Major Technology Merger Creates Excitement and More Options For Clients and Partners

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

St. Louis, MO – June 22, 2021 – WheelHouse Solutions, a leading IT consulting and managed services provider and Clarus Communications, a leading technology broker, both based in St. Louis, Missouri, have announced a merger with TDM (Telecom Decision Makers) of Louisville, Kentucky. WheelHouse managing partner, Chris Torbit, will assume the role of Managing Partner of the newly-formed organization, working alongside TDM’s Jeff Mead who will focus on revenue growth and managing the enterprise sales organization. Current TDM CEO, Robert Bowling, will serve as CEO of the combined companies.

For over 20 years TDM has provided data, traditional voice, UCaaS, cloud migration, wireless solutions, network design, procurement, and vendor management to large national companies. TDM’s solutions also include Resolve; full, ongoing, live-person support with 24×7 coverage. Resolve provides customers with a single point of contact for any type of support related to their services or equipment providers.

“TDM brings a considerable amount of national account expertise, as well as global clients to the newly-formed organization,” said Chris Torbit. “Collectively, we are a force to be reckoned in the IT and telecom space.”

Since 2001, Clarus Communications has been successfully helping clients make the best decisions regarding their phone service, phone systems, wireless, and data needs. After the merger is complete, Clarus Communications will continue to provide agent support, as well as pursue agent recruitment for all three brands. The combination of all three companies has over 750 agents nationwide.

“After working closely with Clarus and Wheelhouse the past couple years, it was clear that merging the three companies would strengthen TDM,” said CEO Robert Bowling. “Our customers will see the benefit through more solution offerings and improved service; our team members, agents, customers, suppliers, and prospects all benefit in this deal.”

WheelHouse Solutions provides outstanding sales and support to clients utilizing cyber security, managed IT solutions, cloud services, IT consulting, telecom solutions, and Microsoft products. Since 2000, WheelHouse Solutions has played an integral role in helping customers achieve standards compliance and maintain the integrity of their IT infrastructure.

The goal of the merger is to capitalize on synergies and to expand the breadth and depth of services offered to enterprise clients. All three companies will maintain their individual brand identities but serve different markets. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

For more information about WheelHouse Solutions please visit www.wheelhouse.solutions; Clarus Communications  please visit www.clarusco.com; and TDM please visit www.tdm.cc.

Contact: 

Tommi Davis
Director of Marketing
WheelHouse Solutions 

(314) 433-4819

Five Benefits of Managed Cloud Services

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Managed Cloud Services are helping companies optimize and streamline the management of their mission-critical applications and data. With managed cloud services, businesses can outsource scheduled maintenance, patches, software updates and management of their IT infrastructure, enabling their IT staff to focus on other business-critical objectives.

WheelHouse Solutions provides fully managed IT infrastructure and applications, in cloud-enabled environments. By utilizing our managed cloud services, businesses can enjoy the best of class service, rapidly provisioned hardware, middleware and outstanding support to meet their IT demands.

As one of St. Louis, Missouri’s premier providers of managed cloud services, WheelHouse Solutions also offers cloud hosting services, as well as a team of cloud service specialists to help our customers effectively manage their IT infrastructure.

Managed Cloud Services Options from WheelHouse Solutions

  • Colocation Services that provide reliable, enterprise-class hosting for businesses, ensuring dependable environments to protect and ensure the continuity of business-critical applications, network services, and digital assets.
  • Managed Application & Middleware Server services that offer implementation, configuration, monitoring, maintenance, upgrades and patches for application/middleware servers hosted at WheelHouse data centers.
  • Managed Database Services that include implementation, administration, support, maintenance and data optimization, as well as reliable disaster recovery services.
  • Managed Network Services, including data protection and disaster recovery solutions that minimize downtime, allowing your IT staff to focus on mission-critical needs.
  • Managed Security Services that provides network intrusion prevention and detection, real-time log flow analysis, vulnerability assessments and 24/7/365 monitoring and management.
  • Managed Server Services that provides a scalable and reliable physical server, as well as VM management services that ensure your servers are running at peak performance.
  • Managed Storage Services include reliable and resilience storage capabilities to protect and recover your data more quickly.
  • Managed Web Server Services that include implementation, configuration, maintenance, monitoring upgrades and patches of Web servers hosted within WheelHouse data centers.

