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Overview
VTS renders highly effective and reliable cloud computing services that provide organizations with a competitive edge. Our team of experts helps our clients realize the benefit of transformation, from greater productivity to faster innovation, flexible resources, economies of scale, enhanced efficiency, significant cost reductions and simplified IT management. Our cloud solutions enable organizations to reduce IT resource requirements and improve productivity, in addition to lowering costs and reducing the time-to-market. We assist customers with our OnDemand Expert Consulting Services (OECS), tools, servers, storage, databases, networking, software, apps, and more. One of the main advantages of cloud services is the scalability, meaning clients can increase resources based on business demand without adversely affecting performance, and without the cost, risk, and time to move data and refactor apps. Subsequently, this frees up capital, boosts operational and financial flexibility and increases your capacity to accelerate your business. This is particularly helpful for clients whose usage may experience peaks and troughs.
Improve development velocity and operational efficiency across your organization through automation. Application modernization helps you innovate faster while lowering costs by offering a consistent development and operations experience along with industry-leading tools and guidance. Our data-driven prioritization and benchmarking exercises can help you focus on the application investments that will have the biggest impact.
Modernize your existing apps and build cloud-native ones in today’s hybrid and multi-cloud world with Cloud Application Modernization. Start with a data-driven baseline assessment and promote faster, secure software development with our tailored set of proven DevOps practices.
Optimize your hybrid cloud with seamless migration and globally consistent cloud management across any delivery model, at scale. Our teams leverage agile delivery methodologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools to manage complex hybrid cloud environments, so that you do not have to. We help you select the best execution venue for workloads based on business requirements, while applying appropriate governance and security controls for users, applications and data. We provide ongoing improvement with continuous cloud optimization, focusing on cost management and performance.
The VTS Cloud Services team will guide you through result-driven transformation approaches and provide the service and innovation to accelerate application modernization utilizing best practices in DevOps containers. This is done using full-stack infrastructure that enables agility and high performance while ensuring your solution is secure-by-design. We provide standardized, reliable, secure and repeatable cloud services, by leveraging advanced platforms, which simplify moves between vendors.
With optimal cloud performance and costs in your control, you can continually enhance customer experiences, drive differentiation and decrease your time to market. VTS will partner with you to deliver the expertise you need to avoid common pitfalls and adopt a solution that helps accelerate your return on investment. VTS cloud services experts will conduct assessments of your IT environment and chart a data driven journey to support your transformation objectives, meet your business objectives and drive growth. Our experts will provide you with a tailored, risk-mitigated cloud strategy that considers all possible deployment models, with minimal downtime. We provide a seamless, modern, secure and agile journey.
Services
Cloud Transformation Services
Cloud Application transformation/modernization is a process that begins with the user experience in mind. It draws a parallel between the organization’s future and its current operational portfolio complexity. It requires a comprehensive approach that aligns with business outcomes, examines the current and new business requirements, and takes into account the organization’s current inventory, technology stack, and gaps to develop a customized, process-led plan to determine the best method to maximize long-term business benefits. The VTS Consulting Services team approach to application transformation/modernization is a process first, technology second approach. Let our Consulting Services team guide you through your transformation journey.
Data Modernization
Data is at the center of all strategic themes and critical to the success of any digital agenda. As such, organizations are demanding business value from their data. Digital business transformation provides the opportunity to access, manage, distribute and analyze all available data from various disparate systems and sources while it is still valuable and turns your data into insights that guide your business. Handling and processing streaming data enables data engineers to ingest, process, and analyze real-time streaming data for actionable insights. Additionally, virtualization capabilities & the ability to create a virtual & integrated view of data in-memory & centralize administration, while improving scalability and reducing workloads provides valuable, insightful, and meaningful data to help organizations make critical business decisions. Data modernization has helped the organizations to not only be data-driven organizations but also to optimize various business processes to enhance speed, efficiency, and better the bottom-line. Let our team of experts, help you on your digital transformation journey, rationalize your data assets, and lay out your data modernization roadmap.
Mainframe Modernization
Modernize your mainframe applications and move them safely and quickly into the cloud with advanced application discovery. Today, organizations looking to achieve the full benefits of the cloud model are turning to the cloud, an approach to building and running applications that enables developers to more rapidly design, deliver, and operate business-critical tools and services. Modernizing your applications lets you take advantage of digital trends, grow revenue, reduce time-to-market, support new business models including use of mobility, and align business and IT objectives. Let our team of experts help you innovate without constraints using the most scalable and reliable services.
