Cloud Automation makes enterprises grow rapidly

With the increase in the number of tasks each employee has to handle these days, automation has become a need of every business. Gone are the days when organizations kept records in black and white. This is the era of digitization. Smart managers have already taken the leap forward and migrated to the cloud because of the benefits it provides.

Top 3 Reasons Cloud Automation Is Important to Enterprises

• Reduced costs

With the Cloud, your mundane tasks are automated and thus the time and energy you need to get them done manually, are all streamlined, thereby reducing overall costs and keeping you productive.

• Better security and reliability

The cloud offers a better uptime than any of the traditional servers. That’s why applications hosted in the Cloud are much more reliable. In addition to this, the cloud also caters to the modern needs of security. With the increase in cybercrimes these days, it is quite difficult to put up with the latest security mechanisms in a traditional setup. Cloud providers take care of the security methods too.

• Improved collaboration

Cloud helps organizations come together and perform meetings like never before. With increased remote working and companies collaborating across borders, collaboration has to be improved. Cloud offers a multitude of options to collaborate in cyberspace like video conferencing, SIP Trunking, Video calling etc.

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MachPanel is the Next-Gen Cloud automation for cloud businesses

To all the modern challenges of CSPs, MachPanel offers a complete solution. Not only is there a built-in Marketplace to showcase the products, but there is also a robust reporting and Analytics system that has been developed keeping the current needs of reporting in mind. Billing and invoices are managed with its automatic subscription and recurring billing options. All this is present in one neat interface where there is less hassle, and with just a few simple steps it makes the challenge of selling seats quite easy along with running a smooth automated system.

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What is cloud automation and why should you bother?

Ever since the world adopted cloud computing technology, its future has been unpredictable. In the initial days, making the shift to the cloud was a big game-changer in the business and market. However, now it has become the need of business and every business relies on this technology for data and cloud. 

So where does the automation fit in?

Deploying and operating enterprise workloads is time consuming. There have been a lot of repetitive and laborious processes like redundant billing procedures, understanding cloud budgets was a painstaking task and many others. With cloud automation all of this is streamlined using Cloud automation tools. The laborious processes are automated and the ultimate goal with cloud automation is to reduce manual efforts.

With cloud automation, one major component that has been improved is security. Cloud automation also caters to the scalability needs of companies opting DevOps. In general, there are 3 types: private cloud automation, hybrid cloud automation, and multi-cloud automation.

What are a few use cases where cloud automation can be applied to?

• Infrastructure provisioning

Configure multiple virtual servers is a time consuming task. With cloud automation tools, such tasks are automated where a template is defined based on how an individual virtual server needs to be configured. Other cloud resources like network setups, storage buckets etc. can be configured using cloud automation tools based on your provider. Such type of provisioning is known as infrastructure as a Code or IaC tool.

• Application deployment

Another key use case is Application deployment. Developers often face difficulties in releasing apps to production environments and testing if everything works fine as it had been in the development environment. Cloud automation tools support continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms for easy deployment.

• Data classification

Another use case that will be very well applicable in near future is Data classification and discovery. Cloud automation tools are capable of automatically scanning cloud environments for sensitive data. Such a task, if done by hand, would be extremely laborious. Deploying the right tools also makes enterprises meet compliance goals.

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Cloud Automation Vs Orchestration

Cloud automation and orchestration both are closely related to automation in general. However, the key difference is that Cloud automation mostly revolves around automation of individual processes whereas cloud orchestration automates entire cloud computing workflows.

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel offers cloud orchestration and lets you focus on provision with its easy to use management platform. With MachPanel, Providers can easily fulfil their CSP complaint requirements and manage entire life cycles with just a few clicks. Whether you are a Direct or Indirect CSP, your wish to become one, MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft CSP has got you covered.

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The roadmap to Digital transformation

Digital transformation is the thing of today.  The businesses that are “born-in-the-cloud” are in need of unified approaches that are only possible with Tech Giants working and collaboration together for better customer experiences. With business processes and cultures being evolved in new ways, the need of digital transformation exists to the core in today’s business space. Cloud migration, being a vital aspect in cloud businesses, is evolving in new ways.

Reduced Complexities, minimized costs

With SAP-Microsoft Partnership, there are new agreements and programs coming up on the face of the earth out of which the “cloud migration strategy to SAP S/4HANA on Azure” holds great importance. With this, customers get to experience reduced costs and complexities and stay in control of the top-notch technologies. This provides the customers with the best of both the worlds for the betterment of their cloud business.

The Embrace Program

Back in May, 2019, Microsoft officials announced the details about project “Embrace”. It’s a fine combination of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud along with global strategic service partners (GSSPs) where the focus is to provide an integrated SAP Cloud Platform enabling orchestration and third-party applications running in the cloud systems or on-premise systems. It might sound complex, but in fact it has reduced complexities in practicality to a lot.

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MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel provides full automation and management of cloud business lifecycle making provision and management of cloud services easier for CSPs and making their life easier to the core. With MachPanel cloud migration are smooth and all business processes are streamlined, thanks to expert support and professional advices from the Team behind MachPanel. There are many features beneficial to CSPs like Tenant Provisioning and Management, Extensive Reporting, CSP Sync, Packaging and Bundling with customized Margins and much more.

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SharePoint Sever

Microsoft aims to add support on Azure Stack for running SharePoint Server 2019 or SharePoint Server 2016. It would be Microsoft’s Azure “datacenter in a box”. So, it’ll be possible for SharePoint Server 2019 users to use Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. With this, businesses opting for Microsoft Cloud will be able to move applications to the cloud while making use of a compatible Database Solution

SharePoint Spaces

The hype of SharePoint Spaces is ignited since it is a technology with a rich user experience with mixed reality, a way of constructing 3-D SharePoint Online sites. After its announcement in last year’s SharePoint conference, many companies headed to gain access to the limited preview. This looks promising and more information on SharePoint Spaces is expected at the Microsoft Ignite event, this year in November. This was also mentioned in the SharePoint summit 2019 that was of interest to CSPs running cloud businesses.

Home Sites

SharePoint home sites are new landing pages for Employees. These are built on top of Communication Sites and used for a broader communication across the organization. In a home site, the official news

Security and Compliance

So, the latest announcement goes that there are multi-geo capabilities in order to make sure the data is properly residing with all the needed requirements. These capabilities are now shared with SharePoint and Office 365 Groups. There are many other Management related upgrades announced, like the SharePoint Migration tool has a SharePoint Server 2013 site migration capability* SharePoint migration capability), SharePoint Admin Center having the ability to display modern and classic SharePoint management views and also getting the capability to rename the URLs used for SharePoint sites. For Microsoft 365 Compliance portal, there is a new capability where Organizations are able to set document retention periods and a classifier capability which utilizes machine learning techniques to distinguish between content for filtration. The announcements were made public in this year’s SharePoint summit 2019.

There were many other announcements in the SharePoint summit 2019 regarding Yammer, OneDrive for Business, Developer Perks, Microsoft Search and Microsoft Stream.

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MachPanel and Automation module for Microsoft SharePoint

MachPanel is trusted globally for its unsurpassed Cloud Automation services for businesses.  It provides services for hosted SharePoint offering selling of sell Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019, 2016 and 2013 on cloud or as a Hosted Solution. MachPanel’s best-in-line turnkey services offer SharePoint Migration, along with SharePoint design, deployment, planning, reliability and scalability. MachPanel experts provide services related to Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and other versions. The easy Billing and helpdesk make every process streamlined for your cloud business.

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