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Overview

The journey to the cloud indeed presents both substantial benefits and a range of multidimensional challenges. SNP’s hybrid-cloud framework on Azure is an excellent approach, as it balances the integration of people, processes, and technology to create a streamlined path for clients. This framework helps enterprises overcome the complexities of cloud adoption, ensuring that every element—from the supporting technologies to the implementing teams and governing processes—is aligned for a successful transition.

Developing a solid strategy from the start can significantly enhance the cloud experience, maximizing the investment by aligning it with internal operations and business growth needs. By enabling scalability and innovation, SNP empowers organizations to not only meet current demands but also to be well-positioned for future expansion.

Our Offerings

Azure Governance

SNP’s integrated security and consulting approach ensures a comprehensive foundation for cloud computing that covers all key aspects—from architecture and acquisition to deployment and management. By establishing clear policies, processes, and standards, SNP helps organizations maintain a secure and efficient cloud environment, which is essential for supporting long-term operational success. This holistic approach addresses both the technical and governance needs of cloud computing, enabling clients to achieve a consistent and resilient infrastructure.

Azure Subscription Management: Azure Subscription Management is an effective way to control resource sprawl, allowing organizations to structure their cloud resources according to their unique hierarchy. This approach not only strengthens security and governance but also supports developer agility by providing them with the flexibility they need within a controlled environment. By establishing clear organizational boundaries and subscription management, SNP helps clients strike the right balance between control and innovation in their cloud environments.

Azure Role-Based Access (RABC): RBAC is indeed essential for managing Azure resources securely and efficiently. With SNP Technologies, implementing RBAC allows organizations to assign roles that limit access based on users’ job requirements, ensuring that each user has the appropriate level of access without overexposing critical resources. This targeted approach to access control not only improves security but also streamlines operations by preventing unnecessary permissions that can complicate resource management.

Azure Policies: Azure Policies are an invaluable tool for maintaining compliance and governance in the cloud. By implementing Azure Policies, SNP enables organizations to enforce rules and evaluate compliance in real-time, ensuring resources adhere to established policies from the moment they are created. This approach enhances control over resource management, providing consistency across cloud environments. With SNP’s guidance, organizations can effectively create, assign, and manage policies that align with their compliance requirements, simplifying compliance assessments and allowing for quick remediation of any non-compliant resources.

Azure Blueprints: With the expertise of SNP’s cloud architects, deploying and updating cloud environments becomes a more streamlined and consistent process. By using composable artifacts, SNP enables organizations to build modular, reusable components that can be configured for various deployments. This approach ensures that environments are deployed efficiently and updated seamlessly, which is especially valuable for maintaining agility and consistency in complex cloud architectures.

Cost Management: Cloud cost management is crucial for companies aiming to maximize the value of their cloud investments. With SNP's expertise in Azure cost management, clients gain the advantage of continuous monitoring, identifying opportunities to optimize resources, and ensuring their cloud expenses stay within budget. This proactive approach helps prevent unexpected cost overruns and enhances financial predictability for businesses moving away from high on-premises maintenance costs.

Resource Graph: Implementing Azure Resource Graph is a powerful way to gain visibility into cloud environments. With SNP's support, your organization can use Resource Graph to query, explore, and analyze cloud resources across multiple subscriptions at scale. This capability enables real-time insights into resource configurations, helps track inventory, and supports compliance and governance by providing a centralized view of all cloud assets. Using Resource Graph, SNP can help you answer key questions about your environment, such as identifying underutilized resources, ensuring compliance with resource tagging policies, or analyzing costs across departments.

Azure Hybrid Connectivity

Azure Hybrid Connectivity is a powerful way to unify on-premises and cloud environments, allowing for seamless integration of network, identity, application logic, and operations. SNP’s focus on establishing high availability and redundancy in these hybrid connections ensures that clients have a reliable and secure extension of their on-premises network to Azure. This setup supports consistent identity management, reduces downtime risks, and enables smoother application functionality across environments.

