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Why Are So Many Businesses Opting for Managed Services?

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  Why Are So Many Businesses Opting for Managed Services?   If you’re hesitating to handover your cloud environment responsibilities to a third party, you’re not alone. But you are certainly in a minority. The challenges involved in recruiting and training a dedicated team, keeping them and your cloud updated, staying abreast of the latest developments in cloud technology that you need to stay competitive, can suck up energy, time and efficiency like a black hole. Which is why more and more organizations are choosing to outsource their clouds to external Managed Services providers.   In-house Team vs Managed Services   If you want autonomy, total transparency, and complete control of your cloud, this is definitively the way to go. Organizations with the resources and expertise may well opt to keep their cloud responsibilities in house, choosing to have a dedicated team manage their cloud environment. While this may work well for large conglomerates, not many small an...

AWS’s Public Sector Partners

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  Delivering cloud technologies securely and reliably to government agencies The ongoing Covid 19 pandemic and and periodic lockdowns have thrown life and business into disarray, but behind the scenes, AWS’s Public Sector Partners are helping Public Sector Entities accelerate their digital transformation trajectory from dealing with the flood of calls and requests for citizens needing medical help to financial aid, and business continuity. AWS’s Public Sector Partners are bringing private sector expertise to governments departments, academia and non-profit organization, helping them transition to digital platforms that offer heightened efficiencies with better cost-saving and higher ROI. As a result transitions that would have taken years are getting done in months and weeks. One key area where public sector organizations and non-profits are very active is disaster response—not just Covid related but the multitude of natural disasters that routinely afflict out planet. Amazon’s Pub...

Staff Augmentation Vs Managed Services

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  Staff Augmentation Vs Managed Services: A Closer Look.   One of the first—and biggest decisions—facing CTOs considering migration to the cloud is whether to beef up human resources or engage a cloud managed services provider. Both have their pros and cons and the right answer as usual is : depends! No two companies are the same, nor are their objectives and situations; thus the first step logically would be to look at your current model through the prism of new technologies. This way you will be able to see the gaps that exist—and will be manifest in the future. And be better positioned to decide. This article sets out the pros and cons of both.   Staff Augmentation At its most basic, staff augmentation is simply a flexi-BPO model that supplements your internal IT team with IT resources that have the skill-sets you need at a particular point in time. This is a good short- to medium-term strategy as it allows a business to satisfy its needs using a pool of IT resources a...

7 – Step Migration Plan

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  Seven steps to a successful cloud migration Businesses migrate to the cloud to trim costs while enhancing efficiencies, but all too often organizations fail or enjoy only limited success with their migration. Over the course of our many projects, Teleglobal’s cloud managed services experts have evolved a proven framework to ensure your cloud migration is successful. Now you can benefit from our learnings too. Here is our 7-step process:   1.  Nominate a migration architect and define their role You need someone at the architect-level to plan and ensure execution of the migration roadmap: this is your migration architect. Their responsibilities include making any necessary refactoring, planning data-migration strategy, identifying cloud requirements, and establishing priorities and switchover process.   2.  Decide level of integration This means choosing between shallow- and deep-cloud integration. With the former you’re merely replication your on-premises envi...