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Cloud services for Duluth and Superior businesses
For most businesses, the cloud is where email, files and line-of-business applications are heading, if they are not there already. Done well, it means your people can work from anywhere, you stop replacing servers every few years, and a failed piece of hardware is somebody else’s problem. Done without a plan, it means rising bills, files in three places and nobody sure what is backed up.
We help you choose the right environment, move to it without disruption, and keep it secure and affordable afterwards.
What we do
Cloud strategy and consulting
Before anything moves, we look at your applications, data, security needs and growth plans, and recommend where each thing should live. Some belong in a public cloud, some are better kept on your own equipment, and many businesses end up with both.
Migration
We plan and carry out the move of email, files, applications and data, in stages, with a way back at each step. The aim is that staff arrive one morning and things simply work from the new place.
Infrastructure: public, private, hybrid and multicloud
We design and build the environment itself: servers, storage, networking and identity. Hybrid setups connect your office systems to the cloud so they behave as one; multicloud setups spread work across more than one provider where that makes sense.
Cloud backup and disaster recovery
Backups of your servers, computers and cloud services such as Microsoft 365, kept separately from the originals and tested. The recovery plan states how quickly each system comes back and in what order.
Cloud security
Sign-in rules, multi-factor authentication, permissions, monitoring and data protection. Most cloud breaches come from a setting, not from the provider, so this is where the attention goes.
Management and cost control
Ongoing monitoring, updates and a regular review of what you are paying for against what you use.
Integration and connectivity
Connecting cloud applications to each other and to your office, so information is entered once and the connection between your building and your cloud is fast and private.
Application modernization
Older applications that only run on one aging server can often be moved, rebuilt or replaced. We tell you which of those is worth doing.
Signs it is time for a cloud review
- Your server is more than five years old and due for replacement.
- Staff email files to themselves to work from home.
- Your cloud bill has grown and nobody can explain why.
- You are not sure whether your Microsoft 365 or Google data is backed up.
- A former employee may still have access to shared files.
Managed cloud for larger environments
For businesses running substantial workloads in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, we work with specialist managed-cloud providers who operate, secure and optimise those environments, and we stay your local point of contact.
How we work
- Discover. What you run, where it lives, and what it costs.
- Plan. Options with prices, and a migration plan with dates.
- Install. The move itself, staged and tested.
- Support. Monitoring, backups and regular reviews, with one number to call.
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