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At Click2Cloud, we strive to overcome these challenges through Cloud Intel’s AI-driven solutions and enable C-suites to make informed decisions on cloud investment.

The ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity calls for innovative solutions that leverage artificial intelligence. Security Copilot is an AI-powered security solution that stands at the forefront of this paradigm shift, offering security professionals an assistive copilot experience across various disciplines such as incident response, threat intelligence, threat hunting, compliance monitoring, and vulnerability management.

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered programmer that helps you write code faster and smarter. It provides suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor, based on natural language input or existing code. It is a great initiative and definitely a game-changer for software development in terms of speed and quality.

Cloud Intel, an assessment platform, provides a tailored D 365 Copilot Assessment. This assessment focuses on enablement and awareness, guiding customers through Dynamics 365 Copilot features, and the adoption journey. It offers a comprehensive understanding of how Dynamics 365 can streamline operations and enhance efficiency.

Cloud Intel an assessment platform serves as a catalyst for organizations seeking to harness the full potential of their data. By supporting them through a comprehensive assessment process and offering strategic insights, Cloud Intel ensures that businesses can navigate the complexities of the data and AI landscape, driving innovation and staying ahead in the competitive market.

Cloud Intel's Infra BVA is a holistic service that empowers organizations to grasp the implications and advantages of initiating their cloud migration journey. The assessment provides a tailored strategic plan aligned with the specific requirements of each organization, ensuring a seamless and effective transition to the cloud environment that optimizes performance and maximizes benefits.

Click2Cloud paves the way for the above challenges and provides end-to-end sustainability solutions to support enterprises in planning, monitoring, managing, and reporting sustainability performance in a trusted and future-proof manner. Our AI/ML-based product Cloud Intel caters to all your sustainability needs, enhancing your company's sustainability performance with automated reporting, management, and deep analytics for ESG data.

Generative AI is an ever-advancing field that holds enormous potential to impact every sector of the economy. This powerful and transformational technology fuels predictive analytics, offering businesses invaluable insights into future trends, risks, and opportunities. It enables you to reimagine business operations, fostering an unparalleled level of creativity and innovation. Natural language models like GPT-3/GPT-4 of the OpenAI service automate content generation, enhance content quality, diversify content, and enable personalization. 

Azure AI's arsenal encompasses services like Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive, and Azure Bot services, empowering developers to seamlessly construct and deploy AI solutions. What sets Azure AI apart is its unwavering commitment to scalability and performant infrastructure, capable of handling even the most demanding AI workloads. Furthermore, Azure AI prioritizes security, fortified by stringent data encryption measures and rigorous compliance standards, assuring the safeguarding of sensitive data.

Microsoft 365 is a formidable suite of applications, and now AI-powered CoPilot, a game-changer, supercharges your M 365 experiences and enhances the way you work and collaborate. However, harnessing the full potential of Microsoft 365 can be a daunting task for many organizations. The complexity of configuring, maintaining, and securing the platform often leaves valuable features untapped. That's where Cloud Intel's M 365 Assessment comes into play, offering a clear roadmap to harness the full potential of Microsoft 365.

Cloud Intel offers the OpenAI Assessment, which evaluates your readiness and capacity for AI adoption, pinpointing areas where it can generate more value. This assessment provides you with a summary of your current AI applications, identification of use cases for proof of concept, workload categorization and prioritization, AI-based recommendations, a PoC plan, a roadmap, and a strategy for seamless execution of AI solutions.

Continuous enhancement of employee engagement and business performance is achievable with next-generation AI. Microsoft Viva consolidates the essential tools and applications for communication, analytics, goal setting, and learning into one unified solution. Cloud Intel assists in preparing for and maximizing the benefits of Microsoft Viva, ensuring that individuals and teams are empowered to excel regardless of their location.

Microsoft 365 Copilot emerges as a ground-breaking innovation, effectively harnessing the prowess of generative artificial intelligence. It stands ready to transcend the constraints imposed by traditional work methods, liberating us from the tangle of tasks that tend to deplete our time, hinder our creativity, and sap our energy. This ingenious solution serves to amplify our creativity and endow us with the capability to refine our skills, thereby unlocking new levels of productivity and unexplored potential.

