Cloud Service IntegrationHybrid IT Layer 4

Insight Guide

Insight Guide

Instrumentationand Analytics

Virtualisation

ConvergedInfrastructure

Cloud ServiceIntegration

Automation

5 Layer StackInfrastructure: comprises converged platforms (platforms of stability) and hyper-converged platforms (platforms of change) to enable more efficient resource pooling and greater resource control.

Virtualisation: releases resources from being tied to particular physical devices in order to enable portability of services.

Automation: comprises cloud automation and Data Centre automation. Cloud automation provides on premise and off-premise self-service provisioning and lifecycle services for virtual systems and workloads.

Cloud Integration: provides authentication and authorisation services for in-house Active Directory platforms to control user access to cloud services, such as Office365, Salesforce etc.

Instrumentation: this delivers the visibility and control that is needed across the entire Data Centre. The Instrumentation layer includes element managers for the core Data Centre technologies.

With these five layers in place, the IT department will be perfectly positioned to support digital business innovation and respond immediately to changing demand. IT staff will be able to provision and control resources from the Data Centre instantly to support changing demands and priorities. They will be able to control their networks in real-time and finely tune the service available to users to match their specific needs. They will be able to operate service and software defined platforms with considerably less manual intervention. And they will be better equipped to protect against new and changing security threats. The Service Defined Infrastructure operated under the Hybrid IT model will make the Data Centre and networks less costly to run, and enable IT to deliver more choice, agility and value to the business.

Overview

The adoption of cloud services and resources in the context of enterprise IT is driving a range of user and corporate benefits, but at the same time introducing increasing complexity into the IT department.

Cloud Service Integration from Logicalis facilitates and accelerates the integration of private, public and hybrid cloud, and on-premises solutions, across diverse environments within the enterprise.

Cloud computing brings extensive benefits, including improved flexibility, easier collaboration, access wherever users can get online, and significant cost savings. However, while the enterprise’s needs with respect to availability, security, performance and risk are the same for cloud solutions as they are for in house services, management and control is usually more challenging for off-premises solutions.

This leaves the CIO with a conundrum. Use of cloud solutions helps IT meet line of business managers’ demands for swift and nimble response, and the board’s demands to control and reduce costs, yet also creates new management challenges.

Insight Guide

The issues

Cloud Service Integration - The benefits

How we help

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Logicalis’ consultants have extensive experience in business-led IT infrastructure transformation. Vendor agnostic and tightly focused on your business circumstances and objectives, we always provide advice and solutions appropriate to your needs.

Reduced: Improved:

Management complexity

Risk

Security, compliance and governance across multi-vendor, multi-cloud environments

Management and delivery of cloud services across diverse environments

Time to market for new business services

With some services best delivered from the cloud, and others best delivered on-premises, Cloud Service Integration allows IT to select the best option for each on a case-by-case basis, providing advanced security, access and management tools for the integration of cloud into any local, remote, web, cloud, or wireless environment.

Cloud service integration accelerates the deployment of cloud services across the business, from traditional on-premises IT systems to private, public or hybrid cloud solutions. Such cloud resource include data centre resources, network resources and security resources.

Cloud Service Integration - The solution

Cloud Service Integration handles in-house directories and external cloud, providing authentication and authorisation services allowing in-house Active Directory platforms to control user access to cloud services. It manages the integration of hybrid and public cloud services, removing the complexity inherent in the extension of applications across private and public cloud platforms. Service definition and provision are simplified, and made low-touch and more precise. Management time is released for other activities, driving increased value.

Maintaining security, compliance and governance across multi vendor, multi cloud environments, cloud service integration delivers unified, context-aware, policy-based access control and a consistent end user experience in all locations and across all platforms.

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