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Ultima’s Cloud Application Architecture Services have been designed to quickly get you up to speed and working with new cloud functionality and services. We work with your team to determine the best fit for your applications, and how to most effectively use them. How Do I Get Started? Whether you are looking to optimise, consolidate, modernise or expand your cloud computing environment - or simply want to support your existing platform more effectively - our team of specialists can help. By adopting our Cloud Application Architecture Services, you are choosing an ecosystem of specialists and technology vendors; each of whom have a proven track record in delivering dynamic user-centric cloud solutions. Our consultants continually design, deploy and integrate these services, while our Technical Service Centre can support them around the clock. Certified Cloud Experts Our specialists can simplify your journey to a more productive cloud, plugging knowledge and experience gaps. Flexible Managed Services Our UK-based ISO27001 24x7 Technical Service Centre can monitor and manage your optimised cloud environment. Tried and Tested Methodology Whether you are looking to optimise or transform your current cloud environment, our framework will set you on the right path. Connected Services Gain access to our ecosystem of consultants and strategic partners, linking associated data centre and cloud engagements. Strong Relationships We maintain both strategic and technical relationships with cloud providers, including Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure). Vision and Leadership Our architects and consultants can support strategic business imperatives, allowing us to become your trusted technology advisor. Do you have apps that fail because they are unable to respond by dynamically increasing resources for unexpected workloads, or as part of a growth phase? Do you have business critical applications that are highly resourced only to meet possible peak demand, but otherwise have wasted resources? Can your operations team performance tune applications in advance of extraordinary events? If you can, will it blow your budget? Are you factoring in cost savings and efficiency by using cloud ready development tools or application design patterns? Do you have failing apps due to a lack of a disaster recovery / backup solution? Do you have applications that the business would like to move to the cloud, but which are not designed to be cloud ready? Are developers wasting time and money by constantly re-inventing the wheel every time they write a new application? Cloud Technology Deep Dives + Develop Your Architecture Manage Your Architecture Implement Your Architecture + Attend our deep dive workshop to learn more about cloud technologies, and how a more flexible platform can help your business thrive. As part of the session, we outline the options available, what service providers offer and how to get started. Find out how to use cloud services to build highly secure and scalable applications, without having to worry about provisioning underlying infrastructure. Our real-life demos highlight the plethora of cloud components that are available, and showcase the benefits for your organisation. We can discover and analyse your current and planned application sets, in order to ascertain how you can best host them in the cloud. Our specialists will provide you with a transformation and adoption roadmap, to help transition existing software to a more dynamic platform, as well as architect new applications that are cloud ready. Let us document a proven architecture that meets your requirements around: availability, cost, performance, scalability, security, complexity, compatibility and deployment. + + Managing applications and the systems that underpin them can often be a challenge; one that can easily be exacerbated by workloads, skills and experience. Offload the day to day management of your cloud investment to us, including infrastructure patching and application optimisation. Let our experienced consultants provide ongoing support of your cloud applications through 24x7 monitoring, online analytics and real-time alerts, all from our ISO27001 certified Technical Service Centre. Let us help you implement your application(s) in the cloud using your new architecture. We use automated provisioning techniques in order to ensure that appropriate fail-safes and redundancies are in place. We can assist with deploying your infrastructure, platforms and cloud applications - using best practice gained from our cross industry, cross cloud delivery experience. Once deployed, you can focus on architecting software solutions, leaving service providers to do what they do best; manage the underlying platform. Reap The Benefits Cloud ready application architectures can leverage static and dynamic scaling. This ensures applications cope efficiently with peaks and troughs in demand, while minimising costs. Many organisations have on-premise applications that cannot easily move to the cloud as their architecture prevents it, but they still require a cloud presence. Cloud services exist that provide integration through on-premise gateways - creating hybrid applications. This allows integration with legacy Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) or file based systems. Cloud ready architectures can place applications across multiple servers in single, or multiple, geographic regions. Furthermore, traffic management can redirect customers to secondary instances, whilst the primary is offline. Many cloud based technologies provide built in monitoring and alerting to report events in real-time, and can be extended to provide features such as self-healing or restarting of services. Cloud application architectures can incorporate many layers of security, often surpassing the security of on- premise systems. These include secret keys, IP white-listing, security certificates, modern security protocols and automatic patching of underlying infrastructure. Scalability Dynamically add or remove application instances according to known or varying schedules, or when needed, and