Cost Manager Studio provides a unified view of cloud costs across different providers, which allows you to compare and analyze spending patterns to identify optimization. It leverages historical cost and usage data, as well as industry benchmarks and predictive analytics, to provide accurate forecasts and projections. With these data-driven insights, cloud practitioners can proactively allocate budgets, optimize resource allocation, and make informed decisions to stay within budgetary constraints while meeting business objectives.

Sustainability is at the heart of innovation. The world is moving towards a more sustainable and equitable future. Measuring and managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is crucial for organizations seeking to understand their environmental impact and develop sustainability strategies. Greenhouse Gas Protocol established three scopes as a framework for categorizing emissions: scopes 1, 2, and 3. To reduce emissions, it is necessary to measure and address emissions within each scope.

Cloud Landing Zone enable you to scale as you need, secure your data, and effectively manage your operations. With Cloud Intel kickstart your cloud journey in the fastest, safest, and most cost-effective way possible. It ensures security and risk compliance with real-time guardrails, governance protocols, and cost management visibility while remaining relevant with multiple cloud platforms release updates.

Click2Cloud offers a portfolio of sustainable innovations, technologies, and cloud-based services. A cloud-based automated solution by Click2Cloud allows organizations to collect, analyze, and store large amounts of data by leveraging Azure Synapse, advanced analytics, and IoT services capabilities to deliver sustainable digital benefits as well as increased organizational agility. As a result of these capabilities, oil and gas can track, manage, and attain net zero emissions of carbon, water, waste, and ecosystems.

A cloud-based environment and innovative technologies are transforming processes and equipment to enhance efficiency. In this transformation journey, cloud migration has become a key catalyst for driving innovation and achieving business and technology goals. When considering cloud migration, environmental implications are often overlooked by most industries.
As we witness the rise of global environmental awareness in recent years, it becomes increasingly important for companies all over the world to establish sustainable goals to reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprints in response to global warming and to remain competitive in the marketplace. Also, industries must commit to continuous innovation and advancement to accelerate sustainability goals and reach net zero in the areas of social, environmental, and corporate governance. 

In today’s world, we are experiencing unprecedented change caused by the advancement of digital technologies, resulting in increased competition across a wide range of markets and industries. Digital transformation and cloud computing create enormous opportunities for data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics, and as a result, organizations are adopting new technologies, migrating to cloud platforms, and adopting digital business models.

With Cloud Intel, customers can get an assessment of cloud readiness that facilitates transparency and visibility and delivers comprehensive graphical TCO and ROI, which helps to discover, assess, compare, and orchestrate a migration timeline and roadmap. Cloud Intel makes the entire process economical, agile, and error-free, and provides an advanced data transition experience.

In an ever-evolving context, it has become apparent to many business leaders that outdated legacy applications are not only frustrating to manage, but also inefficient when it comes to productivity, operations, and business value. The migration of your business applications to the cloud may seem daunting, but many long-term benefits can be gained, including accelerated digital transformation with clear benefits in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Click2Cloud provides Modern Workplace Assessment using AI and ML-based trademarked product Cloud Intel. The assessment provides a structured approach to support your business in its journey to the modern workplace and simplify your cloud adoption and improve your end user productivity. Cloud Intel’s Modern Workplace Assessment analyses your current working environment, user profiles, working groups, existing software deployments, and licensing to provide the right Office 365 solution for your business.

Powered by Click2Cloud, Cloud Intel provides you with a Sustainability Assessment that offers insights into the environmental impacts of on-premises infrastructure and the reduction of carbon footprints in cloud environments

The advent of cloud computing in the 21st century has made cloud applications an essential part of business today. These cloud technologies help modern digital infrastructures reduce costs, improve agility, and simplify operations. Unfortunately, the cloud also creates a wide range of new security threats that expose your crucial assets and workloads to hackers. Unfortunately, the cloud also creates a wide range of new security threats that expose your crucial assets and workloads to hackers.
 

