Business Cloud Solutions

Optimal cloud architecture and performance in the most cost-effective way possible.

As our mid-market clients accelerate the expansion of their digital operations, ever-higher expectations are being placed on your cloud, your network, and your cyber security framework.

The rapid adoption of data-rich applications, such as automation and AI, is creating greater demands on your cloud’s performance. AI workloads, in particular those based on machine learning, deep learning, and data analytics, are very resource-intensive and demand higher-performing cloud and network performance.

The growing threat to security, privacy, and compliance for sensitive data is increasing the demand for greater control over infrastructure.

Maintaining your own dedicated infrastructure requires continuous investment in hardware, software, security, and a specialised team of IT staff.

To enable our clients to meet this challenge, Tecala delivers a Private Managed Cloud with Hybrid Cloud Integration. It’s a flexible, agile and stable cloud solution that gives you optimal performance and control in the cloud performance, for a fixed monthly fee.

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Tecala’s Managed Private Cloud provides secure, private cloud infrastructure that can be managed either on your premises or within our dedicated data centres. This ensures you maintain the highest levels of control and security over your data.

We then deliver Hybrid Cloud Integration, allowing seamless utilisation of public cloud services, whether from AWS, Azure, or other providers.

This flexibility and control in the cloud enables you to strategically adopt public cloud services to support your Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy, all while leveraging the performance, security, and control of a private cloud infrastructure.

With Tecala, your cloud infrastructure is optimised for performance, scalability, and compliance, making it ready to meet the challenges of today’s data-driven world.

What’s triggering this trend?

Rising Cost

Public cloud is too expensive and too difficult to efficiently provision.
It’s not the optimal place for every application, workload and data set, so a more balanced approach that considers on-premises IT, colocation and other non-cloud options are required.
Recent VMware price increases are just one example of mid-market organisations being priced out of the on-premise market.
Expertise for managing your on-premise environment is too hard to find and too expensive to hire.

Performance

Data is the fuel of the digital era. So the need to optimise cloud performance for resource-intensive applications, such as AI, is more important than ever.
Many organisations are getting sub-optimal performance from the public cloud, so they’re relocating workloads and applications to their own private cloud.
The bottom line is, once you get into AI you’re going to want your data in your own private cloud.

Risk and Security

Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, more severe, and much more sophisticated. It’s this triple menace that’s making cyber security the number one priority for mid-market.
The fact is, not everything always needs to be hosted in public cloud environments and there are performance benefits to bringing data and workloads back home onto your private cloud that you can control.

How does the Tecala Cloud Advantage work?

Tecala delivers genuine advantage in the Cloud by delivering the right combination of Private Cloud with Hybrid Public Cloud integration.

Tecala Managed Private Cloud

Tecala Private Cloud provides a dedicated, secure cloud environment tailored to your operational objectives, cost imperatives and workload requirements.
It is hosted in our state-of-the-art local data centres.

Hybrid Cloud Integration

Because you’ll still need to integrate public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow) into your cloud, our Hybrid Cloud Integration allows you to use your private cloud for sensitive or critical workloads while using public clouds for additional resources, scalability, or specific services.

Tecala Managed Private Cloud + Hybrid Cloud Integration
= Tecala Cloud Advantage

By combining our Private Cloud with one or more Public Cloud solutions we deliver a fluid mix of cloud computing solutions. Through a software layer that allows data and applications to be shared between the two environments, this Hybrid Cloud provides your organisation with the flexibility to move workloads between business cloud solutions as needs and costs fluctuate.

Tecala Private Cloud

Tecala’s Private Cloud delivers secure, high-performance infrastructure tailored to your business needs, ensuring complete control, enhanced security, and seamless scalability. With hybrid integration to public cloud services like Azure, Tecala provides a cost-efficient, resilient solution that optimises AI workloads while mitigating risk and maintaining compliance.

Tecala’s Private Cloud is the most effective way of building a fully flexible and secure cloud model for your business, with the control and performance of on-premises systems.

Hosted in our state-of-the-art local data centres, our private cloud services are completely tailored to your business and your stage in your cloud journey. If you need assistance moving to the cloud, migrating to a new platform, or extending your cloud services, we can help.

Tecala’s Managed Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid cloud solutions deliver the best potential for freedom, flexibility, and control in the cloud.

