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Move to the Cloud on Your Own Terms

Cloud computing offers exciting and simplified ways to view and manage your IT infrastructure. But moving to the cloud and getting the most value from being there can be complex. Decision Consultants Cloud Services is a full-lifecycle approach that spans initial strategy, through readiness and implementation, to support. This offering helps ready your IT team, processes, users, and infrastructure to operate in a cloud environment, and it helps you gain the greatest possible business value from your investments in Microsoft Office 365. 

Getting the Most Value 

Whether you have made the decision to move to the cloud, or are still exploring the value of online solutions to your business, now more than ever you need to be strategic in how you approach your transition to Cloud Computing. By providing strategic guidance, technical implementation, and proactive support, Decision Consultants’ Microsoft Services delivers the broadest capabilities and options to help you breathe life into your Cloud solutions.

Rather than just moving your current IT environment to the cloud, Decision Consultants' Microsoft based cloud solutions are about creating new technology options that help drive your business forward. We believe Microsoft offers the most comprehensive set of cloud services on Earth. Products like Microsoft Office 365, Windows AzureTM, and Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-VTM give you the flexibility and control to use them exactly the way you want.

Microsoft Cloud Vantage Services help you address the dual challenges of moving to the cloud and getting the most value from your investment over time. Our tested methodology helps you:

    • Establish a clear path to transition your processes ­­­and infrastructure to the cloud through expert guidance and a proven approach for deploying Microsoft Office 365
    • Ready your users and IT organization, including help desk and training for administrators
    • Reduce risk through design, escalation management, and support
    • Provide your people with up-to-date Office tools without the need to upgrade, thanks to automatic updates 

Our Approach  

Our approach cuts through the complexities of moving from on-premises operations to a cloud environment. We help you drive a seamless transition to the cloud and then provide a full-lifecycle management approach that includes:

    1. Cloud Strategy and Planning - Helps you assess the value of the cloud to your business and create a plan to harness your benefits. We help you set goals and metrics and understand the preparations that would be needed for your people, processes, and systems
    2. IT Change Readiness - Prepares your team for the transition to Office 365 and the changes to your on-premises infrastructure, operational processes, and roles and responsibilities.
    3. Program Orchestration - Provides a Microsoft Cloud Delivery Executive who serves as your single point of accountability for governance, planning, and readiness for Office 365 across Microsoft, your team, and partners
    4. Deployment Services - Provides Office 365 migration based on proven Microsoft best practices, including technical and operational readiness assessments, comprehensive deployment planning, service enablement, and user and data migration
    5. Managed Support - Provides enterprise-class support for Office 365, and the on-premises Microsoft technologies that interact with it, by connecting you with experienced Microsoft support experts
    6. Cloud Services help you make the most of your investment in Microsoft Office 365 by providing deep expertise and collaboration to smoothly transition, assist in driving strategic change, and help you maximize cloud benefits across the full lifecycle 

Our Expertise

The Decision Consultants Microsoft based cloud soutions are delivered by a team of Microsoft technical and operational experts led by a Cloud Delivery Executive, a cloud specialist with deep expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft solutions. The Cloud Delivery Executive is the single point of accountability who works directly with your executive and IT teams to make the choices that result in a cloud strategy that has the flexibility and scalability to meet your needs now and keep pace with your business in the future. 

Collaboration 

The Cloud solutions from Decision Consultants provide you with a proven, collaborative approach to sharing insight and best practices from Microsoft development teams. We partner with you throughout your Office 365 deployment and provide training and proven processes, including readiness-related assessments and workshops.

Our collaborative engagement model increases your IT agility because we help your IT team come up to speed quickly on cloud practices and principles through offerings such as our Change Management and Future Roadmap Orchestration. 

Full Lifcycle 

Choosing Cloud solutions from Decision Consultants willhelp you implement a system that provide you with a stable and iterative-based approach through stages of the IT lifecycle, allowing for:

    • Continual innovation of new features and capabilities
    • Rapid deployment of new workloads
    • Agility in keeping your IT tools up to date to meet the expectations of your business

 

How to Contact Decision Consultants

To contact a Decision Consultants Cloud computer specialists, call (866) 666-7731 or send us an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) is a model for provisioning hardware (computing, storage, networking, etc.) to the end uers where the management of the underlying fabric is controlled by the provide but where the end user maintains control of the operating system and applicaitons that are installed within it.  

2. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a model where Microsoft applications (for example, MS Office, Exchange, SQL Forefront, etc.) are provided, often times with IaaS and customers pay on a per-user/per month basis.

 

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Infrastructure as a Service is an evolution in the way business will consume IT. There are a number of ways that IaaS from Decision Consultants is helping its clients improve on the way infrastructure is provisioned today.

    • Utilization – Today’s infrastructure must be designed for the worst case scenario of high demand. The end result is the low utilization of servers. With IaaS, utilization increases to take better advantage of the investment in hardware.

    • Server/User Ratio – In today’s infrastructure each IT administrator can manage fewer servers due to the lack of automation and other advances. With IaaS and its advances each IT administrator can manage more servers.

    • Deployment Scale – Today infrastructure must be designed for peak scale only. With IaaS the infrastructure capacity can grow and shirk dynamically based on the client’s demand.

    • Physical vs. Virtual – Today’s infrastructure is mostly physical. IaaS uses more virtualization to increase utilization, increase efficiency and lower cost.