Application migration
Migrate traditional apps into the cloud by defining the process first, then identifying the technology approach to continuous modernization.We will work with your team to define the right objectives, prioritize your most impactful business processes, identify supporting technology, vendors and architecture, and outline the roadmap to modernize your application. Let our team of experts intelligently extract and convert your apps, help you capitalize on the benefits of modernization quickly, and accelerate adoption of modern day-two operations.
DevOps
VTS has an extensive DevOps software development history. We can automate processes and design tools that leverage the cloud to improve experience and enable long-term strategy. We match our deep cloud expertise with your project requirements and organizational goals to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and deliver proven results that utilize the right cloud services for your project. Let our team of experts help you increase the speed of your deployments, improve the stability of your software and improve your products at a faster pace to enable you to better serve your customers and compete more effectively in the market.
RE-ARCHITECT
When you need updated functionality and/or system extensibility along with updated technology, re-architecting is your best modernization option.This entails moving to a new application architecture where you can utilize modern programming as well as microservices. Let our team of experts help you consolidate multiple applications and data sources into a single modern architecture. Realize cost savings through lower maintenance and modern platforms.
RE-BUILD (Refactoring, lift-tinker-shift)
Maximize cloud technology advantages & performance by refactoring your applications. Let our team of experts restructure your existing computer code to improve its performance, readability, portability and code adherence without changing the code’s intended functions. Break down monolithic applications and encapsulate their data, functions, and individual components into micro services applications through a new application programming interface.
RE-PLATFORM (Lift, Tinker and Shift)
We move the legacy applications & any applications residing on on-premises to the cloud with minor changes, ensuring code structure, features, and functions are intact. The minor changes are introduced to optimize by automating and to leverage the advantages of the cloud platform. Let our team of experts help you improve efficiency, enhance customer experiences and reduce cost with end-to-end migrations to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps.
RE-HOST (lift and shift)
Let our team of experts help you re-host your application as-is to another physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure without any modification, all while keeping the business logic intact, with minimal disruption on all fronts. We help you take advantage of the lift and shift migration without feeling the pressure to completely redesign your applications.
Application Development & Delivery With Serverless
Develop, deploy, and scale applications fast and securely in a fully managed serverless environment. The cloud serverless compute platform abstracts away all infrastructure management by automatically scaling up and down from zero almost instantaneously, depending on traffic. Let us help you increase speed to market, simplify developer experiences and automate event orchestration.
Public Cloud Application Development
Innovate in response to market opportunities by deploying rapidly and utilizing infrastructure on demand.Build, deploy, test, manage, maintain, update, and scale applications faster and more using Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Leverage the availability of the faster, easier, less-risky adoption of a wider range of application development stack resources. Let our team of experts help you develop your application in the public cloud environment that is affordable, cost-effective, scalable & practically maintained.
Cloud-Native Application Development
Leverage an end-to-end cloud platform to accelerate your developer productivity, simplify operations, and build security and compliance into your software delivery process. Let our team of experts help you get speed with reliability, security and reduce risk.
Hybrid & Multi-cloud Application platform
Build, deploy, and optimize applications anywhere simply, flexibly, and securely with VTS Cloud consistent development and operations services for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Let our team of experts help you build or modernize apps according to your business need and provide you with a consistent development and operations experience across your hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Cloud Migration & Adoption
A clear understanding of the business requirements and organizational cloud objectives is the starting point of the cloud migration and adoption process. After reviewing the unique characteristics of each application to assess its suitability for the cloud, VTS will help you identify easy-to-move apps, unravel the complexity of larger distributed apps, and provide the critical IT and business data to make decisions that align with your business goals. We will help you get to the cloud in the most efficient manner for your organization, without disrupting business. Let our team of experts help you move to the cloud to improve availability of services, drive innovation, increase security and decrease costs.
Professional Services
The VTS Cloud Consulting Services team works with you to create a cloud roadmap designed to align to your corporate vision and business objectives. We bring our methodologies, tools, and experts to work together with your team to help you complete your migration journey faster with reduced risk and more reliability.Let our team of experts help you leverage the experience of our professional services consultants to unlock business value by using the cloud across a range of solutions including infrastructure, application modernization, data management and analytics, machine learning, security, and more.
