Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing from Strategic Communications

Growing and running your IT capabilities starts with compute. Strategic partners with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to deliver a full complement of cloud computing services. We provide a robust and scalable platform to help organizations of all types and sizes innovate quickly.

Strategic offers multiple cloud computing products allowing you to deploy, run, and scale your applications as virtual servers, containers, or code.

Cloud Computing Tools

Amazon EC2

Communications’ team of cloud engineers will design an integrated cloud architecture for your organizational needs. We take a consultative approach when designing your cloud environment by aligning your organizational objectives with our cloud computing tools. We develop comprehensive strategies around web hosting, migrations, DevOps, e-commerce, computing, IoT, big data, security and compliance.

Common Use Cases:

Big data (e.g. Hadoop, Hortonworks)
Database software (e.g., Aurora, DynamoDB)
Enterprise applications (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Sharepoint)
Migrations from on-premises environments
Open-source cluster management

Amazon Elastic Container Service

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers. In addition, ECS allows applications to easily run on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install, operate, and scale your own cluster cloud computing infrastructure.

Web applications
Microservices
Batch jobs
Docker workloads

Amazon Lambada

AWS Lambda runs code without provisioning or managing servers. Pay only for the compute time you consume – there is no charge when code is not running. With Lambda, run code for virtually any type of application or backend service – all with zero administration. Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability in a cloud computing environment. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

Common Use Cases:

Web applications
Mobile backends
IoT backends
Stream processing workloads
File processing workloads

Microsoft Azure: Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Machines gives the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of cloud computing solutions. Virtual machines enable development and testing, running applications, and extending your data center. It’s the freedom of open-source software configured the way you need it. Think of it as another rack in your datacenter, enabling deployment of an application in seconds instead of weeks.

Common Use Cases:

Web applications
Enterprise applications (e.g., SAP, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, Windows Server)
Migrations from on-premise environments
Open source integrations (Linux, Redhat, Ubuntu)

Microsoft Azure: App Service

Strategic’s cloud computing capabilities extends into application development. Using Azure’s App Service, run and scale your applications effortlessly on Windows or Linux. App Service uses a fully-managed platform to perform infrastructure maintenance, load balancing, and more. Easily add custom domains, SSL certificates, single sign-on (SSO), and identity service integration to your apps. Get detailed performance and application health insights for accelerated troubleshooting.

Common Use Cases:

Enterprise applications
Web applications
Mobile applications