Azure Services from Blue Connections IT

Our Azure services team is evolving and provides a spectrum of services from Assessments to Managed Services. We provide a full range of Migration services to help the client migrate their current solutions to the Microsoft Azure Platform. Between the client and ourselves we identify the assets that need to be migrated, agree a design, formulate a migration plan and help our clients achieve.

Azure Services we provide

  • Cloud Assessment and Planning
  • Cloud Migrations/Deployments
  • Monitoring
  • Cost Optimisation
  • Application Modernisation

CLOUD ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING

The provisioning of traditional IT resources is different with Microsoft Azure. A like-for-like migration strategy often leads to unnecessary cost. Without the right approach, you risk spending more in the cloud than you might expect. Whether considering a SQL database migration, or moving specific applications to the cloud, our Microsoft Azure Assessments are an ideal starting point. These analysis services help you evaluate the costs, risks and readiness for migrating workloads to the Microsoft cloud.

CLOUD MIGRATIONS/DEPLOYMENTS

Our Azure services team helps customers migrate from on-premise VMware environment or other clouds like AWS to a Microsoft Azure Data Center. This team also helps clients migrate existing workloads to Azure PaaS services.

AZURE MONITORING

The Azure Monitoring Service is designed to provide certain monitoring and operational management activities for the Customer’s Azure-hosted infrastructure, using Information Technology Infrastructure Library based methodologies. Additional services and solutions can be added to complement your Azure cloud environment.

This section presents a summary overview of the features that are included in the pre-packaged Service offering. These can be customised based on the requirements.

BUSINESS SUPPORT
  • Service Delivery Manager
  • Service Requests
  • Change Management
  • Monthly Reports
HEALTH AND OPERATIONS
  • Azure Product Support
  • Preventative Management
  • Operating System Administration
  • Identity and Access Management
EVENT MANAGEMENT
  • Performance and Availability Monitoring
  • Alert Management
INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
  • 24 x 7 Service Desk
  • Troubleshooting and Remediation
  • Incident Management

COST OPTIMISATION

Our Azure Services team can analyse your environment and provide cost optimization recommendations. We can help you optimize and improve efficiency by identifying idle and underutilized resources. The team reviews your existing set-up and makes clear and actionable recommendations to improve its performance, security, and affordability.

APPLICATION MODERNISATION

Microsoft Azure is a turn-key delivery platform for modern applications. We help in building cloud native applications leveraging serverless applications and containers and, having no need to maintain infrastructure.

Azure services that Blue Connections IT can provide

PLANNING SERVICES

  • How it works – We look at the entire data centre environment. Understanding the needs, compliance requirements and strategy, and develop a plan that fits current and future objectives.
    We ask for detailed information about the IT environment, including current contracts and costs. Our consultants will use this information to build a comprehensive cost analysis, business case and migration strategy.

    We will also run assessment tools to measures the readiness and estimates the effect of migrating on-premises servers to Azure.

SETUP AND/OR MIGRATION SERVICES

  • How it works – Our migration services cover across infrastructure, application and data to give a full migration service to Azure. We help customers to realise their cloud aspirations via full migration service that has security, scalability and optimisation at its core.

MANAGED SERVICES

  • How it works – We can manage your Azure Cloud platform.
    Our team is able to support Microsoft Azure cloud services through our Managed Services capabilities and established service desk. The scope of services can be as much or as little as you require with the services either augmenting existing Customer capabilities or providing out-tasking with roles and responsibilities clearly defined within an end to end service model.
    Services can be based on a catalogue of standard operational services, which are combined to meet individual business requirements.