Cloud Intel helps you to evaluate your current forms and workflow environment, and helps you plan your journey to the Microsoft Power Platform. It helps to understand your power platform settings are in alignment with governance and security requirements, and to review licensing options. It helps to explore how to build forms and apps with Power Apps, how Power BI can create a data-driven culture with business intelligence and provides best practices and guidance for deploying solutions on the Power Platform.

Powered by Click2Cloud, Cloud Intel is an assessment platform that assesses the existing environment and provides compatibility analysis of the existing SAP environment for Azure migration. You can align your application-migration priorities with your business goals with the help of Cloud Intel’s assessment.

Click2Cloud’s assessment platform provides a complete view of your current assets, makes it easier for you to understand contractual obligations, and lets you plan investments in the future. Contract Optimization Assessment provides customers with a comprehensive view of their Microsoft products deployment and associated licensing positions. The purpose of this assessment is to help customers optimize their software investments to achieve their strategic business goals.

Mainframe modernization can be a complex process when you're running your core business on it. A number of factors contribute to the need for mainframe modernization, such as the scarcity of domain expertise, limited flexibility, exorbitant costs, and application complexities.

Data warehouses consolidate business data from in-house applications, databases, and SaaS platforms, making it a central repository that businesses use to make decisions with analytics and business intelligence tools. Traditional data warehouses have many challenges, such as data quality, flexible structure, complex architecture, and total cost of ownership, all of which result in faulty reporting and analytics needed for optimal decision-making

Click2Cloud’s Cloud Intel helps enterprises plan the migration, discover and assess data and applications to estimate how easy or difficult it will be to migrate to PostgreSQL from Oracle. Cloud Intel provides comprehensive graphical TCO analysis, assesses on-premises SQL server instances, and suggests fixes after detection. It assesses the compatibility of source-and target-databases as well as application code.

Analytics Assessment is designed for customers who wish to modernize their legacy data platforms and make use of native Azure services, including AI, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things capabilities. It provides customers with an analysis of their data and ways to improve business outcomes.

Cloud Intel powered by Click2Cloud is an assessment platform that offers modernization assessment for legacy applications and databases, it evaluates your current applications and databases, IT priorities, and recommends a strategy for modernization based on the 5R framework. Rehost, Refactor, Rebuild, Rearchitect and Replace (5R) strategy helps you build the foundation and achieve quick wins, optimize IT cost and enable new capabilities, app and data estate modernization and digital transformation and business innovation.

Data & Infra Migration Solution Assessment by Click2Cloud’s Cloud Intel helps you to move your apps, data, and infrastructure to Azure. This provides you with the information you need to make the right decisions about how, when, and where to migrate workloads to Azure, including applications, databases, and infrastructure

Cloud Intel helps the media industry to identify the running applications and link them between the servers; to assess the online media streaming applications without affecting their performance; and to prioritize the large number of servers available in the datacenter. 

The advent of the Cloud Intel platform powered by Click2Cloud helps the manufacturing industry address these issues. Moving legacy applications and databases to the cloud environment can help the manufacturing sector reduce its overall operational costs with additional benefits like improved speed, performance, adaptability, flexibility, and mobility. However, migrating workloads to the cloud is challenging in itself and needs to be planned thoroughly before opting for migration.

The banking industry can make decisions about which applications or data to move to the cloud for better performance and efficiency with the help of Cloud Intel. It provides complete transparency and visibility of their on-prem infrastructure. It also compares several cloud providers based on the compute, storage, and network so that it will become easy for the banking industry to make the right and appropriate decisions. 

Cloud Intel supports infrastructure modernization, data modernization, application modernization, cloud modernization, data warehouse migration, and cybersecurity assessments. Cloud Intel provides usage parameters that provide the right size information for each machine and makes it possible to provide an optimized service on the cloud, saving both on expenditures and resources.

Cloud Intel provides cloud readiness assessment through which one can find out where they stand. Retailers can gain complete transparency and visibility of their on-prem infrastructure. It helps retailers by providing various insights such as resources, applications, and databases before the migration process. It helps to make the right choice by providing detailed comprehensive graphical TCO and ROI reports, discover, assess, compare, and orchestrate for migration timeline and roadmap.