Benefits of WheelHouse Solutions Managed Cloud Services

  • Your employees can work more efficiently, focusing solely on your business objectives, rather than on IT related tasks
  • Your company can scale its IT infrastructure, quickly and easily, to meet your current demand, while ensuring that your applications perform reliably in the cloud
  • Managed Cloud Services can lower your IT costs, by reducing or eliminating out-of-pocket expenses, in addition to reducing the cost of heating, cooling, and real estate
  • With Managed Cloud Services your business retains control over your resources, hardware, and bandwidth while outsourcing the problem-solving to the cloud services experts at WheelHouse solutions
  • Your organization can utilize the cloud to ensure security, compliance and operational standards of excellence, within your industry.

WheelHouse Solutions can provide Managed Cloud Services for your business.  We invite you to click here or call 314-492-2506 to request additional information about our Managed Cloud Services. We’ll work with you to develop a solution that will meet your needs now, as well as provide for future growth and flexibility.

Do You Have a Business Mobile Device Management Policy?

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In a recent article on mobile device management (MDM), CIO magazine makes the intriguing and pointed observation that “the mobile enterprise is the BYOD enterprise,” which may be the reason many businesses have been slow to implement comprehensive mobile device management policies. Unfortunately, a lack of such policies is unrealistic and fails to take into account the fact that employees are probably already bringing in their mobile devices, and using them, at work. The presence of such devices already brings possibilities, as well as security risks.

What Is Your Business Mobile Device Management Policy?

What is your policy on mobile device use in the workplace? Are your employees provided with company devices – and only allowed to use those devices while on the clock? Perhaps you allow limited use of mobile devices at the workplace, so long as they are not connected to the business network.  Be aware, that even such limited access can provide security risks, for example from employees using their cell phones to take screenshots or record conversations. Especially in light of ongoing security breaches, now is the time to be proactive.

What Should Your Policy Be?

Mobile device management refers to a number of software products currently on the market, which manage risk caused by the reality that people carry and use a variety of mobile devices. Mobile device management also includes an understanding on the part of employers that security and accessibility are reasons for concern – and the reason for possibility as well. Consider a policy of mobile device management which allows your workers’ maximum productivity, including the use of mobile devices for business functions, while minimizing your security risks.

Implementing Change

Change is hard, as they often say, but change can be good. When introducing a new mobile device management plan, or improving on the one you have in place, make sure to cultivate input from all levels of your organization. This way, you can better ensure acceptance and compliance, and maximize productivity by taking into account all the legitimate uses people have for mobile devices in your place of business.

Mobile device management means moving beyond acceptance, into the realm of actively utilizing mobile devices, with all the possibilities they can bring.

Making educated technology decisions defines business success in today’s competitive world. For larger companies, one wrong move can equal millions in lost productivity, hardware failure, and potential security breaches. For smaller businesses and start-up companies, technology guesswork is the fine line between closing the doors and establishing a creative edge in the market.

WheelHouse Solutions can provide the mobile expertise that your business needs. We have extensive experience planning and implementing complicated projects in a business environment. We’ll ensure that your project is managed effectively, analyzing and defining your needs and then creating a scope of work, including project goals and milestones. We’re experts at working with third-party vendors, to ensure that your projects are implemented flawlessly, on time and under budget.  Click here or call us today at 314-492-2506 for a free consultation.

Are Managed Help Desk Services Right For Your Business?

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St. Louis Help Desk ServicessWheelHouse Solutions’ help desk solutions allow your business to provide 24/7/365 help desk services while leaving the help desk management to us, so as not to take up the valuable time of your IT staff. WheelHouse Solutions offers both shared and dedicated help desk options, for our clients, and our partners’ clients.

Shared Help Desk Solutions

Our shared help desk solutions allow multiple clients to share the same resources. WheelHouse Solutions’ help desk agents have access to multiple ticketing systems and can follow procedures that are defined by each customer. Our professional help desk agents handle calls from many different customers, and always provide a friendly help desk support experience for all of our users, at all times.

Dedicated Help Desk Solutions

Our dedicated help desk solutions allow our clients to have a specific staff of agents, who handle their help desk calls and can range from simple call logging to full management of issues, including interacting with third-party vendors, on their behalf.

Benefits of Help Desk Outsourcing

  • Single Point of Contact for All Calls
  • Improved Levels of Customer Service
  • Frees Up Internal IT Resources for Other Projects
  • Significant Cost Reduction, vs in-house Help Desk
  • Expanded Hours of Help Desk Operation
  • Experienced and Professional Help Desk Employees
  • Fully-Documented Procedures with Custom-tailored Escalation Process
  • Accurate and Timely Reporting

Why Outsource Your Help Desk to WheelHouse Solutions?