The Express Route: ExpressRoute is an excellent solution for enterprises seeking a secure, high-performance connection between on-premises networks and Azure. By leveraging a private, dedicated connection, SNP ensures data traffic remains isolated from the public internet, providing lower latency, greater reliability, and enhanced security. With SNP’s implementation of ExpressRoute, organizations can benefit from smoother data transfers, consistent connectivity, and robust hybrid infrastructure.

Virtual Private Network: Using Azure Stack multi-tenant VPN gateways for site-to-site VPN connections is an effective way to establish secure communication between on-premises environments and Azure. SNP's expertise in facilitating these connections ensures that data flows securely and efficiently, allowing organizations to extend their networks without compromising security. By leveraging marketplace appliances for site-to-site VPN setups, SNP can help clients achieve a seamless integration of their on-premises infrastructure with Azure, enhancing flexibility and operational continuity.

SD-WAN: Leveraging Azure Global Network enables organizations to create a seamless and efficient connectivity strategy across their global offices and remote locations. SNP’s deployment of software-defined connectivity simplifies branch connectivity, allowing for easy scalability and management through a unified portal. This approach enhances operational efficiency, enabling organizations to monitor and manage their interconnected virtual networks effectively, regardless of location.

Load Balancer: Built-in load balancing is essential for maintaining the performance and reliability of cloud applications and virtual machines. With SNP's expertise in implementing these solutions, organizations can quickly scale their applications to meet demand and ensure high availability across all services. This agility not only enhances user experience but also allows businesses to respond swiftly to changing workloads without the need for extensive reconfiguration.

Azure Unified Security Management

Azure Unified Security is a valuable asset for organizations looking to streamline their security management across both on-premises and cloud environments. By providing a centralized security management system, SNP can help clients maintain consistent security policies and responses, enhancing their overall security posture. This integration allows for better visibility and control over security events, facilitating more efficient monitoring and response strategies across all platforms.

Azure Security Center: Azure Unified Security's features, such as centralized policy management and integrated threat detection, empower organizations to create a robust security framework that spans both on-premises and cloud environments. By prioritizing alerts and incidents, SNP can help clients focus their response efforts where they are most needed, ensuring that potential threats are managed efficiently. The hybrid nature of this tool is particularly beneficial for organizations navigating complex security landscapes, as it allows for cohesive management of diverse environments.

Network Security: Network Security Groups (NSGs) play a critical role in securing Azure resources by allowing organizations to define specific rules for inbound and outbound traffic. By grouping related rules, SNP can help clients create a streamlined security framework that effectively manages network traffic based on their unique requirements. This approach not only enhances cloud defenses but also simplifies the management of security policies, making it easier to respond to incidents and maintain compliance.

Azure Network Watcher: The ability to monitor and diagnose network performance is essential for maintaining operational efficiency and ensuring a seamless user experience. By utilizing flow logs and security group views, SNP can provide organizations with valuable insights into their virtual machine networks, helping to identify potential issues before they escalate. Remote packet capture also enables a deeper analysis of network traffic, allowing for precise troubleshooting of connectivity problems, including those related to VPNs. This comprehensive approach to network monitoring not only enhances performance but also strengthens security postures.

WAF & WAS: The integration of a Web Application Firewall (WAF) is crucial for safeguarding web applications against a range of threats while maintaining seamless operation. By implementing WAF, SNP can help clients enhance their security posture without the need for extensive changes to their applications, minimizing disruption and enabling quicker deployment. WAF serves as a protective barrier, filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the internet. This proactive measure helps to thwart common attacks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other vulnerabilities that could compromise application integrity.

Azure Hybrid Identity

Implementing a common login system, often referred to as single sign-on (SSO), streamlines user access across an organization's infrastructure and applications. This approach not only enhances user experience by reducing the number of login credentials needed but also strengthens security by centralizing authentication. With SSO, organizations can enforce consistent security policies, simplify user management, and improve compliance with access control regulations. It also allows for better monitoring of user activity across systems, making it easier to identify potential security breaches.