Click2Cloud's Cloud Intel Cloud Modernization has helped companies to bring resilience, and crisis recovery capabilities that provide a competitive edge to leverage their business. Modernization allows easy access to data to be directly shared with customers, employees, and partners

Cloud Intel offers IT Infrastructure Modernization services to help you take your applications and software to the next level enhancing performance and manageability. We at Cloud Intel helps you drive your organization’s IT modernization process through various phases of efficiency and agility with a modular and structural approach.

Cloud Intel is an assessment platform provides a detailed report on system configuration, cloud readiness, system utilization, and right-sizing parameters of each virtual machine. The Cloud Intel helps to assess virtual machines, physical servers, applications, databases, storage, and network environments

Cloud Intel is a cloud assessment program that helps you make a decision of what data to migrate to the cloud. This tool gives you a roadmap and guides you to optimize your overall cloud journey. Cloud Intel also provide assessment to infra modernization, data modernization, application modernization, cloud modernization, data warehouse migration, and cybersecurity assessment. Once the need for modernization of any app, infra, DB, VMs, network gets done, Cloud Intel helps to provide inventory details through graphical representations, TCO reports about those modernized applications.

Cloud Intel is an assessment tool for discovering your IT inventory, assessing it, and it helps in decision-making for the movement of your workloads to the cloud. Cloud discovery helps enterprises comprehensively identify all cloud instances, applications, databases, containers, and related services running at a given instance of time. Discovery provides a single optimized view of various cloud services and cloud platforms within an organization. Cloud Intel provides data-driven insights and vital steps required to successfully adopt the cloud.

A Cloud Readiness Assessment is designed to help your business turn a high-level idea of embracing the cloud into a clear step-by-step plan of action. Through a readiness questionnaire about your business and infrastructure, the assessment explains how migration can be implemented smoothly and in what order. Get a Cloud Readiness Assessment from Cloud Intel to find out where you stand so we can offer advice to help you on the journey to the cloud. It provides various insights to the enterprise about its resources, applications, and databases before the migration process.

Right-Sizing is the process of reserving cloud computing instances such as containers, VMs, or Bare Metal with enough resources (RAM, CPU, storage, & network) to accomplish sufficient performance at lowest cost possible. It allows the enterprise to optimize cloud infrastructure, performance, and cost-efficiency. It ensures that enterprise is getting the most of its cloud infrastructure with minimum spending. Right-sizing provides deep predictive analysis of workload patterns, delivering enterprises the insights to optimally leverage cloud resources by reducing operational risks and costs.

Data is a crucial component of any enterprise. Every organization has to deal with huge amounts of data. Managing storage infrastructure can create difficulties and challenges for organization. Downtime of storage can lead to huge loss in productivity of the enterprise.
Inadequate data security leads to unfortunate events like malicious attacks and loss of data. Data security should always be one among the top priorities for an organization. To ensure data is protected, organizations have to constantly monitor and manage infrastructure’s storage security.
Organization has to continuously upgrade storage infrastructure to meet an ever-rising amount of data. With this, there is an increase in cost of maintenance of infrastructure/hardware leading to increase in budget on data security and storage management.
A simple solution to resolve all the challenges of traditional storage systems is cloud storage. Click2Cloud^® offers its complete automated multiple cloud management platform “Clouds Brain”. 

A cloud migration provides your business with the ability to scale and perform in response to dynamic workload demands. Costs related to computing were historically tied to hardware procurement on a quarterly or annual basis. Since cloud technology uses a 'pay as you use' pricing model, it allows you to initiate services and initialize resources at any time. As a result, cost understanding, management, and optimization have changed.

Businesses and organizations are moving their workload to the cloud for better agility, performance, and security. Cloud computing is the bellwether of hosting applications and databases to improve the overall efficiency of business processes. The disparity between the on-premise workload and cloud environment workload often results in businesses migrating the workload to the cloud. Cloud technology shows impeccable growth contributing to the adoption of cloud-based computing across many businesses and organizations. 

