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365Solutions is Managed Cloud Solution Provider that delivers customized managed services to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. We have been a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner for over five years. We offer easy and fast migration from on-premises to cloud-based solutions using the full suite of Microsoft products including Office 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, EMS and Intune.

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The world's #1 enterprise cloud platform 'PLANNING PAYS'

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Cloud Strategy Managed Service Provider(MSPs) On-Board

Cloud is being embraced by the organizations that move from the legacy infrastructure to traditional hardware to cloud. They embraced the cloud for them to reduce the total cost of ownership, improve disaster recovery and get multiple benefits. According to the global market to the public, the cloud grow 18%  by the end of 2017 adding there income up to $246.8 billion.

An increasing number of organizations are the realizing of the advantage of Cloud Managed Service Provider. Cloud Managed Service Provider(MSPs) have the expertise in building and managing the Cloud to support the organizations. Also, it can manage the infrastructure-be it multi-tenant or hybrid and close service gaps. And they also have the expertise in cloud computing, managing cloud security, storage, network operations, applications stacks, performance testing, IT health monitoring, recovery, infrastructure migration, reporting and change management.

Cloud MSPs can help organizations not only on a migration of their IT legacy but also by providing maintenance service on an ongoing basis. MSPs bring the advantage of scale and experience. On-boarding MSPs is not an easy task. Here is some quick checklist for you to assess cloud MSPs before on-boarding:

Assess the vendors end to end capabilities-from planning the migration to optimization.

Measure the industry or vertical-specific expertise. 

Check the Cloud Service or Provider in their support ecosystem.

Assess their best practices, tools, and collaboration models.

On-boarding a Cloud Managed Service Provider is a smart move. Also, I have here 5 reasons why you need to onboard Cloud Managed Service Provider.

Performance Monitoring

It is an effective strategy that must for preventive maintenance. Since 2010, it's downtime increase is 4%. In a study, data downtime can cost $7900 per minute. Cloud performance monitoring is much more than monitoring disk, VR memory or CPU usage. Cloud managed service make effective use of the available tools like the new relic for server monitoring.

Security

In 2016, the cost with IT breaches average $2.5 million per incident. A comprehensive cloud security strategy is important to tackle outages, data loss or security threats. Cloud MSPs are the ideal partners to tackle the rising numbers of attacks and threats.

Disaster/Recovery Management

One of the leading services provided by Cloud MSPs is disaster management. These MSPs design centers and network that is resilient enough to maintain business continuity even during the disaster with minimal downtime, ensuring that your data is secure and safe.

Replica Management

Data replication among multiple sites in the cloud became the go-to strategy to ensure optimal performance in terms of balancing the load, response time and availability. Its advantage is associated with the proactive approach towards tackling system failure. Cloud MSPs have the required expertise in data replication. Cloud MSPs ensure the data's safety during the replication process, monitors downtime during the new replica creation.

Compliance

Many organizations need to low industry-specific rules and regulations for their IT initiatives,  security, information security, and reporting. Alliance with cloud management service can reduce the burden of compliance from the in-house team. Cloud managed service companies have numerous benefits to offer. Their 24x7 help desks come in handy when it comes in an untoward situation. Cloud MSPs can significantly complement your in-house resources to access their technical expertise.

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BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING YOUR OFFICE 365 SUBSCRIPTION

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7 TIPS TO SECURE YOUR CLOUD DATA

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Reasons Why We Need to Use an Online Backup Service

Online backup sites seem to appear all over the place lately. All of them have similar features that promise to completely restore all your PC data in case of emergency. There’s no wonder why it’s a very huge and popular industry since having a computer this day is not a big deal after all. It’s like having a computer has almost become a commodity.

Even in businesses, they now practice data warehousing so that it can help them in their daily operations. It’s a big help for the workers to optimize their work.

It’s always best to have some form of backup because in life we never know what’s going to happen. There’s always an unexpected accident that can cause your data to be lost on your PC if it wasn’t back up. So we better get ready for this kind of situation. It would be great if we plan for the worst and hope for the better when it comes to our data.

Well, there still some kinds of physical backups such as external drive, CD and pen drive is good enough but what if there’s a disaster that causes your backups to break. What will happen to your data? Are you sure that your data will still be safe? Did these situations and questions pass through your mind? That’s why we think that it would be better to use backup off-site that can copy your data to other location automatically in case of something happen. This is called Cloud storage.

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The  Razor and Razor-Blade Strategy in Cloud-Based Business and Delivery Model

How to further monetized their existing customers base and increase competitive differentiation in order to grow probability and market share is the common issue that hardware and software technology providers facing nowadays. Many companies approach this issue by the "razor and razor-blade" strategy. Razor and razor-blade strategy is a strategy that aggregate and distributes the complimentary service of the partner, also their subscription and usage-based service and 3rd person's add-on offer to encourage and to up-sell on the existing customers. Even having this strategy they typically still facing challenges on how to extend the existing infrastructure and operation to support the cloud-based delivery model. Scalability is one of the cloud's biggest advantages, but misuse of the feature can cost you. Pay special attention to these three rules to avoid unwanted billing surprises.

This is the challenges they have: •    It's hard for them to provide self-service order and provisions from their customers. •    They are having difficulties to enable the multi-tiered and global distribution via existing and new channel partner. •    It's hard for them to automate the bill for usage or subscription-based products and services. •    They are having difficulties in integrating with existing internal services like ERP, CRM, order management and others. •    It's hard for them to have the royalty and payment reconciliation to content the providers and channels. •    Also, they are having difficulties in supporting multiple currencies, languages, and time-zone. But despite this challenges, they still manage to provide tremendous benefits like: o    They increase the retention and probability of the customers. o    They reduce the cost sales, royalty management, and 3rd party provider settlement. o    They drive new revenue that streams the lever of the cloud-based business and delivery model. o    They grow partner loyalty and sell-through revenues globally. o    The streamlines sales operations and channel enablement. As an example of one of the benefits written above,  there is one of our customers that is a large electronics manufacturer. The said customer created an application that is called "develop, deploy and distribute". Develop, deploy and distribute application is an application that can make a development and can deliver an ecosystem that distributes the 3rd party apps to the customers.

 The user of this application can have a different experience while driving the application by making it develop and delivered to the ecosystem. Also, the users are able to access catalogs of the said application by approving the developers to develop, certify and distribute the application through the wide variety of devices such as IPKs and SDKs.

 Organizations are embracing cloud to benefit from the scalability, responsiveness and cost-efficiencies that cloud computing offers. 365 Solutions offer a razor strategy that transform a cloud environment that can be a significant undertaking which has a tremendous impact on the way it organizations operate and the way services are more efficiently delivered to users and customers. If you want a professional and effective cloud management service then you can try 365 Solution.

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Managed and Cloud Services Scope