Your IT in the cloud.
Managed, protected, compliant.

It depends on the complete calculation, not on the price list. Hardware, licences, power, cooling and floor space are easy to estimate; the item that is almost always missing is the staff needed to keep the infrastructure running day and night, with shifts, training and cover. In a cloud subscription that cost is already included; in your own datacentre it has to be added. In a real case we handled, a bank in Rome with 413 virtual machines on the public cloud, the complete comparison led to staying in the cloud.

For an environment of around 400 virtual machines and 1,300 vCPUs we designed two all-flash VMware vSAN clusters on 18 nodes, over 900 TB of raw storage, a 40 GbE spine-leaf network with redundant links, 76 kW of power with matching cooling, a geographic link for backup and disaster recovery, and the virtualisation and operating system licences. On top of that you need a suitable server room and a team of engineers to run it.

Yes. The public cloud we work on is Microsoft Azure, and we are a Microsoft partner in the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme: we provision Azure and Microsoft 365 subscriptions directly and take care of their architecture, security and day-to-day operations. We work in the European Azure regions, each with three availability zones, and we are certified ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018 and ISO 9001. On the same platform we also publish web applications without a virtual machine, using Azure App Service and Azure Static Web Apps connected to GitHub.

In the European regions of the public cloud, in Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, France and Germany, each with three physically separate availability zones. For jurisdiction requirements we also design on a European cloud outside US jurisdiction, on a private cloud in Italy or on-premises, or hybrid architectures: sensitive data in Italy, operational workloads on the public cloud.

Both. We design on-premises datacentres and virtualised infrastructure with VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix and Proxmox, hybrid architectures and public-cloud environments. We choose the platform based on the customer’s risk and costs, not on partnership logic: when your own datacentre is the better choice, we say so and we design it.

With a total cost of ownership (TCO) over at least five years that includes hardware and its refresh, licences, power and cooling, floor space, connectivity, backup and disaster recovery and, above all, the people who run the infrastructure. It is the comparison we make in the initial assessment, and the one our TCO calculator lets you set up on your own.

No. If the application is web-based, a portal, an internal app, an API, we publish it directly on a managed application platform or on static hosting, with the deployment pipeline connected to your team’s Git repository: one push and the application is live, with certificates, scaling and backups handled by the platform, and the database on a managed service. That is exactly how this website works. If instead it is a classic ERP running on a Windows server, the route is a virtual machine sized for it, with backup and monitoring included. The choice is made in the initial assessment, together with the hosting platform.