INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
Enabling a modern data infrastructure that responds rapidly to your evolving business requirements.
Sustainable infrastructures must start with robust, well-designed foundations. If they don’t, no amount of engineering, after the fact, will ever completely compensate. Let DSI help you extend your existing network and gain the scale, security, and flexibility of Microsoft Azure. Migrate your legacy hardware and applications to the cloud and end the constant upgrade cycle. Once in the cloud, let DSI help you establish the governance, operational readiness, and cost control to get the most out of your cloud investment.
Let us help you begin your cloud migration journey
If you have workloads you want to move to Azure but don’t know where to start, allow DSI to provide a Cloud Migration assessment using our well–tested migration methodologies.
Allow DSI to manage your Azure tenant through the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.
A modern cloud infrastructure sits on four pillars that must all be implemented and managed effectively
IT security is not just about maintaining a strong perimeter. To be truly secure in a cloud world, you must adopt a zero–trust model and architect for security from the ground up. A proper security architecture must deploy in-depth defence covering all layers from Identity and Access to Application and Data security. Azure has several tools to assist with security, but these tools are not the solution itself. DSI has merged the best practices from Microsoft and other Security bodies, like The Center for Internet Security, to create best practices to ensure your Azure implementation is secure.
Technology includes:
- Azure Security Center
- Azure Active Directory
- Azure VPN Gateways
- Azure Sentinel
Agility is one of the most attractive features of Azure. Gone are long procurement cycles to buy hardware just to test a solution. Now you can stand up resources instantly and take them down just as fast if the solution does not work. This flexibility is a double-edged sword. Without proper governance, your cloud footprint can sprawl uncontrollably both in terms of the sheer number of objects and the costs associated with them. DSI can help you take and keep control of your Azure footprint by monitoring costs and object creation to ensure that all objects meet your standards and that resources get turned off or deleted when no longer needed.
Technology includes:
- Azure Blueprints
- Azure Automation
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Policy
- Azure Log Analytics
Developers are familiar with working with source control, which allows them to capture changes to their code. With Azure, you can bring the same kind of rigour to your Infrastructure. This process prevents drift between development, test and production environments as fixes and changes are made to different environments and not captured. This technique is referred to as Infrastructure as code. Whether you are using ARM or Terraform or any other deployment technology, you can link your code into a source control system like Azure DevOps to take and maintain control of all aspects of your Infrastructure. DSI’s Resource Management Process will help you implement this solution to your Azure environment.
Technology Includes:
- ?PowerShell
- ARM
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps
Building a well–architected cloud environment is a good start. However, just as with your on-premises environment, proper Monitoring and Alerting are required to identify and remediate performance, security and governance issues before they become a problem. Azure includes many tools to help monitor and manage your environment. However, it is the intelligent application of these tools that allows for intelligent Monitoring. DSI’s Service Management Process will help guide your organization to build a monitoring and alerting process that meets your organizations cloud management goals:
Technology Includes:
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Alters
- Azure Policy
- Azure Automation
- Azure Backup
- Azure Site Recovery
- Log Analytics
- Network Watcher
- Scheduler
- Azure Security Center
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