Readiness Assessment
VTS will conduct cloud readiness assessments of your infrastructure, application, data and network architecture to establish the current as-is state and then deliver an effective roadmap, and cloud migration plan. In addition, your existing workload assessment, will enable the prioritization of focus areas, and estimate future cloud consumption to estimate your costs, determine which cloud platforms fit your overall cloud adoption strategy, and accelerate your cloud adoption. Let our team of experts help you to enable and accelerate cloud adoption.
Migration Methodology
Migrating thousands of workloads to the cloud requires a strategy. Our migration strategy will include the migration approach, pre-migration assessments, migration readiness, migration planning, migration execution and operations. Our team of experts will help you decide on the best strategy to achieve a smooth transition to the cloud. Leveraging data from the pre-migration assessment, we assess your business needs, identify opportunities and recommend the optimal migration strategy. Our team of experts will work with you to determine the right cloud strategy, operating model, roadmap, and ecosystem partnerships.
Cloud Managed Services
Database Management
Our team of certified DBAs have deep experience with troubleshooting and maintenance execution on relevant database technologies. We provide tailored managed database services for your business, which help you lower costs and manage your database complexity. Build a robust foundation at the database level that is essential to developing applications and strategies. We ensure that your most valuable asset is always available, secure, functional, and high performing by conducting the following services: Availability Monitoring,Backups, Restoration/Recovery,User/Security Management, and Around-The-Clock Support.
OnDemand Expert Consulting Services (OECS)
VTS OnDemand Expert Consulting Services (OECS) are a suite of service offerings that are designed to guide you through deploying, migrating, and maintaining your cloud solutions, from planning to modernization, and any stage in between. Our team of experts will review the infrastructure needs using our Discover, Learn, Plan, Build, and Operate process. Work side-by-side with our team of cloud experts to deliver cloud-first solutions using the following category of services – Migrations, Application Operations, Infrastructure Build-Out, Security Management, DevOps and Automation, Disaster Recovery, Performance Management, Application Monitoring & Cost Optimization
Management & Operations
Maximize performance and minimize management burdens with an experienced, always-on operations team. Let our team of experts, help you with your cloud management & operations by handling the infrastructure complexities of cloud platforms, while freeing more of your internal resources to work on your core business. We work with you to design and build infrastructure that meets your needs, giving you the advantages of advanced cloud capabilities like support for Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, AI, machine learning, containers, infrastructure, platforms, applications, data, cloud provider/cloud service provider resources and more. We can help you control and orchestrate all the products and services that operate in the cloud. To drive innovation, efficiency and continuous improvement processes, automation, and adjustments will be made as needed, while also monitoring usage and cost. Our team of experts will maintain flexibility and scalability, while being able to adapt quickly when things change.
Reduced Complexity & Data integrity
Even complex features like replication, high availability, monitoring and backups are simplified and easy to enable via our Control Panel, Application Programming Interface (API)or Command Line Interface (CLI).Our proactive health checks, database monitoring, and performance tuning keep your data sharp.
Scalable Operations
Cloud Databases let you painlessly add or remove replicas, move between instance sizes up to 64GB of RAM and scale storage up to 1TB or higher upon request. We will actively monitor your cloud infrastructure, and if an instance fails, we will automatically provision a replacement.
High Performance
Container-based virtualization delivers near bare-metal performance, and high-speed networking provides low-latency communication between your database and other Cloud Servers.We will monitor database performance, and, if needed, recommend query changes, introduce performance optimizations and scale up/out.
Reliability & Security
Redundant storage, power and networking help protect you from hardware failures. A dedicated storage cluster with synchronous data replication keeps your data available across multiple storage clusters and helps to protect against data loss.We will review audit logs and data access patterns, update database firewall rules and ensure sensitive data is protected.
Security & Compliance
With the advent of cloud services, cloud security is an unavoidable necessity that enterprises cannot escape from. Customers are transitioning their applications and data to use cloud computing. It is critically important that the level of cloud security offered is in line with the industry standards to protect the data, data centers and mission-critical information. VTS provides comprehensive Security Services for the Cloud, that resolve Cloud security compliance issues with cloud initiatives and industry best practices. We proactively detect and disrupt threats to sensitive data and systems, thereby securely delivering business services and achieving compliance with industry regulations.