By combining our Private Cloud with one or more Public Cloud solutions Tecala’s Hybrid Cloud delivers a fluid mix of cloud computing solutions. Through a software layer that allows data and applications to be shared between the two environments, Tecala’s Hybrid Cloud provides your organisation with the flexibility to move workloads between business cloud solutions as needs and costs fluctuate.

This solution is built on the need for flexibility, i.e. you don’t need to restrict your applications or workloads to one type of cloud if you can benefit from all options in a consistent way. It’s precisely this freedom and flexibility that is empowering more mid-size organisations to adopt the hybrid model because it offers maximum benefit and value from the cloud environment, through a unique configuration of private and public clouds.

Tecala’s Managed Multi-Cloud

Tecala’s Managed Multi-cloud service ensures you always get the best performing architecture for your applications and workloads. Understanding how and where your business is using its application and services allows us to align your cloud IT solutions with your business operations to risk, complexity, and cost.

Many organisations are running applications that rely on data that needs to be hosted in a sovereign database, making our Private Cloud more appropriate. Another application may require more bandwidth in the cloud, so hosting these in our AWS or Azure Public Clouds would be more appropriate.

Hosting your online portals and applications in our Multi-cloud also ensures resilience – in the event of a failure or outage, we’ll switch your service between environments, ensuring optimal performance all of the time.

Virtual Data Centre

Tecala operates one of the largest infrastructure-as-a-service based private clouds in Australia. We call this our Virtual Datacentre because it provides all the benefits and control of your own datacentre at a fraction of the cost, and without any of the complexity.

As an experienced Hybrid and Multi-Cloud solution provider, we’ll provision and de-provision resources in response to your changing needs. To ensure you get the ongoing support you need, our co-managed environment allows your IT teams to collaborate with our local Tecala engineers as if Tecala was an extension of your own data centre. This is a fully flexible service based on your internal capabilities and capacity.

Cloud Migration

Because you need to be able to respond to changing market conditions, as part of Tecala’s Hybrid and Multi-cloud solutions, we also deliver Cloud Migration solutions to enable a speedy and efficient platform migration and modernisation.

Our Cloud Services team can migrate different types of platforms to keep them updated and operating at peak performance. This includes your Public Cloud migrations to AWS and Azure.

Our Cloud Migration solutions ensure smooth and efficient management of your Hybrid or Multi-cloud environment, keeping it in lockstep with your business.

Security by Default

At Tecala, security is built into all our services and solutions by default. Our Managed IT Security Services experts will ensure you have complete control and confidence in the integrity of your data and the efficacy of your security systems, procedures, and protocols.

The movement towards hybrid working environments is driving the rapid adoption of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud solutions. By combining network and security functions with WAN capabilities, we extend networking and security capabilities beyond where they are typically available. This includes:

Firewall as a Service
Secure Web Gateway
Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

Through Tecala’s CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) services, users can be connected to both traditional datacentre resources and cloud services, with dynamic access requirements based on the trust of the user, device, and location.

BUSINESS OUTCOMES

Tecala’s Private Cloud with Managed Hybrid Integration delivers a clear Cloud Advantage.

Built on the most innovative technology platforms from the world’s leading vendors, Tecala allows you to build your cloud strategy, your way, so it’s fast, stable, secure, and able to seamlessly respond to your changing business needs.

Tecala Flexibility Advantage

Tecala Cloud delivers enhanced flexibility through its hybrid cloud integration, allowing clients to seamlessly utilise both private and public cloud environments. This enables businesses to scale workloads across Tecala’s private infrastructure and public cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.

Tecala Security Advantage

Tecala’s Private Cloud with Hybrid Integration delivers data encryption, threat detection, and vulnerability assessments. Our comprehensive security environment enables clients to meet compliance requirements and mitigate the risk of data breaches and cyber threats.

Tecala Cost Advantage

Tecala’s Private and Hybrid Clouds are delivered for an incremental, predictable, flexible monthly fee. We provision your public cloud to ensure optimal performance. And we use Microsoft Hyper-V as a more cost-efficient and effective alternative to VMware.

Tecala Control Advantage

Tecala’s cloud solutions allow you to manage cloud environments on-premises or in our private data centres, so you have greater control over your their infrastructure while maintaining the flexibility to expand or shift resources as required.