Azure Active Directory Connect: Integrating on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) enables organizations to create a unified identity management solution that simplifies user access and enhances security. This integration allows for a seamless experience, where users can use the same credentials for both on-premises and cloud-based resources. By synchronizing user identities, organizations can ensure consistent access control, streamline user provisioning and deprovisioning, and enforce security policies across environments. This approach also facilitates hybrid cloud strategies, enabling businesses to transition smoothly to the cloud while retaining control over their existing infrastructure.

Domain Controllers on Azure: Providing high availability for on-premises Active Directory (AD) infrastructure is critical for ensuring that users can consistently authenticate and access necessary resources without interruption. This approach involves deploying multiple AD domain controllers across different locations or using failover mechanisms to ensure redundancy. Key benefits of high availability in AD infrastructure include: Minimized downtime, load balancing, disaster recovery, scalability, improved performance, managed domains, federation on Azure with ADFS for high availability, Azure Active Directory Seamless single sign-on.

Azure Arc

Azure Arc is indeed a powerful solution for organizations looking to unify their application development and management processes across diverse environments. By providing a consistent model for development, operations, and security, Azure Arc helps ensure that applications can be deployed seamlessly regardless of where they reside—whether on-premises, at the edge, or in other cloud environments. This flexibility is essential for businesses aiming to modernize their IT infrastructure while maintaining control and security.

Our Approach

Assess and Plan

Set team objectives
Establish technology matrix
Fix security and compliance goals
Consolidate resources or application
Cloud-readiness assessment

Design and develop

Design Azure reference architecture
Recommend cloud solution architecture
Azure resource mapping
Install third-party tools
Scale your cloud using templates

Migration and Solution

Test your application in the Azure setting
Migrate based on resource/app prioritization
Fix a migration strategy and roadmap
Knowledge transfer, training, and handoff
Larger applications are migrated to the cloud iteratively

Business Benefits of SNP’s Hybrid Cloud Framework

Build Affordable Solutions on the Hybrid Platform

By leveraging Azure's comprehensive cloud capabilities, organizations can achieve a truly consistent experience across their hybrid cloud environments. This approach not only simplifies management but also mitigates risks associated with operating in both on-premises and cloud settings. With Azure, businesses can build and deploy applications continuously, ensuring they can respond to market changes swiftly. Additionally, seamless data management and enabling anywhere access through Single Sign-On (SSO) empower users while maintaining robust security. The integrated security and management features of Azure ensure that organizations can enforce policies, monitor performance, and maintain compliance across their entire infrastructure. This cohesive strategy enhances operational efficiency and drives innovation, allowing enterprises to focus on delivering value to their customers.

Develop Modern Applications Across Hybrid Environments

Azure Stack empowers organizations to harness the robust capabilities of Azure within their own data centers, providing a consistent hybrid cloud experience. By running Azure services on-premises, businesses can build, test, and deploy applications seamlessly across their hybrid environments, ensuring that they can leverage the same tools and processes regardless of where their workloads reside. This capability is particularly advantageous for organizations with specific latency and connectivity requirements, such as edge computing scenarios or those needing to operate in disconnected environments. With Azure Stack, developers can create applications once and deploy them either in Azure or on-premises, offering flexibility to meet regulatory or policy requirements. This not only enhances operational efficiency but also supports compliance with local data residency laws, ensuring that sensitive information remains secure and accessible.

Unify your DevOps

Leveraging Azure DevOps to unify development processes across on-premises and cloud environments can significantly enhance your organization's ability to deliver high-quality software efficiently. By implementing Azure DevOps in a hybrid cloud environment, organizations can realize substantial benefits in their software development lifecycle. This unified approach not only enhances collaboration and quality but also enables teams to be more responsive and agile in meeting business demands. If your organization is looking to optimize its development practices and leverage the full potential of Azure DevOps, SNP can provide tailored guidance and support throughout the implementation process.

