Azure Managed Services

At IG CloudOps, we understand that cloud infrastructure is at the heart of your business operations, and its performance affects both you and your customers. When you collaborate with a certified Azure partner, you can rest assured that you're dealing with specialists in the Azure space.

Our Azure managed services include:

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Why choose IG CloudOps for your Azure managed service

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Case study: Vigo Software

Utilising CloudOps to monitor Azure and reduce cloud infrastructure costs while maintaining performance.

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We have the hard-won knowledge from working with hundreds of Azure deployments for over a decade. We can be bolted on to your existing team and provide an Azure managed service as we have done across the globe for hundreds of deployments.

We cover the entire life cycle of Azure services, from architecture to implementation to support, management, maintenance, and updates. We also spend time working with a range of AWS and Azure deployments around the world to keep up with the latest developments.

We have then put this knowledge into our CloudOps software to allow us to scale our knowledge across hundreds of Azure tenants. 

As a certified Azure partner, IG CloudOps ensures you get the maximum ROI from your cloud deployment and have the infrastructure which will support your immediate and long-term business objectives.

Working with IG CloudOps

We work closely with you to understand what you want to achieve so we can recommend solutions that complement your own technology stack and help you progress in the cloud.

IG managed services can be tailored to your specific requirements from fully managed and hosted through to a lighter touch of monitoring and support to complement your own team.

Our managed service includes:

  • CloudOps Proactive support and monitoring for your cloud infrastructure - read more here 

Support

Advisory and support services included as part of CloudOps. Problems with your cloud infrastructure can seriously affect performance or lead to downtime. Our team will:

  • Identify and diagnose issues
  • Report root cause
  • Resolve the issue
  • Ensure it does not happen again

In most cases we resolve problems before you even notice them.

Consultancy

A managed services to cover the full life cycle of your cloud infrastructure:

  • Advisory and support included as part of CloudOps software
  • Azure Architecture - when you need to review your existing deployment or add in new cloud infrastructure
  • Azure Deployment - templated deployments as part of a planned architecture 
  • Azure Migration - migration planning and execution and life cycle planning

As your Azure cloud partner, we help you achieve a competitive advantage in your market.

Optimisation
(Performance & Cost saving)

Your use of the cloud will change over time which will need to be managed to ensure that costs do not climb over time and that old services and licences are retired. 

CloudOps includes cost optimisation and performance recommendations:

  • Automatically carrying out regular reviews of your infrastructure
  • Identifying redundant or under-utilised resources
  • Scaling of resources to meet peak depend and scaling back for low demand saving you money
  • Reallocating resources to improve efficiencies and reduce cost

Monitoring

Our SLAs protect your business with 24/7 monitoring and let us deliver 99.999% uptime as standard. All of this is included as part of CloudOps this helps:

  • Improve accessibility of data
  • Prevent application outages
  • Analyse consumption levels
  • Make performance recommendations
  • 24/7 fault recovery 

Monitoring enables you to manage and lower your overall cloud spend while maintaining performance.

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Azure managed services with IG CloudOps

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CloudOps brings together performance and cost monitoring tools, support processes and general administration functions through a single portal.

Fully managed on your behalf by our dedicated team of cloud experts, plug and play with AWS & Azure.

Support & Advisory included for a complete cloud management solution.

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Why IG CloudOps?

Plug and play with AWS and Azure

Automated cloud management from day one

Live dashboards for up to the second insights

AWS and Azure UK certified team for Support & Advisory requirements

IG CloudOps – reducing cloud costs and improving performance

 

We understand the challenges your business faces. Your cloud infrastructure is critical to your business which is why we have developed our cloud management platform (CloudOps) which delivers a complete performance and support package for your business.

With IG CloudOps as part of your team, we deliver an always-on cloud management solution that ensures infrastructure performance, reduces costs and is ready to meet your future challenges.

Proactive management – We actively manage and optimise your AWS and Azure infrastructure using our own CloudOps software. We manage cloud configuration; network architecture; security settings; software updates; user authentication; monitoring; disaster recovery; firewall; anti-virus; and anti-malware.

Further savings – Using our CloudOps software and analysing your Azure footprint, our team optimises your costs and performance.

By choosing IG CloudOps as your Azure partner you will benefit from:

Build & operate workloads following best practices

Monitoring, incident management, reporting, change management

24/7 alerting and reporting

Full infrastructure and environment automation

Access to expert Azure architects and support engineers

Cost savings and performance improvements

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As a Microsoft certified gold partner igroup are able to provide a variety of services from azure support to azure deployment and architecture
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What do our customers say?

“The IG CloudOps culture of approachable professionalism has been a great match with my team."

"Also, their ‘can do’ attitude with a pragmatic approach to problems has enabled us to move our product roadmap forward.”

Dan Frost
Managing Director at Adaptive

"Moving our Azure resources over to IG CloudOps was our main initial concern, but their skill and regular communication ensured the process went smoothly." 

"Unlike other companies we've spoken to, we felt unrushed and that they fully understood our business specific concerns."

Tom Gullen
Founder, Scirra Ltd

Over 70 customers across 8 countries manage AWS & Azure with CloudOps