INOV8 CONSULTING LTD.

Inov8 Consulting

Our Cloud and Data support service offers comprehensive assistance for designing, managing, securing, and optimising your cloud platforms. With expert guidance, troubleshooting, and proactive monitoring, we ensure your platform and data stays accessible, protected, and efficient, empowering your organisation with reliable cloud-based data solutions.

Features

• Cloud Architecture
• Security Design and Review
• Data Warehousing & Analytics
• Service Selection Review and Recommendations
• Cloud Cost Optimisation
• Managed Cloud Services
• Data and Cloud Training
• Design, Develop and Maintain Data Infrastructure
• Project Management - Cloud and Data
• Cloud Architecture Framework Reviews

Benefits

• Improves operational costs and maximises value
• Our technology agnostic approach delivers the best solution for you
• Helps clients achieve their goals without overspending
• Value-driven customer approach delivers best value
• Provides scalable and sustainable cloud solutions aligned to your needs
• Security first approach ensures data security and compliance
• Streamlines data accessibility across your organisation
• Gains deeper data insights with advanced analytics
• Equips your teams with the skills needed through tailored training
• Proactive monitoring and support ensures reliable operations

£400 to £800 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at enquiries@inov8consulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

272747609901567

Contact

Calum Mather
07342742605
enquiries@inov8consulting.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: We help clients manage data more effectively and offer expert support on cloud solutions - assessing existing infrastructure, implementing refinements and tailoring each aspect for our clients.; ; Fail to plan, plan to fail? We think so.; ; When assisting buyers in planning the implementation of cloud hosting or software services, we ensure a comprehensive understanding of their specific needs and objectives. By engaging in active listening and asking pertinent questions, we gather crucial information about their current infrastructure, scalability requirements, security concerns, and budget constraints. With this information, we collaborate with them to develop a tailored implementation roadmap.; ; Firstly, we guide them in selecting the most suitable cloud hosting or software service provider based on factors like security, reliability, performance, and compatibility with their existing systems. Then, we help outline a step-by-step plan for deployment, migration, and integration, considering factors such as data migration strategies, downtime minimization, and user training.; ; Throughout the planning process, we emphasize the importance of security, scalability and flexibility to accommodate future growth and evolving business needs. Additionally, we provide insights into best practices for optimising performance, ensuring data security, and managing costs effectively within the chosen cloud environment.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: We provide a range of courses designed to quickly build up users knowledge and understanding of data and cloud; concepts, services, technologies and processes.; ; For cloud, participants learn to utilise platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud to deploy, manage, and scale applications. This training covers concepts such as virtualization, containers, serverless computing, and networking in the cloud environment, along with best practices for security, compliance, and cost optimization.; ; For data, participants will learn a broad range of skills that will allow them to provision ingest and process data, analyse and present data and deploy data pipelines in the Cloud.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Understand the buyer's current infrastructure, applications, and data. Assess their needs, goals, and constraints. Develop a migration strategy tailored to requirements, including selecting the appropriate cloud services and architecture.; ; Determine which data needs to be migrated to the cloud and devise a plan for transferring it securely. This may involve bulk data transfer, incremental synchronisation, or streaming data migration.; ; Evaluate the buyer's applications and identify those suitable for migration to the cloud. Determine the best approach for migration, ensuring performance, and scalability in the new cloud environment.; ; Migrate infrastructure components such as servers, storage, and networking to the cloud. This may involve virtualisation, containerisation, or adopting cloud-native services for compute, storage, and networking requirements.; ; Conduct thorough testing to ensure that migrated applications and data function in the cloud environment. Validate performance, security, and compliance requirements.; ; Provide training and support to help buyer's teams adapt to the new cloud environment and workflows. Offer ongoing support to address any issues or challenges encountered during and after the migration process.; ; Continuously monitor and optimise the cloud infrastructure and services to ensure cost-effectiveness, performance, and security.; ; Throughout the migration process, clear communication, collaboration, and coordination between the buyer and the migration team are essential.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: We will assist buyers in articulating their specific requirements for QA and performance testing. This involves determining the performance metrics they need to measure, such as response time, throughput, scalability, and reliability.; ; We can recommend tools based on the buyer's requirements, budget, and technical expertise.; ; We will guide buyers in designing comprehensive test scenarios that cover different aspects of their cloud hosting environment, such as load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, and scalability testing. These scenarios should simulate real-world usage patterns and potential peak loads.; ; We will explain how to execute tests effectively, considering factors like the number of virtual users, test duration, and resource utilization. Additionally, we can advise on how to monitor the cloud infrastructure during testing to identify any bottlenecks or performance issues.; ; After tests are completed, We will help buyers interpret the results and identify any performance bottlenecks or areas for improvement. This involves analysing metrics such as response times, error rates, throughput, and resource utilization.; ; QA and performance testing should be an iterative process. We will guide buyers on how to incorporate feedback from test results into their cloud hosting environment to continuously optimise performance and reliability.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security audit services
• Certified security testers: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Buyer hosting or software
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: We facilitate cloud hosting and software services contracts by providing robust support throughout the life of the hosting.; ; We continuously monitor and optimise the cloud infrastructure and services to ensure cost-effectiveness, performance, and security. We also implement cost management strategies such as rightsizing resources, leveraging reserved instances, and utilising auto-scaling capabilities.

Service scope

• Service constraints: Our service is offered on a remote first basis, but with the appropriate planning, this can be extended to be on-site or near-site, if required.; ; We will recommend using open standards and agnostic solutions to maintain flexibility and avoid being tied to a specific vendor.; ; We will manage resource utilisation and capacity planning to optimise costs and performance. This may involve using a pool of consultants, rather than named resource, with the appropriate handovers as required.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: We will endeavour to respond to support tickets within 24 hours on weekdays, but this would be extended to 48 hours at weekends.; ; These times can be reduced with prior agreement for particular events or requirements.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: No
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Basic Support:; 24/7 email support for general inquiries and basic troubleshooting.; Standard response time of 24 hours for non-urgent issues.; ; Standard Support:; 24/7 email and phone support for technical issues and inquiries.; Guaranteed response time of 8 hours for critical issues.; Assistance with setup, configuration, and basic optimization.; ; Advanced Support:; Dedicated account manager for personalised assistance and consultation.; 24/7 priority email, phone, and live chat support.; Guaranteed response time of 2 hour for critical issues.; Proactive monitoring and alerts for potential issues.; Assistance with performance tuning and scalability planning.; Quarterly reviews and recommendations for optimisation.; Training sessions for client teams on best practices and advanced features.; ; These support levels can be tailored further based on the specific services and the needs of their clients. Additionally, pricing for each level would vary depending on the level of support and resources provided.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: None

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  We have a remote first policy for working to reduce unnecessary travel to and from an office or place of work. We encourage our employees to use public transport by covering these costs. The office we selected we done so based on proximity to employees and due to the sustainability and environmental credentials of the building and it's owners.

  Equal opportunity

  The digital sector can often be dominated by males, so we are actively providing opportunities to a more diverse population through our graduate training programme. Our recruitment through this programme has seen 71% of those employed being female.; ; We have a remote first policy which allows disabled workers to work in an environment that is suitable for them. It is also important to provide an office working environment, which we do in a modern office building where we are situated on the ground floor with easy access to transportation and amenities.

  Wellbeing

  Our staff are all engaged in our private medical care, and are actively reminded of it being there to support mental wellbeing. There have been occasions where mental wellbeing has been an issue and these have been treated with the care and kindness that the person has needed, even when these conflict with the profitability of the business.

Pricing

• Price: £400 to £800 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at enquiries@inov8consulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.