Softchoice recommends assembling a cross-functional IT team including a senior IT leader to guide the process of onboarding to Microsoft Azure. Softchoice's Azure Jumpstart service provides a rapid activation path to set up a secure and stable Azure foundation through planning, implementation, knowledge transfer, and ongoing analytics and insights. The service helps clients navigate Azure complexity by designing organizational identities, security procedures, and subscription management to operationally support Azure use.
Transparency on the governance of services and delivering a collaborative environment to the Enterprise and Service Provider together driving better services, better customer outcomes, and outsourcing that delivers on its promise.
How to Operate in the Cloud Using ServiceNow, RightScale and MoreRightScale
With cloud use now a given, IT teams are taking on the role of brokering cloud services across the enterprise. Doing so means integrating cloud into your existing IT environment, including ITSM solutions like ServiceNow — as well as a variety of tools and services — and cloud portfolio management solutions like RightScale, which acts as a hub to orchestrate and operate cloud workloads by providing API access in and out to cloud services as well as to your IT ecosystem.
In the Operate in the Cloud with ServiceNow, RightScale and More webinar we’ll cover common scenarios for cloud orchestration:
Enabling self-service operations for your internal cloud consumers.
Using Cloud Application Templates (CATs) to orchestrate cloud workloads.
Offering multi-cloud access through ITSM solutions like ServiceNow.
Orchestrating complex cloud applications leveraging third-party services.
Automating operations for cloud applications.
AWS Summit 2013 | Singapore - Service Orchestration – Managing the Cloud Disr...Amazon Web Services
Enterprises are confronted by simultaneous and extraordinary change from two sides. On the one hand their business models are changing, with accelerating digitalisation, emerging markets, increasing competition, and the need for rapid innovation to face the competition. On the other hand, new business infrastructure services based on the cloud are emerging every day, as well as changing in functionality, features and price. This sprawl and flux of services have to be harnessed to serve the shifting business priorities, whilst keeping the current business and existing investments properly operational. The way to manage this chaos is through a robust and comprehensive Service Orchestration platform.
Redefining the Role of IT in a Self-Help Data Integration EnvironmentUNIFI Software
Sabre is a technology solutions provider to the global travel and tourism industry. As part of delivering that service, Sabre has Service Level Agreements with each Airline client. Maintaining accurate records of those SLAs and understanding escalations falls to the IT support team. Madhuri Kollu, at Sabre, will provide insight into how they integrate legacy and new data sources and provide business leaders the tools to derive critical business insights from the data.
Transparency on the governance of services and delivering a collaborative environment to the Enterprise and Service Provider together driving better services, better customer outcomes, and outsourcing that delivers on its promise.
How to Operate in the Cloud Using ServiceNow, RightScale and MoreRightScale
With cloud use now a given, IT teams are taking on the role of brokering cloud services across the enterprise. Doing so means integrating cloud into your existing IT environment, including ITSM solutions like ServiceNow — as well as a variety of tools and services — and cloud portfolio management solutions like RightScale, which acts as a hub to orchestrate and operate cloud workloads by providing API access in and out to cloud services as well as to your IT ecosystem.
In the Operate in the Cloud with ServiceNow, RightScale and More webinar we’ll cover common scenarios for cloud orchestration:
Enabling self-service operations for your internal cloud consumers.
Using Cloud Application Templates (CATs) to orchestrate cloud workloads.
Offering multi-cloud access through ITSM solutions like ServiceNow.
Orchestrating complex cloud applications leveraging third-party services.
Automating operations for cloud applications.
AWS Summit 2013 | Singapore - Service Orchestration – Managing the Cloud Disr...Amazon Web Services
Enterprises are confronted by simultaneous and extraordinary change from two sides. On the one hand their business models are changing, with accelerating digitalisation, emerging markets, increasing competition, and the need for rapid innovation to face the competition. On the other hand, new business infrastructure services based on the cloud are emerging every day, as well as changing in functionality, features and price. This sprawl and flux of services have to be harnessed to serve the shifting business priorities, whilst keeping the current business and existing investments properly operational. The way to manage this chaos is through a robust and comprehensive Service Orchestration platform.
