Cloud Services

Cloud Services

A Proven Track Record

VSO has a proven track record of guiding customers through successful transitions from on-premises to cloud workloads. Our experienced team helps customers understand the strategic benefits of cloud adoption while providing expert guidance on cost optimization and best practices for realizing cloud flexibility without compromising budget control. The VSO team ensures an understanding of the customer’s needs and tailors the transition to the cloud based on requirements rather than trends. Our methodology is built on a foundation of continuous investment in automation, comprehensive documentation, and instrumentation of industry best practices across the entire cloud lifecycle—from initial infrastructure design through ongoing optimization.

The Right Choice

Our team realizes that the choice of a cloud provider is a critical decision that impacts your company and your customers. As your independent cloud advisor, our team ensures that your cloud solution aligns with both performance requirements and economic objectives. VSO provides a phased approach to cloud transition that allows flexibility in the migration timeline and allows for cloud maturity over time.

Once your migration is complete, our VSO Managed IT Services team provides ongoing management and monitoring of your cloud infrastructure across multiple regions. This seamless integration with our Managed IT Services practice ensures continuity of support and expertise throughout your cloud journey, delivering comprehensive Managed IT Services that keep your cloud environment optimized and secure.

Every environment we architect is designed to:

Wow

Create experiences that “wow” the end users – engineering for “wins” in performance, cost, and/or flexibility

Optimize

Ensure continuous improvement – building in mechanisms for ongoing optimization

Streamline

Orchestrate deployment and migration – streamlining processes for efficiency and reliability

Reduce Overhead

Optimize ease of management – reducing operational complexity and overhead

Secure

Provide enforceable and manageable security – implementing robust, scalable security frameworks

Design Thinking Inputs for Architectural Planning and Design

Compliance & Security Profile
  • HIPPA, FDA
  • PCI, GDPR
  • SOX, ITAR
Performance
  • Response Time
  • I/O Density
Historical Usage Patterns
  • Peak Seasons
  • Enrollment
Application / Workload
  • Quantity
  • Age
  • Currency
  • Independencies
Profile Maintenance
  • DISA
  • NSA
  • CIS
Data: In Flight and At Rest
  • End to End Encryption
  • 80/20 or Pass/Fail
Data: Sensitivity / Toxicity
  • Structure/Un
  • Lakes
  • ML/AI
  • Proper Positioning
Step 1: Understand Your Users’ Needs
Desired Future State

Easy to Integrate

Easy to Use

Secure

Step 2: Understand Your Existing Environment
Business

Compliance & Security Profile

Performance

Historical Usage Patterns

Application / Workload

Discovery & Mapping

Step 3: Security & Compliance
Production Protection

Profile Maintenance

Data: In Flight & At Rest

Data: Sensitivity / Toxicity

Step 4: Designing the Solution
MVPs Prioritized & Balanced

Security

Quick Wins

Strategic

Total Cost of Ownership

Step 5: Modernization
Non-Disruptive

Optimize, Decouple, Containerize

Automate

Adaptable MVP Exceptions Filter

Use Case Catalog

Success Story: Financial Services Cloud Migration

Challenge: A financial services client needed to establish a completely new cloud environment following a corporate restructuring, including Office 365 for email and productivity, and Azure Cloud for Government for their workloads.

Solution: Following our proven methodologies, VSO successfully executed a complex migration despite significant access restrictions to source systems. We collaborated closely with both the client and their former parent company to extract and migrate critical data from a consolidated environment into a new Azure Cloud account.

Results

Despite early project challenges related to system access, VSO successfully navigated the complexities and completed the migration ahead of schedule. This success led to:

A second data migration contract for two additional environments following the client’s acquisition and consolidation activities

Engagement of our VSO Managed IT Services team for ongoing management and monitoring of their Azure infrastructure across multiple regions.

This project illustrates our ability to provide complex cloud transformations under challenging circumstances while building long-term partnerships that extend beyond the initial migration.

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