AWS Cloud Architecture & Migration
Strong expertise with a variety of AWS technologies and workloads; Hybrid architectures; Networking, security and storage solutions; Backup and DR solutions.
CloudOps, DevOps, ProdOps
Experience with a variety of DevOps tools and technologies; Automation, configuration management, continuous deployment technologies; Monitoring and management; Datacentre buildout and operations.
Software Solutions
Development expertise with a variety of open-source and database technologies; Android and iOS mobile development.
Legacy Application Integration
Extensive experience in workplace modernisation including application integration with legacy systems (Corporate HR, CRM, Financials, Sales/Marketing).
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has helped thousands of organisations migrate to the cloud, which generates substantial IT and business benefits, including lower costs, increased agility, greater productivity, and the ability to innovate more quickly.
Stadia Consulting Group, an AWS partner, helps businesses both large and small assess their cloud readiness, identify gaps, and receive an action plan to help close those gaps and propel their cloud journey forward. For more information on Stadia’s migration services, contact us by clicking here.
Migrating to AWS can be streamlined with a professional yet straightforward approach. The 7 Rs are central to our approach to migration. You can read more about the 7 Rs here.
Meanwhile, here is a high-level outline of how we at Stadia approach AWS migrations:
Plan:
Prepare:
Migrate:
Optimise:
Manage:
Obviously, there is a lot more underlying detail to these steps, but this gives an idea of how we approach AWS migrations.
It would be great to chat with you about how an AWS migration could benefit your company, contact us.
The AWS Assessment Tool is a resource provided by Amazon Web Services to help organisations evaluate their cloud readiness, security posture, and compliance status. Here are its key components:
Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Tool:
AWS Well-Architected Tool:
AWS Trusted Advisor:
AWS Security Assessment Tools:
AWS Compliance Assessment:
Migration Evaluator (formerly TSO Logic):
The AWS Assessment Tool suite offers comprehensive resources to help organisations evaluate and enhance their cloud infrastructure, ensuring adherence to best practices, security standards, and compliance requirements.
Microsoft Azure is one of the most successful cloud computing platforms on the market. At Stadia, we offer bespoke Microsoft Azure support packages – to help you to seamlessly transition to the cloud and enjoy smooth ongoing operations.
At some point in the near future, every company that utilises information technology as part of their business operations, will need to have a presence on a platform such as Azure. Read more on the power of Azure over on our blog.
As one of the top three cloud-computing programs in the world, Azure can unlock a multitude of benefits for your business…
We are a proud Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Partner.
Our Azure support packages will save you time and relieve stress. We will free you up to focus on the ongoing demands of your business. We work with a range of organisations, from small to large and across sectors – to offer a host of bespoke support services to help alleviate the overwhelm.
We can support with:
We have helped to migrate thousands of users and resources with our Microsoft Azure support packages.
While we work with some of the country’s largest organisations, we retain the service-levels of a boutique agency. This means we place your needs at the centre of everything we do. We’ll work closely with you from start to finish to build a package that makes your life easier.
You won’t wait around for days at a time for a response either.
At Stadia, we know that you want to future-proof your business with the most effective, cutting-edge technology on offer. You need a cloud platform that allows for flexibility and scalability – and a partner who can deliver that with no negative impact on your operations.
Microsoft Intune (formally called Microsoft Endpoint Manager or MEM) is a cloud-based and on-premises solution that provides everything you need to manage and monitor all the devices in your business. At Stadia, we offer bespoke, specialist support with Microsoft Intune for an array of organisations.
With Intune, you’re able to secure, deploy, and manage devices, users and apps, without impacting day-to-day operations.
Intune enables any staff member to pick up a laptop from anywhere in the world, log-in, follow a simple set of instructions and enjoy all the applications they need. The end result is a corporate build that the company has approved, with all the relevant security functions – achieved in minutes.
Check out our blog post for more information on Intune and its benefits
Intune also enables hotfixes and security updates for thousands of machines at once, and almost instantly. This leads to increased end-user productivity, less time wasted and enhanced device security.
What’s even better – if you have Microsoft 365, you’ll have a Intune licence already.
What’s not to love…
While Intune is one of the most popular endpoint management solutions on the market, it’s also a technology that’s scary to some.
With the multitude of options on offer within Intune, it can feel rather OVERWHELMING.
