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Reduce Your Cost, Risk and Improve Your Service With DedicatedSolutions

ManagedAre you looking for more transparency in infrastructure, application performance and cost? Request your end users improved service levels or your business needs improving SLAs to meet your business needs? Do you want to reduce the total cost of infrastructure and application management?

Need Managed Services at the company level, which is not offered by local and specialized firms for infrastructure & application management?

Improve your service and minimize your risk through proven techniques, tools and competent of DedicatedSolutions services. DedicatedSolutions infrastructure and application management functions allow you to dispense the daily management of business applications and the underlying infrastructure including servers, operating systems, network devices, storage, firewalls and associated desktops to a trusted partner.

Put IT time freely and focus on strategic business initiatives. These services support all devices, anywhere, without compromising brand, device type or geographic location. We also support hybrid deployments (hosting, colocation, cloud) and provides 24×7 service support.

You benefit from the following services:

Remote infrastructure management: Including remote management of servers, storage, networking, security and disaster recovery.

Application management: Including management for infrastructure applications on the market standard products and custom applications.

Stability, control, and transparency: It improves minimize your risk and downtime and improve your business continuity. 24×7 proactive monitoring and linking of incidents to identify and solve problems that require special attention. Timely measurement, tracking, and reporting of performance provides real-time control and analysis of historical trends. We offer excellent service with 24×7 proactive monitoring.

Improved service levels and user experience: provision of quality levels for the support of business applications and end users. Take advantage of best practices with a single Helpdesk, including process-based approaches to problem-solving and escalation to ensure compliance with predefined SLAs. Automation improves system availability, and offshore methodologies streamline infrastructure and application operation.

Cost and budget control: You reduce costs and thereby achieve the desired service level. Take advantage of tools and expertise to automate management processes can reduce manual effort and improve efficiency and capacity planning to cut costs without a negative impact to have the service levels.

Bridge resource and skill gaps: Take advantage of our technical expertise with proven infrastructure and application management functions. The experts at DedicatedSolutions have practical, hands-on experience with the implementation of targeted infrastructure and application management capabilities of modern technologies, all which can be used in each data center in the world.

DedicatedSolutions responds to IT complexity with comprehensive managed consulting and implementation services that foster innovation, increase agility, reduce by an increased efficiency costs and so provide a competitive advantage. Unlike traditional IT consulting companies that play an advisory role, DedicatedSolutions provides comprehensive, practical expertise with proven best practices.

With our end-to-end managed services, which include the development of strategies, planning, design, implementation and ongoing management of your applications and infrastructure, DedicatedSolutions can support hybrid IT in our own data center.

Fulfillment of Business Needs and Promoting IT Innovation

ManagedYour IT organization falls in terms of operational processes in your strategic business role. The business managers expect new, innovative solutions from you that give the company a competitive advantage. What new solutions and offers they could deploy in presence of an agile, flexible IT infrastructure?

You have to deal with different obstacles. The rigid and isolated infrastructure that your business is running for years forcing your IT organization to be more reactive than proactive, which makes it difficult for business to anticipate proactively new development. The need for new solutions evolves faster than the responsiveness of your IT organization, which means that business managers and the IT department turn with their requests directly to the service provider.

Such shadow IT projects increase the complexity, risk and cost of their IT. And since most of your IT budget probably is used for maintenance and manage your existing systems, little room remains for more value-creating initiatives.

DedicatedSolutions can support your IT infrastructure at a lower cost. We offered simplified management, security and managed custom solutions that enterprises need to respond quickly to the business needs of today and future innovations of tomorrow.

Increase Flexibility

The virtualization technologies from DedicatedSolutions will allow rapid development and provision of new services, applications, and resources. Thanks to modern management tools through a central interface control, all your virtual IT resources, including multiple hypervisors process even faster response and simplify and optimize requirements.

In addition, DedicatedSolutions technologies are based on open standards, which allow you always to use those tools and to choose applications that best meet your business needs without having to take the lack of flexibility of proprietary IT environments.

Reducing the Virtualization Cost

DedicatedSolutions technologies based virtualization benefit from a high subscription model that costs less than royalty based solutions. Moreover, you can use our custom solutions to increase VM density, so you need fewer systems for your operations. In fact, the virtualization costs by using our solutions can increase your budget for Innovation.

