Cloud
Paving the way for innovation with the increased efficiency and scalability of cloud services and solutions
Overview
Flexibile infrastructure to meet business demands with cloud services and solutions
Why CAI for Cloud technology services
Harness the best of cloud for your enterprise. Every effective business strategy starts with a careful evaluation of the benefits of cloud services and solutions. CAI cloud technology services transform the vulnerabilities of legacy IT infrastructures into more secure, scalable, cost-effective solutions. Whether your technology is spread across multiple cloud environments and data centers or focused within a single platform, CAI cloud modernization and technology services have the flexibility and versatility to ensure you operate with minimum downtime and maximum value.
70%
According to Gartner®
"By 2028, modernization efforts will culminate in 70% of workloads running in a cloud environment, up from 25% in 2023.1"
- Gartner Press Release, Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2023 London: Day 1 Highlights, November 20, 2023. https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-11-20-gartner-it-infrastructure-operations-and-cloud-strategies-conference-2023-london-day-1-highlights.
What We Do
Cloud strategy services and design
Cloud strategy services and design empower organizations to leverage cloud computing to achieve business objectives and outcomes. CAI partners with public sector and commercial enterprises to realize comprehensive cloud strategies that outline how organizations can utilize cloud services to optimize IT infrastructure, applications, and data. Strategies cover everything from architecture and deployment models to governance and security, ensuring a holistic approach.
CAI cloud strategy services include:
- Assessment of organizational needs, goals, and objectives for the cloud
- Outline the cloud adoption approach, leveraging the well-architected framework
- Define governance and security policies
- Roadmap development for implementation
Our cloud design process translates strategy into a technical blueprint. CAI meticulously plans and implements the architecture of your cloud environment, selecting the appropriate cloud services—Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)—and choosing the right deployment model, be it public, private, hybrid cloud, or multicloud. We design robust and secure network infrastructures and prioritize security and compliance, ensuring your cloud environment is both efficient and secure.
CAI cloud design services include:
- Define cloud architecture to best utilize PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS in concert with on-prem
- Design of the application topology and data synchronization and migration plan
- Implement security measures, policies, monitoring, and governance
- Optimize cloud resources for configuration, performance, and costs
CAI brings a deep understanding of best practices for public cloud offerings. Leveraging the well-architected frameworks for migration, design, and adoption allows us to design, build, migrate, or modernize applications and help you meet your goals for cloud adoption.
Operational excellence
Run, manage, and monitor production workload to deliver business value and continuous improvement on supporting process and events
Security
Protecting information, systems, and assets from outside world with risk assessment, unplanned failures, and mitigation strategies
Reliability
Auto recover workload from infrastructure, power or system failures with dynamic resource management to meet operational threshold
Performance efficiency
Use computing resources efficiently to support on-demand changes for delivering workload with maximum performance to meet the SLA
Cost optimization
Eliminate unneeded costs and identify opportunities to utilize more cost-effective resources without impacting best practices or business priorities
Cloud migration
CAI’s comprehensive cloud migration services utilize advanced automation when migrating data and applications from either on-site servers to public cloud providers or between different clouds. Our cloud services and solutions balance the benefits of lift-and-shift migrations when needed and include application modernization when your enterprise is ready to gain the full benefit of cloud technology services.
With CAI cloud migration services, we can rearchitect, refactor, and/or rewrite applications to fully leverage cloud-native technologies. Our solution services are designed to minimize downtime and disruption, providing a smooth transition. Key steps in a migration are automated so they are repeatable and reuseable with little to no effort. To efficiently configure, provision, and migrate infrastructure and services into native cloud resources, CAI utilizes tooling, scripting, methods, and accelerators. This approach enhances scalability, agility, security, and cost-efficiency, ensuring applications are optimized for the cloud environment. By modernizing applications during the migration process, CAI not only improves their performance but also aids in future-proofing your IT infrastructure. Trust CAI to deliver a seamless cloud migration experience that maximizes the potential of your cloud investment and aligns with your business goals.
Cloud operations and monitoring
Performance optimization is the primary goal for cloud operations and monitoring services. Cloud operations (CloudOps) ensure your cloud-based infrastructure and applications run smoothly and efficiently through a comprehensive set of practices, procedures, and tools designed to manage and optimize the delivery, performance, cost, and overall health of your IT workloads.
