A cloud service provider for a large U.S. government agency wanted to outsource its technology management to a reliable partner, so it could focus on growing the business.
The service provider already had a Network Service Provider (NSP) for its cloud solution, but the NSP’s help desk support was slow to respond if it followed up at all, resulting in a failure to meet the service level agreement and regular extensions.
The inadequate support slowed the service provider’s go-to-market strategy and created cloud security concerns. The company also had dissimilar end-user devices, resulting in disjointed system communication in its data center.
To ensure future growth and increase its go-to-market speed, the company wanted to transition to a new cloud managed service. A viable partner would also need to serve as a single point of contact for all the firm’s technology needs.
Transitioning to a well-managed IT environment
During its search for a reliable, end-to-end partner, the company chose Insight for our breadth and depth of capabilities across our four solution areas.
After learning about our client’s cloud-based objectives, we first created a transition plan to our managed cloud services. The move aimed to enable growth by outsourcing the client’s technology management.
We migrated the client to our Azure managed services with Level 1 support and a Tier 2 Azure reseller agreement, solving their ticket response issues while allowing them to continue providing Azure to their customers. We also began administrating the client’s Office 365 licenses through our Office 365 managed services.
Next, we shifted our focus to ensuring the security of the client’s cloud solutions. The client identified Bitdefender GravityZone, managed by a third-party, as its solution of choice.