Apalia assists corporate size and SMB Enterprises to reduce their IS-ICT costs while increasing their business effectiveness through the implementation and use of Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud infrastructures and solutions.
Apalia's Enterprise Service Offerings encompass Cloud IaaS strategic approach, market players and solutions evaluation, training and awareness workshops, secure design, reliable development & integration, and thorough performance and cost management solutions.
Cloud Computing Strategic offering
As a Cloud Computing pioneer, Apalia has been advising numerous companies to define their own Cloud Strategy. Apalia's client's decision makers have taken strategic advantages from Apalia's valuable and practical workshops and studies on topics such as:
- Identifying Cloud Computing opportunities towards business benefits
- Assessing the organization readiness and analyzing objectives & constraints
- Defining business cases for a cost-effective Cloud Computing strategy
- Developing a comprehensive road-map towards the integration of Cloud Computing solutions
Apalia has developed awareness workshops for IS-ICT Managers. In these workshops Apalia shares its know-how in order to highlight Cloud Computing value proposition to Enterprises, and to clarify Cloud Computing ecosystems. With its best practices and thorough case studies Apalia also provides actionable information to quickly build successful cloud approaches.
Cloud Computing training offering
Apalia’s Cloud Computing training addresses IT professionals concerns about Cloud Computing. It provides insights to best-of-breed Cloud Service Providers and Vendors offerings, and in-depth views of the Cloud Computing security & performance issues. Several live demonstrations are undertaken during the training.
Private Cloud IaaS offering
Apalia designs and implements private Cloud IaaS which are aimed at providing the same agility benefits as a Public Cloud IaaS (such as Amazon or Rackspace) while maintaining governance rules of the internal IT infrastructure:
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Opting for best fitting hypervisor-agnostic provisioning system (independent of underlying layers)
- Designing and customizing Self-Service Portal
- Securing Private Clouds upon Cloud Security Alliance recommendations
- Tracking Cloud usage and costs through dedicated tools like Amysta ChargeBack
Public Cloud IaaS & hybrid Cloud IaaS offering
Apalia’s Enterprise customers may also benefit from Apalia’s Public Cloud IaaS expertise by building their Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. Hybrid IaaS are good solutions e.g. to burst non-business-critical processing and/or transfer data to Public Cloud, while keeping business-critical applications and data in-house.
- Identifying resources and applications suited for Public & Hybrid Cloud IaaS
- Opting for best fitting hypervisor-agnostic provisioning system (independent of underlying layers)
- Selecting the right Cloud Services Providers (CSP)
- Setting portability solution to prevent CSP lock-in
- Designing and integrating Hybrid Cloud