What is Puppet Software Consulting?

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Wheelhouse Solutions provides Puppet® Consulting allowing us to work with our clients to apply advanced development methodologies, in order to deploy IT infrastructure, through the feature-rich and intuitive Puppet® software interface.

Our Puppet® Consulting & Installation Services Include:

  • Consulting and technical resources to assist you in rapidly deploying and implementing Puppet Enterprise into your IT environment
  • Designing Puppet Enterprise® so that it’s configured to meet your company’s IT management and automation goals
  • Providing Technical training to your IT staff, to ensure they are equipped to utilize Puppet® to automate IT infrastructure
  • Subcontracting our consultancy services so that Puppet® Consulting can be added to your services offering

Easily Model & Manage Your IT Environment

Puppet Enterprise® allows you to manage your entire IT infrastructure, in code format, without hiring additional staff. Puppet® allows you to use the same tools that developers use, such as version control, automated testing, code review and continuous integration and automated deployment. Having the ability to see your infrastructure as “code” makes it easier for devOps and QA teams to collaborate, across your organization. Simply put, Puppet Enterprise® allows your IT staff to maximize the speed of deployments and improve software quality.

Intuitive Visual Workflows

Puppet® allows your IT staff to deploy phased infrastructure and application bundles using comprehensive visual workflows. Puppet® automatically assigns the correct order of operations, what data needs to be securely exchanged between services, and when to wait for a service to become available before continuing the deployment.

With intuitive graphical reporting, your IT staff can easily determine how your infrastructure and applications are configured, as well as the relationships and dependencies with other software applications. Your staff can quickly discern what changed, in real time, which employee made the change and what caused the issue, including whether it was accidental or intentional. Puppet® allows you to troubleshoot your IT environment much more quickly, minimizing issues and reducing mean time to recover.

Automate Your IT Environment with Puppet

If your network device has an IP address, it can be quickly and easily automated using Puppet Enterprise®. Puppet Enterprise® provides your IT environment with a common language so that, no matter what software you’re running, and where it runs, Puppet® can deliver and operate all of your devices and applications.

Puppet Enterprise® Capabilities

  • Automated provisioning – Automate provisioning across your heterogeneous infrastructure
  • Orchestration – Orchestrate change with control, visibility, and automated intelligence
  • Configuration automation – Define and continually enforce infrastructure configurations
  • Situational awareness – Gain insight into your infrastructure, audit changes and get rich reporting
  • Code management – Manage infrastructure code across environments
  • Node management – Save yourself the manual work of classifying and managing nodes
  • Role-based access control – Assign permissions to teams in line with company and regulatory policies
  • Discovery & insights – Quickly discover resources that need automated management

Puppet® software allows system administrators the operational efficiency, insights, and agility they need to proactively manage today’s dynamic IT infrastructure, scaling from tens of servers to hundreds, both in the cloud and on-premise. Thousands of the world’s largest organizations utilize Puppet® software to manage and configure their IT environment.

In addition to Puppet® Consulting, WheelHouse Solutions also provides Puppet® installation, Puppet® configuration, Puppet® support, Puppet® troubleshooting services, Puppet® emergency help and Puppet® remote support. We invite you to fill out the form on this page or call us at 314-492-2506 to find out more about our Puppet® consulting services and one of our representatives will get back with you, quickly.

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.

5 Tips For Reducing Expenses In Your Organization

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Technology has become an essential factor in almost every business operation and now business owners are looking for ways to reduce expenses in their IT departments, in order to achieve greater efficiency for less money.

To do that, as a business owner, the logical action would be to cut back on your IT costs, but it’s essential to avoid sacrificing efficiency when reducing expenses.  With that in mine, here are the top five tips and tricks to reduce expenses in your business without compromising its efficiency and/or destroying value:

  1.  If you’re a small business owner, try to find alternatives to your traditional telephone service; if you’re using a land-line or a regular cell phone, you can switch to VoIP service and virtual phone lines. There are many options available that provide provide great flexibility and excellent value for the money, not to mention a serious cost reduction when it comes to communications.
  2. Use open source software. This is an excellent alternative to the commercial mainstream applications, especially if you’re a small business. The software related costs may cripple your business, especially in its inception phase, and open source software is very attractive, because it’s free.
  3. Use cloud services, instead of investing lots of money in hardware/software, especially if you’re a small business. Also, you should determine what you really need, the latest high-tech services is not always necessary and it may cost you an arm and a leg. And if you decide to perform an audit of your existing computers, you may find an answer about what’s really necessary for your line of business, hence reducing your technology expenses.
  4. You can try to negotiate with your existing IT contracts because IT services vendors desire to keep their clients happy and on board for as long as possible. Keep in mind that the competition in this area is pretty tight and you can take advantage on that. You can proactively ask for discounts, freebies, cost reductions or even negotiate a customized plan. In the end, it’s important to ask if you want to get any advantages.
  5. Reduce expenses with online business training. Being a small business owner, you can’t afford to travel the world in order to expand your experience, to participate in live training /educational conferences and the like. But, in the Internet era, you can use online business training for you and your employees. There are lots of free online business training programs and you can use them from the comfort of your office or even at home. With these options available for ongoing training, the possibilities for you and your business are endless, and your costs related to training will be significantly reduced.

If your business is looking for Managed IT, Cloud Services, Consulting & Support Services, WheelHouse Solutions has a staff of experienced professionals to deliver outstanding results. We provide cost-efficient managed IT Services, backed by a professional IT Staff, with experience in multiple disciplines. Whether you’re looking to augment your existing IT staff, or if your business wants to outsource all your IT services, we have a flexible solution to meet your needs.  Feel free to contact us at 314-492-2506 or fill out the form on this page and someone will get back with you.