Backup Services
Data is an essential asset to run enterprise businesses and any unanticipated disaster may impact the data, eventually affecting the business, revenue and the overall well-being of the enterprise. With a higher percentage of enterprises using multi-cloud today, it is imperative that the backup services be mandated to avoid any loss of data.Let our team of experts provide you with the flexibility to create a hybrid cloud environment for enterprise data backup to the cloud, within the cloud and between clouds. We will ensure your business continuity and enable you to achieve your technical and business objectives for cloud-based backups through all-inclusive, enterprise-grade backup services.
Disaster Recovery Services
VTS provides cloud-based disaster recovery and data protection services and expertise.Data is the most vital asset of an enterprise and the risk associated with data loss is massive. Any reduction in productivity can impact the business progress and transformation. Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS) creates an initial disaster recovery strategy, providing your organization confidence in data safety when a disaster strikes. Our Disaster Recovery services ensure that your mission-critical systems continue to be available and responsive under the most adverse circumstances. Let our team of experts help you recover critical business information quickly, minimize downtime and efficiently plan for continuous business progress.
Infrastructure Services
VTS provides end-to-end, unified and seamless infrastructure services to increase efficiency, improve quality and explore new opportunities to accelerate our client digital transformation journeys.Structuring a flexible, scalable and cost-effective IT infrastructure while implementing strategies that push IT to an as-a-service model is intimidating. We plan, architect, build and integrate Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution across private, public and multi-cloud environments with our deep expertise working with all major cloud infrastructure providers.
Cloud Security Services
Intelligent Automation (IA)
Leverage event driven Intelligent Automation (IA) to quickly remediate and secure your environment in near real-time. IA technology empowers rapid end-to-end business process automation and accelerates digital transformation and security. Help visualize and query the threat landscape and promote quicker incident response times. IA-based anomaly detection algorithms are applied to catch unknown threats, which then undergo forensics analysis to determine their risk profile. Real-time alerts on intrusions and policy violations shorten times to remediation, sometimes even triggering auto-remediation workflows.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Protects web applications by filtering traffic based on rules that you create. Block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting, by filtering web requests based on IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, or URI strings. Granularly inspect and control traffic to and from web application servers, automatically update WAF rules in response to traffic behavior changes, deploy closer to microservices that are running workloads.
Enhanced Data Protection
Securely protect your data and accounts from unauthorized access as well as manage identities, resources, permissions, and workloads,Enhance data protection with encryption at all transport layers, secure file shares and communications, continuous compliance risk management, and maintain good data storage resource hygiene such as detecting misconfigured buckets and terminating orphan resources.
Protection Policies and Processes
Enforce virtual server protection policies and processes such as change management and software updates according to your business requirements. Be in the driver seat when it comes to your security.Cloud Security Vendors provide robust Cloud Security Posture Management, consistently applying governance, compliance rules and templates when provisioning virtual servers, auditing for configuration deviations, and remediating automatically where possible.
Application Security
Assess code, logic, and application inputs to detect software vulnerabilities and threats. Help inspect your application deployments for security risks and vulnerabilities while providing priorities and conducting remediation. Build secure environments, and applications from the ground up. Identify threats by continuously monitoring the network activity and account behavior within your environment.
Network Security Controls
Deploy business-critical resources and apps in logically isolated sections of the provider’s cloud network, such as Virtual Private Clouds (AWS and Google) or vNET (Azure). Use subnets to micro-segment workloads from each other, with granular security policies at subnet gateways. Use dedicated WAN links in hybrid architectures, and use static user-defined routing configurations to customize access to virtual devices, virtual networks and their gateways, and public IP addresses.
Identity and Access Control (IAM)
Define and manage user identity, access policies and entitlements.Grant only the minimal access privileges to assets and APIs that are essential for a group or role to carry out its tasks. The more extensive the privileges, the higher the levels of authentication. Help enforce business governance, including user authentication enforcing strong password policies, permission time-outs, authorization, and single sign on.
Remediate Security Threats
Leverage event driven automation to quickly remediate and secure your environment in near real-time.
Respond To Security Threats
Automated incident response and recovery to help shift the primary focus of security teams from response to analyzing root cause.
Detect Security Threats
Gain visibility into your organization’s security posture with logging and monitoring services. Ingest this information into a scalable platform for event management, testing, and auditing by integrating a cloud-native/third-party security stack.
Prevent Security Threats
Define user permissions and identities as well as cloud services protection and data protection measure for a smooth, seamless & planned integrated cloud-native/third-party security stack adoption strategy.