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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

Pricing

£400 to £800 a unit a day

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

2 7 2 7 4 7 6 0 9 9 0 1 5 6 7

Contact

INOV8 CONSULTING LTD. Calum Mather
Telephone: 07342742605
Email: 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

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.