Cloud for everyone! Cloud Kinetics brings the benefits of cloud to everyone regardless of the size of your IT footprint. Finally, here is a cost effective opportunity to move the VMware install base to the VMware cloud. If you are already a VMware user, this is the perfect opportunity to move your VMware workloads from on-prem to VMC, which is the new & novel VMware on AWS Cloud.

Cloud Kinetics provides Cloud to Business of all sizes in ASEAN. With the new Cloud Kinetics Cloud-for-Everyone Managed Services powered by VMware Cloud on AWS, business of all sizes can consume cloud as it makes sense to their business needs. From the smallest workloads to the largest enterprise platforms, Cloud Kinetics delivers a cloud service that aligns to your business.

We’re proud to be the first platform-ready AWS MSP in this region to offer VMC for enterprises. We can help companies achieve up to 40% return on IT investments and return on efficiency by helping them migrate their VMware workloads to VMC. Haji Munshi, CEO, Cloud Kinetics

Let Cloud Kinetics Help You Garner the Benefits of VMC

Partner with Cloud Kinetics for advantages ranging from increased innovation to enhanced availability:

Increase Innovation

• VMware workloads running on AWS have access to a broad and rich set of 200+ AWS services.
• These include compute, database, analytics, IoT, AI/ML, security, and more.
• Latency-sensitive apps hosted in VMware can directly access Aurora, Dynamo, or Redshift databases for petabyte-scale data analysis.
• Latency-sensitive apps hosted in VMware can get secure access to low-cost S3 buckets, objects, and API functions.

Simplify Ops

• Organizations can simplify their hybrid IT ops by using VMC foundation technologies.
• These include vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vCenter Server across their on-premises data centre environments and the AWS Cloud.
• You can keep the same VMware provisioning, storage, and lifecycle policies you use today.
• This means you can quickly move apps between their on-premises environments and AWS without having to purchase any new hardware, rewrite applications, or modify your ops.

Reduce Costs

• VMC helps you optimize operating costs in a consistent and seamless hybrid IT environment.
• There is no custom hardware to deploy in your on-premises environment.
• You don’t need to modify applications to shift to a hybrid cloud model.
• These capabilities let you leverage all your existing investments to help save money.

Enhance Availability

• VMC helps you accelerate migration of VMware vSphere-based workloads to the highly available and scalable AWS Cloud.
• The service enables VMware-based workloads to run directly on the next-gen Nitro system-based Amazon EC2 bare metal infra.
• These can be provisioned in a single-tenant, isolated Amazon VPC.
• Take advantage of the scalability, availability, security, and global reach of the AWS Cloud.

Accelerate Cloud Migration

• Simplify and accelerate the migration of mission-critical production workloads to the AWS Cloud.
• You can do this at scale without having to convert or re-architect workloads.
• VMC enables seamless bi-directional application migration with consistent policies.
• It uses VMware vSphere vMotion between your on-premises data centre and the AWS Cloud.

Deliver DRaaS

• VMC enables you to simplify, accelerate, and modernize your existing disaster recovery solutions.
• Enhance existing VMware-based DR solutions with AWS Cloud-based DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) capabilities.
• Combine proven VMware DR technologies such as VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vSphere
• Replication with scalability, availability, speed, and cost benefits of the AWS Cloud.
• DRaaS will help you reduce costs, simplify ops, and enhance disaster recovery and testing.

Extend Your Data Centre

• Leverage the massive scalability and global presence of the AWS Cloud.
• Rapidly, seamlessly, and cost-effectively meet your DC capacity and regional footprint needs.
• Leverage AWS Direct Connect private network connectivity to extend your DC workloads.
• Use the massive capacity of the AWS Cloud to meet any expansion needs of the business.

Modernize Your Apps

• Leverage AWS services for integrated application modernization like Amazon S3.
• Ideal for organizations looking to build new/next-gen applications.
• You can use VMware’s management and policy tools across on-premises and VMC.
• Enjoy a unified and operationally consistent experience.

Why choose Cloud Kinetics to move VMware Cloud on AWS?

Cloud Kinetics offers large enterprises a unique combination of competencies to reduce complexity, control costs, increase agility and connect data silos on the AWS cloud.

Whether you need a Single-Tenancy or Multi-Tenancy, Cloud Kinetics can consult and/or implement it for you.

What Cloud Kinetics brings you

• Validate VMware workloads on VMC on AWS.
• Get a monthly TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) forecast.
• Ensure clear and transparent billing every month.
• Validate FSx/S3 integrations on VMC on AWS.
• You don’t need to pay for ESXi Nodes.
• Pay for only what you use, whether for a single or multi-tenancy environment.
• Get SDDC (Software-Defined Data Centre) and VMware CDS (Cloud Director Service) on tap.