One Identity, Access Anywhere

By integrating your on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory, organizations can establish a unified identity and access management strategy that spans both local and cloud environments. This integration allows for a more cohesive approach to security, user management, and resource access across the entire hybrid infrastructure. Key benefits of connecting your on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory include: Single Sign-On (SSO): Users can enjoy a seamless authentication experience, accessing both on-premises and cloud applications with a single set of credentials. This not only simplifies the user experience but also reduces password fatigue and the associated security risks. Enhanced Security: With Azure Active Directory’s cloud-based security features, organizations can implement conditional access policies, allowing them to enforce security requirements based on user location, device status, and risk level. This provides an additional layer of protection against unauthorized access while ensuring legitimate users can work without hindrance. Identity Protection: Azure Active Directory offers built-in identity protection mechanisms, including risk detection and automated responses to suspicious activities. Organizations can proactively address potential security threats and respond effectively to identity-related risks. Consistent User Experience: Users benefit from a consistent identity experience across applications, whether hosted on-premises or in the cloud. This consistency helps improve productivity and user satisfaction. Streamlined Administration: IT administrators can manage user identities and access permissions from a central platform, simplifying the administration of user accounts, group memberships, and security policies. Compliance and Reporting: Organizations can leverage Azure AD’s compliance features to help meet regulatory requirements, including reporting on user access and activity across both environments. By implementing a hybrid identity strategy with Azure Active Directory, organizations can enhance their security posture while maintaining a smooth user experience.

Seamlessly Distribute, Manage and Analyze Data

With Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, organizations can effortlessly manage their data and analytics across both on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring consistency regardless of the underlying database management system (DBMS) in use, whether it’s SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or NoSQL. Key Benefits of Using Azure SQL Database Managed Instance: Seamless Migration: Easily transition SQL workloads to and from the cloud without requiring code changes. This flexibility allows organizations to leverage cloud benefits while maintaining existing on-premises applications. Compatibility: Azure SQL Database Managed Instance provides a high degree of compatibility with SQL Server, enabling organizations to migrate applications with minimal changes. This is especially beneficial for those looking to modernize their data infrastructure without overhauling their existing applications. Integration with Azure Services: Leverage Azure services such as Azure Data Factory for cloud-based analytics and data integration. This allows organizations to implement new analytics scenarios while keeping their data securely stored in on-premises environments. Scalability: Easily scale resources up or down based on your needs. The managed instance allows for flexible provisioning, helping organizations handle fluctuating workloads and optimize costs. Consistent Data Management: Manage data consistently across environments, whether it’s on-premises or in the cloud. This unified approach simplifies data governance, compliance, and reporting. Enhanced Security and Compliance: Benefit from Azure’s built-in security features, including advanced threat protection, encryption, and compliance with regulatory standards. This helps organizations safeguard sensitive data while meeting compliance requirements. Disaster Recovery and High Availability: Implement robust disaster recovery solutions and high availability options with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, ensuring business continuity and data protection. By utilizing Azure SQL Database Managed Instance along with Azure Data Factory, organizations can create a powerful hybrid data strategy that maximizes their existing investments while embracing the flexibility and scalability of cloud solutions.

Integrate Security and Management

To effectively monitor, secure, and manage your hybrid cloud environment, leveraging Azure’s robust built-in security and management capabilities is essential. By utilizing Azure Security Center and Azure Monitor, organizations can achieve a strong security posture and effectively manage their hybrid cloud environments. By utilizing Azure Security Center and Azure Monitor, organizations can significantly enhance their ability to monitor, secure, and manage hybrid cloud environments. This comprehensive approach not only improves security and compliance but also enables proactive monitoring and resource optimization, empowering organizations to operate efficiently and securely in the cloud. Let SNP help you leverage these powerful tools to maximize your cloud investment and ensure your data and applications are protected.

