PTP: Enablers of AWS Adoption

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Ethan Simmons, Managing Partner, PTPEthan Simmons, Managing Partner
In the early stages of the cloud, companies in many industries – particularly life sciences – voiced legitimate concerns about sharing computing resources, data security, bandwidth, and satisfying regulatory compliance. While moving operations to the cloud is becoming more feasible and practical for organizations, there are still significant considerations involved in making the transition. As a highly regarded cloud management provider in the USA, Pinnacle Technology Partners (PTP) works with innovative businesses to help them access, optimize, govern, and secure their mission-critical cloud environments.

Whether it’s cloud network access and enterprise networking, cloud migration or deployment, cloud management and optimization, or cloud security, PTP ensures that businesses can rely on its cloud management expertise to break new grounds and operate better and faster while maintaining a high level of productivity. “The cloud providers have evolved, and specifically with AWS, we are focused on helping start-ups and life science companies leverage the cloud to increase their pace of innovation and accelerate their time to market,” says Ethan Simmons, Managing Partner at PTP.

PTP has a team of cloud architects, network engineers, and cybersecurity experts that work with companies to design, implement, manage, monitor, and secure their cloud infrastructures. Initially, the company begins with its cloud adoption and migration services. PTP utilizes tools and expertise to assess the existing environment and provides data-driven cloud design recommendations and cost models. “We provide cost-effective and time-efficient ways to assess their on-premises environment and get them to understand how to optimize what they have and what it is going to cost to run that environment in AWS,” adds Simmons.

Unlike other AWS consulting companies charging huge assessment costs, which eventually slows down the adoption of cloud, PTP’s first motion of work is to remove this roadblock and help companies adopt cloud services faster.

We are focused on helping start-ups and life science companies leverage the cloud to increase their pace of innovation and accelerate their time to market

The company then designs a cloud architecture that meets clients’ application needs while aligning to their security policies and best practices and aligning with critical business continuity objectives. Further, PTP implements a migration methodology to ensure that the critical architecture is constructed correctly first, tested, and then applications are prioritized by complexity and impact to the business. The team at PTP, thus, delivers a chaos-free migration that exceeds clients’ expectations of time and cost.

For management and maintenance, PTP offers its suite of PeakPlus Managed Services. The firm provides unparalleled visibility, desktop-to-application security, compliance-focused governance, cost containment, and real-time performance monitoring, 24x7x365 to its clients.

The PeakPlus CONTROL managed service provides the visibility needed to manage and optimize cloud assets effectively. The management platform, paired with ITIL-compliant process and experienced staff, continually monitors and generates essential information across all cloud services—performance, capacity, and availability—and provides the foundation for efficient cloud operations consistently. For instance, it continuously monitors and analyzes instance cost and utilization through its always available, user-friendly dashboard. This service allows businesses to identify wasted spend, as well as accurately forecast future costs.

PTP’s PeakPlus SECURE managed service provides IT Operations and Security teams the data they need to prioritize and remediate threats based on the business’s potential impact. Furthermore, PeakPlus SECURE embeds compliance and security testing into the service delivery process by providing continuous verification, analytics, and governance.

PTP’s PeakPlus MANAGE managed service provides 24x7x365 monitoring of a client’s environment, ensuring that applications perform as expected. PeakPlus MANAGE allows IT to manage performance across application silos— shifting focus from managing individual service components to delivering exceptional customer experience.

“Our goal is to provide visibility, governance, the security of their AWS environment, and deliver that as a service,” states Simmons.

For instance, a life science SaaS provider with a growing presence in AWS decided to move the rest of their on-premises workloads to AWS. In addition to migrating applications for older server hardware, it meant moving hundreds on client VPN connections terminated on physical Cisco ASA firewall appliances in their existing data center to their AWS environment. PTP worked with the client’s business partners to reconfigure the far-end VPN devices to connect to the new Cisco ASAv firewalls in AWS. This migration was completed over a few weeks with little downtime during maintenance windows. This project enabled the client to decommission their aging physical server infrastructure and provide their customers with secure, highspeed connectivity to the applications they need to use.

The company has recently been recognized as an AWS Life Sciences Competency Partner since PTP has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in building and managing life science solutions on AWS. PTP continually works with the AWS team both regionally and nationally and strives to provide additional value to its customers. The company helps its clients to stay educated and navigate AWS as well as ensures that they are leveraging all the programs and offers of AWS. With new, innovative, and impactful services being released by AWS weekly, PTP educates its customers on the technical solution and business benefits these services entail. “We host a series of customer AWS Immersion Days to help our customers better understand the AWS services and how they can leverage them in their AWS environment,” adds Simmons.

Forging ahead, PTP aims to stay abreast of new offers and services being rolled out by AWS or other cloud providers and translate them to bring value for its customers. “Customers that are on our platform are adopting AWS services at a much higher rate, and it is a good indicator of the success of our PeakPlus services and our efforts to help customers with their cloud adoption strategy,” concludes Simmons.

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