Confusion reigns. More importantly, you’re not maximising your investment in Intune because of a lack of time or the in-house expertise needed to unlock the full capabilities.
At Stadia, we can manage your endpoint environments. We know Intune inside out and back to front – and can take the load off with our Microsoft Intune as a Service offering.
For a small, monthly, per-user cost, we will oversee:
At Stadia, we know that Microsoft Intune can cause confusion, frustration and overwhelm.
It can feel daunting.
We know that it can seem a major challenge to ensure you’re unlocking maximum investment and making the most of the opportunities on offer.
We can help you achieve all of the above and more.
With extensive knowledge across our team, we can expertly support with Microsoft Intune. This will free you up to focus on your wider business objectives, without having to worry about your endpoint environments.
You have probably heard of Microsoft Teams. In fact, it’s very likely you’re using it on a regular basis in your business. At Stadia, we offer bespoke support with Teams security and beyond – to help you to harness the full capabilities of the platform.
Over a quarter of a billion people use Microsoft Teams now, making it the most popular business communication service in the world.
According to Microsoft:
“Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that helps members of an organization to use any device to stay organized and have conversations. You can use Microsoft Teams to have immediate conversations with members of your staff or guests outside your organization. You can also make phone calls, host meetings, and share files.”
Teams is the number one corporate solution for easy collaboration and teamwork in remote working scenarios. And of course, this has never been more important. Teams is a game-changing platform in its ability to connect your work force when they are in the office and beyond.
Share, collaborate and work in real-time, with Microsoft Teams.
Teams is just Teams. Right?
It just works. Out of the box, doesn’t it?
It’s just, good to go?
Click it, call up, or make a video call, right?
Well… yes.
But.
There’s a LOT more on offer. The ‘straight out-the-box’ solution, while a good one, doesn’t necessarily provide the fullest experience. Teams is a powerful platform with the full force of M365 integration behind it, and many businesses are not harnessing its full benefits.
Not even close.
When it comes to security in particular, there are multiple capabilities you could be using to secure Teams, lock it down and control how your users work with it. This should all be undertaken in line with your business requirements and security standards.
That’s where we come in.
It’s time to think outside the box – and unlock the Microsoft Teams security benefits you might not have heard of. But that you might really need.
Teams offers a multitude of configurable security settings and policies, but largely, people don’t know they exist.
Did you know that you can benefit from some of the below Teams security capabilities and more?
On a day-to-day basis, this also means you can make use of other, more granular security settings to protect your business on Teams:
We could go on…
At Stadia, we help businesses who need to comply with certain CIS standards of security. We work with organisations at whatever stage they are at with their Microsoft Teams security set-up.
Just getting started? Need support with Teams Security?
Setting up new environments
For a brand new company, if you’re looking to set up Microsoft 365 and unlock the full benefits that come with it (Teams included), we can help.
We’ll work through your requirements with you and make recommendations on which licenses you should have, which applications and which settings to make it secure and still able to deliver what you need it to.
Got an existing environment that needs updating?
Managing deployment to existing environments
Perhaps you’ve had a penetration test and now have reams of issues to resolve. Perhaps many of the security updates relate to Microsoft Teams?
We know this needs to be done right within a live environment.
You can’t break anything! You can’t interrupt the end-user workflow. You can’t disrupt meetings.
We will undertake a detailed assessment of your requirements and work closely with you to ensure nothing gets broken along the way.
We’ll keep your own change management process at front of mind too, ensuring we’re clear on what we can do and cannot and when we can and cannot make updates.
We understand there might only be small windows of opportunity, and we’ll work around your business and your team to make sure the process is a smooth one.
Microsoft Teams makes remote collaboration EASY – but it’s of paramount importance to set it up SECURELY.
You have the world at your fingertips in terms of security capabilities – you just might not know it yet.
Or you might not have the time, or in-house expertise to set Teams up fully, or manage your existing environment effectively.
We believe there’s nothing more important than security. We understand the countless daily threats to business and livelihoods.
So, as with all of our services, we’ll:
LISTEN to your requirements for Microsoft Teams (and more broadly, Microsoft 365).
TAILOR a service which perfectly matches your needs.
DELIVER it in a way which doesn’t disrupt your day-to-day operations, and more importantly, your workforce.
So give us a call today. So you can stop living in the box and start maximising your Microsoft Teams experience.
Microsoft 365 (M365) is the premium, cloud-based productivity solution from Microsoft. It will enable you to truly modernise the workplace environment for your team.