Redefining the Role of IT in a Self-Help Data Integration EnvironmentUNIFI Software
Sabre is a technology solutions provider to the global travel and tourism industry. As part of delivering that service, Sabre has Service Level Agreements with each Airline client. Maintaining accurate records of those SLAs and understanding escalations falls to the IT support team. Madhuri Kollu, at Sabre, will provide insight into how they integrate legacy and new data sources and provide business leaders the tools to derive critical business insights from the data.
Skedulex Case Management Software is a web-based solution. It caters to clinical and community-based practices of all sizes, ranging from a single discipline in one location to multi-discipline in several locations.
Skedulex empowers you to work from anywhere. End-to-end client management - you can easily schedule clients; create, submit and track HCAI plans; store patient documents; communicate with clinic and field staff; managing accounts and receivables, use customized reports to enhance understanding of your business and much more. Skedulex is intuitive and easy to use. More, we back Skedulex with a full-service approach – we configure Skedulex to your business requirements, train your staff to use it effectively and provide you with exceptional support.
Three Pillar Global- Cloud Concepts for Product DevelopmentThree Pillar Global
Speaking points delivered at the first Three Pillar Global Product Mindset Series event on Leveraging Cloud Concepts for Product Development.
Patrick Sheridan reviews observations from Three Pillar client engagements on how leading product development firms protect their IP and extend their development capabilities by creating platform partnerships and re-inventing traditional notions of product development.
Which Cloud? It All Starts with Assessing Application ReadinessGravitant, Inc.
One of the more challenging aspects of cloud adoption is identifying if an application is a good fit for cloud, and what cloud is the best. Gravitant has taken their extensive knowledge and developed a wizard-based tool that determines the business value of moving to the cloud, the amount of effort it will take to make the application cloud ready and what type of cloud is the best fit for this particular app. Join us to learn more about the key criteria to consider when assessing an application and how we enable IT to assist the business in this determination.
Our Cloud Consulting and Advisory Practice works with organizations to assess, plan, design, and execute successful digital transformation, while addressing a range of considerations, from technical effort and cost to governance and regulatory requirements.
As enterprises build their cloud adoption strategy, conducting a cloud readiness assessment is of strategic importance. HCL believes that application readiness and compliance controls are the pre-requisites for determining a business-oriented cloud adoption strategy.
HCL’s Cloud Assessment and Readiness Tool (CART) enable organizations to assess their “Cloud-readiness” using a powerful self-driven analysis. It uses a broad array of 25 technical, business, compliances and security parameters to perform the cloud-readiness analysis across three different aspects - Technical & Architecture, Application & Security. The Tool is based on Excel based workbook with easy to use methodology for filling the data & then helps generating a standard & basic Cloud Assessment within minutes
AWS Got You Worried? Learn How to Get a Grip on Cloud Spend and SprawlGravitant, Inc.
We hear it all the time, “new AWS services are popping up everywhere.” With Amazon Web Services and any public cloud solution being so easy to purchase, internal IT users — application developers in particular — are going around IT and leveraging outside public cloud services. The urgency is growing for most customers. IT needs to figure out how to get control of the spend and sprawl associated with public cloud usage. Gravitant has a a practical approach to help you “get a grip on AWS” with visibility and budgetary controls, while also providing customers with an easy-to-use portal to encourage them to leverage the IT processes. Learn how Gravitant cloudMatrix brokerage software helps IT get control of AWS while empowering their users.
The 5 Critical Pillars of Office 365 ReadinessAdam Levithan
When moving to cloud services such as Office 365 IT professionals are required to appropriately prepare existing on-premises technologiesand optimize for the transition of their business systems to the cloud.
In this webinar Eric Shupps (MVP) and Adam Levithan will discuss the 5 critical pillars for a successful move to Office 365. From network and systems optimization through to handling customizations, Adam and Eric will share their many experiences - warts and all.
When moving to cloud services such as Office 365 IT professionals are required to appropriately prepare existing on-premises technologiesand optimize for the transition of their business systems to the cloud.
In this webinar Eric Shupps (MVP) and Adam Levithan will discuss the 5 critical pillars for a successful move to Office 365. From network and systems optimization through to handling customizations, Adam and Eric will share their many experiences - warts and all.
A brief overview of Scalar Decisions. Scalar is Canada’s leading IT solutions provider, focused on security, infrastructure, and cloud. Founded in 2004, Scalar is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Scalar was recently named to the CRN Fast Growth Top 150 List and listed on the PROFIT 500 for the seventh year running. In addition, Scalar was deemed a major player in the IDC MarketScape for Canadian managed security service providers and ranked the #1 ICT security company on the 2014 -2016 editions of the Branham 300. For further details, visit www.scalar.ca or follow Scalar on Twitter, @scalardecisions.
