Hybrid Cloud

Improve your time-to-market

We share your concerns about optimizing your IT budget. The new and proven cloud computing technology can certainly work to scale down costs in your IT investments and operations. It allows you to innovate faster once you have grasped how to integrate new applications with your existing infrastructure and data sets. Together, we can identify which IT components can be set up in the cloud or transferred to the cloud, supported by a solid business case for a proven return. Here are some examples of situations where we recommend using cloud computing:

• if you are making online transactions with a growing throng of suppliers and customers
• if a sizable portion of business processes run externally to your company
• if you are struggling with peak capacity performance
• if expansion is moving towards mobile applications
• if you lack the support staff to set up and maintain high-availability IT services
• if you need to set up new mission critical applications for real time transactions

Find the right case

Well conceived use of cloud computing will certainly reduce  your IT spend while offering more flexibility, and improve the time-to-market of new and competitive applications. You can count on our experience in application integration to draft a long-term roadmap for a phased transfer to cloud computing. Cnext can devise a take-off plan that includes the most relevant components of your IT infrastructure.

How to avoid a flop

Without conducting a thorough upfront analysis or deploying correct technical implementation could mean that your cloud computing projects go horribly wrong, and fails to yield the savings you were expecting ! We know how to avoid this thanks to diligent project management and astute technical skills. Amongst others, we work with Microsoft BizTalk AppFabric Connect to integrate on premise software with new cloud applications faster. That is why Cnext is one of the few members of the Microsoft Inner Circle for Windows Azure.

Hybrid cloud strategy

As with all our other clients, you will gradually move your IT applications to the cloud. A long-term hybrid cloud integration strategy allows you to protect your existing investments on premise applications, while taking full advantage of cloud computing enjoying its competitive pricing, high availability, flexible capacity and speed.

Our services

• Hybrid cloud computing for e-business enablement, business presentation
• Windows Azure for IT architects and developers, technical training
• Roadmap and business case development, including ROI calculations
• Implementation services for Windows Azure
• Application development for Windows Azure, including forecasting and cost monitoring