Cloud Kinetics brings VMC on AWS Single-Tenancy

• If you are a large enterprise and have a large on-premise footprint.
• If you run specialized and high-compliance VMware workloads.
• If you have specialized vROps (vRealize Operations) in a hybrid environment.
• CK’s expertise to “lift-&-shift” to AWS in a dedicated VMware environment.
• Get a super cost-effective migration path.
• Optimize TCO (total cost of ownership) vis-a-vis DC (data center) costs.

Cloud Kinetics brings VMC on AWS Multi-Tenancy

• If you are an SME (small and medium enterprise) and have a small on-premise footprint.
• There is no or minimum VMware workload or VMware vROps required to move to the cloud.
• Leverage the benefits of large enterprises by moving to a VMC environment.
• Get a super cost-effective migration path.
• Use Cloud Kinetics’ professional and reliable managed services expertise.

VMware Cloud on Intel® Architecture

• VMware and Intel keep IT front-and-center in the quest for rapid digital business transformation, by providing IT organizations a clear path to digital transformation with consistent infrastructure and operations.
• Intel and VMware’s integrated technologies deliver chip-to-cloud PC management and security capabilities to support today’s anywhere workforce.
• VMware Cloud on AWS lets you choose from a wide variety of compute, memory, and storage options to “right size” your cloud instances to your particular workload.
• The AWS EC2 i3.en instance featuring the 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors deliver 4x the raw storage capacity at roughly half the cost per GB of storage per host compared to previous offerings, making them ideal for disaster recovery and other storage-demanding use cases.
• The AWS EC2 i3.en instance runs with more compute cores and more memory, allowing you to host larger and more powerful VMs.
• Selecting AWS EC2 i3.en instances allows you to add more vCPUs to achieve greater overall database performance per instance, benefit from more processing power that can handle more orders per minute.
• VMware also has gen-to-gen compatibility with Intel processors – meaning it can run on older Intel processors up through the modern Intel Xeon Scalable processors to combine both performance benefits and cost savings – whether it is on-prem or in the cloud.
• The combination of VMware Cloud Foundation and Intel Xeon processors lets organizations take advantage of familiar features such as vSphere vMotion for live migrations of VMs from on-prem to cloud.
• In partnership with leading Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, these solutions make moving to a hybrid public cloud environment simpler to manage and more predictable while enabling the latest technology innovations.

Cloud Kinetics for VMware & AWS: Competencies

AWS and VMware certifications

• Cloud Kinetics has garnered 166 AWS and VMware certifications, including:
• VMware MSP (Managed Services Partner).
• VMware Cloud on AWS Master Services Competency Partner.
• VMware PSO (Professional Services Offerings) Partner.
• AWS MSP (Managed Services Partner) and First in SEA on Ver 4.2-2001.
• AWS VMC Captivate 2022 Program.
• AWS Launch Partner for VMware CDS (Cloud Director Service).
• AWS Featured Expert Delivery Partner.
• AWS Migration Consulting Competency Partner.
• AWS Storage Consulting Competency Partner.
• AWS EC2 for Windows Server Delivery Partner.

Why VMware and AWS?

Why VMware

• You can build new cloud-native apps and modernize existing apps.
• You can run your infrastructure across any cloud.
• Leverage the innovation and freedom of every cloud with the simplicity of one.
• Accelerate current application ops with network and security virtualization.
• Use it for WAN (Wide Area Networks) on data centres.
• You have reliable cloud-intrinsic security at every layer.
• You can deliver any app, on any cloud, anywhere.
• Deliver apps from the core to the edge and cloud in a hybrid environment.
• You have proven vSphere capabilities in your AWS cloud environment.
• Extend your on-premises security, governance and operational policies.
• Modernize vSphere workloads with Tanzu services.
• Tanzu is a portfolio of managed Kubernetes services.
• Extend the value of enterprise apps with 200+ AWS services.
• You can access the services over a high bandwidth, low latency network.
• Deploy existing or new applications in 18 global AWS regions.
• Each with multiple levels of redundancy to minimize downtime.
• Your data, apps and workloads will be protected during an infra outage.

