In this video, we're going to talk about IT for enterprise-sized companies, how to make
use of and migrate to cloud services for larger companies.
Good day Dan, how are you?
Good, thanks Tim.
So we've speaking a lot about IT services and support for SMEs.
Small and medium sized business.
But you also do work in the enterprise space.
Can you talk to me about some of the specific challenges that come up when you're thinking
big when it comes to the cloud?
Enterprise customers generally have a lot of IT equipment, they've got a lot of users
to support.
And it tends to be difficult for them to make changes to migrate services to the cloud.
It's just a longer project than what it is for a smaller customer.
The types of services that we can then provide for an enterprise customer is be able to build
technology for them that enables them to move their enterprise into another data centre
without them having to build their data centre, their second data centre themselves.
So you kind of get to be the outsourced data centre without having to actually do that
infrastructure work themselves?
That's right.
Instead of them going to the hassle of building up a second data centre that has servers and
storage and routers and all that kind of thing.
They can literally subscribe to one of our services and then get a second data centre
as a monthly subscription.
Alright, that makes a lot of sense.
Let's talk about some tips for people who might be considering moving an enterprise
business over to the cloud.
What are some of the 2 or 3 things that people might need to look out for or that they could
sort of, you know, sneaky tricks along the way.
Some of the initial things that an enterprise customers should be looking at is not necessarily
moving everything into the one-cloud environment.
There are some businesses that will move everything to public cloud,
or everything to private cloud.
And again I would say, look at the different types of cloud and work out what is the right
solution, what's the right hybrid approach for your enterprise, for your particular environment.
So, look at that and work out what's gonna be the best solution that fits.
Okay that makes sense.
And, one of the things that I imagine that's very important for enterprise-level clients,
is to make sure that they've outsourced their data storage and a back-up of that.
And any particular tips or tricks along the way to that outcome?
What we would tend to say to enterprise customer is don't necessarily go to the expensive building
that second site for off-siting your data.
And this is a common thing that most customers, most large customers need to do, they need
to have a secondary site just in case something happens to their primary location.
So don't go the expense now of building that second site
and to having a mirror copy of it.
By using the cloud, in particular in this case, by using private cloud you can quite
easily bring up that second data centre for your off-site storage, and just have that
off-site storage going into a secondary data centre.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Any other tips that you might have when it comes to IT Support for Enterprise-level businesses?
Yes, certainly be able to look at IT Service providers and be able to work out, what services
that they have that can augment the team that you have in place.
So, you might have projects on that are taking your team away from doing their regular businesses
as usual support for your end-users.
So look at IT Service Providers to be able to come in and do those projects because in
a lot of cases, the service providers themselves are doing these projects over and over again.
So there might be efficiencies that they learned over time.
Simply by repeating the same thing again and again.
That's exactly right.
And it also frees up your team to continue the business as usual and bringing the professionals
to do the more complex tasks.
That makes a lot of sense.
Alright, thank you so much.
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