The cloud has generated an amazing amount of noise and despite its ascendance from industry buzzword to enterprise solution; the cloud is still surrounded by ambiguity. As the market continues to evolve, those looking at cloud realise that important decisions need to be made.
With so many routes to the cloud, it can be difficult to know where to start. Public? Private? On-premise? Off-premise? Hybrid? Take the wrong turn, and your organisation could face increased risk and cost.
As your cloud aggregator we will help you create a best-fit, best-value strategy for cloud computing and find the solutions to bring greater agility, flexibility and cost efficiency to the decision-making process.
TO MAKE AN
INFORMED
DECISION FOR WHAT
IS BEST FOR YOU AND
YOUR BUSINESS, YOU
NEED TO UNDERSTAND
THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS
AND OUTCOMES.
CUTTING
IT’S FAST.
IT’S FLEXIBLE.
IT’S FLUID.
IT’S THE FUTURE.
The promise of greater agility,
efficiency and cost control has
cemented cloud computing in
the corporate IT landscape.
Becoming ‘cloud-ready’ and virtualising infrastructure; ensuring that systems are prepared for the cloud, is a major focus for most organisations.
The first step towards cloud enablement is to develop a deep understanding of your existing infrastructure and IT capabilities. How do these fit with the current demands of your business? And how must your IT evolve to deliver to future priorities and therefore become a key enabler of competitive advantage? Through our Cloud Maturity
Assessment, we can help you gain clarity and show you the steps required to make the transition to your organisation’s target position. We can then work with you to consolidate and optimise your existing IT infrastructure.
Through the strategic implementation of initiatives such as automation, virtualisation, utility computing, enterprise computing, integrated infrastructure and information optimisation, we can help you to build your dynamic datacenter capability.
We then place this at the centre of your business to define a state of cloud readiness; where your IT infrastructure is provisioned and optimised to deliver new operational models and achieve business transformation through cloud computing.
GETTING READY
FOR CLOUD
THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS CLOUD READINESS IS TO
DEVELOP A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR EXISTING
WE CAN BE YOUR
CLOUD AGGREGATOR
We provide a single interface into Computacenter’s cloud offerings and integrated public cloud services via the C3 Cloud Connect Portal delivering organisations with consolidated billing and reporting for their cloud services.
THE BUILDER:
We help customers assemble their own private cloud environments, which can be hosted, off-premise or a hybrid of the two. Using automated tools and industrialised processes, Computacenter accelerates the time to value.
THE PROVIDER:
We have developed a suite of pragmatic cloud services that encompass common workloads, such as infrastructure resources. Access to Computacenter’s cloud services direct from our Cloud Connect Portal and the C3 portfolio offers
commercial and operational flexibility while safeguarding security and service levels.
THE INTEGRATOR:
As a Cloud Integrator we enable controlled access to third-party public cloud solutions via our C3 Cloud Connect Portal giving organisations control. Our Cloud Connect Portal integrates resources, automates provisioning and consolidates billing to provide a seamless cloud service to the business.
Regardless of where you are on the cloud journey, we will listen before we
recommend. We have three clear choices for cloud adoption which cover everything from bespoke to off-the-shelf solutions and third party services. These can be implemented quickly to deliver the agility your business needs.
INFORMED
CHOICE
WE CAN BE YOUR
CLOUD BUILDER,
YOUR
CLOUD PROVIDER AND
YOUR
CLOUD INTEGRATOR.
CLOUD PROVIDER
CLOUD
AGGREGATOR
CLOUD
BUILDER INTEGRATORCLOUD
AS THE ROLE OF A CLOUD AGGREGATOR, COMPUTACENTER OFFERS THREE CHOICES FOR CLOUD.
DISCOVERY CONSOLIDATION OPTIMISATION CLOUD MATURITY ASSESMENT DYNAMIC DATACENTER
CLOUD
ADOPTION
Infrastructure
C3Infrastructure is a private cloud environment that is delivered on or off-premise on a platform owned and managed by Computacenter. Based on virtualised components and optimised processes, C3Infrastructure delivers the scalability, security and reliability needed for enterprise IT workloads.
We can provision, secure, orchestrate and automate using Synergy, our unique infrastructure management tool, so you get the consistency
Software Licence Manager
C3Software Licence Manager is a suite of services that can be delivered either as individual components or as a complete solution through Computacenter enabling customers to: The cloud computing journey is
constantly changing. As the market and model evolves, organisations will want to add new platforms and suppliers to their cloud map.
To navigate this fragmented landscape, organisations need end-to-end visibility and centralised control. Computacenter joins these delivery points together via our Cloud Aggregation model. As an aggregator, we not only work across the cloud portfolio but also traditional IT delivery models, such as
managed services.
Computacenter has been partnering customers to provide smart commercial consumption models for IT for more than three decades. The cloud is just a new way to consume IT – with new challenges and new opportunities. Our maturity model and roadmap based approach will help you plot a course for the cloud that mitigates risk and maximises return. And we won’t just help you get in. As an independent aggregator and advisor, Computacenter can get you out and across the cloud too.
WITH YOU EVERY
STEP OF THE WAY
C3Infrastructure
delivers IT capacity for
business services that can
be provisioned in minutes.
C3Infrastructure will also
help address resource
constraints in the datacenter.
Reduce software expenditure
by up to 20%
Minimise risk of software
license compliance failures
Manage software procurement
and support contracts more
effectively
Respond instantly to vendor
audit requests.
For absolute certainty, you can even test and experience the reality and benefits of your solution in our Customer Solution Centre.
Customer Solution Centre
Computacenter’s Customer Solution Centre cuts through the fluff to enable organisations to explore the trends and technologies that are defining this new IT delivery model. Our Cloud
Laboratories can help benchmark the costs of different cloud models, so they can be compared with existing expenditure. It also enables IT decision-makers to evaluate the different infrastructure components available for developing private clouds, understand Computacenter’s role in cloud computing and trial our Cloud Connect Portal.
The centre enables
organisations to make
informed decisions about
how, when and if they should
adopt cloud. With unrivalled
insight into the different
options available, businesses
will be able to identify and
maximise the potential for
making financial savings.
MOVING FORWARD WITH
CONFIDENCE
Cloud Connect Portal
Through our unique cloud
connect portal, you can
combine services from leading
cloud providers.
This self-service,
platform-agnostic portal for managing
cloud services, aggregates
control across our cloud
services as well as controlling
the consumption of public
cloud resources and
third-party services.
This simplifies management
and the cloud supply chain
Whatever approach you take to cloud, we can help. Our industry-leading SLAs ensure that you have the solution you need.
We are the only provider to offer end-to-end service and support, and, looking ahead, our financial stability assures that we’ll remain best placed to meet your specific needs and deliver your IT strategy.