then destroy them when not required. Leverage the immense scalability of Blob, Table, Queue, File and NoSQL storage, reducing your dependency on poor scaling RDBMS. Availability Take advantage of vendor SLAs offering up to 95.95% availability for cloud ready applications in a single data centre, or 99.9% if deployed multi region. Leverage caching techniques for a low latency global reach. Securely expose your valuable business processes and data to partners. Performance Your organisation can grow, shrink, or change - and so can your performance requirements. Add or remove as many development, test and production resources as and when you need them. Plan up front, or configure it to happen dynamically, so that you are ready for the unexpected. Cost Only pay for what you use, either through subscription by the hour or minute - or via a consumption model. No more unknown up-front capital expenditure guesswork. Make significant savings on storage compared to RDBMS, and monetise your processes and data in innovative ways. Flexibility Extend your infrastructure or rebuild it whenever you want using standard deployment templates, or DevOps techniques. Reconfigure cloud ready applications without writing any code by using a simple wizard, through the push of a pre-configured button or an uploaded config file. Security Let the vendors apply security updates to defend your infrastructure, platforms or applications against the latest vulnerabilities. Leverage the latest API security technologies such as OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) that are native to the cloud. The rise of cloud computing has revolutionised the pace of development, including how quickly and cheaply start-ups and competitors can bring software to market. Understanding the benefits of cloud application architecture, and leveraging these in line with your business model is becoming increasingly important in the battle to remain competitive. The challenge most organisations face is; how do we do this, where do we begin and what do we need? It starts with understanding the challenges that are inherent in your current applications. Face The Challenge Do your engineers need to constantly monitor the status of your applications? Do you want to be alerted before business-critical events occur? Are you worried about having to continually patch your infrastructure whenever a new vulnerability is identified? Do you have high infrastructure costs to support the hardware for a hosting platform? What if you could build apps that are highly resilient, self-healing and can be restructured at the push of a button? Ultima can show you how. Head Office Gainsborough House Manor Park, Basingstoke Road Reading, Berkshire, RG2 0NA 0333 015 8000 [email protected] www.ultima.com © Ultima Business Solutions 2017 Who Are We? Cloud Application Architecture Helping you get your cloud applications off the ground
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Ultima’s Cloud Application Architecture Services have been designed to quickly get you up to speed and working with new cloud functionality and services. We work with your team to
determine the best fit for your applications, and how to most effectively use them.
How Do I Get Started?
Whether you are looking to optimise, consolidate, modernise or expand your cloud computing environment - or simply want to support your existing platform more effectively - our team of specialists can help. By adopting our Cloud Application Architecture Services, you are choosing
an ecosystem of specialists and technology vendors; each of whom have a proven track record in delivering dynamic user-centric cloud solutions. Our consultants continually design, deploy and integrate these services, while our Technical Service Centre can support them around the clock.
Certified Cloud ExpertsOur specialists can simplify your journey to a more productive cloud, plugging knowledge and experience gaps.
Flexible Managed ServicesOur UK-based ISO27001 24x7 Technical Service Centre can monitor and manage your optimised cloud environment.
Tried and Tested MethodologyWhether you are looking to optimise or transform your current cloud environment, our framework will set you on the right path.
Connected ServicesGain access to our ecosystem of consultants and strategic partners, linking associated data centre and cloud engagements.
Strong RelationshipsWe maintain both strategic and technical relationships with cloud providers, including Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft (Azure).
Vision and LeadershipOur architects and consultants can support strategic business imperatives, allowing us to become your trusted technology advisor.
Do you have apps that fail because they are unable to respond by dynamically increasing resources for unexpected workloads, or as part of a growth phase?
Do you have business critical applications that are highly resourced only to meet possible peak demand, but otherwise have wasted resources?
Can your operations team performance tune applications in advance of extraordinary events? If you can, will it blow your budget?
Are you factoring in cost savings and efficiency by using cloud ready development tools or application design patterns?
Do you have failing apps due to a lack of a disaster recovery / backup solution?
Do you have applications that the business would like to move to the cloud, but which are not designed to be cloud ready?
Are developers wasting time and money by constantly re-inventing the wheel every time they write a new application?
Cloud Technology Deep Dives
+
Develop Your Architecture
Manage Your ArchitectureImplement Your Architecture
+
Attend our deep dive workshop to learn more about cloud technologies, and how a more flexible platform can
help your business thrive. As part of the session, we outline the options available, what service providers offer and how to get started. Find out how to use cloud services
to build highly secure and scalable applications, without having to worry about provisioning underlying
infrastructure. Our real-life demos highlight the plethora of cloud components that are available, and showcase
the benefits for your organisation.
