Azure Virtual Desktop Consultancy Services
Xtravirt provides consultancy and professional services covering Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Services cover the entire customer lifecycle including strategy, architecture, solution design, build, transition and early life support. In BAU, services include health checks, cost optimisation, managed services, maintenance, upgrades and problem management
Features
- Certified architects and consultants
- Best practice recommendations
- Target operating model, skills assessment and operational transformation
- Encompasses System design, delivery, adoption through to benefit recognition
- Embedded risk management
- Fixed price and SFIA-based day rate engagements
- Phase-based delivery methodology
- Early Life Support
- Flexibility to integrate with customer functions
Benefits
- Solutions aligned to vendor and industry best practice
- Early life support accelerates time to value
- Managed transition can include technology, processes and operating model
- Flexibility to adopt standardised solutions or meet custom requirements
- Workshop approach ensures full stakeholder and customer engagement
- Technical and operational risks managed through build and into transtion
- Managed service mitigates risk during initial adoption
- Repeatable IP reduces cost and underpins success
Pricing
£500 to £1,500 a unit a day
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
8 9 9 1 1 8 1 8 2 4 1 0 4 5 6
Contact
XTRAVIRT LIMITED
Tash Benford
Telephone: 08004880038
Email: accounts@xtravirt.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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Xtravirt works with customers to define an end to end plan covering all elements from the gathering of business requirements through the the implementation and transition to a fit for purpose target operating model structured to achieve the required return on investment.
Assessing both the technical requirements and the skills necessary for success, plans look beyond installation to include rollout and adoption avoiding the pitfalls of a state of the art solution failing due to lack of effective use. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- Xtravirt offers skills assessment, knowledge transfer and targeted training for complex Cloud and Hybrid Cloud platforms and services. Transition Management is also offered to support the onboarding and integration of new customers
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- With comprehensive assessment, planning and migration services, Xtravirt works with buyers and their IT organisations to define and deliver the most effective solution to transition to the target state. Through a wide range of tools and approaches covering technical and organisational readiness, workload assessment and business impact (both value and risk based), the program team is able to recommend paths which provide the highest certainty of success. With the flexibility to deliver on behalf of, or in partnership with the customer or to just provide program support and methodology, Xtravirt ensures the customer remains in control of migration outcomes
- 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
- Xtravirt offers quality assurance services for the technical infrastructure and integration components of cloud platforms and services alongside options for Early Life Support and Managed Services to ensure the availability and performance of newly delivered solutions. Risk assessment and compliance services support customers in evidencing the effectiveness of operational controls and carried operational risk, supporting prioritisation, maintenance and regular audit and governance reporting
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Security incident management
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
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- 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
- Xtravirt offers Early Life Support and flexible Managed Services up to full 24x7 Operational Management. The integrate to existing customer capability providing a cohesive and robust capability for the support and/or operation of Cloud Services across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud platforms and eco-systems. Supported vendors include VMware, AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- P1 response SLA starts from 15 mins. Weekend and OOH support depends on level of support and coverage purchased with managed services starting at Monday-Friday 9-5 up to full 24x7
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Xtravirt provides a modular set of Managed Service options offering coverage either Monday-Friday 9am-5pm or 24x7. Please review the Pricing and Service Definition documents for further information on service components and SLAs
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- VMware, AWS, Google, Microsoft, VEEAM, Zerto, Runecast
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- QMS
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 11/02/2023
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- None - the certification covers Xtravirt as a complete business
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
Fighting climate changeFighting climate change
Xtravirt is already self-certified net-zero and is committed to be independently verified by the end of 2025. With a head office located in a facility operating on green energy and a flexible working approach which minimises pollution from commuting we examine all aspects of our business model against climate change best practice and support supply-chain reporting for our customers and partners.
Our services support customer climate change initiatives with carbon impact calculations and optimisation strategies available for the majority of standardised solutions
Pricing
- Price
- £500 to £1,500 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No