Centaurus, a next-generation cloud for the telecom sector, is an open-source project for building cloud infrastructure platform that can be used to build and manage public or private clouds, edge computing, and edge device datacenter. It is a solution to address key challenges of large-scale clouds such as system scalability, resource efficiency, multi-tenancy, edge computing, and the native support for the fast-growing modern workloads such as containers and serverless functions. Centaurus helps in creating multiple nodes, managing infrastructure, containerizing the environment, managing the pods, and many more.

This blog will give you a complete understanding on billing, budget, and cloud cost optimization. Cloud cost management is as important as knowing your bills. It is important to know your cloud spends and which cloud offers you a good service at minimal costs. Click2Cloud also offers you a semi-automated assessment platform “ CloudsIntel” to support you with assessment and migration plan

Storage of high capacity of data using traditional tape technology results in uncertainty of loss of data, high costs, and problems like huge storage of data sets. The ideal solution over traditional tape storage is fast, high-speed, rapidly increasing optical disc technology by SONY Optical Disc Archive for long term archiving.

Click2Cloud’s CloudsIntel platform enables you to decide if you want to move your workloads to cloud with the help of detailed Business Value Assessment reports. CloudsIntel is a platform that helps you discover your IT inventory, assess that inventory, collects the intel for different categories manually and automatically to take the decision on moving your workloads to cloud.

Click2Cloud has come up with a comprehensive discovery and assessment platform i.e. CloudsIntel, which gathers in-depth data about your existing infrastructure. Automated infrastructure and application discovery creates a detailed inventory analysis reports of your systems, applications, and dependencies.

Data security is an important aspect of every field in technology. Users face challenges such as data hacking, data threats, hacking of highly confidential files, and many more. Cloud security uses latest technologies, techniques, and programs to secure the application that is hosted on the cloud, and the infrastructure that is associated with the cloud computing. Hence, a cloud provider is highly responsible to look after data confidentiality, data integrity, and data availability. 

The Cloud Computing technology is digitally transforming many sectors such as IT, Banking, Retail, Healthcare, Education and Manufacturing, etc. Accessing, storing, migrating and managing data on-premise has become less feasible in today’s era. In such case, Cloud proves to be a boon for solving the above-mentioned challenges in every industry.

CloudsBrain file storage stores data of multi-cloud that provides servers and applications access to data through shared file systems. File storage in CloudsBrain comes under the storage module.
It is a file-level or file-based storage that is a hierarchical storage methodology used to organize and store data on a computer hard drive or network-attached storage systems.

An enterprise application heavily run on multiple clouds. These multi-cloud accounts use multiple container services provided by different cloud providers such as alibaba, azure etc. To reduce time and increase productivity you can use multiple container services on a single platform. Considering Alibaba Cloud Services, Click2Cloud’s CloudsBrain cluster and registry provisioning feature involves Alibaba Kubernetes and Registry services at one place where you can manage your nodes, deployments, and other resources that containerize the application development and deployment efficiently.

Application development with the advanced cloud technologies and resources has become a cumbersome task due to complex codes, multiple languages, frameworks, discontinuous interfaces, distributed environments and architectures. The use of docker containers eases these complexities and automates your workflow by giving developers the ability to apply smart innovations with their choice of tools and application stacks for their development, speeding up the delivery of enhancements and makes the deployments quick and easy.

A virtual environment is an independent server module (Operating System + Application) that generally run-on independent servers. But with server virtualization, it is possible to run multiple virtual machines in a single (high capacity) server. In this process, each Virtual Machine considers that it is running on its own server (with dedicated resources).

It's an honour to announce Click2Cloud’s collaboration with Alibaba Cloud with the launch of Clouds Brain in Alibaba Marketplace. Clouds Brain is one more smart and multi-talented solution to meet the ever-rising demand of cloud computing services encompassing compute, storage, cloud migration, relational databases and many more.

Kubernetes is an open-source container management tool which automates container deployment, container de-scaling, and container load balancing. The benefits of it is that it works well with all cloud windows with all public, hybrid, and on-premise cloud vendors. Kubernetes has a huge community because it was first developed by Google and later donated to CNCF.

