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End-to-end cloud computing services to transform your IT systems and streamline your business processes.
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Whether you want to migrate to a different cloud computing services provider or efficiently manage your current cloud computing environment to optimise its value, our cloud experts plan and design a cloud computing strategy that works best for your business.
Our cloud services give you control over your computing resources without the inflexibility of physical IT infrastructure. We have more than a decade of consultancy experience providing managed cloud services in Sydney. We advise and implement best practices in networking, infrastructure, and cloud computing to achieve your business outcomes. Our managed cloud services let you focus on your core business while we ensure your systems are running smoothly and optimally.
Managed cloud services to improve your operational efficiency and productivity
Our in-house cloud technology specialists design, architect, build, migrate, and manage your business’ workloads and applications on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and more. Our managed cloud services include:
- Cloud strategy and consulting: We partner with three leading public cloud vendors to provide you with a cloud strategy that is vendor-agnostic and tailored to your business needs.
- Build and automate scalable infrastructure: We improve your system’s stability and efficiency by automatically adapting your infrastructure to increasing traffic and demand. We also offer DevOps services to review your existing cloud architecture and make recommendations to optimise your enterprise environment.
- Migrate existing applications to the cloud: Our cloud specialists help you migrate applications and workloads to, from and within public, private and hybrid cloud environments. We provide end-to-end cloud migration services from assessments, migration planning, execution, to managing your new cloud environment.
- Develop native cloud-based applications (SaaS, and BaaS): Our solution architects keep on top of what’s available on modern cloud platforms to ensure we’re not spending budget on re-inventing the wheel. The huge array of managed services like Backend as a Service (Baas) enable us to rapidly build out what’s unique to your business.
- Manage backups and recovery: We provide a fully managed cloud backup and recovery solution to ensure your data availability, reliability and accessibility.
- Monitoring and support: Our team of cloud specialists monitor the health of your cloud applications and troubleshoot any problems in a timely manner
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD): We help you leverage infrastructure resources (virtual machines, storage, and networking) to automate the build, integration and testing the code under development.
- 24/7 cloud support: We provide 24/7 support of your cloud environment. We monitor your cloud around the clock preventing potential problems before they arise.
We place a high premium on Technology at Trent Driving School, in fact it is part of our long term strategy. 4mation has been a partner of Trent for many years now and has ensured that we remain at the forefront of our industry.
Stephen O’Sullivan Trent Driving SchoolThe 4mation difference
Frequently asked questions
What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing describes the delivery of on-demand computing services like applications, processing power, and storage from a state of the art data center. So when you sign up for cloud computing services, you rent enterprise computing infrastructure to power your physical and virtual business operations.
What is managed cloud hosting?
A managed cloud hosting services provider offers the use of virtual hardware, network, storage, and composite solutions from their state of the art data center. cloud computing services like this enable untapped flexibility and on-demand hosted resources at scale. This cloud services model may combine the capacity of several servers to provide a single cloud-hosted server to ensure low latency.
Why make the move to the Cloud?
Cloud computing demands a strategy that matches your unique business goals. Whether it’s a serverless approach for economic benefits or one that boosts innovation and speed, cloud solutions drive operational efficiency.
Key benefits of moving to the cloud include:
– No upfront costs of running IT infrastructure, exchanging capital expenses with operational expenses
– Redeploy current IT resources to higher-value activities
– Gain a competitive advantage over businesses who devote IT resources to managing infrastructure
– Scale-up on demand by only paying for what you need, when you need it
– Adapt quickly to changing market conditions
– Benefit from economies of scale
– Optimised security features and networked backups
– Choose from public, private or hybrid storage solutions depending on your needs
– Determine the level of control with as-a-service options
– Teams can collaborate from widespread locations with worldwide access
What are the different types of cloud computing?
There are three main cloud computing services models. But for the most part, it comes down to a pay-as-you-use model or a fixed-term pricing model that allows you to add/ remove resources and manage data usages and accounts through dashboards or applications.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the basic layer of cloud computing and allows you to set up virtual servers and storage in a data centre.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a set of tools and services which make it easier for businesses to develop, run and manage applications without building and maintaining the infrastructure typically needed.
Software as a Service (Saas)
is a way of delivering applications over the internet as a service. It is software that is owned, delivered and managed remotely by providers.
Which Cloud service provider should I use?
Deciding which cloud provider is right for you comes down to your unique business needs. Whether its Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, we will help you get the most benefit from an industry leader of your choice:
– Amazon web services
– Azure Cloud services
– Google Cloud platform