Bring your organization to the cloud quickly, securely and completely worry-free

Based on the vision and goals of your organization, we jointly determine the cloud strategy that fits them. The framework on which we hang this strategy is theMicrosoft Cloud Adoption Framework, in which we guide you through the possibilities of the Azure cloud in various workshops and assessments. This provides support for the strategic choices that need to be made. The result of these workshops is a comprehensive transformation plan. This plan serves as a blueprint for the actual implementation of the defined cloud strategy. When defining the cloud strategy, all relevant topics such as Identity and Access Management (IAM), network design, Cost Management, Security, Governance and Compliance monitoring are addressed.

For onboarding, InSpark organizes several design sessions with your organization to establish the required design decisions and associated technology choices. During the design session issues such as Subscriptions, Roll Based Access Control (RBAC), Networking, Security Center and Monitoring will be addressed.

Azure Foundation
The design decisions ultimately lead to a specific Azure Foundation for your organization. The Azure Foundation is the answer tosome of the biggest challenges organizations face when working in Azure. The 6 main pillars of the InSpark Azure Foundation are :

1. Identity & Access Management. Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables the right people to access required resources at the right time and under the right conditions.
2. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery. we jointly discuss the options for meeting the specific requirements of application workloads at the platform level.
3. Automation & DevOps. we discuss how to deploy the infrastructure using Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
4. Management & Monitoring. This covers how centralized management and monitoring is done at the platform level and the underlying landing zones.
5. Security, Governance & Compliance. Azure Governance helps understand how to effectively manage and use Azure services. InSpark helps define baselines and implement policy definitions.
6. Network topology & connectivity- Network topology is an essential element in architecture because it defines how applications communicate with each other. Here we use two different network models, based on Azure Virtual WAN and the traditional Hub & Spoke topology.

Azure Landing Zones
The outcome of the strategy sessions is the starting point for onboarding or migrating selected workloads to the cloud. With just a few actions, we set up a basic cloud infrastructure, based on standards and best practices and tailored to your needs and requirements. By using InSpark's own developed Business Ready Cloud onboarding repository, we already take into account the monitoring of management, security, governance and costs during the rollout of the environment.

This foundation - deployed via pipelines - is called the Azure Landing Zone and is the foundation of your Azure cloud environment.

The InSpark Azure Landing Zone is flexible, scalable and modularly extensible with relevant Microsoft Azure products and services and possibly third-party services. The application of the Landing Zone allows your employees to focus on developing the applications themselves, rather than managing the environment.

Ideally, cloud environments should be secure, compliant and working as intended. However, it is very important that you stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the Azure cloud while maintaining an overview of your environment.

After onboarding and migration to the cloud, InSpark Managed Cloud services come into play. With the latest best practices, updates, patches and cloud services we ensure your cloud infrastructure is and stays state-of-the-art. InSpark provides both monitoring and management of the cloud environment.

The cloud monitoring uses the intelligence of InSpark's Cloud Control Center. With this we monitor your cloud environment using cloud-native services and follow up on relevant signals. We also provide backup & recovery and updates & patches.

The biggest challenge in the cloud is staying up-to-date with the latest innovations and developments. InSpark helps with that too. Your personal innovation coach supports this.

The innovation coach is an InSpark cloud engineer who thinks along with you. Your innovation coach supports you in optimizing your cloud environment and proactively informs you about new innovations on the Microsoft Azure platform. Your coach identifies opportunities and ensures their implementation together with your IT department. The permanent modernization of applications and infrastructure and driving cloud adoption within your organization are also part of your services.

InSpark actively monitors your Azure environment for products and services that are reaching the "end of life" phase. This allows timely action to be taken by upgrading these components or by deploying alternative solutions. Of course, these innovations are continuously tested against the established cloud strategy.