At Stadia, we offer bespoke services – to help you to seamlessly make the transition to M365 and to harness its full benefits in the longer term.
Microsoft 365 is well worth your consideration.
It’s Microsoft’s go-to solution for business productivity and security software demands, and connects the whole ecosystem of much-loved Microsoft services and apps.
With everything in one place, and access to the below apps and services (and more), M365 can increase productivity, improve security and enhance collaboration within your team.
The thought of moving to a new productivity solution – and one in the cloud – can feel risky.
Have you thought about transforming your workplace, but feel nervous about the impact on your workforce and day-to-day operations?
Maybe it’s something that’s been discussed and then shelved.
Are you on edge about the jump from internally managed IT to a cloud-based alternative?
Maybe it’s easier to avoid making the changes now, because of the feared short-term interruption or loss of control.
STOP!
Longer-term, by avoiding migration, you’re losing out on a whole world of business benefits:
In time, every business will need to make the transition to a cloud-based productivity solution – and M365 is the best in the business.
You should only have to do this once too. So it’s worth doing it right…
… And with the right partner at your side, the migration to M365 can be a smooth one – that you’ll be grateful you didn’t put off.
We have supported many companies in their migration to M365.
Seamlessly. Smoothly. Successfully.
You’re in safe hands with Stadia.
We know that you might feel nervous or uncertain about migration. We also know that you want to future-proof your business with a ‘best-in-class’ productivity solution.
We can take your business requirements, do the behind the scenes design and preparation, and provide you with a custom-fit migration plan for your business. And of course – we can take a lead on seeing it through to the finish line too.
We’d like to hear about your challenges, give you options, and explore what might work for you.
From the old ways of working to a new efficient, collaborative and secure approach.
Seamlessly migrate to M365, with tailored support from the Stadia team.
Following the impact of the global pandemic, more people than ever are working from home. This presents new security threats to the work environments of many businesses, something that multi-factor authentication (MFA) can help to counteract.
MFA is often not optimised to its fullest though, with many businesses unaware of the breadth of security features on offer.
We can help.
As part of our MFA and broader Microsoft Azure bespoke services, we’ll perform an initial assessment of your security requirements, design and configure an MFA solution and implement it without any disruption to your team.
MFA essentially asks a user to prove that they are who they say they are. When trying to log-in, a user must provide two or more forms of verification to access certain services, accounts or platforms.
There are different types of authentication on offer and you can select the best mix to suit your business needs (also taking into account the end-user experience). You can read more about MFA on our blog.
MFA has a hugely positive impact on safety, with estimates that there can be up to a 99% reduction in the chances of an account being compromised when multi-factor authentication is employed.
Ensuring you have multi-factor authentication set up for your business is absolutely essential in order to protect your systems. It can be simple, cost-effective and extremely beneficial if set-up in the right way.
Let’s take a look at why multi-factor authentication is more important than ever.
While some companies have shifted back to fully office based working requirements post pandemic, many have either opted for a fully remote set-up, or more of a hybrid approach.
While this brings about positives for employees in terms of flexibility and freedom of where to work, this can also have a significantly detrimental impact on the security of the work environment of a business (both on and off-line).
An on-site work environment is much easier to control. Everything is operated from the physical office space and on a managed network, which the IT department oversees.
Physical presence in the office is also easy to monitor and more often than not, a stranger on site would be recognised, or other on-site security procedures would alert management to intruders.
With remote work, the situation is a little different. Cyberthreats are far more common when a worker is remote, because they may be working outside the organisation’s network.
Remote work also throws up numerous other threats:
The threat is high and the stakes higher. It’s more important than ever to have a secure user verification process.
Multi-factor authentication is easily and cheaply (if not freely, depending on your licenses) available through Microsoft and the other major cloud providers.
But in order to unlock its full capabilities, you might need some extra support.
There are numerous ways of setting MFA up, ranging from least to most secure. You can select from a host of different authentication factors to ask for.
There’s also user convenience that you need to keep in mind (which might present conflicting demands to security requirements!).
With MFA, you can set up a username and password requirement and also ask for confirmation on the relevant MFA app – and people can log in.
But did you know that within Microsoft Azure, there’s also an additional layer of security available that’s very closely related to MFA?
No? Well, with Conditional Access, you can enhance log-in security even further and without inconveniencing users, by pre-programming certain access requirements:
There are many other access requirements you can explore.