Outsourcing your help desk is a great way to employ additional resources at a low cost and low risk to your business. When you outsource your help desk to WheelHouse Solutions, you are not constrained by employee limitations. Help desk outsourcing is a low-cost, low-risk way to employ additional human resources to your business, without the cost of hiring additional employees.

Help Desk Support That’s Tailored to Your Business

Our help desk outsourcing solutions allow your company to deploy an experienced support team, without hiring additional employees, saving you time and money. We’ll create work tickets, coordinate with the appropriate personnel, within your company, open trouble tickets with third-party vendors, where applicable, and resolve the trouble tickets, as quickly as possible. You can rest assured that our experienced agents will handle every call promptly and with the utmost in professionalism.

Each of our plans is flexible, allowing our clients to configure the best solution to meet their business needs. Because you are only paying for the time that our agents spend providing customer support, you can avoid the high cost of increasing your staff or paying overtime. You can outsource all of your help desk support to WheelHouse Solutions or we can augment your current staff – we can tailor a solution to meet the specific needs of your business.

Benefits of Our Help Desk Monitoring & Ticketing

There are many reasons to outsource your help desk services to WheelHouse Solutions. Below are just a few:

  • Based in the United States
    We never outsource calls overseas. You can rest assured that your help desk issues will be handled by a professional agent, who is highly trained and based in North America.
  • 24 Hour Support
    Our doors are always open. We provide help desk support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, allowing our customers to have peace of mind.
  • Friendly Service
    All of our help desk agents receive thorough training so that users have a pleasant, professional help desk experience.
  • Competitive Pricing
    WheelHouse Solutions offers flexible pricing options, on help desk outsourcing, allowing our clients to configure the solution that works best for their business.
  • Tracking and Notifications
    WheelHouse Solutions utilizes intuitive, integrated software, allowing us to communicate with our users via text message, email, telephone or even fax, regarding the status of their ticket.
  • Flexible & Efficient Automation
    WheelHouse Solutions utilizes advanced technology to effortlessly route your call to the appropriate live agent, for resolution.

WheelHouse Solutions provides Managed Help Desk Services for all types of businesses. We invite you to call us at 314-492-2506 or fill out the form on this page and we’ll work with you to develop a solution that will meet your needs now, as well as provide for future growth and flexibility.

What, Exactly, is the “Internet of Things”?

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One of the most popular buzzwords in tech today is the “Internet of Things” (IoT) but what exactly is it referring to? This week, we’ll explain the very basics of IoT and how it will continue to transform the way we communicate and conduct business in the 21st century.

The phrase “Internet of Things” was first coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, executive director of the Auto-ID Center at MIT, and referred to the myriad of devices that would eventually be connected to the internet. In summary, the “internet of things” is the natural evolution of the network, whereby smart objects on the network have the ability to collect data, in addition to users having the ability to connect to those devices and issue commands, such as remotely setting a home or business’ security system or setting a home DVR to record a television show, from a remote location, miles away.

Today, the “Internet of things” includes mobile phones, tablet computers, cars, fitness trackers, refrigerators, security systems and light bulbs, just to name a few. All of these devices collect data and exchange it through dedicated sensors, over the internet. In 2010, there were over 12.5 billion devices connected to the internet, even though the worldwide population was only 6.8 billion, marking the beginning of “the Internet of Things” – where devices on the network outnumber human beings on the network.

The following are some of the ways that IoT will make our lives easier:

Medical Monitoring

Healthcare providers will have the ability to monitor patients without visiting them in person, reducing healthcare costs and significantly reducing the risk of errors and omissions. Medical devices may even, at some point, have the ability to administer medication, ensuring the patient is always comfortable, even when a doctor cannot be immediately reached. There are a myriad of ways that IoT will help modern medicine make significant advances. Google, for example, is currently working on a contact lens that has the ability to measure glucose, making life easier for diabetics.

Autonomous Vehicles

Self-driving cars may be the most cutting edge example of IoT. You can now buy a car that will drive you to and from work, suggest potential shortcuts based on real-time traffic conditions, notify you of weather forecasts and even suggest what type of music you might like to listen to on the commute. It’s only a matter of time before these vehicles are the rule, rather than the exception.

Smart Housing

Some cutting edge examples of smart housing include sensors that can detect human behavior and adjust the mood of the house accordingly by dimming lights and putting on soothing music, for example. Other examples may include the ability to draw a hot bath for the owner or brew a pot of coffee, automatically, based upon user input.

