Partnerships with Devoteam and Almond Collaboration with consulting partners has been invaluable for Rexel , providing diverse perspectives , skilled resources and flexibility . Devoteam supported Rexel ’ s early cloud journey , continuing into more mature phases , while Almond has bridged on-premises infrastructure with the cloud , ensuring robust security and connectivity solutions .
“ Almond has been instrumental in supporting us with network and peripheral elements , essentially bridging our on-premise infrastructure with the cloud ,” Sutton says . “ They play a crucial role in ensuring the development of appropriate security measures and connectivity solutions .”
Demircigil , meanwhile , highlights Devoteam ’ s vital analysis and architecture role in understanding application needs
and requirements before recommending cloud adoption . “ One of the big things we ask Devoteam is to analyse and create a business case – is this what we truly need and does it make sense ?
“ We also ask those cloud-centric people whether we sometimes need to go to the cloud at all . We don ’ t have a cloud-only strategy . So we need people to understand the cost of a VM in the cloud versus a data centre . Do we need the cloud ’ s elasticity for this project ? It ’ s a real analysis of the use case – what will the application do , what features could use Platform as a Service instead of Infrastructure as a Service ? It ’ s about changing mindsets .
“ We want Devoteam to bring that analysis , architecture and pattern creation , which will facilitate our business transforming to the cloud where it makes sense .”
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