INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Virtustream announces
xStreamCare services to help
customers modernise applications
in the cloud
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irtustream, an enterprise-class cloud
company and a Dell Technologies
business, has announced
Virtustream xStreamCare, an expansion of
its comprehensive suite of professional and
managed services for customers looking
to migrate applications to any cloud.
The suite of services for mission-critical
workloads builds on Virtustream’s decade-
long experience, automation, end-to-end
processes and deep technical expertise in
migrating and managing the most complex
enterprise-class workloads in the cloud.
Virtustream’s xStreamCare services
have long set the industry high mark for
handling complex IT landscapes as a core
component of the Virtustream Enterprise
Cloud. Enterprise customers value the
comprehensive approach for the planning,
migration and management of mission-
critical workloads in the cloud.
“We’ve managed thousands of the most
complex migrations for some of the largest
companies on the planet,” said Rob Scott,
Vice President, Professional and Managed
Services, Virtustream. “Our single-hand-to-
shake approach is unique, as is the deep
expertise our xStreamCare services teams
bring to our customers. It’s hard to match
our experience and expertise in mission-
critical workloads.”
The company has extended its best practices
with new deployment automation capabilities
to remove the barriers between clouds,
resulting in more efficient, modernised and
secure operations of future multi-cloud
environments. The company will now look to
extend those capabilities through a platform-
agnostic approach and expand the scope of
its services to span multiple clouds.
Virtustream offers support for each stage
of a customer’s journey to the cloud, with
a broad set of expert professional and
managed services.
• Planning – Spanning advisory,
architecture, security and compliance,
performance optimisation, backup and
disaster recovery, pre-migration code
optimisation, data analysis and archiving
• Migration – Spanning dedicated
transition and project managers, globally-
staffed teams, multi-platform migration
services, steady-state stabilisation
and validation, and customer-specific
migration strategies, processes and
technology solutions for a tailored,
complete journey to the cloud – not a
one-size-fits-all approach
• Integration – Fully integrated
operational processes, including planned
and tested disaster recovery, dedicated
cloud delivery account managers, 24/7
global enterprise-class support services
and integrated service ticketing system to
make workflows seamless
• Optimisation – Includes compliance
audits, modernisation assessment, file
integrity monitoring, vulnerability scanning,
proactive SAP and database-level health
checks to ensure optimised operations
and SAP Basis management, including
patching, backup and performance
• Managed – Spanning complete
management of applications,
database, operating system and IaaS
(Infrastructure-as-a-Service); and
managed security services, including anti-
virus/anti-malware, host-based intrusion
detection system and firewall
Virtustream’s xStreamCare services
offer highly-automated, scalable and
differentiated services for enterprise
customers as they move towards a multi-
cloud future. Recent research from Forrester
Consulting found that 97% of organisations
have adopted multi-cloud strategies for their
mission-critical applications. The study also
found nearly 90% of organisations predict
they’ll maintain or increase their investments
and staffing for multi-cloud deployments
over the next two years and specifically,
88% will maintain or increase investments in
managed services support. n
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