Sales Analytics and Distribution

Manufacturers can benefit from IoT by tracking their product from the initial sale to production to shipment, all while monitoring parts inventory levels and benefiting from AI that automatically orders new parts, as stock runs low, before any employees are even aware of the issue.

As is the case in every technical revolution, the “IoT” may mean that certain tasks are handled by automation, allowing businesses to prosper in an age of Artificial intelligence and internet connectivity. If you would like more information about IoT, including which IoT platforms would best suit the needs of your product or solution, we invite you to fill out the form on this page and someone from our offices will get back with you.

Tips On Cloud Services Migration and Integration

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WheelHouse Solutions works with companies, nationwide, allowing them to move some of their workloads to cloud platforms. Selecting one application to evaluate its cloud portability, is simple. If there are no significant changes to the architecture, WheelHouse will assess the compliance requirements and security, and then “lift and shift” the application to the cloud.

A growing number of businesses are considering moving their applications to public and hybrid clouds in order to compete more effectively and replace outdated data centers and applications. Unfortunately, migrating company-wide software applications includes the risks of service interruptions, project failure, and delays. Many companies are not prepared to evaluate connectivity and performance issues and migration to the cloud can take months or even years, if not properly executed. WheelHouse provides comprehensive Cloud Migration Services that utilizes best-in-class technologies, ensuring a clouds smooth migration.

WheelHouse employs a standard methodology and effective architecture to plan and migrate your business applications, data, operating systems and configuration − based on your company’s needs. These standardized methodologies shorten project timelines and decrease costs when migrating to public clouds or between clouds, virtual platforms or data centers. Your company can take advantage of the many benefits of the public, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and other popular cloud platforms, while working with a single vendor, providing hybrid cloud management, infrastructure, and migration services.

WheelHouse can even manage complex hybrid cloud transitions and provide Infrastructure as a Service that integrates mainframe and other cloud services into an effective and reliable network. WheelHouse Solutions services include:

Cloud Assessment & Consulting
  • We’ll analyze the cloud-readiness of your application portfolio and determine whether to “lift-and-shift”, update or completely modernize

Discovery Services

  • We’ll graph your full IT infrastructure, uncover potential needs and problems, and explore network performance.

Cloud Migration Services

  • We’ll rapidly migrate physical and virtual x86-based, cloud-ready workloads, and re-host applications. WheelHouse will capture, deploy and sync workloads and perform testing and verification.

Discover Opportunities & Avoid Risks

Successful migrations require actionable analysis. Unfortunately, to assess the current environment, for cloud migration, most organizations must rely on the process of conducting interviews with their team and collecting data, manually. This error-prone process can lead to delays and roadblocks for moving enterprise applications to the cloud.

Cloud Readiness

WheelHouse Solutions utilizes a holistic strategy to evaluate the cloud-readiness of our customers’ business applications. We help clients assess the cloud portability of their enterprise applications, using a proprietary tools framework, and then execute their migration to the Cloud. We employ analytical methodologies to rate the application fitness for the Cloud. Our methods utilize all aspects of the appropriate qualities – risk, technology and business viability.

How it Works

  1. Preplanning Discussion – During an initial 30-minute consultation, one of our account managers will learn more about your company’s needs and objectives and answer any questions you might have about Cloud Planning Services.
  2. Customized Proposal – After assessing your company’s requirements and objectives, your account manager will recommend one of our Cloud Planning Services.
  3. Execute Proposal – Your account manager will work with you to execute a standard consulting agreement for fixed services or for a customized engagement.
  4. Complete Engagement Preparation – Your account manager will provide you with an assessment, which you will need to complete, prior to the engagement kickoff meeting. Your account management manager will be happy to answer any questions you may have along the way.
  5. Review Results & Next Steps – At the engagement kickoff meeting, we’ll provide you with a detailed report including our recommendations for a cloud adoption strategy.

WheelHouse Solutions provides cloud migration and planning services to business around the world. We invite you to fill out the form on this page or call us at 314-492-2506 to request additional information about our cloud migration and planning services. We’ll work with you to develop a solution that will meet your needs now, as well as provide for future growth and flexibility.

What Is Business Continuity Planning?

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It’s not just your data, it’s your business

Business Continuity is all about reducing the impact of a catastrophic data loss. Sure, you can restore individual files, but the ability to restore an entire server or the environment in the cloud in minutes, so you can reduce the impact of a catastrophic loss – that’s where the real value is.

