both administrators and end-users to ensure adoption of new technologies as well as new security policies. 
    • Our support engineers work with you to ensure on-going satisfaction with any applications or tools implemented.

    Customer Cloud Journey

    NationalAquarium
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    Company Profile

    Industry: Government

    Global Headquarters:  Baltimore, MD

    Animals: 17,000+

    Employees: 400+

    Cloud Tools Implemented

    Azure 

    Azure Active Directory

    Office 365

    With our seasonal staffing needs, our deployment of Azure AD Single Sign-On was a big win. It enabled us to reduce password resets and lockouts that plagued our HR and IT teams. The reduction in time spent and aggravation is immeasurable.
    Les Kidwell of National Aquarium

    Les Kidwell Director of Technology Solutions at National Aquarium

    National Aquarium in Baltimore

    There are two common scenarios we see with our clients concerning Digital Transformation. The first is the organization who is unfamiliar with the possibilities of the Cloud and needs guidance as to what is possible. The second scenario is an organization who has started to move a workload or two into Azure but have no formal plan only to find cost overruns. Both scenarios could benefit from our guidance to help create a transformation plan.

    The result was a scalable plan for expansion that can realize the intended ROI, decreased Help Desk hours for password resets from the Azure Identity and AD Single Sign On.  We also trained the IT audit staff to be equipped to understand and manage costs in the future. Getting costs under control for a more predictable, better managed Azure environment.

    Moving To The Cloud Solves Challenges

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    Cloud_Cost Management

    Infrastructure & Network Planning

    • Naming conventions
    • Azure Resource Manager
    • Network Security Groups
    • User-defined routing
    • VPN connectivity
    • ExpressRoute

    Cost Management

    • Subscriptions and billing
    • Rightsizing
    • Up/Down scaling
    • Resource Tags
    • Azure Cost Management/Cloudyn
    • Azure Advisor
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    Security

    • Secure RDP access and Multifactor Authentication
    • Role Based Access Control
    • Azure Security Center
    • Microsoft vs 3rd party firewall services

    HA/DR

    • Backup
    • Azure Site Recovery
    • Storage redundancy options

    August 08, 2019

    The Support Life Cycle For All Active Skype For Business Products

    On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Skype for Business Online will be retired on July 31, 2021, and after that date the service will no longer be accessible. Between now and then, current Skype for...

    July 07, 2019

    Optimizing Network Performance for Office 365

    Networking teams are finding that traditional hub and spoke, best effort network designs do not provide optimal performance for Office 365. This is especially true for the real-time traffic of Skype...

    July 07, 2019

    Who Should “Own” an Office 365 Tenant?

    We periodically get this question, especially when consulting larger organizations who have multiple administrators handling Active Directory, Exchange, and/or SharePoint. Some ask as they are just...

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