Increase Security

The virtualization technologies from DedicatedSolutions have the same security features as found in most of the leading vendors, making sure your entire virtual infrastructure is secure and robust. Also, our monitoring features prevent the spread of unauthorized access to protect your processes even more and the vulnerability to reduce further.

Promotion of Innovation

DedicatedSolutions offers you a flexible, secure and cost-effective virtualized infrastructure that can be more proactive and use the latest technological innovations and progress to satisfy business requirements. Our cloud management platform delivers private, public and hybrid cloud as per your company needs.

To meet your company’s needs for new solutions and to prevent shadow IT projects, you need a flexible, cost-effective IT infrastructure. DedicatedSolutions virtualized infrastructure ensures an increase in agility and cost reductions and allows you to focus more on innovation. Please contact our sales team to discuss more of our offers and their contribution to the promotion of IT innovations.

What Belongs To The CIOs Agenda in 2016: Prioritize IT Investments

The ever-increasing expectations of customers and the ever shorter innovation cycles have a fundamental reorientation of the IT landscape and the underlying unavoidable control mechanisms. The biggest mover among the technology trends in 2016 compared to previous years is the Design Thinking.

More and more companies use design thinking to target better their products and services to customers. IT budgets are an absolute top priority of CIOs. In 2016, however, the design thinking form the basis of many transformation projects that need to be orchestrated by CIOs.

Business Intelligence and analytics have long been one of the CIOs top priorities, and although new investments press on, it will also in 2016 be number one on the list. In Gartner survey of 2,944 CIOs from 84 different countries, CIOs responded that BI/analytics will be the first place for investment with 50 percent of CIOs had this area in the top three of their investment priorities.

Here are CIOs priorities for investment in 2016, according to Gartner:

  1. BI/analytics (39 percent)
  2. Infrastructure and data center (27 percent)
  3. Cloud (25 percent)
  4. ERP (21 percent)
  5. Digitization and digital marketing (21 percent)
  6. Mobile solutions (20 percent)
  7. Security (15 percent)
  8. Network, voice and data communications (10 percent)
  9. Legacy modernization (10 percent)
  10. Industry-specific applications (9 percent)
  11. CRM (9 percent)

While the mobile solutions and CRM are a lower priority of CIOs in 2016 than in previous years, there are also areas that they now prioritize higher than in the past.

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Biggest Challenges

When CIOs asked what their biggest challenges at the moment, the answer is that the lack of the right people and squeezed budgets. Nearly 59 percent of CIOs think we have a decided talent crisis, however, only 17 percent of respondents who actually believes that the lack of the right skills prevents them from reaching their goals.

The survey also shows that more and more CIOs are beginning to work with so-called bimodal IT where one splitter IT organization into two departments. It is done to be better able to work at different speeds and cope with both the traditional operation and the more agile and innovative IT projects.

Cloud Instead of Outsourcing

Traditional outsourcing contracts that promise guaranteed cost savings of 10 to 15 percent per year over a period of 5 to 10 years have become the significant exception. The demand for flexible cloud solutions, which are now also increasingly provided locally and which make it possible to respond to short-term changes in demand through appropriate consumption adjustment.

In the medium term, all new IT initiatives on new technologies such as cloud services, big data and analytics, mobile computing and social media will take priority. In the long term, budgets are increasingly spent on new things that were not feasible on the ancient architectures and technologies. New digital products and services will be in focus. A new information framework will be required to support the product development, delivery, quality, and growth.

By 2018, at least, half of IT spending will be channeled into cloud-based solutions. Without cloud services nothing will go in the future, because cloud forms both the basis for new digital products and services. To meet these challenges, CIOs should rethink their management model. In reality, hybrid cloud landscapes will be implemented that can be used to integrate and management for IT organizations.

The Four Steps to Succeed in Your IT Systems Management

Organizations that are large or small, public or private, local or international, facing unprecedented challenges to support critical business initiatives in the dynamic business environment. Users are now scattered in many places; they bring their own mobile devices to work and expect IT to deliver fast and efficient services as well as support for those systems.

It is now possible that organizations achieve IT effectiveness without cutting the service levels by the adoption of a System Management strategy. DedicatedSolutions provides you with the best-dedicated server hardware in our multiple data centers across the globe.