We also support customisation of resources to enable you to adapt quickly to changing demands, whether for AI workloads, SaaS integration, or data storage.

Tecala Performance Advantage

We use Microsoft Hyper-V in our data centre along with tools like System Center and Azure Arc, to manage and monitor our private cloud environments effectively.

By enabling centralised management, automation, and improved visibility into resource utilisation and performance, our clients can focus on their core business while leveraging advanced technology for improved reliability and efficiency.

Tecala Risk Advantage

Tecala integrates Rubrik’s data management solutions within its Private Cloud services to enhance data protection, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities for its clients.

Our Private Cloud integrates with Microsoft Azure, facilitating hybrid cloud solutions that combine on-premises control with Azure’s scalability and robust security features.

Tecala employs Azure Active Directory for identity and access management, ensuring secure authentication across cloud services.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What’s the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud?

A hybrid cloud is a combination of public and private clouds, giving you the flexibility to move workloads between the different private and cloud services as your needs (workloads) and the costs of the different public cloud fluctuate.
Multi-cloud is when you have multiple cloud services from different public cloud providers ensuring you have the cloud architecture for each application or workload. Your performance is paramount.

What’s the unique benefit of Tecala’s Private Cloud with Hybrid Cloud Integration?

Tecala's Private Cloud with Hybrid Cloud Integration combines the performance, security, and control of a private cloud (hosted in Tecala’s Tier III-certified Australian data centres) with the scalability and flexibility of public cloud services.
The design of Tecala’s Private Cloud with Hybrid Cloud Integration solutions focuse on delivering enterprise-grade infrastructure optimised for demanding workloads, such as AI, machine learning, and data analytics.
To give you the freedom, flexibility and performance of the public cloud, our Private Cloud with Hybrid Cloud Integration solutions seamlessly integrate with leading public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

How does Tecala improve cost efficiencies in the cloud?

The recent increase in VMware’s software licensing and support services is just one example of the increasing cost of on prem cloud infrastructure. Add to this the increasing cost of public cloud services and you have a cocktail of price volatility to navigate.
Tecala's Private Cloud with Hybrid Cloud Integration solutions deliver cost efficiencies by minimising unpredictable expenses tied to public cloud and vendor pricing increases, including the recent increase from VMware.
We host your core workloads in Tecala's private cloud, so you avoid public cloud costs, such as high data egress fees. But you’re still able to leverage the right hybrid integrations with Azure and AWS for scalable workloads.
Tecala's Private Cloud infrastructure optimises resource utilisation (because it’s part of our Managed Cloud Services) to ensure you enjoy predictable, lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Advanced workload placement tools further balance costs by ensuring each application runs in the most cost-effective environment, eliminating unnecessary overprovisioning common in traditional cloud deployments.

How does Tecala’s Private Cloud and Hybrid Integrations help leverage Microsoft365 Copilot for automation and AI?

Tecala’s Managed Cloud accelerates Automation and AI initiatives with seamless integration into Azure's ecosystem. By leveraging Azure Arc, Tecala enables unified management across hybrid environments, ensuring consistent performance and control.
With Azure Machine Learning, you can train and deploy AI models efficiently, driving innovation. For Microsoft 365 Copilot, Tecala ensures secure Azure-based data access and management.
With Azure Lighthouse, Tecala delivers centralised oversight, empowering your automation and AI solutions to achieve scalable, secure, and impactful results

What if I need a custom Copilot solution using my own data?

Tecala’s Custom Copilot delivers a powerful and intelligent virtual assistant that provides unique insights from your data – always on-hand to accelerate your teams' efficiency and productivity.
Tecala’s Custom Copilot combines the power of generative AI with your data, in a safe and secure way. Unlike the standard Microsoft 365 Copilot product, which is designed for general use across your Office 365 applications, Tecala Custom Copilot is built on your documentation, website content, databases, and any other content that's important to your operations. And can be hosted in our Tier III-certified Australian data centres to ensure data sovereignty.
Tecala’s GPU-enabled private cloud is optimised for AI/ML workloads. Azure Machine Learning can be seamlessly integrated for scalable training, deployment, and inference, enabling you to leverage the best of both platforms.
What that means, is that your teams enjoy a fully customised experience from the world's leading generative AI platform.

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