Best-in-class tools
Inframon sought to further refine their tool kit to address a variety of customer situations. They spent several months researching top-rated Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to embed with their Azure CSP offerings.
The result? Inframon established key partnerships with ISVs, providing best-in-class cloud management tools to reduce customers' capital expenditures and better manage operating expenses. “We reduce costs. More and more, we talk to customers who just want to focus on their core business and allow us to take operational control over a lot of their infrastructure," said Sean Roberts, Inframon’s Managing Director and co-founder.
Custom perspective
Inframon’s Hyper Cloud Platform (HCP), a dashboard created by the Enable Azure team, wraps around Azure. HCP, critical to articulating the solution’s effectiveness, hooks into Azure’s APIs and helps Inframon mimic the customer’s organizational structure. It enables them to understand where and how resources are used, and identify opportunities to be more efficient. Customers have comprehensive visibility with HCP and even some autonomy to make changes, set SLAs, and provision within the platform to right-size for their business VMs.
For server migration assessments, Inframon works with ISV partner Cloudamize, which offers a lightweight assessment tool. Layered on top of Azure, the tool provides customers with a detailed performance analysis on compute, storage, and network resources based on observed peak CPU utilization, storage capacity, IOPS, and more. Cloudamize helps Inframon identify the best cloud configuration for optimal performance at the lowest possible cost for the customer.
When a customer has more complex needs, Inframon works with ISV partner Movere. Movere offers a secure platform as a service (PaaS) solution that does not require agent installation in the customer environment. With either partner, Inframon provides a projection analysis with a view of current performance versus performance with a recommended cloud configuration. Assessment results set the stage for Inframon to design and build the Azure blueprint.
Azure Go Live Trial
Based upon the Azure blueprint, customers can immediately implement the solution or opt for Inframon’s “Azure Go Live Trial.” Marketed as a no-risk cloud trial to customers, Azure Go Live is a fully operational solution. Trial versions of ISV partners’ solutions are even embedded to provide a complete experience.
Once it’s time to move, Inframon leverages Carbonite’s DoubleTake Move to migrate server workloads with efficient real-time replication across any distance. It keeps systems in-sync by sending only incremental changes in real time, with no downtime. If bandwidth is an issue, another partner, Velostrata, is chosen for its wide area network (WAN) optimization capabilities.