Public Cloud, Microsoft Azure Planning Services (AZDPS)
AZDPS engagements help customers understand what Microsoft Azure can do for their business and identify projects that are best suited for this public cloud offering. Assess web and line-of-business applications, and extend on-premises applications to the public cloud to help reduce IT complexity and costs.
Activating Microsoft Azure Storage
UpSearch helps customers expand their Microsoft Azure storage solution, reducing storage costs for large data footprints. Assess the environment and determine the best scenarios for cloud storage, create an activation plan to migrate data to Azure, and demonstrate the value of Azure with a proof of concept or deployment.
Migrate Applications to Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services
This engagement helps customers assess, prioritize and begin migrating existing virtualized applications. To provide value within an expedited timeframe, this engagement prioritizes the migration of applications that do not require significant re-architecting or code modifications. The following Microsoft Azure Service offerings are included within this engagement: SQL Server on Azure IaaS, Azure Active Directory Premium, overall application migration, and migration from Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other competitive products.
Implementing Develop and Test Scenarios with Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
This engagement is designed to help customers implement a scalable, more secure and cost-effective development and test environment with Azure Virtual Machines. By using virtual machines, customers can provision a development and test environment in a matter of minutes—not days, weeks, or months—directly increasing their development velocity.
Implementing Operations Management Suite
Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is the management service delivered from the cloud to extend System Center for the datacenter. OMS manages and protects guests and workloads across Azure, AWS, Windows Server, Linux, VMware, and OpenStack at a lower cost than competitive solutions. For customers who have already deployed System Center 2012, OMS extends System Center investments into hybrid cloud delivering IT management as a service for any workload, any platform, anywhere—whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Enterprise Mobility + Security Identity and Access Management
Centrally secure and manage identities with an Identity and Access Management cloud solution (Azure Active Directory) that extends your on-premises directories into the cloud and provides secure single sign-on to thousands of cloud (SaaS) apps and access to web apps you run on-premises. Built for ease of use, Azure Active Directory enables enterprise mobility and collaboration and delivers advanced identity protection through Multi-Factor Authentication, security reports, audits, alerts and adaptive conditional access policies based on device health, user location, and risk level.
Enterprise Mobility + Security Identity Driven Security
Assess core capabilities needed to deploy a holistic and innovative approach to security on-premises and in the cloud. Identity driven security addresses your security challenges by protecting at the front door using advanced risk-based conditional access, protecting your data with deep visibility into user activity and stronger controls, and helping you uncover suspicious activity using behavioral analytics technologies to take immediate action.
Enterprise Mobility + Security Information Protection
Protect company data at the file level. Outline a plan to deploy a security solution that helps classify, label and ultimately protect data at the time of creation. Enable safe sharing of sensitive data inside and outside of your organization. Gain visibility and control over shared data.
