Cloud & DevOps services

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Cloud Adoption / Migration Services

 

Migration to Cloud is the first phase / starting point for IT Modernization

 

BTJ helps clients of any size & industry domains to migrate and move to Cloud Environments bringing businesses more value, modernization goals, increased agility, lower time to market the new features, shift the staff focus more on the innovation ( accelerate innovation ), infrastructure cost savings, increased administrators productivity, fewer security incidents, operational resilience.

 

We make the right choices from among the 6 standard options: Rehosting, Replatforming, Repurchasing, Refactoring / Re-architecting, Retire, Retain.  We apply phased approaches like assessment, mobilisation, migration itself & modernization with each phase building on the previous one. We make use of the cloud provider best practices, guides, patterns & strategies to help accelerate & optimise the entire cloud migration journey. We simplify & accelerate each step of migration using the cloud providers migration tools, services & capabilities which offers automations & intelligent recommendations based on ML capabilities. 

 

BTJ offers expertise migrating & building applications using Cloud Native Architecture, Serverless, Microservices, CI/CD. 

 

Cloud Native Development Services

 

BTJ offers strong expertise in building, managing & running scalable Cloud Native Applications with common cloud-native development practices including Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Serverless, Event Driven, Microservices, API’s, containers resulting in Faster development, Agility, Increased Efficiency, Platform independence, Application Availability, Scalability, Automation & Cost-effective operations via complete cloud native stack spanning across multiple layers including Infrastructure Layer, Provisioning Layer, Runtime Layer, Orchestration & management Layer, Application definition & deployment Layer, Observability & analysis tools. 

 

These layers consist of operating system, storage, network, computing resources, cloud configuration services, container technologies, orchestration technologies, database, messaging, container images, continuous integration, continuous delivery, monitoring & system health tools.  

 

Cloud Optimization Services

 

BTJ cloud optimization service offers solutions for four key focus areas: Cost Optimization, Security, Monitoring, Automation of Cloud Workloads. 

 

Cost Optimization - We help our clients to take control of cost and continuously optimise their spend, while building modern, scalable applications to meet their needs. Couple of strategies we offer are like choosing the right pricing models among RI, Spot Instances, Savings Plan etc. ; Matching capacity with Demand like right-sizing, stopping instance, using auto-scaling & on-demand ; Identifying resource waste like snapshotting EBS volumes, using S3 lower storage tiers, deleting idle load balancers etc.

 

We make use of the out of box tools and services offered by the popular & industry adopted cloud providers like cost explorer, pricing calculator etc. 

 

Security - BTJ makes use of cloud service providers out of the box services which helps to validate the established security best practices by the cloud service providers. Couple of key areas addressed are Identity & Access Management, Multi-factor Authentication, Encryption, Web Application Firewall, Compliance, Governance, Infrastructure & Data Protection, Auditing, Responding to security incidents in an automatic fashion, Application security.  

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Monitoring - BTJ monitoring helps monitor the entire IT stack including virtual machines, applications, services. We leverage out of box monitoring services from cloud providers which can be installed on-premise, hybrid or cloud environments. Couple of key monitoring services like service alarms based on metrics, activity recording in account / infrastructure, security monitoring.

 

Automation - BTJ automation capabilities help BTJ clients to enable automation across various areas spanning provisioning & configuration management using Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) & templates, Availability & Continuity Management with AZ failover, volume backups, DevOps automation with Build, Deployment & Release Automation

 

Cloud Operation Services

IT Operations is one of the key focus areas of any business organisation. Today every organisation is moving to the cloud. BTJ offers a secure & efficient way to manage & govern cloud infrastructure & applications in cloud, on-premise & at the edge. BTJ makes use of the specialised tools and processes to securely & efficiently operate in the cloud resulting in cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility & carbon savings. Simultaneously business agility & governance provides a foundation to transform BTJ clients IT operations into an agile build and iterate operating environment. 

 

We help our clients to apply governance best practices by easily setting up secure, scalable, multi-account environments which acts as a foundation for operations based on the best-practices. 

 

We simplify operations by integrating with the existing service management and change management tools used by the BTJ clients. Automating IT operations helps manage environments, applications, resources in a quick, efficient and secure way. 

 

We collect & analyse logs, metrics and traces to determine how well our clients applications and systems are performing which helps us to quickly detect, investigate & remediate problems. 

 

Today's compliance environment is complex, dynamic and evolving rapidly. Organisations need to address the internal requirements and external industry regulations like SOC, PCI DSS etc. BTJ helps its clients to implement compliance processes faster & easier using standard mechanisms made available from cloud providers like built-in best practices, templates, automation, services etc. 

 

BTJ helps its clients to set the expectations around the cloud costs for the projects and applications which helps to manage and control the costs. We also help uncover the cost insights and optimization opportunities, and optimise spend based on usage. 
 

Cloud DevOps Services

BTJ DevOps services increases organisations ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity, evolving and improving products at a faster pace which enables BTJ clients to better serve their customers & compete more effectively in the market.  

 

BTJ enables its clients to more rapidly and reliably build and deliver products and services leveraging standard cloud provider & BTJ DevOps practices. BTJ’s DevOps Services simplify provisioning and managing infrastructure, deploying application code, automating software release processes, monitoring application and infrastructure performance.

 

BTJ enables its clients to create a truly agile organisation by launching & releasing innovative products and services with increased speed, improved quality, enhanced  productivity, reduced cost & frequent releases.

 

BTJ establishes an end to end CI CD Pipeline which offers clients to run the automatic builds on the code changes events & deploys the artefacts acts across environments in a seamless manner with selective controls for validation & approvals. 

 

BTJ Build Automation capabilities make use of the standard tools and technologies spanning AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Build, AWS Code Deploy, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven, BitBucket

 

BTJ Deploy Automation capabilities make use of the standard tools and technologies spanning AWS ECS, AWS EKS, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS Terraform, python, shell scripting etc.

 

BTJ Monitoring capabilities include AWS CloudWatch, AWS Cloud Trail, Elastic Search to build Dashboard in Prometheus & Grafana. Alerts via Email, SMS. Application log aggregation using ElasticSearch / Open Search   

 

Cloud FinOps Services

BTJ understands financial management and optimising cloud spending has always been one of the top business goals especially where businesses have been adopting the use of cloud technologies at a faster pace.

 

BTJ helps organisations to set-up the FinOps practice and provision the right set of tools and platforms for cost management.