Why AWS

• You can extend your on-prem vSphere environments.
• Use VMware SDDN (Software-Defined Data Center) running on Amazon EC2.
• Enable your IT teams to seamlessly migrate and run vSphere workloads.
• Modernize them with fully managed Tanzu services and native AWS services.
• Reduce the time, cost and risk of migrating vSphere workloads to the cloud.
• Use vMotion and HCX for seamless migration on public or hybrid clouds.
• Migrate individual apps or entire DCs without conversions or downtime.
• VMware Cloud on AWS won CRN’s 2020 Products of The Year for Hybrid Cloud – Customer Demand subcategory.

ALSO SEE: Cloud Kinetics Enables Customers to Move to the Cloud While Maximizing Their On-Premises Investment

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Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform. It enables the operation of a flexible web server framework for cloud applications. It also automates many manual processes involved in deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications.

Kubernetes allows organizations to orchestrate containers. Either you can set up core on-prem Kubernetes for your workloads, or you can use the managed Kubernetes engines from major cloud vendors. You can also deploy your workloads on a hybrid Kubernetes model by extending on-prem to cloud and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments.

Professional Kubernetes Services

Kubernetes drives the container orchestration and management of micro-services. Cloud Kinetics helps enterprises to modernize their legacy apps and build cloud-native and serverless applications by automating deployments using CI/CD and security configurations.

• Application Modernization
• Cloud-Native Solutions
• DevSecOps
• Cloud-Native and Microservices Applications

Professional Services Offerings

• Consult & Assess
• Architect & Design
• Implement & Migrate

Managed Services Offerings

• Maintenance & Support
• Platform Support
• Cluster Management
• Capacity Management
• Security & Monitoring

Customized Training

Cloud Kinetics Learning (CKL) offers lab activities for Kubernetes and contextualizes them for your organization’s environment. We recreate your environment and mirror your implementation as close as possible in the lab. CKL also offers customized tech training for your staff to appreciate Kubernetes insights. Customized or standard courses are delivered via virtual or on-prem or stand-alone lab activities.

Plug and Play Offerings

Most enterprises seek to leverage their public cloud capabilities. In this journey, they need to make several decisions. For example, they must decide whether a public or a private cloud is ideal for them. And which cloud services and technologies they should deploy. And how to extend their workloads from on-prem model to specific clouds or multiple clouds.

With Cloud Kinetics’ hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes solution, we help customers to adopt the right hybrid or multi-cloud strategy aligned with their business needs.

Why Kubernetes

It is an open-source solution that

• Allows to orchestrate containers.
• Makes it easy to manage application deployments and updates.
• Automates application deployments.
• Manages workloads on the fly by auto-scaling containerized applications.
• Make efficient use of resources needed to run enterprise applications.
• Brings in DevOps efficiency.
• Makes monitoring, health-check, and managing more straightforward.
• Helps mount and add storage to run stateful apps.
• Offers hybrid and multi-cloud flexibility.
• Self-heals your application with replica sets, auto-placement, auto-restart, auto replication, and autoscaling.

Why work with Cloud Kinetics

Cloud Kinetics is a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) offering Kubernetes support, consulting, professional services and training for organizations embarking on their Kubernetes journey. We will work with you to determine your key needs and help you with:

• Overall architectural objectives and approach
• Kubernetes setup, provisioning and planning
• Security requirements considerations
• Software delivery pipeline design
• Implementation process analysis & planning
• Supporting tooling review

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However, the success of cloud adoption depends heavily on whether the cloud deployment model is right for the business, as it will dictate how the business stores and interacts with their data and applications. There are typically three types of available cloud models: public, private or hybrid.

Public cloud

A public cloud environment is built on IT infrastructure services belonging to cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. Users access the data in the cloud via the public Internet, which means that multiple ‘tenants’ can be using the cloud at the same time.

Besides the base fee, public cloud providers (PCPs) offer modular features such as application modernization or cloud storage on a pay-per-use system, allowing businesses to scale their use and costs as necessary. But as the PCPs control the features and service parameters, businesses may have a lesser degree of control and customization.

This cloud model may be best suited for cloud-native startups who need to scale quickly yet have limited resources and expertise.

Private cloud

A private cloud is exclusively used by a single business. The cloud is established within the business’s own data centre and can only be accessed through their intranet or virtual private network (VPN). This provides users with more complete control, visibility and customization ability, as well as enhanced security.

As cloud management and maintenance becomes the sole responsibility of the business, this requires higher upkeep costs and resource usage. This can be mitigated by offloading day-to-day monitoring and upkeep to experienced managed service providers (MSPs), which ensures that the cloud is well-managed and optimized while enabling in-house IT teams to prioritize other critical tasks.

Larger enterprises and institutions that require a secured environment that meets regulatory standards – such as banks – may prefer this cloud model.

