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Simplify your cloud journey with expert consulting

Migrate on-premise infrastructure to the cloud or tune up your current cloud environment to sharpen your operations. Clearlink Consulting can guide you to solutions that power your priorities and trim the rest.

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Cloud solutions for essential business functions

Our cloud partners meet these common business needs — but we’ll tailor our recommendations to yours.

Moving your business data into the cloud can bring massive budget and productivity efficiencies, even if you’ve invested a lot in your on-premise solutions. Clearlink Consulting partners offer the following cloud solutions and more. Don’t see what you’re looking for? Call 1-833-611-0579 to talk through your situation with an expert.

Storage & data centers

The on-premise hardware you use to store data and run software has a physical limit to how much it can hold — but the cloud has all the space and computing power you could want. By migrating your digital storage to cloud data centers, you can scale your business tools quickly and easily, make them available on practically any authorized device, and shift the costs of equipment, labor, expertise, and cybersecurity measures toward your cloud administrators.

Backups & disaster recovery

Another popular cloud service, disaster recovery, creates copies of your data to protect you from downtime after server damage, connectivity outages, or a cyber attack. With these backup services, you can restore your network in as little as a few minutes or after containing a threat, without the effort, cost, and risks of a duplicate on-premise server. Cloud partners usually store your backups at multiple data centers to limit physical and cyberrisks to your data.

Licensing & compliance

Cloud software licensing brings unprecedented flexibility to the ways you can legally use and scale business tools. While the on-premise software model charges by the number of installations as dictated by an SLA, cloud software licensing charges by the number of user accounts and scales at predetermined increments. In addition to easier growth, cloud licensing facilitates easier remote work and BYOD policies by authorizing logins on practically any browser.

Networking & connectivity

Integrating cloud tools into your data networks can help you tighten security, increase speeds and reliability, and support more efficient remote work. With cloud tools like AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute, for example, you can create a private tunnel from on-premise equipment directly to AWS or Microsoft cloud services, creating a hybrid environment that expands your computing power while bypassing delays and cyberrisks on the public internet.

PaaS & cloud computing

If your business offers an app, runs an ecommerce website, or depends on similar digital building blocks to generate revenue, you may be able to cut your time to delivery and improve user experience with cloud computing and platform as a service (PaaS) solutions. Our partners leverage customer-facing web tools like Square and back-end engineering tools like Amazon DynamoDB to help you build and maintain a quality product faster and with fewer resources.

Managed cloud & IT services

There’s a cloud service for almost every business function imaginable, and most include some IT outsourcing since they’re deployed remotely. But if you still need an expert hand to navigate the options, start migrating your operations to the cloud, remodel a problematic cloud environment, or manage your relationships with software teams, turn to Clearlink Consulting. We’ll help you plan your overall cloud strategy and connect you with partner tools to execute each step.

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Why Clearlink Consulting?

IT is complex. Clearlink Consulting simplifies it.

Whether you’re short on expertise or just time, Clearlink Consulting guides you through the many options in IT solutions, works with our partners to implement the most cost-effective ones, and acts as the point of contact for every need you have in the process — now and five years down the road.

  • Partnerships with 350+ industry leaders ensure brand-agnostic advice on the right tools for your goals

  • Trusted names like AWS and Google Cloud, Zoom and Vonage, MS Teams and Slack give access to best-of-class tools

  • Established relationships help us negotiate special rates and get consistent, responsive service

  • Transparent process helps you gain confidence in your new solutions and strategies

  • Clearlink Consulting offers a single point of contact for anything from correcting a billing mistake to switching software platforms

Why migrate to the cloud?

We hear you: you don’t want to see your past investments sail out the window. Luckily, there are sustainable paths to cloud migration, and Clearlink Consulting can create one just for you. We have a feeling you’ll see gains in flexibility, convenience, security, and cost savings sooner than later.

Challenges of on-premise infrastructure

  • Massive upfront investment in equipment

  • Slow deployment and long wait for ROI

  • Limited IT resources to build and manage data infrastructure, software, and compliance

  • Costly and complex to add new licenses, software, storage, etc.

  • Patching and maintenance is your responsibility

  • Vulnerability to disaster and data theft because of device-based storage at minimal locations

  • Expensive and complicated to switch platforms or add new solutions

Advantages of cloud infrastructure

  • No upfront investment, and solutions can be phased in gradually to maximize past investments

  • Instant deployment and immediate savings on equipment & labor

  • Experienced teams to build and manage data infrastructure, software, and compliance

  • Virtually instant to add new licenses, software, storage, etc., at rates that scale with you

  • Patching and maintenance is the software creators’ responsibility

  • Lower vulnerability to disaster and data theft because of offsite storage at highly secure data centers

  • Inexpensive and easy to switch platforms or add new solutions

Let’s map your cloud journey

The view from your balance sheet should be pretty spectacular. Reach an expert at Clearlink Consulting today to explore a bold move to the cloud.