The true cost of misconfiguring, misloading, or poorly deploying critical applications often doesn’t become apparent until it’s too late. Here’s how to avoid it altogether by assuring you get it right the first time.
Author: Howard M. Cohen
One of the great truths none of us like to face is that “There’s never time to do it right, but there’s always time to do it over.” Sad but true, the underlying point is that doing anything over immediately incurs additional unnecessary cost, and that’s something nobody wants.
One Simple Solution – Don’t Do It!
More precisely, don’t do it yourself. Instead, engage someone who you know will get it right the first time. Remove any doubt. You may even find that having experts handle the things you’re unsure of will cost you less than doing it yourself.
Many people first learned this in the earliest days of personal computer use. With one manufacturer heralding their products as “The computer for the rest of us,” many people made the assumption that they could purchase one, purchase some software, load it up themselves and get to work!
While they may have been correct with some simpler products, they soon found that more sophisticated systems weren’t as simple as they surmised. Many achieved nothing other than serious operational disruption. In fact, those who couldn’t get their systems working at all were probably the most fortunate. Those who managed to get the software to operate but ran into difficulties shortly after they began using it were the most negatively impacted as they had to back out of what they had done and start all over.
But the most fortunate, and by far the most cost-efficient and successful, were those who didn’t even try to deploy their own systems. Instead, they engaged experts to do that for them. Everything was working correctly from the outset and operations proceeded smoothly. They simply didn’t do it themselves.
Deployment in the World of the Hyperscaler Cloud
Back when personal computers were new, the software available was relatively simplistic. With the introduction of networked servers they gained some more sophistication, and it was still best to engage experts to perform deployments.
By comparison, the world of Azure cloud services is infinitely more complex, but for a very good reason. Azure offers literally hundreds of services, dozens of configurations, operating system choices, database engine choices, utilities, facilities, and much more. It’s safe to say that most companies could not easily justify the expense of hiring someone onto their staff that had significant knowledge of the Azure platform.
Yet, many companies started out attempting to deploy their applications onto the Azure platform themselves. Even those with IT staff encountered tremendous difficulty, especially when things seemed to go well until their users put load on the system. Only then did configuration and other errors rear their ugly heads. It was natural for some of them to point at Azure as being the element at fault. But given its Microsoft lineage they could not persuade their colleagues to believe it. The simple fact was that IT staff, well trained to manage servers, storage, and networking, still had far more to learn to efficiently configure and deploy mission-critical applications on a system as enormous and sophisticated as Azure.
Idenxt as Insurance
One of the hardest things to do is to try to support a poorly deployed system. Patches, band-aids, “kludges”, and other kinds of workarounds eventually amount to exercises in futility. Better to go back and do the initial implementation all over again. Expense, but less expensive than the workarounds.
Idenxt was created by a group of highly experienced Azure experts to give companies a simple way to insure the most efficient and high-performing deployment of every application they migrated to Azure. By assembling the Idenxt data center with all the best possible automation tools and combining that with their own long experience deploying and supporting Azure implementations, the Idenxt team became the easiest possible way to insure that every deployment of every mission-critical application was done right the first time.
Knowing the Azure marketplace well, they priced the Idenxt services very competitively, making it easy for corporate executives to make the most intelligent decision when rolling out applications on Azure. Those with no onboard IT staff appreciated the deep guidance the Idenxt team provides, and those with some resources found Idenxt to be the ideal way to keep their own people focused on daily support responsibilities while Idenxt assured the Azure operations.
Avoid Embarrassment, Disruption, and Excess Costs
The Idenxt services are easily accessed by visiting the Idenxt website, or contact us here. You’ll find the process of having your most mission-critical applications deployed and managed on Azure to be disarmingly simple for you as Idenxt does all the heavy lifting. No more corporate embarrassment. No operational disruptions. No wasted budget. Just optimum Azure performance and results.
Talk to Idenxt today!