Hybrid cloud

A hybrid cloud is a single, consolidated IT environment that incorporates services from public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises infrastructure, which are connected via local area networks (LANs) or VPNs. This may involve merging at least one private cloud and one public cloud, or even merging two or more public clouds.

The flexible nature of the hybrid model allows businesses to move workloads between clouds more easily and have more control over their data. Unsurprisingly, it is popular among enterprises and may be best suited for those digitally transitioning from pure on-premises solutions, but there are many variants of hybrid deployments to choose from.

Key decision-making factors

Cost can vary significantly by cloud model, which is why businesses must ensure that their chosen cloud aligns with their budget. Public clouds have subscription and hosting fees, private clouds incur maintenance and upkeep costs, and hybrid clouds have a combination of the two. But these costs can also minimize costs incurred elsewhere, so businesses must evaluate accordingly.

Data security and compliance needs are also important considerations. The private cloud model offers the best control and visibility but requires the right experts to oversee. Public clouds are compliance-certified but can be accessed by multiple users. Some businesses may also need to take local data regulations into account, especially those with multinational operations, when choosing a cloud.

Choosing the right cloud with the help of MSPs

Choosing the right cloud for your business can be a daunting decision because it is a significant commitment and can have a large impact. An experienced managed service provider (MSP) with the right industry partnerships and expertise can bridge this gap and help you make the cloud transition seamlessly.

At Cloud Kinetics, we can provide cloud assessment and consultation services to ensure that all your business needs are met with the most suitable cloud model for you. Once you’ve made a decision; we can even oversee the seamless cloud migration and integration of your systems to and with the cloud, as well as undertaking other cloud-managed services based on your requirements. Speak to us today.

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With more businesses starting their digitalisation journey by moving to the cloud, cloud-powered digital data protection solutions, such as Druva, are gaining traction for their specialised features in streamlining data protection processes for enterprises and their ability to safeguard digital assets in the cloud.

The Druva Platform

Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the most widely adopted cloud platform in the world, Druva is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that provides data protection solutions across data centres, cloud applications and endpoints through swift recovery and backup.

Druva’s patented cloud architecture harnesses the power of AWS’s public cloud to form a streamlined system that reduces the complexity and costs of data protection services for businesses, ensures compliance for borderless businesses and improves cyber resiliency while providing critical insights that can better enable business continuity. These features are essential to tackle today’s common, yet impactful, cyber issues.

Today’s top cyber issues

Major cyber concerns in this digital age include threats of malware (malicious software), data losses from natural disasters and potential data compliance breaches. These concerns significantly affect the security levels of data, eventually impacting the effectiveness of business continuity itself.

Data loss typically arises from both malware attacks and natural disasters. By using malware, cyber-criminals can hack into an operation’s systems, encrypt the files and then demand a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. From notable examples such as the US$50 million Acer ransomware attack and the Microsoft Exchange server hack that affected 30,000 organisations, it is apparent that the threat of malware is highly dangerous.

With natural disasters, the associated risks of power outages and hardware failures are leading causes of data loss, especially for businesses that choose to maintain on-premises servers for the majority of their data. From these ‘acts of God’, the costs of such risks were exemplified when a tornado destroyed the headquarters of Western Express in 2020, wiping out the company’s crucial data centre hosting systems. Even though data systems were backed up the night before, the company still lost 30 minutes’ worth of data – which could not only be detrimental but disastrous, depending on the classified level of the lost data.

While the events above are unexpected in nature, data compliance issues are dependent on established regulations already in place. As businesses migrate to the cloud and become borderless, they often face challenges to ensure that their data and operations remain locally compliant, which can then incur legal liabilities.

If these compliance regulations are not adhered to, it may result in costly fines for businesses, such as the €35.3 million fine incurred imposed on H&M for breaching the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules in 2020. Therefore, from the heavy costs illustrated, it is crucial for businesses to ensure their data’s protection and backup through tools like Druva.

How Druva addresses today’s cyber issues

Druva, a compliance-certified platform, is built with centralised and automated features that provide a streamlined process for data extraction during backup and recovery procedures. The platform’s key features include hybrid cloud solutions, disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) and data compliance adherence.

The platform ensures data protection as its direct-to-cloud backup feature does not require the implementation of additional hardware infrastructure. During unexpected crises such as natural disasters, businesses having most of their infrastructure on-site can use Druva as a “turnkey” solution to safeguard their data and mitigate disruptions caused by hardware damage and power outages.

