Cloud is now a way of life.
Organizations of all kinds need to respond to the cloud opportunity for greater agility, flexibility, scalability, innovation and cost-effectiveness, or risk being left behind.
The right combination of cloud services gives you a foundation for the future. Critical Project Solutions, Inc. had developed an approach to helping you adopt those services and realize their potential.
Our mission is to help you leverage the Cloud to transform business performance. Our strategic alliances with industry-leading providers, and our own IP solutions and frameworks allow us to ease cloud adoption and accelerate results for you. We want to drive innovation and increase your business agility.
Understanding your position and potential
In nearly every sector, the Cloud is at the center of many long-term business strategies. For many enterprises, leveraging the Cloud can help to:
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Improve business and IT performance
- Create new business models
- Improve speed to market
To be strategic, companies need to evaluate their current position on the Cloud and identify how to maximize the benefits it offers.
Maximize your Cloud Strategy
Business Cloud Strategy is an advisory service that uses robust assessments to determine how your business priorities can be served by leveraging cloud technologies.
Our services span the four main phases of cloud transformation:
Strategy: establish links between long-term business goals and your cloud strategy
Readiness: pinpoint areas of maturity and areas that require changes
Enablement: exploit opportunities to drive innovation, agility and differentiation
Assurance: deliver on business ambitions with speed and predictability, and without compromising reputation or incurring undue risk
Benefits
- Increased value and agility
- Reduced costs
- Increased standardization
- Risk identification
- Consolidation and simplification
SaaS: Software via the Internet
Software as a Service (SaaS) enables businesses to access software through the internet. You can choose from a wide range of SaaS solutions, which can be implemented and integrated into your existing system landscapes. As a result, you gain access to a variety of software from industry-leading vendors, such as:
- Microsoft
- Netsuite
- Oracle
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Workday
Benefits
- Minimal setup costs
- Easy maintenance and upgrades
- Scalability for peaks in demand
- Remote Accessibility
- Only pay for the resources used
IaaS: IT Services that deliver quick value
Our Infrastructure as a Service solutions helps evaluate and build software and platform needs through the delivery of key characteristics such as:
Essential Characteristics:
On-demand self-service – A consumer can independently and unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as compute time, network connectivity and storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service’s provider
Broad network access –Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms
Resource pooling – The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources, but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, region or datacenter). Examples of computing resources include storage, processing (compute), memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines
Rapid elasticity – Capabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out, and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time
Measured Service– Cloud systems automatically control and
PaaS: Let us manage your platform
“Cloud computing” has dramatically changed how business applications are built and run. Delivering a new application is now as fast as opening your Internet browser. Platform as a Service — or PaaS — is a proven model for running applications without the hassle of maintaining the hardware and software infrastructure at your company. Enterprises of all sizes have adopted PaaS solutions like salesforce.com for the simplicity, scalability, and reliability. PaaS applications also have the latest features without constant upgrade pain.
The App Cloud brings the same trust and speed at the core of all our products to building and deploying apps in the cloud, faster than any on-premise application platform, hybrid platforms, and many cloud platforms that are not as complete.
Why PaaS is being adopted: The traditional application model is broken.
Building and running on-premise applications has always been complex, expensive, and slow. Each application required hardware, an operating system, a database, middleware, Web servers, and other software. Once the stack was assembled, a team of developers had to navigate frameworks like J2EE and .NET. A team of network, database, and system management experts was needed to keep everything up and running. Inevitably, a business requirement would require a change to the application, which would then kick off another lengthy development, test, and redeployment cycle.
Additionally, large companies often needed specialized facilities to house their data centers and a team to maintain them. Enormous amounts of electricity also were needed to power the servers as well as the systems to keep them cool. Finally, a failover site was needed to mirror the data center so information could be replicated in case of a disaster.
Applications built with this complexity and infrastructure are difficult to scale for usage spike demands, brittle to update as the business needs change, and are difficult to make mobile and social.
The new model: Cloud apps.
Just as Amazon.com, eBay, Google, iTunes, and YouTube made it possible to access new capabilities and new markets through a Web browser, PaaS offers a faster, more cost-effective model for application development and delivery.
PaaS provides all the infrastructure needed to develop and run applications over the Internet. Users can access custom apps built in the cloud, just like their SaaS apps, while IT departments and ISVs can focus on innovation instead of complex infrastructure. By leveraging PaaS, organizations can redirect a significant portion of their budgets from “keeping the lights on” to creating applications that provide real business value.
PaaS is driving a new era of mass innovation and business agility. For the first time, developers can focus on application expertise for their business, not managing complex hardware and software infrastructure.
