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24/7 support for your entire Azure estate

Overcome the capacity and capability constraints with fully-managed, co-managed, or interim managed cloud network services.

Managed Azure is the solution for you

Harnessing the full potential of Azure demands a specialized skillset. As nearly every aspect of modern business shifts to a 'cloud-first' approach, this can be quite challenging.

Is managing an expanding digital environment like juggling multiple tasks? Are you seeking a smooth integration between your existing infrastructure and cloud-based systems?

Managed Azure is your answer.

This service will significantly ease the burden on your IT team and unlock new opportunities for cloud-driven business. It provides all-encompassing, 24/7 support for your entire Azure setup, regardless of the services you have implemented.

However, this is more than just a support service. It’s a method to fully capitalize on Azure’s incredible potential.

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Keeping you in control

Managing your own Azure environment presents several challenges that can be daunting for both new and experienced users. One of the primary difficulties is ensuring optimal security and compliance, as Azure's vast array of services and configurations can make it easy to overlook vulnerabilities.

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Why choose Innovate?

At Innovate, we understand that transitioning to Azure goes beyond merely adopting new technology; it’s about revolutionising your operational approach. 

We’ve likely already accomplished the tasks you’re aiming for, and with our specialized tools and expert team, we can assist you in reaching your technology objectives – and beyond.

Our Azure Management Service delivers exceptional value because doing it right requires an investment in top-tier service. You gain access to our exclusive intellectual property and a promise of outstanding service. This is not something that can be easily duplicated internally.

We’re not just concentrating on the present; we’re also planning for the future. Our goal is to help you stay ahead of the competition and fully leverage Azure, ensuring you remain aligned with the latest technology to drive your business forward.

Core focus areas

Manage

Our management services give you 24/7 access to support, alongside round-the-clock monitoring of your Azure resources with proactive responses to alarms. Full ITSM access includes incident, problem, and change management, all made possible by an aligned account manager or technical account manager. You’ll benefit from a broad scope of expertise via GreyMatter, and it’s securely managed through Azure Lighthouse.

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Optimise

Your assigned Technical Account Manager will act as your Azure architect, conducting quarterly reviews of best practice. Regular product updates are inspected for potential enhancements to your setup, and budgets are configured to manage and report on spend. Additionally, you’ll have access to real-time cost management dashboards, and we’ll help you integrate best practice into existing infrastructure (using data from Application Insights and other sources).

Control

This is about making things work as they should. We deploy best practice permissions, management groups, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to protect your workload. Azure policies automate controls, including DNS, backups, resource locations, naming conventions, etc. We also implement change tracking for key resources and deploy resource locks across your estate for added security and control. All this, and more – done for you.

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Protect

We secure all backup vaults with locks, immutability, soft delete, and multi-user authentication. Protection includes daily monitoring and reporting on all backups, assessing workload availability, and providing improvement recommendations. You can expect daily monitoring of all site recovery services and assistance with disaster recovery tests. We even offer an optional second tenant for all Azure backup services.

Secure

We provide monthly automatic patching of all VM infrastructure and make sure best practices are followed in all aspects of security. We deploy Defender for Cloud for all resources and initiate agentless vulnerability scanning. We’ll also manage defender configuration via Intune, and conduct quarterly reviews of the recommendations & alerts coming from your Defender for Cloud. All this combines for a rock-solid Azure security foundation.

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Innovate Managed Services include:

  • 24×7 Service Desk with Engineering Support.
  • UK based Infrastructure Operations Centre, with real time monitoring and proactive support capability.
  • Accredited professional services team, complemented by ‘smart hands’ on-site technicians.
  • Infrastructure as Code’ configured network platforms, to reduce time to change and providing self-healing capabilities.
  • ISO27001 accredited.
  • ITIL aligned.
  • Comprehensive suite of service, operations and security management tools for Service Management, Incidents, Change, Event and Performance Monitoring and Alerting, Asset and Releases.
  • Proactive monitoring through automation and shift left approach enabling first time resolution.
  • Named Service Manager, service reviews and service reporting.
  • Access to real-time dashboards and reports.
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Secure+

Building on our Secure tier, the Secure+ option adds a further set of features to your security arsenal. With Azure Sentinel, we capture all logs from Defender for Cloud and correlate security events across all aspects of your Azure tenancy. Security alerts are reviewed proactively within 30 minutes, and vulnerability scanning is expanded to all external web applications. We also manage vulnerabilities across your Azure estate with inclusive time for remediation. And if you want to take things further, this paves the way for an easy progression to a full SOC service (Security Operations Centre) in the future.

Enhance

We act as champions for DevOps & automating processes to bring improved tech to your business where appropriate. We generally promote the use of PaaS services in new greenfield opportunities to greatly improve your business capabilities. We’ll make use of automation via Lighthouse to streamline your environment and implement ‘infrastructure as code’ using Terraform. Finally, we’ll also explore new AI technologies with you and provide regular educational content across our YouTube channel and other platforms.

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