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Use Cases

Application Modernization with Azure Kubernetes Service for a Medical Equipment Company

Application Modernization with Managed Kubernetes on Azure for a Technology Company

Azure Arc Enabled for Hybrid Cloud Management for a Biopharmaceutical Company

Compliance Automation with Azure Arc for a Leading Pharmaceutical Company

Container Orchestration & SQL Server Integration with AKS for an Insurance Provider

Data Warehouse & Analytics Implementation with Azure SQL Solution for a Healthcare Company

Datacenter Modernization with Hybrid Cloud Adoption Framework for a Healthcare Provider

Enterprise Security Framework with Azure Arc Based Compliance for an Insurance Provider

High Availability Deployment of ADFS Infrastructure with Hybrid Connectivity & DMZ Setup for a Non-profit Tech Company

Hybrid Cloud Framework with Disaster Recovery on Microsoft Azure for a Real-Estate Company

Managed Azure Data & Infrastructure Operations for a Sports Equipment Provider

Managed Azure Infrastructure Operations with Azure Monitoring for a Manufacturing Company

Managed Data Center Services with Microsoft Azure for an Inventory Management Company

Managed DR & Backup Operations with Microsoft Azure for a Law Firm

Migrating Hyper V servers to Microsoft Azure for a Leading Real Estate Provider

Migrating VMWare Infrastructure to Microsoft Azure for a Leading Architecture Firm

Multinational Medical Products Supplier Turned Around Their Legacy System with Azure Databricks

Online Travel Agency Significantly Improves Real-time Business Intelligence with Azure Analytics Solution

Operationalizing Machine Learning for a Water Plant using Microsoft Azure

Azure Arc Simplifies Governance and Management across Hybrid and Multi-cloud Environments for a Non-profit Organization

Post-acute Service Provider Modernizes their Data Warehouse using Microsoft Azure

SNP Delivers Graphic Intensive Solutions on Citrix Cloud & Microsoft Azure for a Leading Architecture Firm

SNP Helps a Leading Law Firm Implement Disaster Recovery Solution and Azure Best Practices

Digital Conversion Company Accelerates Their Global Expansion with Microsoft Azure

SNP Implements Azure Security Center for a Leading MNC for Unified Security Management and Threat Protection Across Workloads Located On-premises

SNP Migrates a Leading Law Firm to Azure, Leading to a Hike in Customer Satisfaction Rate

Azure Arc Simplifies Unified Management for a Leading Manufacturing Company

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What Our Clients Say

At our organization, we prioritize continuous modernization of our app development and hosting to accelerate our workflow and keep IT costs under control. Azure cloud has been central to these efforts, and our relationship with SNP has been crucial to our success with the platform. SNP has been instrumental in guiding us through critical migration decisions, helping us efficiently roll out our applications on Azure. Through their expertise, we learned that Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) was the optimal hosting solution for our open-source apps. Additionally, SNP helped us automate deployments with Azure DevOps and set up robust monitoring for health and performance feedback, ensuring our apps run smoothly and efficiently. Having an expert Microsoft partner like SNP on our team has been a significant advantage. Their guidance helped us reach our goals faster, with high-quality results and cost savings along the way.

Director of IT for a Leading Healthcare Provider

SNP has proven to be a true partner in our migration to Azure. They not only understood our applications and environments but also grasped the challenges we faced. Through their expertise, SNP is helping us innovate on Azure in new and creative ways. They’ve gone beyond being a service provider – SNP has truly become OUR partner in this journey.

Senior VP of a Leading Online Service Provider

SNP went above and beyond by taking the time to sit down with me and develop a comprehensive long-term plan, utilizing the latest technology. They helped us determine the best way to leverage this technology to meet the specific needs of our application. It’s rare to find a partner who is willing to go that extra mile to truly understand our operations and ensure the technology is perfectly aligned with our business goals. Their dedication to understanding our unique challenges and providing tailored solutions has been invaluable. We deeply appreciate SNP’s commitment to our success and look forward to continuing this strong partnership.