WheelHouse Solutions has two levels of business continuity. Both share similar benefits such as local and cloud storage of your backup images and the ability to recreate your environment, in the cloud, in case of a catastrophic disaster. Our premium level business continuity solution utilizes a local appliance that allows for the quickest possible recovery time, for when seconds count.

How Does the Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) Appliance Work?

  • The BDR software periodically creates image-based backups of the backed-up server at pre-configured intervals (Usually every 15 minutes)
    The backup images are automatically backed up locally to the on-site BDR appliance.
    The backup images are then transferred automatically to the WheelHouse Solutions Storage Cloud.

Accidental File Deletion

In addition to full images, it can recover individual files, folders, and Exchange items (emails, attachments, mailboxes) in moments.

Server Hardware Failure

The on-site BDR appliance is leveraged for on-site virtualization of the impacted servers which allows restoring full operation to the business within minutes.

Catastrophic Fire or Flood

Multiple recovery options exist. One such option is the WheelHouse Solutions Continuity Cloud which allows servers to be virtualized, in WheelHouse Solutions’ cloud, for continued business operations even in the face of total disasters.

WheelHouse Solutions provides Business Continuity Planning to all types of businesses. We invite you to click here or call us at 314-492-2506 to request additional information about our Business Continuity Planning services. We’ll work with you to develop a solution that will meet your needs now, as well as provide for future growth and flexibility.

Microsoft Project Online Increases Collaboration and Productivity Throughout Your Business

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Microsoft Project Online is simple and flexible solution for project portfolio management (PPM), and other various forms of internal and external work processes. It works through Microsoft 365, and provides teams with the ability to plan, prioritize, and manage projects and other portfolio investments, from practically any device. It can be easily accessed by administrators, portfolio managers and viewers, team members, and project/resource managers.

Project Online is simple to use because of integrated, useful functionality provided by the application. Portfolio values can increase, through tools provided, allowing users to strategically evaluate project portfolios and make strategic decisons based upon the data. The program offers tools for time and task management, scheduling, and resource assignments, all of which allow employees to easily cllaborate and track progress. Visualizing data, to gain insight from projects, programs and portfolios, can be done through built-in reports and BI tools.

Collaboration between employees can be easily accomplished with the use of Project Online, as well. Skype for Business and Yammer work seamlessly with Project Online, which allows for more team participation. These integrated communication tools allow users to work together using video chat, voice chat, or instant messaging, within a project. Different teams can also submit project ideas with Office programs such as Outlook and SharePoint, so that a portfolio can be influenced by all different types of employees within an organization.

Project Online also includes powerful features such as point-and-click reporting capabilities and summary dashboards, that allow users to gather immediate insight about the portfolios. Project resources can even be consolidated into a single view, so that resource managers can compare other resources, across standardized data. In terms of resources, the Resource Engagement feature allows resource managers to respond to resource requests, based on availability across a portfolio.

Visual tiles provide easy navigation of the Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management functionality, allowing employees to quickly identify the important steps for managing project portfolios. And becasue it’s a Micrososft application, there’s a familiar interface, consisitent with other Microsoft 365 applications, so users will already be familiar with it if they’ve used other MS products. Users can also use most web browsers and devices to access, edit, submit, and collaborate on projects and portfolios.

Because Project Online is delivered through the cloud, it’s always up-to-date with the latest features, tools, patches and updates directly from Microsoft. Your IT staff won’t have to worry about costly upgrades, saving your business time and money. The program also comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which includes continuous data back-up, disaster recovery, and data centers around the world, ensuring the safety and integrity of your business data. Project Online includes 24/7 IT support from Microsoft, allowing users to keep their business moving forward, while freeing up time for IT personnel to work on other IT issues within the company.

Microsoft Project Online is the perfect addition to any business or organization. Not only does it provide innovative tools and features that enhance productivity, there are also flexible collaboration tools that can be used with the different projects and portfolios.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, WheelHouse Solutions can assist you in getting started with Microsoft 365 or any of the suite of Microsoft products and services. We’ll work with you to analyze your needs and recommend a strategy that’s custom designed for your business. If you would like more information about Microsoft 365, call us at 314-492-2506 to speak with one of our knowledgeable sales representatives.

Why Your Business Needs 24/7 Circuit Monitoring

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When your circuits go down, everything else stops and productivity comes to a screeching halt. The pace of most businesses cannot afford the impact of losing voice or data circuits during business hours. Businesses depend on connectivity for important functions like processing credit cards, placing orders and accessing business-critical data. When circuits are down, your business is, effectively, out of business until the circuit is restored.