We can discover and analyse your current and planned application sets, in order to ascertain how you
can best host them in the cloud. Our specialists will provide you with a transformation and adoption roadmap,
to help transition existing software to a more dynamic platform, as well as architect new applications that are
cloud ready. Let us document a proven architecture that meets your requirements around: availability, cost, performance, scalability, security, complexity,
compatibility and deployment.
+ +
Managing applications and the systems that underpin them can often be a challenge; one that can easily be
exacerbated by workloads, skills and experience. Offload the day to day management of your cloud
investment to us, including infrastructure patching and application optimisation. Let our experienced consultants
provide ongoing support of your cloud applications through 24x7 monitoring, online analytics and real-time alerts, all from our ISO27001 certified
Technical Service Centre.
Let us help you implement your application(s) in the cloud using your new architecture. We use automated
provisioning techniques in order to ensure that appropriate fail-safes and redundancies are in place. We can assist with deploying your infrastructure, platforms
and cloud applications - using best practice gained from our cross industry, cross cloud delivery experience. Once deployed, you can focus on architecting software solutions, leaving service providers to do what they do
best; manage the underlying platform.
Reap The Benefits
Cloud ready application architectures can leverage static and dynamic scaling. This ensures applications cope efficiently with peaks and troughs in demand, while
minimising costs. Many organisations have on-premise applications that
cannot easily move to the cloud as their architecture prevents it, but they still
require a cloud presence.
Cloud services exist that provide integration through on-premise
gateways - creating hybrid applications.
This allows integration with legacy Relational Database Management
Systems (RDBMS) or file based systems.
Cloud ready architectures can place applications across multiple servers in single, or multiple, geographic regions.
Furthermore, traffic management can redirect customers to secondary instances, whilst the primary is offline.
Many cloud based technologies provide built in monitoring and alerting to report
events in real-time, and can be extended to provide features such as self-healing
or restarting of services.
Cloud application architectures can incorporate many layers of security, often surpassing the security of on-
premise systems. These include secret keys, IP white-listing, security certificates, modern security protocols and automatic
patching of underlying infrastructure.
Scalability
Dynamically add or remove application instances according to known or varying
schedules, or when needed, and then destroy them when not required.
Leverage the immense scalability of Blob, Table, Queue, File and NoSQL storage,
reducing your dependency on poor scaling RDBMS.
Availability
Take advantage of vendor SLAs offering up to 95.95% availability for
cloud ready applications in a single data centre, or 99.9% if deployed multi region.
Leverage caching techniques for a low latency global reach. Securely expose
your valuable business processes and data to partners.
Performance
Your organisation can grow, shrink, or change - and so can your performance requirements. Add or remove as many
development, test and production resources as and when you need them. Plan up front, or configure it to happen
dynamically, so that you are ready for the unexpected.
Cost
Only pay for what you use, either through subscription by the hour or
minute - or via a consumption model. No more unknown up-front capital
expenditure guesswork. Make significant savings on storage compared to RDBMS,
and monetise your processes and data in innovative ways.
Flexibility
Extend your infrastructure or rebuild it whenever you want using standard deployment templates, or DevOps
techniques. Reconfigure cloud ready applications without writing any code
by using a simple wizard, through the push of a pre-configured button
or an uploaded config file.
Security
Let the vendors apply security updates to defend your infrastructure, platforms or applications against the
latest vulnerabilities. Leverage the latest API security technologies such as OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) that are native to the cloud.
The rise of cloud computing has revolutionised the pace of development, including how quickly and cheaply start-ups and competitors can bring software to market. Understanding the benefits of cloud application
architecture, and leveraging these in line with your business model is becoming increasingly important in the battle to remain competitive. The challenge most organisations face is; how do we do this, where do we begin
and what do we need? It starts with understanding the challenges that are inherent in your current applications.
Face The Challenge
Do your engineers need to constantly monitor the status of your applications?
Do you want to be alerted before business-critical events occur?
Are you worried about having to continually patch your infrastructure whenever a new vulnerability is identified?
Do you have high infrastructure costs to support the hardware for a hosting platform?
What if you could build apps that are highly resilient, self-healing and can be restructured at the push of a button? Ultima can show you how.
Head Office Gainsborough House Manor Park, Basingstoke Road Reading, Berkshire, RG2 0NA
0333 015 8000 [email protected]
www.ultima.com © Ultima Business Solutions 2017
Who Are We?
Cloud Application ArchitectureHelping you get your cloud applications off the ground
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