The PaperSave Difference - Top 10 ReasonsPaperSave
Not all document management solutions are equal! Some start at $50,000 and aren’t integrated with
Dynamics! PaperSave is a cost effective solution starting at $6,500 for the rst 3 users allowing the system
to grow with you based on budget and business issues.
Migrating Thousands of Workloads to AWS at Enterprise Scale – Chris Wegmann, ...Amazon Web Services
At the end of this session participants will learn how to assess their enterprise application portfolio and move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion. Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively to ensure a strong ROI.
Skedulex Case Management Software is a web-based solution. It caters to clinical and community-based practices of all sizes, ranging from a single discipline in one location to multi-discipline in several locations.
Skedulex empowers you to work from anywhere. End-to-end client management - you can easily schedule clients; create, submit and track HCAI plans; store patient documents; communicate with clinic and field staff; managing accounts and receivables, use customized reports to enhance understanding of your business and much more. Skedulex is intuitive and easy to use. More, we back Skedulex with a full-service approach – we configure Skedulex to your business requirements, train your staff to use it effectively and provide you with exceptional support.
Three Pillar Global- Cloud Concepts for Product DevelopmentThree Pillar Global
Speaking points delivered at the first Three Pillar Global Product Mindset Series event on Leveraging Cloud Concepts for Product Development.
Patrick Sheridan reviews observations from Three Pillar client engagements on how leading product development firms protect their IP and extend their development capabilities by creating platform partnerships and re-inventing traditional notions of product development.
Which Cloud? It All Starts with Assessing Application ReadinessGravitant, Inc.
One of the more challenging aspects of cloud adoption is identifying if an application is a good fit for cloud, and what cloud is the best. Gravitant has taken their extensive knowledge and developed a wizard-based tool that determines the business value of moving to the cloud, the amount of effort it will take to make the application cloud ready and what type of cloud is the best fit for this particular app. Join us to learn more about the key criteria to consider when assessing an application and how we enable IT to assist the business in this determination.
Our Cloud Consulting and Advisory Practice works with organizations to assess, plan, design, and execute successful digital transformation, while addressing a range of considerations, from technical effort and cost to governance and regulatory requirements.
As enterprises build their cloud adoption strategy, conducting a cloud readiness assessment is of strategic importance. HCL believes that application readiness and compliance controls are the pre-requisites for determining a business-oriented cloud adoption strategy.
HCL’s Cloud Assessment and Readiness Tool (CART) enable organizations to assess their “Cloud-readiness” using a powerful self-driven analysis. It uses a broad array of 25 technical, business, compliances and security parameters to perform the cloud-readiness analysis across three different aspects - Technical & Architecture, Application & Security. The Tool is based on Excel based workbook with easy to use methodology for filling the data & then helps generating a standard & basic Cloud Assessment within minutes
AWS Got You Worried? Learn How to Get a Grip on Cloud Spend and SprawlGravitant, Inc.
We hear it all the time, “new AWS services are popping up everywhere.” With Amazon Web Services and any public cloud solution being so easy to purchase, internal IT users — application developers in particular — are going around IT and leveraging outside public cloud services. The urgency is growing for most customers. IT needs to figure out how to get control of the spend and sprawl associated with public cloud usage. Gravitant has a a practical approach to help you “get a grip on AWS” with visibility and budgetary controls, while also providing customers with an easy-to-use portal to encourage them to leverage the IT processes. Learn how Gravitant cloudMatrix brokerage software helps IT get control of AWS while empowering their users.
The 5 Critical Pillars of Office 365 ReadinessAdam Levithan
When moving to cloud services such as Office 365 IT professionals are required to appropriately prepare existing on-premises technologiesand optimize for the transition of their business systems to the cloud.
In this webinar Eric Shupps (MVP) and Adam Levithan will discuss the 5 critical pillars for a successful move to Office 365. From network and systems optimization through to handling customizations, Adam and Eric will share their many experiences - warts and all.
When moving to cloud services such as Office 365 IT professionals are required to appropriately prepare existing on-premises technologiesand optimize for the transition of their business systems to the cloud.
