Cloud, Infrastructure & Continuity
John Drake & Associates designs, hosts, manages, and supports private cloud, public cloud, hybrid infrastructure, servers, networking, and recovery planning around the way your organization actually operates.
Cloud hosting
Cloud management
Environment support
Backup + continuity
A practical environment model for the way the business operates.
Infrastructure decisions should improve reliability, support recovery, and give business leaders and internal IT teams a practical environment they can manage effectively.
Private cloud hosting
JDA private cloud hosting available as a focused hosting relationship or as part of a broader managed or co-managed IT environment.
Public cloud management
Administration, support, and ongoing management for public cloud services and technology environments.
Hybrid environments
Practical coordination across onsite infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud based on the needs of your organization.
Servers, networking & connectivity
Design, manage, and support business networking environments, including Cisco and Cisco Meraki technologies, to keep users, applications, and critical systems connected.
Backup & disaster recovery
Backup and recovery planning focused on restoring essential systems and reducing disruption when problems occur.
Continuity planning
Identify critical systems, operational dependencies, and recovery priorities before a technology disruption affects the business.
Put each workload where it makes the most operational sense.
Fit the workload
Select the appropriate environment based on application requirements, security, performance, accessibility, and business needs.
Design recovery in
Incorporate backup requirements, recovery priorities, and operational continuity into the infrastructure before a disruption occurs.
Keep the environment manageable
Coordinate ownership, monitoring, connectivity, and support across platforms while keeping internal IT teams involved where appropriate.
Consider lifecycle economics
Evaluate infrastructure decisions based on supportability, useful life, operational risk, and long-term value—not simply the initial purchase price.
Design for the environment you will actually have to run.
Inventory
Understand workloads, dependencies, constraints, recovery objectives and the current technical estate.
Design
Choose an architecture that balances resilience, manageability, performance and cost.
Transition
Migrate or implement with attention to sequencing, testing and business disruption.
Operate
Monitor, maintain, document and revisit the design as workloads and requirements change.
Infrastructure decisions should simplify recovery, not complicate it.
Executives need confidence that critical operations can continue. IT leaders need an architecture they can understand, manage, recover and evolve without hidden dependencies.
Servers and networks
Hosted infrastructure
Managed cloud services
Backup and continuity
Planning a cloud, infrastructure or continuity decision?
We can start with the workloads, recovery requirements and operating constraints before deciding where anything should live.