East Midlands Railway
Node4 is delighted to have provided a digital transformation solution, bringing SD-WAN connectivity for 104 East Midlands Railway sites.
Empowering your business with Edge Computing Excellence
Unlock peak performance, enhanced security, and seamless scalability with Azure Local, tailored for Node4 customers. As a strategic Microsoft Solutions Partner, Node4 brings the power of Azure’s cutting-edge cloud technology closer to your business, delivering localized solutions designed to meet the unique demands of your operations.
What is Azure Hybrid Cloud?
As an Azure Expert MSP partner, we can help you accelerate your transformation by taking advantage of the latest hybrid cloud technologies. Our Azure Hybrid Cloud Services allow you to run workloads in Azure and in data centres under one integrated set of Azure native tools, services and benefits.
‘Play your clouds right’
Catch up with Andy Slater, Technology and Innovation Director by day, and Game Show Host by night, with our ‘Play Your Clouds Right’ webinar. In this recording, you’ll learn more about the recent changes with Broadcom VMware and compare several alternative platforms…all with a bit of fun along the way!
Make use of Microsoft Azure
Looking to make use of Microsoft Azure? Mark Wilson, shares common themes we hear from our clients aiming to modernise their IT estate and make use of Azure. We’ll walk through the common scenarios, using a fictitious company to illustrate how technology can be used to solve specific business challenges.
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Why Azure Local Cloud for your strategy?
Organisations manage considerable complexity and legacy in IT environments that simply don’t suit a 100% public cloud model for cost, technical or regulatory reasons. This means the default model often becomes a blended, hybrid cloud approach mixing Azure and in-data centre IT infrastructure.
Migrating data centre workloads onto the Azure Hybrid Cloud Service delivers the powerful benefits of Azure, run from a dedicated, high-performance cluster.
Features
Secure data workloads
Take advantage of Azure benefits, such as free security updates for EoL Windows and SQL Servers and Azure Hybrid Benefit for VM’s running in the hybrid platform.
Transformation of performance-sensitive workload
The underlying Azure Stack HCI cluster has been designed for the most demanding database workloads. Running the latest intel processors and optional NVMe caching tiers, the all-flash clusters ensure a lower risk migration path.
Supercharged scalability on-demand
Upfront investment in HCI infrastructure means customers can be scaled without suffering long hardware lead times. Our Hot Node Scaling provides the agility and adaptability of a cloud service, delivering capacity on-demand.
Modernised apps and data centres
Migrate systems or modernise existing apps for cloud using the latest Azure technologies, increasing lifespan, performance and security. Including PaaS services such as AKS, App Service & Azure SQL.
Benefits
Unify cloud management
Unified cloud management tools allow you to integrate applications, operating systems, storage, cloud security tools and more
Deliver exceptional outcomes for performance-sensitive workloads
An Azure infrastructure is protected by enterprise-grade security measures and expertise, allowing you to get better outcomes for sensitive data.
Supercharge scalability on-demand
Azure hybrid cloud allows you to simply scale up on demand to match the ever-changing needs of your workplace, and reach peak loads.
Modernise apps and data centres
Using a hybrid cloud solution, your workplace can combine the compliance benefits of private cloud with the scalability of public cloud. You can run apps in virtualised environments and experience the cloud benefits, while remaining connected and compliant.
Case Studies
Atria
Node4 helps Drive modernisation with cloud-based Innovation at Atria and the Agena Group – a UK based multi-disciplinary company specialising in parking and software solutions
Stagecoach
Stagecoach shifts its cloud adoption strategy up a gear with Node4’s Secure SD-WAN
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Why choose Azure Hybrid Cloud?
Azure Hybrid Cloud has many advantages, including giving you greater control. Hybrid cloud solutions allow more deployment options with greater flexibility to scale computing resources and take advantage of cloud innovation. It also delivers powerful benefits from a dedicated, high-performance cluster.
What is Microsoft Azure used for?
Azure gives you the tools you’ll need to safely and securely migrate applications to the public cloud.
This includes the Azure Hybrid Benefit program that allows you to transfer existing licences for both SQL and Windows servers. Azure offers a large collection of services, which includes platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and managed database service capabilities
What is the difference between Cloud and Azure Hybrid Cloud?
Azure is a specific brand of cloud computing software that allows organisations to bespoke build and manage applications and services.
The cloud is a network of servers in a remote location that is accessed over the internet.
What can you gain from using Azure Hybrid Cloud services?
Azure Hybrid Cloud services give you access to the resources, availability and security that every great business requires to prosper. Azure is a toolkit for advanced analytics and automated migration, which make the moving and management process run efficiently, which saves you money long-term.
Also, if you create an Azure Hybrid Cloud environment, this grants you access to one of the largest networks in the world. From there, you can benefit from a wide variety of excellent features, including using Azure ExpressRoute to optimise connections, and the ability to take your IT strategy to the next level.
A hybrid cloud model is also the most flexible approach to cloud computing. This provides you with a benefit from both an on-premise and cloud environment at the same time, thus saving you time, money and resources.
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Could we fix the UK’s productivity problems with some administrative assistance?
The UK’s productivity problems It’s widely considered that the United Kingdom has productivity problems. In particular, the UK has been experiencing slow productivity growth in comparison with other countries, and this is more pronounced since 2008. To back this up with some facts: Underinvestment in capital and skills, inadequate innovation and poor policy coordination have …
Motorpoint
Motorpoint had been using Node4’s MPLS offering to provide internet connectivity to its UK stores, HQ, and vehicle preparation centres
Node4 launches VDC Slide for seamless VMware cloud migration.
Introducing VDC Slide, a new addition to our market-leading VMware IaaS platform, Virtual Data Centre (VDC). VDC offers a no-contract, pay-as-you-go infrastructure that is proving highly attractive to organisations looking to maintain their VM workloads without the need for costly hardware refreshes or long-term software agreements. VDC provides a compatible VMware infrastructure for existing workloads, …
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