In this webinar Eric Shupps (MVP) and Adam Levithan will discuss the 5 critical pillars for a successful move to Office 365. From network and systems optimization through to handling customizations, Adam and Eric will share their many experiences - warts and all.
A brief overview of Scalar Decisions. Scalar is Canada’s leading IT solutions provider, focused on security, infrastructure, and cloud. Founded in 2004, Scalar is headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver. Scalar was recently named to the CRN Fast Growth Top 150 List and listed on the PROFIT 500 for the seventh year running. In addition, Scalar was deemed a major player in the IDC MarketScape for Canadian managed security service providers and ranked the #1 ICT security company on the 2014 -2016 editions of the Branham 300. For further details, visit www.scalar.ca or follow Scalar on Twitter, @scalardecisions.
The PaperSave Difference - Top 10 ReasonsPaperSave
Not all document management solutions are equal! Some start at $50,000 and aren’t integrated with
Dynamics! PaperSave is a cost effective solution starting at $6,500 for the rst 3 users allowing the system
to grow with you based on budget and business issues.
Migrating Thousands of Workloads to AWS at Enterprise Scale – Chris Wegmann, ...Amazon Web Services
At the end of this session participants will learn how to assess their enterprise application portfolio and move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion. Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively to ensure a strong ROI.
The Cloud and You - the 'as a service' disruption you can't ignoreJohn Head
In any discussion about cloud, there are lots of buzzwords being thrown out by analysts and vendors. "Digital Transformation", "Democratization of IT", "Citizen Developer", and many more. Add in the 'as a Service" explosion and it is hard to make heads and tails over what will add value to your business. This session will cut through the hype and help bring a reality check to how the Cloud can help you. This session is for everyone: Administrator, Developer, IT Executive, or Business User. Plan on leaving with a deeper understanding and ideas of where you can take advantage.
Many large enterprises have begun using AWS to host development and test environments while also building greenfield applications in AWS. After realizing the benefits that AWS has to offer, many Enterprise look for ways to accelerate their migration to the cloud. In beginning this journey they are often faced with a number of challenges such as determining which applications should move, how they should move, and how can they be effectively managed in the cloud. Accenture, working with AWS Solution Architects, and AWS Professional Services have developed a framework, based on our experiences, to quickly, efficiently, and successfully move enterprise applications to AWS at scale. This session will review our approach, tools, and methods that can help Enterprises evolve their cloud transformation programs.
What Do you Need to Know to make IT-as-a-Service a Reality?Gravitant, Inc.
Cloud is on everyone’s mind, in fact in a recent IDC survey over 70% of IT Executives indicated IT-as-a-Service is key to enterprise success and in a recent Cisco and Intel survey, 76% of respondents see themselves becoming an internal broker. These two trends represent a shift in the approach to IT services, one that focuses on business operations as much, if not more, than traditional IT operations.
Join Gravitant and Leverhawk as we share our customers’ early learnings and strategic considerations in making the transition to ITaaS and key takeaways for what you need to know to do IT-as-a-Service right in your organization.
The Microsoft Well Architected Framework For Data AnalyticsStephanie Locke
With more than a decade of organizations running large data & analytics workloads in the cloud, Microsoft have extended their architecture framework to provide best practices and guidance for businesses. In this session, we’ll introduce the 'Well Architected Framework', go into detail about effective data architectures, and give you concrete next steps you can take whether you already have a cloud data architecture or are planning your first implementation.
(ENT206) Migrating Thousands of Workloads to AWS at Enterprise Scale | AWS re...Amazon Web Services
Migrating workloads to AWS in an enterprise environment is not easy, but with the right approach, an enterprise-sized organization can migrate thousands of instances to AWS quickly and cost effectively. You can leave this session with a good understanding of the migration framework used to assess an enterprise application portfolio and how to move thousands of instances to AWS in a quick and repeatable fashion.
In this session, we describe the components of Accenture's cloud migration framework, including tools and capabilities provided by Accenture, AWS, and third-party software solutions, and how enterprises can leverage these techniques to migrate efficiently and effectively. The migration framework covers:
- Defining an overall cloud strategy
- Assessing the business requirements, including application and data requirements
- Creating the right AWS architecture and environment
- Moving applications and data using automated migration tools- Services to manage the migrated environment
This session provides a holistic framework that can be used to build a Cloud Strategy that is tailor made for your organization. The Cloud Strategy covers 7 different perspectives of consideration including Business, People, Process, Operations, Security, Maturity, and Platform.
