Cloud computing and virtualization implementation experts

The complex and fast-changing nature of solutions for infrastructure, platform, and software cloud computing can be overwhelming. Cloud computing environments can involve new software development languages and application programming interfaces; new approaches to storage; and an array of paradigm shifts in system administration, security, operations, and maintenance. Similarly, comprehensive virtualization and consolidation initiatives require expertise across the entire IT stack to avoid pitfalls and stay on-track. Building and maintaining the staff and expertise in-house for these new initiatives can be difficult and costly.

Cloud Approach consultants are industry-leading experts ready to help your organization in all phases of implementation including cloud software development, migration and transition, system administration, establishment of cloud development, testing and staging environments, and much more. Our virtualization and consolidation experts have extensive experience in large-scale infrastructure products with all leading virtualization, storage, and networking vendors. Our team offers implementation services for major cloud vendors and virtualization platforms including Terremark, Amazon AWS, CloudSwitch, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, Force.com, Salesforce.com, Google App Engine, OpenStack, Eucalyptus, VMware, EMC, Cisco, NetApp, Citrix, Hadoop, Tricipher, and others.

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Managing cloud computing and virtualization risk and compliance

Security is the number one concern of most companies considering public cloud computing. Virtualization security and compliance within the enterprise is also a significant and growing concern. Cloud Approach helps you effectively manage risk and seize opportunities by combining industry-recognized cloud computing and virtualization security, privacy, and compliance risk management expertise and thought leadership with a customized IT business planning and technology implementation framework.

As we know, from a security, privacy, and compliance perspective, not every application conforms to current public cloud offerings. The Cloud Approach SONIC consulting services framework can rapidly pinpoint where and how your applications and information, in whole or in part, can reside in the cloud while reducing risk and meeting compliance mandates.

Cloud Approach can help architect an IT security strategy aligned with existing and future cloud computing and virtualization industry best practices and regulatory compliance. This allows you to easily adopt and receive tangible benefits of future technology and service provider enhancement while streamlining existing operations. In doing so, you will minimize the need to “rework” your infrastructure to benefit from future security advancements in public cloud computing as you move from private cloud to hybrid cloud. Cloud Approach SONIC is designed to provide streamlined risk management for today’s cloud and virtualized applications and to prepare you for the future.

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Leverage the power of the human cloud and crowdsourcing

Imagine the power of hundreds of thousands of skilled workers available right now-- immediately at your fingertips to solve business problems that are otherwise difficult or unsolvable through standard computing or with traditional employee or contractor resources. This is the power of crowdsourcing-- the ability to insert thousands of human beings into the compute cycle in a way never before thought possible. The vast connectivity of the Internet and proliferation of computer skills has produced a global market for paid business workers compensated in micropayments (pennies per task.) Whether it's human image recognition and classification to improve the quality of an online retailer's catalog, software testing, transcription of information captured in scans, meta data descriptions for collections of information, or thousands of other business problems, crowdsourcing can be a game changing solution for your business.

Cloud Approach provides advanced crowdsourcing services including strategy, programming, implementation, reconciliation, quality management, and toolsets.  Amazon Mechanical Turk combines a leading programmable platform with hundreds of thousands of workers. Cloud Approach is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Mechanical Turk Solution Provider Partner. This means our consultants have undergone a rigorous certification program, requiring them to demonstrate deep technical expertise in the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform combined with its application to business.

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