Cloud Computing
Deliver flexibility and reliability with Cloud Computing
Cloud gives you the flexibility and functionality you need adapt and grow in today’s fast changing environment. Our Cloud solution allows your business to scale quickly, reduce overheads and offer the flexibility your employees and customers need.
Cloud Options
Cloud computing allows your business to use remote servers to store, manage, and process data rather than living on a local server or a PC. With Cloud computing data is available to everyone who has a connection and has access. Which Cloud option is the best fit for your organisation’s ERP and core data? A Public Cloud accessed by the Internet or a private network you manage?
Public Cloud
The Cloud resources (like servers and storage) are owned and operated by a third-party Cloud service provider and delivered over the Internet. In a Public Cloud, you share the same hardware, storage, and network devices with other organisations or Cloud “tenants.” You’ll access services and manage your account using a web browser.
Benefits:
- Lower costs
- No maintenance
- Near-unlimited scalability and on-demand resources are available to meet your business needs.
- High reliability
Private Cloud
With Private Cloud, computing resources are used exclusively by your business. Choose to store your Cloud on your on-site datacentre or host it with a third-party provider. Hardware and software are dedicated to your organisation where everything is maintained on a private network. Perfect for government and financial institutions, Private Clouds allow for more customisation and control over your environment.
- Benefits:
- Flexibility
- Security
- Scalability
Hybrid Cloud
Experience further flexibility with the Hybrid Cloud. Hybrid Clouds combine on-premises infrastructure, or Private Clouds, with Public Clouds so organisations can reap the advantages of both. With hybrid, you can use the Public Cloud for high-volume and lower-security needs and the Private Cloud for high-security and sensitive business operations. Additionally, "Cloud Bursting" is available with a Hybrid Cloud. This is when an application or resource runs in the Private Cloud until there is a spike in demand, at which point the organisation can “burst through” to the Public Cloud to tap into additional computing resources.
For increased control, your organisation can maintain a private infrastructure for sensitive assets.
Benefits:
- Flexibility
- Cost-effectiveness
- Ease
Our Cloud options
Our Private Cloud offers flexibility, cost savings, security, and control benefits. These benefits are particularly valuable for organisations with predictable workloads or customisation requirements, and businesses in regulated industries.
We can provide Private Cloud options through any of our Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) and Microsoft Azure.
Flexibility
Our Cloud computing benefits from virtualisation technology that underlies our partners platforms. Most servers are underused, and virtualisation provides Private Cloud users with improved resource utilisation, as workloads can be deployed to a different physical server as resource demands change.
This flexibility and improved resource utilisation can help organisations ensure application performance, but also reduce costs by getting the most out of their servers. Our Cloud environment will not only save money over a traditional on-premise environment, for some organisations it costs less than a Public Cloud environment.
Customisation
We work with you to select the best design and architecture, as well as provide ad-hoc integration and customised security controls to address your specific business needs. Dedicated entirely to your organisation our Private Cloud solution gives you more flexibility to add or customise functionality and to upgrade your deployment when it suits your business.
Security
Our Cloud partners Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) is FedRamp certified, so the data centre infrastructure meets the highest standards. The Cloud infrastructure has been designed and is managed in alignment with regulations, standards, and best practices.
Our Private Cloud meets or exceeds US Government and Army standards, so it should meet your requirements. However, should any concerns remain, we can also provide these additional options:
- Scramble data that is deemed super sensitive before we export the data to the cloud
- Restrict direct access to the Cloud systems by establishing a Site to Site VPN, that will only allow access to your SAP systems from within your network
- Ensure that your SAP systems are only hosted on single tenant hardware, should you deem this level of security to be necessary