When we started Aptitude Technologies, a sentence often came up in our discussions. “Get rid of your server room!”. This phrase has remained and is an integral part of our strategy to simplify IT management. That’s why we strive to provide companies with ingenious alternative solutions tailored to the reality of today’s IT.
Contrary to popular belief, this is one of the strengths of cloud solutions. Indeed, a cloud infrastructure offers several layers of security that make them virtually impenetrable. You have control over access to your infrastructure, transactions are secure and data is encrypted for maximum security.
Your servers and data will be accessible at all times. Whether in the office or on the road, you can access your data in just a few clicks. Our systems are hosted in the data centers of Amazon and Microsoft and benefit from the efficiency and reliability of their infrastructures.
For a few dollars per month per user, you can get rid of your expensive infrastructure completely. You’ll be able to access powerful servers, reliable and automated system backups, an up-to-date local and online full-featured office suite, an advanced document management platform, and access to your email at any time.
A new SME with 15 employees is located in the industrial district of the region. The company is buying an efficient, reliable and cost-effective IT infrastructure. The infrastructure must accommodate at least 15 users. The company also plans to purchase 12 desktop computers for office workers and 3 laptops for vendors on the road. Some employees might also be called upon to work from home on occasion. The company operates 24/24 7/7 and can not afford to stop production without planning.
Leaders are looking to be able to perform the following tasks with the new infrastructure:
A needs analysis was carried out in advance and it was determined that the following components were necessary for the proper functioning of the company:
The following comparison is based on a monthly cost spread over 60 months. It does not include costs related to building infrastructure such as electricity and air conditioning. It also does not include labor costs related to the installation, configuration and migration of the existing system, if any. For comparative purposes, the “local” server has as basic configuration 2 processors, 64GB of memory and 1.8TB of disk space.
Note: this test is for demonstration purposes only.
Cost of cloud infrastructure:
(Virtual machines, storage space for servers, users and backups)
Platform
Aptitude Technologies trusts Amazon for hosting its services. Amazon is a pioneer in cloud computing and has been the world leader in this field for several years. Offering a multitude of online services and a high level of reliability, it was logical for Aptitude Technologies to choose the Amazon Web Services platform to develop its systems and enable companies to benefit from these technologies.
Backup
Aptitude Technologies professionals use Amazon and AvePoint technologies to back up all your data in the cloud. Thanks to the combined products of these two companies, it is easy to backup and restore entire virtual machines, corporate data and your e-mails on demand in a matter of minutes. You can sleep peacefully knowing your data is safe and easily recoverable if a problem occurs.
Monitoring
At Aptitude Technologies, we understand that it is important that systems operate continuously without affecting production. That’s why we also use state-of-the-art technology to monitor your facilities. If a system is in trouble, we will automatically be notified of the situation and we will be able to immediately investigate the source of the problem and resolve it with the least possible impact on your company’s performance.
Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 is the online and hosted version of the Microsoft Office suite. The basic version of Office 365 allows users to access the latest available version of Office at any time directly from a web browser, tablet, or smartphone. For a few extra dollars per month, the premium version also gives you access to a local version of the office suite in the form of Microsoft Office 2016 that can be installed on a computer running Windows or Mac.
Exchange Online
Microsoft Exchange Online is the online and hosted version of Microsoft’s e-mail service. Exchange Online is an easy-to-use, easy-to-use messaging server. Companies that opt to use Exchange Online benefit from an up-to-date version of the messaging service and a powerful anti-spam service that is built on the functionality of their subscription. Like the local mail servers that can be prompt to hardware and software problems, Microsoft’s hosted online service offers near-perfect availability and reliability.
SharePoint Online
Microsoft SharePoint is a collaborative electronic document management platform. Users who use this platform can create and add files to the platform and share them with each other. It makes the collaboration between the users very simple and also provides a very good flexibility for the management and the archiving of the digital assets of your company. Users can access these documents through the Microsoft SharePoint web portal, the Microsoft OneDrive cloud client, and the SharePoint mobile application on a tablet or smartphone.
Whether it’s your domain controller, email server, business data, and company backups to your phone system, Aptitude Technologies gives you the ability to deploy all of your services in the cloud.
Your company will benefit from cloud security for your data and backups, reliability and high availability of infrastructure and substantial savings by cutting down on hardware expenses.
Aptitude Technologies also offers the ability to perform a hybrid deployment of your services using your existing infrastructure in addition to the cloud.
Your company wants to keep some assets at the parent company, but is interested in security and high availability for other services? No problem. It is possible to segment services so that you can select which ones you want to deploy in the cloud and which you want to keep in your premises.
Your company wants to keep one foot on the ground and the other in the cloud for more security? No problem, it is possible to make the services co-exist in a hybrid environment and to have a redundancy between them in case of problems.