Reducing risk and cost
Maintaining on-premises IT infrastructure can represent a significant cost and risk, especially when you have a mix of legacy and modern platforms. To address this challenge, many companies aim to limit the number and variety of systems they run, and the corresponding technical skills they need to have in-house.
Migrating systems to the cloud can seem like an easy way to cut costs. However, the speed and convenience of setting up new resources in the cloud makes it easy to lose control – replacing fixed in-house capital costs with spiralling external operational costs.
Northdoor has skills and experience in both on-premises and cloud infrastructure. We can help you determine the best location for each workload, plan and execute low-risk migrations, manage your critical systems wherever they are, and continuously optimise your cloud costs.
Get in touch with Northdoor to learn more about our infrastructure services and solutions:
Northdoor Cloud and On-premises Infrastructure Solutions
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Cloud SolutionsAdopt cloud technologies without compromising on flexibility, scalability, performance, security or cost-efficiency
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IBM Power SystemsAs an IBM Platinum partner, Northdoor has the skills and experience to maximise the value of IBM Power Systems landscapes.
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Balanced architecture
Based on 30 years’ experience serving blue-chip enterprises, Northdoor has built up a structured approach and proprietary methodologies for analysing infrastructure against present and future business requirements. We give businesses a clear and organised picture of their existing IT resources and the flows of business information between them. We then propose optimised hybrid architectures that migrate IT resources to the cloud where appropriate, and otherwise move them to more efficient and modern platforms. Northdoor offers a full spectrum of infrastructure services – from design to deployment, and from support to outsourced operations – while managing risk every step of the way.
Navigating public clouds
It can be challenging to determine the right balance between on-premises, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Northdoor has in-depth knowledge of the major public cloud offerings and long experience of advising enterprises on the best combination of platforms for their individual business needs. We also understand that the skillsets needed to manage cloud environments have evolved: in addition to handling the technology, we optimise the ongoing expenditure to ensure that our clients achieve long-term value from their cloud infrastructure service.
Who are we doing this for?
Blue Cube Travel
Northdoor won the 2022 ‘Cloud Solution Provider of the Year’ at the IT Europa Channel Awards for its work with market-leading corporate travel management company, Blue Cube Travel.
By the end of 2019 Blue Cube Travel had a robust and secure setup. Kevin Trill, Director of Technology and Transformation comments:
“Back in 2018/2019 we experienced loss of data lines and power cuts, but the solution still operated without being dependant on a single Blue Cube Travel location. Additionally, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit we had to move to remote working and, thanks to Northdoor, we already had the infrastructure in place to enable employees to work from home, aside from provisioning a few extra laptops.”
Blue Cube Travel recognises how important it is to have robust networking and security infrastructure in place and, as it has matured its requirements, so it has transitioned onto different providers to support its needs. Being hosted in Microsoft Azure made the business acutely aware of the myriad of solutions and options which are possible. Kevin Trill from Blue Cube Travel continues:
“If you don’t have a specialist partner, like Northdoor, who understands your business, the cloud, and all the possible options, it can quickly represent a risk to your organisation, especially if you haven’t implemented the right security solutions.”
The migration enabled stronger cyber security policies, reduced risk, and helped future-proof Blue Cube Travel’s infrastructure.
Stace
Stace, a construction and property consultancy company with 170 staff in various locations, had a sprawling IT infrastructure which was failing to meet the demands of an expanding business. Outages and unplanned downtime were regular events, and the IT internal team needed expert support to help it create and deliver a new strategy for IT.
Northdoor completely rearchitected the Citrix environment and introduced a task-appropriate, virtualised infrastructure using IBM Storage technology. In addition to delivering much-needed stability, Northdoor separated the desktop and server environments and provided dedicated resources for each, increasing reliability. A disaster recovery service was designed and implemented, and a managed services wrapper complements the in-house team to increase availability and user confidence.
Sanctions Checker
As part of our ‘practice what we preach’ principle, Northdoor carried out an assessment to look at the cost and performance of moving our own SaaS solution, Sanctions Checker, into the Microsoft Azure cloud. Following our successful migration to Azure, we are able to offer greater performance, reliability, capacity and flexibility to the businesses that depend on this service on a day-to-day basis.
Best Western Hotel & Resorts
Working with Northdoor enabled Best Western GB to meet its key objective rapidly and at low risk: moving existing member websites to a more flexible and secure platform. Thanks to both the Azure cloud and Northdoor’s responsive management services, Best Western GB can now create websites and services much faster and more cost-effectively than before. In a digital-led market, this gives the business a new competitive edge, with the potential for significant ROI in future.
Cloud computing technologies
As an IBM Platinum Business Partner, Northdoor has deep experience in IBM Systems and IBM Storage private cloud technologies as well as IBM Cloud technologies. We have won multiple IBM awards for technical excellence.
Northdoor continues to win public recognition for ground-breaking cloud deployments on behalf of clients. Click below to find out more about our latest successes, awards and achievements.
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