Most medium and large size businesses usually manage their own virtual Cloud data centers, networks and applications. They also self-manage their software and OS environment. The new IaaS paradigm allows cloud service providers to take the responsibility for the management of hardware and performs all the maintenance to ensure that the servers run effectively. Since numbers of custom applications can be developed and deployed and run on IaaS, it becomes impossible for cloud service providers to manage and troubleshoot all of the software and hardware to provide cost effective service.
Cloud Computing is a viable yet sophisticated venture and proper planning and guidance is a must to do step. Not only you have to choose the right service provider but assessing the short-term and long-term impacts requires experienced IT team's input. Acumen will help you along the way in planning and migration as well as in the management effort to meet your cloud demands. Our main goal is to help you select the right choice as well as optimize your utilization .
The requirements will depend on your business's IT goals, size, and industry along with your strategy. Acumen's team will work with you to weigh a range of infrastructure options, including public cloud IaaS, managed private cloud, managed hosting, security and application services. We can provide you a complete cloud services or tailored support.
Cloud VoIP
Cloud VoIP
Global communications solution is much more available than ever. Acumen can help you choose the right communications framework to meet your VoIP needs. If you are a local or international company looking for country or region specific VoIP services, Acumen can help you with the procurement and roll-out.
The concept of unified communications has enhanced the communications industry, making it easier than ever to ommunicate and collaborate.With the introduction of technologies like voice over IP (VoIP) and SIP. IT professionals have gone beyond the POTS (plain old telephone system) as the telephone and fax communications solutions. VoIP has become a preimier choice enterprise communications means. Additionally, with recent advances in cloud computing, Cloud VoIP offering is providing solutions of new and improved sorts. Acumen's cloud one along with its cloud service provider partners will ensure your requirments are met as best as it can be.
Public, Private or Hybrid IaaS
Public cloud, Private cloud or Hybrid IaaS
IaaS is an acronym for Infrastructure as a Service. It is a form of cloud-based infrastructure resource that is delivered to organizations via virtualization technology that helps organizations build and manage their servers, software, network, operating systems, and data storage.
Public IaaS:Public clouds are the most common way of deploying cloud computing. The cloud resources (like servers and storage) are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service provider and delivered over the Internet. Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are examples of public cloud. In the public cloud, Acumen can help procure hardware resources in a single or multi-tenant method to the general public using virtualization technology. This allows users to share server resources. The public cloud is easy to set up, highly scalable and elastic, where users will only pay for the resources that they use.
Private IaaS: A private cloud consists of computing resources used exclusively by one business or organization. The private cloud can be physically located at your organization’s on-site datacenter, or it can be hosted by a third-party service provider. In a private cloud, the services and infrastructure are always maintained on a private network and the hardware and software are dedicated solely to your organization. The private cloud can also use virtualization technology and delivers cloud-computing services to a single organization. The services sit behind the firewalls managed by the individual business. The private cloud is mostly best suited for businesses and government entities that have large capital expenditure budget and require their own data center professionals and security experts, who are needed to provide more control over the computing environment(s). Acumen can also provide you dedicated IT staff to help manage your private IaaS
Hybrid IaaS: A hybrid cloud is generally considered the best of both world, combining the physical and virtual infrastructure in a public or private cloud. A company may opt to manage some physical servers in a private cloud, while allocating other servers to a public cloud. The hybrid cloud allows companies to take advantage of scalability with robust cloud technologies. This model allows for managing sensitive company data or applications not suitable or licensable in the cloud while taking advantage of the public cloud benefits.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery (DR)
Disaster recovery involves a set of policies, procedures and tools and to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery focuses on the IT systems supporting critical business functions as opposed to business continuity (BC), which involves keeping all essential aspects of a business functioning despite significant disruptive events. Disaster recovery can therefore be considered as a subset of business continuity. The importance of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning should be an important aspect of your IT capacity.
Solid business continuity plan will keep a business up and running through any sort of disruptions including regular staff absence, power failures, IT system crashes, system hacks and natural disasters and more, thus limiting the short-term costly impact on business or mission.
Since risks cannot totally be avoided, having disaster recovery and business continuity plans geared for handling potentially disruptive events is a must. Both DR and BC are equally important because together they will dictate on how the underlying IT system or business process can stay functioning after critical interruptions and disasters.
Many organizations creat a COOP site to ensure service is continually available during outage of the primary system. Others will allow for manual processes to take over. In order to ensure your needs are met, Acumen will help you with your assessment, planning as well as help perform drills.
The main goal of any disaster recovery plan is to help organizations maintain their business continuity, minimize damage, and prevent loss. The best way to ensure reliability of a disaster recovery plan is to evaluate it regularly, with the appropriate players practicing how they will and what they would do to help bring a business functioning should a disaster occur. This type of forward planning will help organizations avoid losses and downtime and at the minimum ensure confidence in the IT system and readiness.
Cloud Productivity Suite
Utilize Productivity Suite
Making available to your workforce a suite of secure Enterprise cloud productivity and communication applications such as Office 365, Google G Suite and Adobe Creative Cloud can help enhance your infrastructure's IT capacity while providing you unified platform for your emails, office applications, collaboration tools, and document sharing efforts and many more.
Such cloud based productivity suites are groups of case-tool applications that are hosted on an cloud servers, which your staff can access through a robust connection. Currently the two products that dominate the government productivity suite needs are Google's Buiness G-Suite and Microsoft's Office 365.
Acumen's staff have the experience to help you setup and effectively migrate to these platforms and help train your staff. Acumen also can be a support staff that will work hand and hand with your team to get the best productivity out of these suites. Privacy and data safety, integrity and security are critical areas that Acumen will help ensure are properly addressed.
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing offers dependable and affordable cloud computing resources. Hardware, operating systems and COTS software by themselves may not necessarily meet your IT system needs. Acumen can help you all aspects of cloud computing: cost, software resources, tools, resources aligned with your organizational structure and needs, custom cloud computing software development services and support as well maintainance.
Acumen will also train your employees and human resource assets to effectively utilize the cloud environement. The cloud is offering advantages to enhance IT capacity, reduce costs and improve speed to market. In research conducted by Forbes, more than half of the business executives surveyed said part of cloud's apparent attribute lies in its ability to help transform the business.