INTRODUCING CIELO: THE WORKSPACE AS A SERVICE DISCOVERY, MIGRATION AND CLOUD ORCHESTRATION ENGINE

These days, it would be extremely difficult to find any business that isn’t considering moving their IT to the cloud. The benefits are pretty clear by now – cost savings, centralized management in a secure datacenter and predictable pay-as-you-go pricing are among the top drivers. The first wave of cloud adoption was focused on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), but increasingly, businesses are looking to move their workspaces and applications to a cloud service provider. In fact, IDC forecasts that the Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS) market is projected to grow from $466 million in 2014 to $4.7 billion in 2020, representing a five-year CAGR of 59%.

However, moving on-premises workloads to the cloud can be complex, time-consuming and labor intensive, and SMEs in particular, typically don’t have the in-house resources and technical expertise to perform migrations. That’s why SMEs are turning to MSPs and other cloud service providers to help them get there. Yet, MSPs face the same challenges during migrations, especially since most of them are doing them manually. For instance, it could take up to 60 hours and a large team of IT professionals to migrate just 30 employees and three servers to the cloud. This can get really expensive quick, and ultimately minimize the benefits of moving to the cloud from the start.

Cloud Workspace Powered by CIELO

At itopia, we have created our end-to-end Cloud Workspace solution to help MSPs and cloud service providers take on this otherwise daunting task. At the core of Cloud Workspace is our proprietary discovery, migration and cloud orchestration software platform, CIELO, which enables our service provider partners to move on-premises workloads to the cloud automatically and remotely. In a nutshell, CIELO starts working to discover what’s on and associated with an end user’s device(s), including: user profiles, applications, AD groups, drives, printers and network nodes. Then, through a simple dashboard, IT administrators can automatically migrate/provision all of the necessary pieces to the cloud without ever having to step foot in the on-premises datacenter.

Behind the scenes, CIELO handles the orchestration of workloads with infrastructure resources, optimizing application performance and resource utilization. CIELO also automates billing usage and inventory management to ensure that MSPs are meeting the cloud SLAs their customers require. In addition, CIELO is cloud-, hypervisor- and infrastructure agnostic, so customers can have the flexibility that they expect from the cloud. That means customers can choose to run critical workspaces and applications on Google Cloud Engine, Microsoft Azure or in their own private datacenter, to name a few options.

In the end, Cloud Workspace powered by CIELO enables MSPs and any other cloud service providers to tap into the fast-growing WaaS market. By leveraging our automated discovery, migration and cloud orchestration platform, migrations can be done 10 times faster, and for a tenth of the cost as opposed to the legacy, manual approach of yesteryear.

If you want to read more about Cielo, just go to our website at www.itopia.us/cielo or contact us directly at sales@itopia.us. We look forward to hearing from you.

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