CloudOps blog

There are several options to choose from for your AWS support, but it’s a choice many businesses are still struggling with.

There are several options for Microsoft Azure support available for you to choose from, but it’s a choice many businesses still find challenging.

IBM recently reported that the cost of an IT security breach is rising for businesses. In fact, 2021 has had the highest average cost for a data breach in the past 17 years, at $4.24 million USD (just over £3 million).

Vigo have designed and built software and hardware solutions for their clients for over 30 years, largely within the logistics, haulage, warehouse and pallet network markets in the UK.

With so much of your business’s mission-critical processes and applications hosted in the cloud these days, single sign-on (SSO) can be a valuable feature for your user identity and access management.

Unlike the traditional on-premise IT systems of the past, the cloud requires a more proactive approach to management and maintenance once the solution has been deployed.

If you have a Microsoft Azure cloud environment, it’s likely you may be part of a ‘cloud solution provider’ (CSP) agreement  with your partner without even realising it.

It may seem odd to have a case study for our own company, but we are by no means special when it comes to our reliance on the cloud and how we use it to improve our business capabilities.

Once you’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud, the next obvious step is to decide whether you’re going to go direct to the supplier (Amazon or Microsoft) or work with a specialist partner. Although both suppliers have reasonably straightforward setup processes that can be managed in-house quite easily, on a day-to-day basis it’s likely that you’ll need more expert assistance. If you do choose to go with a specialist partner, there are a huge number of companies out there who can help, so how do you choose what’s right for your business?

Achieving well-maintained and well-managed cloud services, while keeping costs down, causes a headache for most businesses. And with the majority of your critical applications and processes running via the cloud these days, it’s easy to see why.