Managed Cloud Services
Maximize the advantages and value of your cloud migration with our certified experts to help support your staff. We will guide and advise you through the entire journey, as well as expand any existing cloud services you utilize. We have partnered with the leading cloud service providers to help you maximize your investment and reduce the cost of operations. Are you controlling your total cost of ownership?
What exactly is a managed cloud service?
Managed cloud services allow you and your business to take advantage of the power of cloud computing without the need of becoming a technical expert. All services migrated to the cloud has to be managed by someone. It must be maintained and monitored. As a business you have two options:
Hire Your Own Experts: You can hire and train experts to perform all the complex tasks required to manage cloud infrastructure and tools and application stacks. Or you can manage and coordinate among multiple providers: say, one for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure and a second for single-tenant servers or VMware or other virtual solution in a colocation facility, and a third for monitoring and support.
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Partner with Vigilance: This allows your company or organization to focus on your core business — on building great services and products and landing new opportunities. You can hire business operations personnel, rather than having to swell payroll with additional tech engineers and system administrators and other experts to manage IT.
What is a managed cloud services provider?
Managed cloud allows each customer to choose which IT functions it wishes to manage in-house, while leaving all the rest to its service provider. Managed cloud services can include infrastructure and application level support.
A managed cloud services provider like Rackspace offers its customers big economies of expertise. The provider’s engineers manage not only the customers’ computing, storage, networks, and operating systems, but also the complex tools and application stacks that run on top of that infrastructure. These include the latest databases and ecommerce platforms, as well as DevOps automation tools.
Managed cloud services include, at the infrastructure level:
- Architecture guidance
- System administration and operations (Ops)
- System monitoring, alerting, and reporting
- Performance testing and tuning
- Proactive communications and 24×7 support
- A single point of contact for support
- DNS management
- Security and compliance management
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Database administration
- Developer support and training
At the application and tools level, managed cloud services include:
- DevOps automation tools: Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, LogStash, etc.
- Application deployment, scaling and lifecycle management
- Specialized database management: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Hadoop, etc.
- Managed virtualization on VMware vCloud.
- Management of Microsoft apps: SharePoint, Exchange email, Lync, etc.
- OpenStack Private Cloud deployment and management.
Ecommerce and digital experience platform management: Sitecore, Oracle ATG, Hybris, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal, WordPress, etc.
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Security and compliance are critical for the success of your business. Finding the right security solution that protects your employees and your proprietary data can be overwhelming and expensive. Vigilance Technologies is the right partner to help you navigate through the security services and compliance choices available that are specific to your industry and operations.
Vigilance Technologies is your trusted partner for operational success, helping you to secure your on-premise network and cloud services. Let us help guide you to the right security solutions and services to help defend you against the many threats that are actively working to compromise your business and damage your reputation.