Azure Migration
Azure migration is the process of moving your workloads to the Azure cloud. This can include migrating your infrastructure, databases, and applications. Azure migration can help you improve your scalability, reliability, and security, while also reducing your costs. Csharptek is a trusted microsoft solution partner in Digital and Innovation (Azure)for Azure migration. We have a team of experienced and certified Azure professionals who can help you with every aspect of your migration. We offer a variety of services to meet your needs, and we're committed to helping you achieve your business goals.
A Business Perspective on Building SharePoint 2013 Solutions on Windows AzureChristian Buckley
Presentation prepared for the San Francisco Azure User Group that walks through the latest features in SharePoint 2013, shares some insight into how Axceler is using Windows Azure to develop hybrid and cloud-based solutions, and outlines opportunities for developers to create Azure-based solutions for SharePoint 2013 and Office 365.
Cloud Center of Excellence - DatasheetTodd Erskine
Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) provides a programmatic approach to implement, manage, and operate the Microsoft Azure platform for onboarding projects and Azure workloads effectively.
Architecting for Success: Designing Secure GCP Landing Zone for EnterprisesBhuvaneswari Subramani
GCP Landing Zone serves as a starting point for organizations looking to establish a robust cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. It provides a pre-defined set of configurations, policies, and resources that ensure consistent deployment standards, security controls, and operational efficiency. With GCP Landing Zone, businesses can accelerate their cloud adoption while maintaining governance and compliance requirements.
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1. Who should be involved?
Softchoice recommends clients assemble a
cross functional IT & data center team with
a senior IT leader sponsor that provides
alignment to the issues, business drivers and
guides prioritization.
Softchoice Azure Jumpstart
Setting a Secure and Stable Foundation for Microsoft Azure
Why Softchoice Services for Azure?
• Enterprise-grade Azure projects in multiple
verticals and scenarios
• Cross-discipline expertise spanning leading
vendors in data center, hybrid cloud and public
cloud scenarios
• Architects engineers carry over 10 years
average tenure
• Proven IaaS planning methodology to connect
on-premise data center infrastructure
• Day-to-day operations for over 400 core
hybrid infrastructures
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Phase Client Benefits
Planning
Discovery
• Project kickoff meeting
• Microsoft Azure Executive Overview
• Identify stakeholders and roles to link operational processes to public cloud
environment
• Review client’s current Azure Active Directory scenario and document for ease of
future operations and management
Implementation
• Creating and associating managed organizational identity
• Enable Azure entitlement and assignment of roles including import of orphaned
subscriptions (i.e. pay-as-you-go)
• Demonstrate best practices for subscription naming and reporting
• Assignment of rights using Azure Role Based Access control
• Creation of Azure Virtual Network and either a Site to Site or Point to Site VPN connection
• Deployment of Active Directory Services on a Virtual Machine in Azure
• Network security rules to protect deployed services
• Review Azure platform functionality discussion to identity future management and
operational accounting requirements
Knowledge
Transfer
Closure
• High-level design of Azure services and resources
• High-level Azure onboarding findings and Azure consumption plan recommendations
• Documentation of configured services, security settings, Azure admins, subscriptions and
subscription IDs for support escalation
• Whiteboard high level integration requirements to enable an optimized hybrid cloud usage
Azure Analytics
Insight:
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Azure Dashboard
• Access to real-time spend forecast based on monthly usage projections
• View historic spend and evaluate trends on a month-over-month basis related to
consumption
• Rich resource reporting by project or department to facilitate showback or chargeback
requirements
• Evaluate spend based on service type spanning cloud infrastructure
The promise of cloud is unique to your business. To unlock the transformational potential of Azure
on service delivery IT leaders must choose their first steps into the public cloud carefully. Many
clients struggle to navigate the onboarding process and linking existing operational processes
and management roles. In some cases, these leads to an insecure and unstable foundation
making expansion and management difficult.
The Softchoice Azure Jumpstart is designed to provide a rapid activation path with built-in best
practice resulting in an operational, scalable and secure environment. The Azure Jumpstart allows
clients to navigate the complexity of onboarding to Azure by designing and linking appropriate
organizational identities ensuring security is integrated into operational procedures and access.
In addition, the service provides Azure enterprise Entitlements and subscription setup while
integrating orphaned subscriptions into the Microsoft Azure Enterprise Portal.