Equipped with DRaaS capabilities, Druva minimises the impact of data loss because the centralised data protection platform is securely managed in AWS, whether the data is at rest or in transit. As a certified AWS Solution Architect, Cloud Kinetics has employed Druva as part of a larger solution to help our client, Enersys, orchestrate and generate a disaster recovery and effective business continuity plan (BCP) for their on-premises data across its multiple data centres.

With this solution, Druva can recover applications for the business within 15 minutes to an hour with a single click in the event of a disaster or cyber-attack, greatly minimising disruption and downtime. The platform also instils proactive support through consistent data verification and feedback cycles that ensure data backup and restoration. If corporate data is ever encrypted and held ransom by a malicious party, the business can quickly retrieve an up-to-date backup of their data instead of being forced to pay the ransom (often without any real guarantees) and experiencing service disruptions.

Druva also has a compliance monitoring solution that features a single, fully automated dashboard that constantly monitors company data with prebuilt or customised compliance templates. It can proactively alert users to key regulations or report violations on a 24/7 basis, defensibly delete sensitive data in the cloud backup or source files in response to potential violations of key compliance standards. It can even simplify endpoint protection governance for the remote workforce. Altogether, this dashboard feature significantly streamlines the compliance process, giving both businesses and their users greater peace of mind.

Moving forward with Druva

Cloud migration does not make data entirely immune to external threats and nor will it completely address all compliance matters. Hence, businesses should leave nothing to chance. Every point of vulnerability runs the risk of exploitation, making data protection and backup solutions like Druva the new business necessity.

As a trusted AWS partner and with our experience with Druva, we can ensure that businesses are well-prepared to handle modern digital threats and emerge more resilient – both today and in the future.

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We offer our customers the best of breed hybrid cloud solutions with end to end consulting and managed services, Cloud Kinetics has jointly developed a hybrid cloud regional platform together with Google Cloud.

Our Assurance

SLA Commitment

Our hybrid cloud platform consists of 24-hour enterprise monitoring services backed by a team of certified and experienced cloud support engineers allowing us to perform full managed services with committed SLA. InfoFabrica offers a complete end to end hybrid cloud technology stack as a service with flexible and different services options.

Trust

With these end to end service offerings, we will be the one trusted partner who are able to provide you with a complete IT roadmap, GCP Cloud Migration and visibility on your initiatives network for our Customers who are embarking on the digital transformation and hybrid cloud journey.

Expertise

We have a breath of experience with our expertise and repeatable success in building customer solutions in the infrastructure field using Google Cloud Platform technology. This GCP Cloud Migration specialization practice is designed to provide our Customers with demonstrated technical accuments and service practice.

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We offer our customers the best of breed hybrid cloud solutions with end to end consulting, GCP Infrastructure expertise and managed services, Cloud Kinetics has jointly developed a hybrid cloud regional platform together with Google Cloud.

Our Assurance

SLA Commitment

Our hybrid cloud platform consists of 24-hour enterprise monitoring services backed by a team of certified and experienced cloud support engineers allowing us to perform full managed services with committed SLA. Cloud Kinetics offers a complete end to end hybrid cloud technology stack as a service with flexible and different services options.

Trust

With these end to end service offerings, we will be the one trusted partner who are able to provide you with a complete IT roadmap and visibility on your initiatives network for our Customers who are embarking on the digital transformation and hybrid cloud journey.

GCP Infrastructure Expertise

We have a breath of experience with our expertise and repeatable success in building customer solutions in the infrastructure field using Google Cloud Platform technology. This specialization practice is designed to provide our Customers with demonstrated technical accuments and service practice.

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Effective enterprise operations can help organizations increase IT efficiency, reliability and improve customer experience. We partner with the best Enterprise Applications Platforms so that you can focus on your business priorities.

• Google Workspaces

Today’s new normal demands quality collaboration and productivity tools so that your team can work efficiently. Google Workspace gives you everything that you need to get anything done, in one place.

• ServiceNow

Modernize your operations to optimize productivity, cost, and resilience with a single platform for IT. ServiceNow allows your team to deliver services to internal and external customers, without compromising on the quality and speed of those services

• Freshworks

Reshape customer experiences with Freshworks. Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life.

• Salesforce

Bring your customers closer to your company with Salesforce. Salesforce helps you keep track of everything about your customers and potential customers so you can build great relationships with them.

• Druva

Druva data protection across data centers, cloud applications, and endpoints. With Druva, you will be able to enforce data governance and extract more intelligence to unlock the full value of your data.

• Veeam

If you are looking for a Single Backup and Data Management Platform for Cloud, then look no further than Veeam. Veeam presents a single platform for modernizing backup, accelerating hybrid cloud and securing your data.

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