Director of Global Technology of a Leading Discreet Manufacturing Company

SNP has been an invaluable asset in transitioning our digital signage application from locally hosted servers to Microsoft Azure. Their team possesses both the breadth and depth of expertise in Azure and its many offerings, ensuring a seamless migration.

Technology Director of a Leading Medical School

SNP was brought in to take over an ongoing project and had to act quickly to keep it on track. They proved to have an efficient and responsive technical team, along with excellent project management, ensuring the project stayed on schedule. I highly recommend their services.

Sr. System Analyst of a Leading Retail Company

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to SNP for their invaluable assistance in establishing our Cloud Data Platform on Microsoft Azure. SNP’s professionalism, combined with their deep expertise in Azure technologies, has been critical in helping us implement the platform as planned and within a short timeframe. Our collaboration with SNP was seamless, and the project was executed efficiently from start to finish. One of the key elements of this partnership was SNP’s willingness to share their extensive knowledge with our team, ensuring that our associates gained a deeper understanding of the platform and its capabilities. As a result, our cloud data platform is now robust, scalable, and fully aligned with our business objectives, thanks to the collaborative efforts and dedication of the SNP team. We are grateful for their ongoing support and look forward to continuing this successful partnership.

AGM – Application Development

From the outset, SNP approached our meetings with concrete solutions rather than just suggestions. The team’s deep experience and unwavering drive for success were immediately apparent. As we progressed, our confidence in SNP as a trusted partner only grew stronger. Working closely together during both regular business hours and weekends, SNP seamlessly became an extension of our IT team. We tackled challenges, celebrated successes, and worked toward a common goal. The result of our collaboration is a highly organized and smoothly running Azure IaaS environment. This solution has not only provided us with a reliable and secure platform for hosting virtual machines, but also unlocked new platform features that were previously unavailable in our on-premises IT model. We look forward to future projects with the SNP team, particularly as we explore opportunities in data analysis and AI.

Director of IT Infrastructure

Since SNP assisted us with several SQL-related projects, we’ve built a strong and enduring partnership. Our collaboration has truly been a team effort, with both teams working together day and night, including weekends. Through this partnership, we’ve established a foundation of trust and excellence that has been key to our success. In 2022, SNP played a pivotal role in migrating our on-premises data center to Azure, which involved server workloads, over 70 applications, and their interdependencies. Not only did SNP handle the technical challenges, but they also implemented best practices in networking, security, identity, and governance. This migration extended well into 2023, and throughout the process, SNP displayed an unmatched level of commitment, frequently taking calls at early and late hours to address the high priority of this engagement. As a result of this successful partnership, we are now working with SNP to assess and modernize our data warehouse environment with Microsoft Fabric. Furthermore, SNP is currently involved in several Generative AI projects with us, aimed at enhancing business efficiency and leveraging innovation to meet our mission objectives. Looking ahead, we are excited to continue our collaboration with SNP for many years to come.

VP of Technology Solutions & Architecture

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to both Microsoft and SNP for their invaluable assistance and expertise, which were pivotal in making our Azure migration a resounding success. Thanks to their efforts, we’ve achieved performance from our Azure servers that mirrors our previous on-premises infrastructure, with no notable deficiencies. Moreover, the pricing estimates provided by Microsoft prior to migration were accurate and aligned perfectly with our expectations. This level of precision and support has been crucial to the success of our migration. We are truly grateful for our continued partnership with both Microsoft and SNP, and we look forward to building on this success in the future.

VP of Information Systems

Frequently Asked Questions

Most cloud computing services fall into four broad categories: infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), serverless, and software as a service (SaaS). These are sometimes called the cloud computing “stack” because they build on top of one another.

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services using a network of remote servers hosted on the internet to store, manage, and analyze data.

A hybrid cloud is a type of cloud computing that combines on-premises infrastructure—or a private cloud—with a public cloud. Hybrid clouds allow data and apps to move between the two environments.