The world is at a tipping point. Organisations of all types are recognising that the traditional model of centralised, site-housed data restricts the scope of their vision for the future.
True digital transformation promises exciting, enhanced outcomes across your operation, but legacy infrastructure can only achieve so much. A Cloud-led, business aligned strategy brings your goals within reach – in a way that’s faster, smarter and simply better than anything previously possible.
The Cloud may be invisible, but it’s hard to see a future without it.
Hybrid Cloud is the foundational driving force behind digital transformation. Combining public and private Cloud environments offers the best of both worlds: optimised security and compliance on the one hand and flexibility, low cost and operational efficiency on the other.
When you put the needs of users first, you give them the flexibility to establish new business models that can truly take advantage of a Cloud-native approach. Machine learning can monitor all aspects of your environment, feeding back on exactly how and where applications are being used. Then, armed with this knowledge, you can streamline systems and make the user experience even better, via intuitive, easy-to-understand dashboards.
Imagine a world where you can deploy a complete datacentre with just the click of a button. Where you can build – and destroy – test and development environments quickly and with ease. And where all of this can be done without the need for infrastructure engineers at every stage.
An organisation often has extensive infrastructure that cannot be shifted to the Cloud. Our services ensure that your existing on-prem infrastructure is optimised to integrate with future platforms, makes the most of what you already have and introduces best of breed hyper-converged technology.
Our platform knowledge enables us to build, manage and continuously optimise your public Cloud environments. This includes best practice setup, cost & resource optimisation, Cloud backups, Cloud file services, security, patching and monitoring. Having all of this in place ensures that suitable services can be migrated/created to the Cloud in a controlled and manageable way.
Using our experience of proven best practice, Block can design, plan and manage the transition to a modern, secure hybrid platform connecting your datacenters and the Public Cloud. We will always take into account the operational needs of your organisation, planning the transition with an eye both to minimal impact and a timely path to realising the benefits.
Cloud offers the kind of flexibility that I could only dream of when starting out in my career; it took three months to get a new server into service. Cloud has matured into an amazing set of tools offering control, resilience, security and the opportunity to be truly innovative when envisioning creative solutions. The flexibility offered does introduce a level of complexity and over the years we've learned to navigate that complexity so we can guide organisations on their Cloud journey, ensuring they can take advantage of the benefits via a manageable and well-understood methodology. Mark Walton, Chief Technology Officer
A Future Ready Cloud is the key enabler to transform IT services. Before the Cloud, all of these benefits would have been impossible or prohibitively expensive. Beyond the Cloud, the future is infinite, allowing you to keep ‘levelling up’ in terms of:
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