Cloud, Strategy, Deployment and Migration
Strategy and advisory, delivery and support across cloud migration, application transformation and adopting cloud first, or hybrid models. Enabling cloud services across IAAS, PAAS and SAAS for digital change.
Features
- Strategy, advisory, delivery and support across cloud migration, application transformation
- Adopting cloud first, or hybrid models.
- Enabling cloud services IAAS, PAAS , SAAS for digital change
Benefits
- An agile and flexible service, T&M, fixed-price, work package, SoW.
- Delivered by experienced professionals with understanding complexities within cloud environments.
- Our resources hold security clearance (SC and DV).
Pricing
£295 to £1,500 a unit a day
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
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Contact
NASH SQUARED LIMITED
Richard Turner
Telephone: 0207 333 0033
Email: bids@nashsquared.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Through the provision of suitably qualified Cloud Solution personnel to work with the customer to understand the business requirements and plan the most suitable migration strategy to move them to the Cloud. Typical personnel would include Solutions Architects, Business Analysts, Technical Architects etc. who would produce a migration plan in line with customer business requirements
- Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- Nash Squared's NextGen programme provides a structured training path for candidates across all backgrounds, whether they are in their early careers, career changers, or wanting to re-skill in a new discipline. We provide the training and support over a structured 16-week programme and then deploy the candidates to our clients to support their projects and programmes with the option to permanently embed them into their team at the end of the programme.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- Provision of suitably qualified technical architects to carry out initial creation of cloud services infrastructure, understanding of application migration requirements, identification of alternative cloud applications where applicable. Deployment of such applications both new and legacy into the new cloud infrastructure and subsequent data migration.
- 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
- Through the provision of suitably qualified personnel to produce customer test plans and schedules, manage and perform initial systems testing, including functional testing and oversight of user testing. Further supported by the production of final test reports, acceptance testing and certification.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Certified security testers
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- The Service Desk is the central point of contact for users who require assistance. The function of the Service Desk is to record the calls and direct the enquiry to a suitable department / individual who will respond or rectify the issue within the timeframes established within the Service Desk SLA. Additionally the Service Desk will provide detailed reporting pertaining to the types of calls, volumes, time to respond etc.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
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
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Nash Squared is dedicated to combating climate change and publishes an annual Sustainability Report detailing our objectives and strategy for the year. We aim to achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2050, with a target of 2041 for Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and have outlined our approach in a published Carbon Neutral Plan.
By moving to cloud servers we have reduced our IT energy usage. The move to cloud hosting is being completed across all regions in 2022. Printing has been dramatically reduced and is actively discouraged where appropriate. We are optimising the operation of building cooling and heating systems and introducing low energy lighting wherever appropriate and feasible. In most of our offices we have moved to a majority of energy-saving LED light fittings. This will be expanded further in 2022. Our Belgian offices have solar panels for electricity production, reducing the use of electricity generated from coal-fired power stations. We will be moving towards renewables in other parts of the Group in 2022 and beyond. Used IT equipment is disposed of responsibly using suppliers that operate according to our Supplier Code of Conduct. IT equipment is also donated to charities where possible.
Examples of initiatives we can support or run-in collaboration with clients include:
• Volunteering Days: Nash Squared can commit to volunteering days at regular intervals throughout the service period to raise awareness of environmental impact across Manchester communities, including taking part in community conservation days to improve local biodiversity.
• Green Space Development: Nash Squared will commit to maintaining and enhancing green spaces to support biodiversity and health and wellbeing across local client communities. Our teams can support green space maintenance and development including donating trees or plants to enhance communal green spaces within underprivileged areas, or general maintenance of these areas.Covid-19 recovery
Nash Squared operates throughout the UK, with offices in nine towns and cities. Our regional branches are dedicated to engaging with their local communities to bolster SMEs and established businesses within a circular economy. We collaborate closely with our clients to create Social Value plans that enhance their local economies as an integral component of the programs we implement.
To support Covid-19 recovery, Nash Squared delivers career advice/workshops to employment agencies, colleges and community partners aimed at decreasing long-term unemployment (which rose to 13% amongst youths during 2020). We attend career-fairs and promote employment/training schemes (including live careers events) to enhance understanding of the employment market. We help people develop LinkedIn profiles through 1:1 coaching/mentoring. We encourage support for and participation in local and national outreach and skills development events - partnering with schools, colleges, community partners and prisons to provide advice on Tech careers. We will consult with clients to advise on events we can deliver, as well as opportunities for individuals across all demographics to upskill or retrain to support focused career mobility as part of a future talent pipeline.Tackling economic inequality
Nash Squared ardently supports the Public Sector Levelling Up agenda and actively engages with communities to offer opportunities to individuals from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds. Our expansive network champions minority groups by promoting women in technology and advancing female leadership, as well as supporting the BAME community. In collaboration with our clients, we establish programs that bolster their ED&I goals and develop targeted approaches to facilitate these objectives.
Nash Squared is partnered with Working Links Justice, School of Hard Knocks, EvenBreak, BERA Race, Ethnicity & Equality Network, and The Race Ratio (to name just a few), demonstrating that social value, fair and equal access to opportunity and professional ethics are at the heart of our organisation.
Examples of initiatives we have delivered include mentoring days (Working Links Justice) and CV workshops and presentations through EvenBreak and School of Hard Knocks. Our consultants aim to instil confidence in individuals returning to work and will engage with Clients to agree the most appropriate initiatives and community partners to support employability.Equal opportunity
Nash Squared takes pride in being an equal opportunity employer. We are a certified Disability Confident employer with a robust Equal Opportunities policy, dedicated to supporting individuals who are differently-abled or need flexible working arrangements, such as mothers returning to work.
Nash Squared has been delivering Tech Talk Podcasts to a targeted Technology and IT audience since 2008, regularly featuring in iTunes Top 20 charts. Leveraging podcast capability, we provide regular releases of Diversity and Equality Toolkits - a series of podcasts with chairman, CEOs and directors sharing their tips and success secrets on driving diversity and inclusion in their businesses. This provides opportunity for viewers to develop an understanding of shaping culture, the importance of tenacity, learning from mistakes, passion, compassion and, even, courage. Businesses of all shapes, sizes and sectors can take ideas, guidance, and inspiration from these stories as they set out on their own narrative of discovery. The toolkit forms part of internal initiative Inspire's, 'Simple Acts' campaign to change the way the UK does business. Tech Talks podcasts can be leveraged to support increased equality and awareness for clients and their teams, as well as local SMEs, MSMEs and VCSEs.Wellbeing
A happy workforce is a productive workforce. Following the pandemic, we have seen a massive increase in the need to ensure talent, both temporary and permanent, achieve work / life balance, reduce burnout and improve retention. We support mental wellness across our global business, offering clients and candidates access to Nash Squared’s Wellness Hub - a digital toolkit which promotes personal and professional development, access to training and upskilling advice, resources and opportunities, advice on managing stress and increasing personal and professional wellness, interactive sessions with wellness and fitness gurus and meditation and nutrition advice. The Wellbeing hub is accessible not only to our employees and their families but also to our contractors, candidates, and customers.
Pricing
- Price
- £295 to £1,500 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No