Cloud monitoring is integral to CAI's approach, continuously observing, evaluating, allocating resources, and managing the health, configuration, performance, availability, and security of your cloud-based applications and infrastructure. By leveraging advanced cloud technology services, such as site reliability engineering, we ensure your systems remain reliable, resilient, and compliant.
CAI cloud operations and monitoring services include:
- Cost and site reliability monitoring
- Review and hardening of configuration and settings
- Assessment and remediation of vulnerabilities in software versions, packages, cloud configuration, or settings
- Application and solution instrumentation to detect performance metrics, exceptions, and anomalies
CAI cloud solutions services provide real-time insights and proactive management, helping you mitigate risks, and maintain optimal operation.
"CAI helped a public sector transportation agency through implementation of 24x7 operational monitoring of on-premise and cloud applications and systems. This included the development and implementation of automated monitoring, health checks, system alerts, restoration procedures/runbooks, and a manned NOC for monitoring and escalation. Throughout the first six months of operations, CAI was able to reduce off-hours escalation calls to engineers and application developers by over 60%, resulting in increased uptime, performance and stability and reduced costs and overtime."
Multicloud and hybrid cloud solutions services
Requirements for effective and efficient cloud services and solutions can be as unique as the enterprise environments relying on them. Whether you need a multicloud solution, a hybrid cloud solution, or both, CAI is a partner dedicated to providing you with a powerful, seamless experience.
- Multicloud solutions: CAI multicloud solutions help public sector and commercial enterprises achieve greater flexibility, resilience, and vendor independence. By utilizing cloud services from all major cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, and any client-hosted environment, CAI designs a comprehensive IT infrastructure that optimizes storage, development, and analytics. Our cloud services and solutions ensure seamless integration and robust performance across diverse platforms. Our approach provides strategic workload distribution, reducing the risk of vendor lock-in and enhancing disaster recovery capabilities. Our cloud technology services are designed to help you maximize benefits from each cloud provider, ensuring your business remains agile, efficient, and secure.
- Hybrid cloud solutions: Leverage hybrid cloud solutions services to achieve the perfect balance between scalability and control. CAI’s hybrid cloud approach combines public cloud services with your private cloud or on-premises infrastructure, allowing you to enjoy the cost-effectiveness and flexibility of public clouds while maintaining control over sensitive data and legacy systems. This unified IT infrastructure offers the best of both worlds—scalability and agility coupled with security and compliance.
Cloud security and compliance
Cloud security and compliance are foundational for all cloud technology services. Ensuring the safety, privacy, and legal adherence of your data and operations within cloud environments is crucial and non-negotiable. CAI cloud technology services are intrinsically designed to comply with various regulations, standards, and best practices, intended to protect your sensitive information and maintain trust.
Our deep experience designing, hosting, and supporting operations in both government and commercial clouds is supported by compliance with:
- National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF)
- FedRAMP
- Payment card industry (PCI) Compliance
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH)
- International Organization for Standardization ISO/IEC 27001, 27002, and 27003
CAI's comprehensive, robust security measures include encryption, access controls, and continuous monitoring to safeguard data. We also ensure compliance with industry-specific regulations and standards, mitigating risks and avoiding potential legal penalties.
We also can assist you with securely connecting your organization to the cloud, using Zero Trust approaches, login federation, or a variety of secure network connection options, such as virtual private network (VPN) or Express Route/Direct Connect.
Cloud cost optimization
The key to maximizing the value of the cloud is strategically managing and reducing cloud computing expenses while ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization. CAI cloud cost optimization is a core element of CAI's cloud services and solutions designed to identify and eliminate unnecessary costs, right-size resources, and implement efficient strategies to minimize your cloud bills without compromising service quality.
Our continuous monitoring of your environment, and expert analysis of your cloud usage patterns, result in regular recommended cost-saving measures and ongoing optimization. CAI’s focus on rightsizing your environment, leveraging reserved instances, and eliminating idle or underutilized assets helps you achieve significant returns while maintaining high levels of performance and reliability.
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