    • Path to the Future – Today’s infrastructure make the transition to the public cloud difficult. By employing IaaS the path is clearer, easier and less expensive. 

In the end, it’s all about efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency comes from lowering the cost of IT. Efficiency comes from improving the ROI of you IT investments.
 

The Private Cloud

When Decision Consultants' clients migrate to the private cloud, they recognize important, bottom line, benefits. These include:

  • Reduced Costs: The ongoing IT operational costs and capital investment costs (servers, datacenter equipment) for Decision Consultants clients are reduced because cloud technology is paid incrementally, saving organization money.

  • Agility: Decision Consultant’ clients no longer have to worry about constant server upgrades and updates and other computing issues. They free themselves to concentrate on their individual core competencies.

  • Increased Efficiency: No longer do the IT personnel of Decision Consultants' clients need to worry about keeping software up to date. It’s all done as part of the monthly per user fee.

  • Scalable and Elastic – A Decision Consultants client that is using the power of the cloud can enable the faster delivery of capacity when resource needs change.

     

Private Cloud vs. Highly Virtualized Computing

Now, what is the difference between highly virtualized computing and a private cloud?

Highly virtualized computing gives you the benefits of increased utilization of your servers, power savings, and reduced server footprint. We are familiar with these as they are in datacenters today. However, this does not equal to the private cloud.

A Private cloud provides all of those benefits plus highly integrated and automated management, scalable and elastic platforms, and self service.

  • Mange Costs: The ongoing IT operational costs and capital investment costs (servers, datacenter equipment) are reduced because cloud technology is paid incrementally thereby saving the organization money.

  • Business Agility: One no longer has to worry about constant server updates and other computing issues. Your organization will be free to concentrate on its individual core competencies.

  • Improved Control: No longer do IT personnel need to worry about keeping software up to date.

How Decision Consultants' Clients Benefit from Cloud Computing

There are three main areas where Decision Consultants' clients see the most value compared to their existing (traditional) environment or competitive options.

Agility – Transforming IT to make it much more dynamic, being able to both accelerate the speed of service, as well as giving the flexibility and responsiveness that a solution truly needs to be able to meet business needs.

  • Rapid Deployment
  • Scale Dynamically
  • In Production Patching (no downtime)
  • Improved reliability

Manage Costs – Simplifying your infrastructure, becoming more transparent and changing the way you can utilize resources

  • Resource Pooling
  • Better Utilization
  • Resourced to specific business need

Improved Control – Reducing administration costs and increasing the level of service through automation and centralized management.

  • Automated patching
  • Automatic Failover
  • Central Console

How to Contact Decision Consultants for Cloud Computing Help

If you need help with evaluating or planning a migration to the cloud, or just want to learn more about Decision Consultants' Cloud Power solutions, call (866) 666-7731 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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        Cloud Power from Microsoft and Decision Consultants

        Decision Consultants offers various Cloud Computing services that are secure, reliable and easily accessible. These services are designed for platform, software and infrastructure. By employing these Cloud based tools organizations can finally get everyone working collectively in a secure environment.

        Organizations need to reduce costs and accelerate growth to increase profits. The IT infrastructure of a company is one of the key factors responsible for growth. However as organizations receive new business opportunities, they end up spending a lot of money and time to update and maintain their IT infrastructure which usually isn’t one of their core competencies.

        With Cloud computing organizations can use any component of an IT infrastructure as a utility over the Internet. Cloud computing can make an organization extremely agile in addressing various business needs. It helps organizations either reduce or expand their IT infrastructure capacity depending on their requirements. Using Cloud computing, IT professionals can efficiently perform their core business function without being concerned about technical support functions. This helps reduce the work load on IT professionals who can use that time to work on strategic activities.

        Cloud computing offers software services, infrastructure-as-a-service, as well as platform services. Organizations can use any or all of these services depending on their needs. Decision Consultants in partnership with Microsoft offers flexible business solutions to help you communicate, collaborate and store data in the Cloud. The Cloud computing services offered by Decision Consultants provide greater business agility and they are always available, secure and very cost effective.

        What is Cloud Computing? To meet ever changing business needs organizations need to invest time and budget to scale up their IT infrastructure including software, hardware and often times services. However with on-premises IT infrastructure the scaling process can be slow and organizations are frequently unable to achieve optimal utilization of their IT infrastructure.

        Cloud computing is a paradigm shift that provides computing over the Internet. A Cloud computing service is build on a network of optimized data centers that provide IT resources for use when needed. Organizations can simply connect to the Cloud and use the available resources. This helps organizations avoid capital expenditures for additional on-premise IT resources while being able to scale up or scale down depending on their business requirements.

        You can deploy Cloud computing services by using three different models: A private Cloud, a public Cloud or a Hybrid Cloud.

        Private Cloud A Private Cloud functions solely for one organization on a private network and is therefore, highly secure.

        Public Cloud A Public Cloud is owned by the Cloud service provider. It offers the highest level of efficiency and shared resources.

        Hybrid Cloud A Hybrid Cloud is a combination of private and public deployment models. In a Hybrid Cloud specific resources are run or used in a Public Cloud. And other resources are run or used on-premises in a Private Cloud. This provides increased efficiency.

        How to Contact Decision Consultants In order to find out more information about how Decision Consultants can help with support and consulting services for Cloud based solutions, call (866) 666-7731 or send us an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

 
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