If you have not decided yet how to build your Infrastructure, the below four steps can help companies improve the efficiency of the different processes of production, sales and administration; reduce costs and increase their competitiveness through the use of our managed services, information and communication technologies.

Know Your Infrastructure

See your network from a whole new perspective of the strategy of IT systems management of an organization depends on the discovery process. Managers must know what components are on the network, how assets are performing, who is not in compliance with IT policies and what to do to comply again. Unfortunately, the inventory lists do not always agree with reality and systems often fall into oblivion.

DedicatedSolutions provides visibility to all IT environment assets to collect and update management data automatically in real time. Although new assets enter the environment through acquisitions, lifecycles of IT, mobile workers or policies and other can be managed by our custom solutions.

On the other hand, whether you remain connected or not, DedicatedSolutions predefined applied policies on the new system stores the information in a central repository that can be used to provide proactive maintenance, providing solution and produce reports and alerts on any changes for administrators.

Manage Your IT Environment More Efficiently

Today, most organizations require operations around the clock, seven days a week, but traditionally, the management of IT systems has become a decentralized manner with product manuals in multiple processor points that are far from providing general availability. Administrators can perform maintenance and typically keep the systems in operation, but the work is hardly consistent between systems and usually is not documented and is performed manually.

DedicatedSolutions provides a unique framework where you can perform administration tasks remotely from anywhere consistently. Administrators can handle groups of machines by type, operating system, platform, department, geographical location or virtually any other distinguishing characteristic.

Combined with visibility into all IT assets and behavior systems, this accessibility allows policies based management systems. Administrators can set, monitor and update policies from a central console and leave them to machines distributed in the environment. Systems can fit in multiple groups and meet with various policies. It creates a focus on system management, which enables organizations to maintain a consistently healthy IT environment and with minimal impact on users.

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Automating the Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Many organizations already have some automation in their IT environments, usually in the form of monitoring and alerting. Usually, when there is an issue with any system components in the infrastructure, a flurry of emails sent to the IT team. However, you and an administrator cannot manually create a ticket and solve a problem. Regular maintenance is also done in much the same way – task by task, machine by machine.

The custom solutions and managed services of DedicatedSolutions can automate IT tasks that are recurrent such as patch management, the operation of software and implementing solutions and analysis of the cause. Our 24*7 Help Desk provides relevant performance information to managers as they are working on solving a problem and can even solve problems automatically without manual intervention.

The result is that management of IT is possible using a minimum amount of resources. Simultaneously, automation allows regular maintenance of organizations tasks to improve IT service levels, expand capacity and meet needs of new business initiatives while reducing costs.

Tangible Results Monitors

IT services that are providing management of IT tasks are one of the most important functions, but it is also inconsistent and consumes a significant quantity of time. Rather than being viewed as a cost center, IT needs to show the contributions they are making to business and the value of supporting business goals and initiatives.

DedicatedSolutions provides the platform to collect data relevant from distributed systems management, store the information in a central repository and report them to the concerned person. Because different audiences require various levels of technical detail, customizable reports of DedicatedSolutions ranging from executive summaries to snapshots system and detailed historical reports. And because data have already been collected in real time and have managed centrally, time to compiling reports is minimal.

An Integrated Platform

DedicatedSolutions gives IT organizations the visibility and control they need to manage effective and efficient distributed systems. Automation streamlines maintenance and troubleshooting to improve user productivity without increasing IT costs. Administrators can then leverage the visibility and control to validate the results, and the management can take advantage of the information to make accurate decisions. Our integrated platform consolidates all aspects of apparatus under a single administrative panel, standardizing maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting across the organization.

Five Top Trends That Will Define IT Landscape in 2016

Of all the important issues that keep executives awake, probably none is more important than to think “Are we keeping up to the date?”. The rapid pace of change in IT and business, in general, means that CIOs and other senior technologists cannot afford to be decentralized.

Where should you focus your energies as you build your to-do list for 2016? Forecast 2016 Computerworld survey of IT professional outlines five key areas – cloud computing, security, Internet of things, analysis, and the development of IT as a change-agent that promise to define the IT landscape in 2016.