Orchestration refers to the automated management and coordination of computing application and services that result in a consolidated workflow. It eliminates repetitive tasks and supports faster deployments in different cloud infrastructures. Orchestration is important for delivering dynamically scalable smart applications and cloud resources which reduces human errors and improves productivity.

Before the integration of the Alibaba Gelato project of OpenSDS does not support the object management on the OSS service of Alibaba. This blog embellishes the integration and Click2Cloud contribution with Alibaba cloud as a back end in OpenSDS/ multi-cloud. The Gelato project of the SODA Foundation supports object operation performance, lifecycle management, and object management for different cloud vendors like AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, Huawei, YIG, and Ceph.

The Linux Foundation endowed in 2000, which is supported by more than 1000 members is open-source software that is collaborated with the world’s leading open-source cloud providers, storage vendors, etc. Linux Foundation is an open standard, open data, and open hardware platform. Its projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, K8’s, Node.js, and many more. SODA Foundation is an open-source project under the Linux Foundation that aims to foster an ecosystem of open-source data management and storage software for data autonomy.

Storing data at cloud not only enhances cost reduction but also improves business productivity, saves time, and provide better security of the infrastructure. But traditional enterprise storage solutions are based on proprietary hardware and controller-based storage arrays, which are expensive and rigid. It causes issues like vendor lock-in, self-governed, shortage of large amounts of data storage, hardware failure.

Most organizations have on-premise infrastructure/applications burdened with high capital expenses, complex management, scalability challenges, and hardware that needs to be replaced every 3-5 years. Maintaining existing on-prem infra results in increased operational process and drains IT budgets for organizations that are already cost, and resource-strapped.

Clouds studio is a collection of software that performs different operations related to cloud computing. Cloud studio provides an organized collection of multiple software packages that are useful for cloud computing operations. Cloud studio is a place where users will get different functions related to cloud computing operations.

A gateway is a network point that works as an access to another network. A gateway device provides communication to a remote network or an autonomous system that is out of bounds for the host network nodes. Gateways serve as the entry and exit point of a network; all data routed inward or outward must first pass through and communicate with the gateway in order to use routing paths. Cloud gateway is the gateway between the different cloud providers and the end-users who is going to use different cloud computing services.

Organizations are deploying various applications that run on separate cloud infrastructures, to avoid vendor lock-in for flexibility and spend optimization. Handling each cloud separately is not a better option for cloud resource management, specifically with Cloud cost management. These days, multi-cloud environments are inevitable.

Click2Cloud is glad to share the news about SODA formation by OpenSDS. A collaborative mini-conference on Open Data Autonomy. Click2Cloud has secured the position as one of the top supporters in OpenSDS LF under The Linux Foundation.

Click2Cloud delivers a comprehensive multi-cloud management platform CloudBrain that can provide a unified interface through which administrators and users can easily view and control a multi-cloud environment from a single interface. Click2Cloud has created its level at Cloud Computing Platform with immense productivity and high-quality assurance. Likewise, it has successfully launched its CloudBrain in Huawei Market place.

Click2Cloud family is happy to announce the product CloudBrain a multi-cloud management platform. A unified platform which offers significant technology infrastructure services to help users build refined applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. Click2Cloud’s CloudBrain has created a level playing field and choices for its users and end customers using a simplified multi-cloud management platform. Now, users can perform migration and save money on multiple clouds.

Click2Cloud family is delighted to share the release notes about Click2Cloud’s multi-cloud management platform for Alibaba cloud. CloudsBrain offers a unified platform for Alibaba cloud which provides vital technology infrastructure services to help users build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability.

With traditional storage systems for storing a large number of static files, videos, images on an on-premise NAS user faces many problems like Hardware failure, scalability issues, Costs, Limited disk space. These stated problems can be overcome with Object Storage Service, which is a storage platform that manages and manipulates data storage as distinct units called objects. Object storage allows users to store large amounts of unstructured data in a highly scalable manner. So, whether a user has a server or application or backup requirements, the user can easily store the data in an object store using Rest APIs with the help of OSS.