Don’t just stop at MFA.
If you haven’t explored integrated use of MFA and Conditional Access,
give us a call.
We’ve helped many businesses to set up, or enhance their use of multi-factor authentication. It’s part of a broad range of tailored services we offer to help organisations adapt to constantly changing security threats.
If you’re completely new to Microsoft Azure, multi-factor-authentication, or Conditional Access, we can help.
We’ll work through your requirements with you and make recommendations on which you should opt for, the relevant settings, and a plan to implement.
If you’ve already got a presence in Azure, but feel you’re doing the very minimum in terms of your security procedures, we can help. We’ll support you to incorporate MFA and Conditional Access and improve your ability to respond to threats.
We’ll undertake a detailed assessment of your requirements and work closely with you so there is no impact on daily operations as we implement changes.
Maybe you’re working with an outdated provider and still reliant on clunky hardware fobs for employees to log-in. If you’re at the end of a multi-year agreement and it’s time to move to a modern, smart-phone based verification solution, then we can support you with the change.
Whatever your situation, we can help. We’ll design and implement an MFA solution to meet your security requirements without inconveniencing your users.
ORIIUM SaaS is a cloud-based complete data protection platform. It keeps company data secure by adhering to proven standards that protect data privacy and safeguard it from external threats.
Stadia is a proud ORIIUM partner, helping customers set up and integrate this important platform into their day-to-day operations. ORIIUM is in fact, the protection platform we utilise to back up our data at Stadia, making us well placed to recommend it to our customers. We are consistently impressed with the efficiency of the platform and the additional security benefits it provides.
If you’d like to protect, store and recover your data on demand with ORIIUM – no matter where you are or where you’d like to recover to – give us a call today.
Data protection is vital for any business, with the threat of data breaches higher than ever.
Threats from hackers are more advanced and a steep rise in remote working has led to increased difficulties for businesses trying to protect against data intrusions and attacks.
If your data and company assets aren’t secure, you leave yourself open to a host of issues for your business, ranging from minor irritations up to full-blown disasters. Some of these disasters are simply not recoverable from.
Hackers could access sensitive or personal data and release it publicly, or they could interrupt or even destroy your customer database.
You might think your systems are secure. But have you really done the homework?
Did you know, for example, that the retention policy at Microsoft will only hold data for 30 days after a user has deleted it (active deletion) or for 180 days after a subscription ends (passive deletion)?
You’ve got no option to access it after that point. That’s it. Gone.
Relying on a provider’s default data retention protection is a risky business. It’s not advisable to lean solely on platforms such as Exchange, Teams, Sharepoint and OneDrive to secure and store your data. And it’s a similar situation with Microsoft’s competitor platforms, such as Google Workspace.
If you’re seeking a data protection platform that provides complete protection and enables rapid recovery or restoration of lost or deleted data, then ORIIUM is a great place to look.
ORIIUM delivers market-leading backup (BaaS) and disaster recovery (DRaaS) services to a host of major clients, such as Prudential and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Are you protected against ransomware attacks? Contact Stadia to discuss protection and recovery methods.
So, what’s stopping you?
Not to worry. With the ORIIUM managed service, your data is monitored 24/7/365 by a team of experts, to ensure all backup jobs complete successfully. This will remove any dependencies and resource requirements from your internal IT team.
The service is entirely configurable so you can select from just BaaS or DRaaS or both service options depending on your requirements. Using both BaaS and DRaaS service options can provide a cost-effective solution that delivers both data recovery and business operation continuity.
There’s also a choice of whether you opt for a managed or unmanaged service and a range of payment options too, based on consumption. So you really can tailor the service and price point to work for your business.
Give us a call to find a price point that works for you.
It’s difficult to comprehend the importance of the data in your business until it’s gone. This is a very real threat and not one that should be underestimated or downplayed.
Why not give us a call and we can talk both you and your team through the benefits of DRaaS, and explore an ORIIUM set-up that will work for your organisation?
ORIIUM set up and services are operated through its partner network. As an ORIIUM partner, Stadia has helped many customers to set up and integrate this important platform into their businesses.
We know you want to ensure that the data in your business is backed up consistently, 100% secure and protected from external threats.
We believe in taking a proactive approach to data security and disaster management – not waiting until it’s too late. We believe your business is too important to risk anything less.
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