IT As An Agent of Change

Finally, IT can move fully towards the center of the company in 2016 as the digital processing becomes an important strategic priority. Thanks to the economic growth, CIOs, and their IT organizations are well positioned to drive this change, increases in staff and a pronounced trend toward strategic spending.

Almost half (46%) of the 182 survey respondents said they are preparing for increased spending on technology, with anticipated budget increases averaging 14.7%. (Those numbers are higher than last year when 43% of respondents said they expected to increase spending, and the expected average was 13.1%.)

At the same time, 37% of respondents this year said they are planning to increase IT staff, compared with 24% last year. In addition, 42% of those hiring plans are looking for people with expertise in technology and business, that will articulate the value of IT in meeting business objectives.

This mixed knowledge will be essential for IT to achieve its primary goals in 2016 – 19% of the respondents said their mission is to generate new revenue or increase the existing ones in the next 12 months. Also, on the list is the acceleration of business processes and agility (cited by 40% of respondents) and improved collaboration with business units (35%).

While IT has made great progress in moving towards the strategic center of the company, there is more work to be done – mostly focuses on building relationships with business stakeholders.

Cloud Computing

As organizations are building an IT infrastructure for the future, there is no doubt that the cloud will play a key role. The real test is to figure out which model of cloud computing is the best choice for a particular company.

Almost half (48%) of the Forecast 2016 survey respondents said that cloud computing is an area for increased spending in their organizations, and 14% cited cloud initiatives as the draft most important technology for the coming year. Some 29% confirmed that they had already moved some business applications to the cloud with more plans; while 7% said they are in the process of migrating mission critical systems in a cloud environment.

On the other hand, 22% of respondents said their organizations are conducting beta testing or pilot programs covering the complete list of cloud delivery methods including private, public and hybrid options.

Now that the cloud is a standard element of IT architectures, the question facing CIOs is whether to use cloud-based systems and which deployment model is best for their organizations. Some things will be given a private cloud model while others take advantage of external cloud services or new types of delivery models.

Security

Data breaches made high profile last year (2015), with attention grabbing headlines. Maintaining the security is again at the top of IT budgets for the third year.

Exactly half of respondents this year (versus 46% last year) said security spending will increase in 2016; making safety the first choice among technology initiatives related to higher spending. When they were asked to identify the most important project of technology currently underway in their organizations, security came in second place (chosen by 12% of respondents), behind cloud computing by only two percentile points. And 16% of these identified security as their biggest challenge regarding leadership for the coming year; surpassed only by budget and economic pressures.

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The Internet of Things

The so-called Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but a reality shortly for IT organizations across many industries. IoT technologies can be implemented in all kinds of practical uses, such as optimizing the supply chain through RFID, and performance monitoring focused on energy saving system.

Forecast 2016 Computerworld survey states 29% of respondents identified initiatives and IoT projects such as machine-to-machine and telematics as new areas of spending for this year. By comparison, last year, only 12% of respondents said that the work of IoT would be a new IT spending in 2015. Similarly, the percentage of the respondent said they planned to launch IoT projects in the next 12 months, which is 15% higher as compared to last year.

Analysis

As businesses pivot towards the digital market, the significant expenditure in the analysis of data will continue. The business analysis was No. 5 on the list of major projects for IT respondents and No. 3 in the technologies that they will get an increase in expenses over the next 12 months.

Having organized all your data, companies are now finding out how to use them effectively. At the same time, the analytical capabilities are being integrated into more and more applications and workflows for daily use, rather than being only available in separate tools.

The analysis also is infiltrating rapidly throughout the area of ​​machine learning, artificial intelligence and pattern recognition. This analysis can help discern patterns that are not apparent to humans.

The Wearables

While products like Google Glass and Apple Watch were announced with great fanfare, the reality is that companies are not willing to make practical use of the wearable systems, at least in the future foreseeable.

The wearable technology was last in the list of Forecast 2016 Computerworld survey, currently being evaluated in beta and pilot projects, with only 4% of respondents saying they had projects involving current wearables.

Moreover, 78% said they might work on wearable applications or anticipating the need to support wearables in the near future. And only 8% of these people said that the wearables would play a role in their commercial and technological operations while only 12% said they were adjusting their management strategies to include wearables mobile devices.