Frontier Cloud Managed Solutions Supports Fully Managed, End-to-End Cloud IT Ops

Frontier Communications is offering a new solution to help enterprises manage their IT environment on any cloud or platform in a secure, managed, and affordable way. IDN looks at Frontier Cloud Managed Solutions.

by Vance McCarthy

Tags: automation. cloud, DDoS, Frontier, infrastructure-as-code, multi-cloud, security, uptime,

Frontier Communications is offering a new solution to help enterprises manage their IT environment on any cloud or platform in a secure, managed, and affordable way – via a  single web interface.

 

Frontier’s Cloud Managed IT Solutions aim to let enterprises speed up and simplify their cloud migration, relieving in-house IT of many day-to-day operational tasks, according to  Daniel Pieretti, Frontier’s senior vice president of products and marketing.

 

The new solution is “a complete, flexible multi-cloud delivery platform that brings business customers a reliable, consistent and unified cloud IT operations experience,” he added in a statement.

 

In specific, Frontier Cloud Managed Solutions are designed to enable organizations of all sizes to reap the benefits of cloud-native automation, elasticity, and agility, Pieretti noted. They include a host of new cloud and network service offerings for these critical elements:

Cloud infrastructure - Fully managed, end-to-end, turnkey configurations of IT infrastructure and software—networking, operating system, database, virtualization—including implementation and 24/7/365 monitoring and management.

 

Cloud continuity – Minimal RPO/RTO is required to get applications running and operations continuing as usual. Secondary infrastructure includes operating systems, data and software for seamless failover within minutes. It also includes support for DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service)

 

Cloud Security - Protects the entire cloud infrastructure - systems, software and data. It offers network and application firewalls and provides Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) mitigation, data encryption, anti-virus and 24/7/365 monitoring.

Frontier’s Cloud Managed IT Solutions also offer 24/7 support with live technicians.

 

As a result, Pieretti said the Frontier’s Cloud Managed IT Solutions offer “a complete and flexible multi-cloud delivery platform that brings business customers a reliable, consistent, and unified cloud IT operations experience.”  Frontier sports fully automated and integrated tools to deliver what he called “a fully functional environment that goes beyond a secondary application environment. As a result, customers can maintain the same privileges and access as in the production environment.” Pieretti noted.

 

Another feature is on the finance side, with what Pieretti called a “right-sized” cloud IT consumption and a simple, flexible billing model, which includes discounts and utility pricing, he added.

 

Among some of the Frontier’s Cloud Managed IT Solutions more notable benefits are:

  • Rapid deployment:  It can be deployed quickly, reliably, and accurately with pre-configured, automated tools.
  • Speedy Recovery and Continuity:  It eliminates the time and effort of traditional disaster recovery solutions during an IT event with active applications delivered for end-users in real-time.
  • Lower IT expenses: Frontier’s offers a ‘right-sized’  pay-as-you-go model avoids significant up-front CapEx and optimize cash flow.

To ensure that enterprises receive the full benefits of a multi-cloud environment, Frontier delivers its Cloud Managed IT Solutions services in three stages.

 

First stage: The first stage supports customers migrating from a physical or virtualized traditional IT environment to any public cloud or private cloud.

 

Second stage: Here, Frontier uses cloud-native tools - infrastructure-as-code tool, Terraform, and containers — to manage and control applications running in any cloud or platform to achieve smart costs.

 

Final stage: In the final stage of digital transformation, Cloud Managed Solutions leverage the integration of Frontier’s orchestration portal with leading machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to deliver enhanced operational optimization beyond what cloud-native integration can do.

 

The Frontier’s Cloud Managed IT Solutions can be used as a fully managed service or through a self-service portal.




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