The Cloud, an on-going evolution of how best to optimize your technology infrastructure and explore the advantages to your business.
STA believes the Cloud offers businesses an opportunity to streamline IT operations like nothing else in recent history.
The Cloud contains the ability to solve many problems relating to current macro business trends and each client’s own unique business challenges. Essentially, the Cloud has the potential to reduce costs while maintaining a sustainable operating environment. Furthermore, it helps organizations respond to both opportunities and challenges with a greater degree of flexibility. And while you could state that previous trends like Outsourcing, ASP and Service Bureaus were the “Clouds” of their time, Cloud services today offer the technologies that can actually deliver on promises – such as Virtualization. Backed up by a global communications infrastructure with capacity, computing from any point in the world is now possible—and it ALL can be accomplished cost-effectively and efficiently.
STA’s definition of the Cloud is simple: every customer is currently operating in one segment or another of the Cloud. This is only going to grow and evolve. With this in mind, we help IT professionals evolve their current IT strategy to take full advantage of its possibilities. The Cloud holds opportunities for all of your applications and utilities, and we’re here to help you fully maximize these and understand what makes the best sense for your business. Let us help you explore the ROI and TCO modeling of Cloud services. Once you do, you’ll see how much more effectively you can focus on your business.
Our client goal is to provide Cloud Services tailored to your business that immediately contributes to your bottom line. This isn’t just a promise, either. We guarantee this in writing.
| Services offered include: |
| • Cloud assessment and roadmap development |
• Productivity Services
| • Email |
| • Portal |
| • Presence (Instant messaging & Unified Communications) |
| • Web Meeting |
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• Ad-hoc server and storage services
| • Short-term development environments |
| • Short-term transition environments |
| • Rack space for replication devices, etc. |
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• Systems Management Services
| • IT Operations management |
| • IT Configuration management |
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• Environmental Support Agreements
| • Supplement internal IT skills and resources |
| • Interim support for vacation coverage, leave of absence |
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• Systems Resiliency Services
| • S2D (Sungard) |
| • VSR (Sungard) |
| • Data replication |
| • Environment replication |
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• Custom Infrastructure Services
| • Core applications hosting (ERP, etc.) |
| • Utility computing models |
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If you would like to explore how STA can assist you with your Cloud Services needs, feel free to e-mail our Cloud Service Specialist with a brief explanation of your needs and challenges and let’s begin to look at how you can benefit from STA’s offerings and expertise. |