Reap the full benefits of Microsoft Azure Stack, bringing the power and flexibility of Azure to your data center with DXC's managed services.
Experts from Microsoft and DXC share strategies for bringing the benefits of Azure into your data center.
Public cloud is pervasive in today’s enterprise. Companies have moved aggressively to migrate cloud-ready applications to reap the operational and cost efficiencies offered by public cloud. However, when it comes to core applications, challenges remain. Questions about regulatory compliance, latency and performance have prevented achievement of a fully realized cloud strategy.
Azure Stack overcomes these limitations, enabling you to bring the robust Azure cloud platform into your data center. Azure Stack not only resolves concerns about data privacy and performance, but also enables you to deploy cloud-native applications on-premises
As a premier Microsoft partner with a global presence, DXC is uniquely positioned to support Azure Stack.
Azure Stack requires a new set of skills to establish the governance and operational capabilities you need and to ensure your enterprise fully benefits from the flexibility Azure offers. DXC can help you:
- Position Azure Stack in your IT strategy
- Deploy and manage this new environment
- Guide workload transformation and migration to unlock Azure Stack’s full value
Full support for Azure Stack
DXC Managed Services provide design, delivery and contiuous operations for Microsoft Azure Stack. We monitor and manage the Azure Stack core, system software, infrastructure configurations and service consumption using proven processes and tools.
As a premier Microsoft partner with a global presence, DXC is uniquely positioned to support Azure Stack. We can help you achieve IT agility and reduce risk through our strategic partnerships with HPE, Dell and Lenovo, along with our expert advisors, specialized tools and services for risk mitigation, security and regulatory compliance.
We work with our OEM partners to design and deploy right-sized solutions, in your own datacenter, or in one of DXC’s. Microsoft Azure Stack and DXC’s managed services scale up and down to continually meet your changing business needs, ensuring that your IT costs and services always align to business demand. We offer multiple financial options for the platform, including capital, lease or pay-as-you-go.
DXC can help you realize the full operational benefits of Azure. Our end-to-end solution includes Advisory Services to identify workloads suited for cloud migration. We offer Transformation and Cloud Migration Services to take the risk out of moving core applications that handle complex enterprise workloads.
Proven success with Azure
DXC Managed Services for Microsoft Azure Stack help your enterprise easily consume Azure services and benefit from flexible, consumption-based models such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). In addition to managing costs, you’ll benefit from agile development and deployment of cloud-native applications like these clients do:
- A global facilities management firm is increasing flexibility with Azure Stack to provide office deployments quickly worldwide.
- A leading manufacturer used DXC’s advisory services to assess workloads for migration, control costs and reduce risk exposure.
- A global energy company is migrating from traditional IT to Azure and Azure Stack to reduce capital costs and drive value with a consumption-based model.
Multiple service options
Our approach to Azure Stack is as nontraditional as the cloud itself. That’s why we’ve replaced traditional siloes for security, operations, storage, compute and networking with a fully skilled, end-to-end “CloudOps” delivery capability. And we’ve structured our advisory and managed service bundles to ensure that you get the most from your Azure investment. Our Azure experts will work with you to identify appropriate workloads for Azure Stack through these steps:
- Understand your business and IT strategies
- Assess your current application landscape
- Determine where to place workloads
- Architect Azure Stack to align with your business needs
- Optimize Azure Stack environment to support your workload requirements
- Integrate Azure Stack environment to work seamlessly with Azure and your existing corporate IT estate
Bronze Service Bundle
DXC will implement and manage your Azure Stack core including capacity management, performance and availability of Azure resources while you look after your platforms and workloads. Bronze service includes:
- Planning and implementation of Azure Stack core
- Full proactive monitoring, administration and management of the core Azure Stack platform(infrastructure, compute, virtual network infrastructure and capacity management)
Silver service bundle
We’ll manage your Azure Stack core, including capacity management, performance and availability of Azure resources while you look after your platforms and workloads. Silver service includes:
- DXC account services, including governance and collaboration
- Light-touch service management with DXC experts on request
- Cost that scales with your needs
Gold service bundle
Get all the features of the Bronze and Silver bundles, plus fully managed services that ensure your Azure Stack, Azure and corporate IT will work seamlessly together. With Gold service, DXC will:
- Align your Azure environment to your security, compliance, flexibility and scalability needs
- Integrate IT service management (ITSM) workflow, automation and governance
- Manage virtual machines, storage and guest OS, including patching and availability
- Manage security, including Active Directory, virtual networks, antivirus, policies, audit, compliance and backup/restore
Our service bundles are designed to align to workload needs. For example, a full-scope managed service may not be needed for development and testing workloads. Our services bring best practices and governance to the cloud, so you can be confident that you’re getting the value and agility you expect. Combined with DXC Hybrid IT Integration Solutions, you can consume multi-cloud services and manage costs with a consolidated platform, unified catalog and self-service portal through ServiceNow.
Strategic partnerships
DXC is Microsoft’s largest IT services partner globally, and DXC Managed Services for Microsoft Azure Stack is
built on our 30-year global strategic partnership. We’re recognized internationally as a key Microsoft partner, and we support Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.
HPE, Dell and Lenovo are all DXC strategic partners, enabling DXC to provide fully integrated and turnkey solutions that take the complexity out of deploying Azure Stack.
Contact us to learn more about how to reap the full benefits of Microsoft Azure Stack.