What is Circuit Restore™?

Customers can now opt-in to a paid monthly service to proactively monitor voice and data circuits for outages and provide quick resolution. With Circuit Restore™, our Network Operations Center provides monitoring and circuit testing at scheduled intervals. In the event that a circuit is out of service, our team will notify you via email and, with Platinum Monitoring, we will also contact the service provider, open a ticket and communicate with the carrier until the circuit is restored and the ticket is closed.

Circuit Restore™ prevents costly down time and provides an exceptional level of responsiveness and customer support for only pennies a day. There are two service levels available.

Circuit Restore™ Gold

  • Circuit Pinged
    Pings are sent to measure packet loss, latency and determine if a circuit is operational. Five unsuccessful pings, in succession, will result in notifications being sent.
  • Email Notifications
    Notifications are sent via email to alert you that there’s a problem on your circuit. You will receive an additional email notification when the circuit is restored.

Circuit Restore™ Platinum

  • Circuit Pinged
    Pings are sent to measure packet loss, latency and determine if a circuit is operational. Five unsuccessful pings, in succession, will result in notifications being sent.
  • Email Notifications
    Notifications are sent via email to alert you that there’s a problem on your circuit. You will receive an additional email notification when the circuit is restored.
  • Carrier Contact
    WheelHouse will act on your behalf, contact the service provider and work to restore the circuit quickly, ensuring maximum uptime for your business.
  • Circuit Restored
    Once we have corrected the issue and the circuit is restored, we’ll notify you by email, ensure you’re happy and close the ticket.

WheelHouse Solutions provides circuit monitoring in St. Louis Missouri and across the country. If you would like more information on Circuit Restore™ for your business, please fill out the form on this page and one of our IT specialists will get back with you quickly.

Move Your SQL to the Cloud With Microsoft Azure SQL

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Move Your SQL to the Cloud With Microsoft Azure SQL When anyone refers to Azure SQL, they’re actually referring to SQL in the cloud. There are three main deployment options when it comes to Azure SQL.

The first type is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution which consists of SQL server running on an Azure Virtual Machine. Azure will manage the infrastructure and the host, while the customer manages the OS and the SQL server instance.

This is a good option for customers with expiring hardware contracts, or older versions of SQL 2008 R2. It’s an option that allows the customer to select the version of SQL that they need on the OS that they want. By moving to an Azure Virtual Machine, you also get free, automatic security updates, and can set up automated backups, as well as have point-in-time restore.

The second option is Azure SQL Server Managed Instance, which moves one more level towards a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Azure manages the infrastructure and the OS, while the customer manages the server. Azure SQL Managed Instance is a step further towards cloud migration. Its main benefit is to remove management overhead regarding infrastructure, Server, and Database. Also, this benefits customers that have a need for instant scope features like service broker, SQL server agent, Machine Learning, and CLR.

One of the key features of Managed Instance is getting a SQL server instance with the full feature set, but with additional PaaS managed capabilities. Online Migration allows you to do a fairly seamless migration from your on-premise environment by using backup and restore and log shipping technology.

The Third offering is Azure SQL Database, wherein Azure manages the infrastructure, the OS and the SQL server and the customer is responsible for administration of the database. Azure SQL Database is built to develop modern cloud apps and Software as a Service applications. It can help customers quickly and easily scale their computing capabilities and storage. With Azure managing the SQL server, customers can focus on database management, using features like elastic pools, which lets you manage groups of shared databases. Hyper scaling can provide the maximum size and performance for large scale applications. Serverless computing also lets you pause SQL server and pay only for usage. It provides the most flexibility out of the managed service capabilities, allowing it to easily interact with other Azure managed services.

With Microsoft Azure SQL, you get a unified experience across your entire SQL portfolio and a full range of deployment options, from edge to cloud. Intelligent and secure Azure SQL database services make it easy to:

  • Migrate your SQL workloads with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
  • Modernize your existing applications with Azure SQL Managed Instance.
  • Support modern cloud applications with Azure SQL Database.
  • Use your existing SQL skills in the cloud on the same SQL Server engine.
  • Keep making the most of your current license investments.

If you would like more information on Microsoft Azure SQL, fill out the form on this page and one of our Microsoft Azure specialists will get back with you to discuss your options and how Microsoft Azure SQL can enhance your business operations and improve your bottom line.