Company85 LTD
Software Defined Network (SDN) DC or Private Cloud QuickStart
The SDN QuickStart will show you how a Software Defined Network in the Cloud and/or Data Centre can benefit your business. Focused on technology, people and processes, it will analyse your needs and determine which is the best SDN technology to match your goals and align with your strategy.
Features
- Review DC infrastructure, cloud usage, applications, people and processes
- Evaluate your environment, existing technologies, your pain-points and your priorities.
- Recommendations with clear next-steps to SDN aligned with business objectives
- Detailed SDN planning and implementation or migration
- Optional: Target State Architecture
- Optional: Solution Design
- Optional: Migration Strategy
- Optional: Future state solution ROM costs
Benefits
- Reduced acquisition costs for hardware, software and support
- Reduced enterprise operational expenditures in managing/operating the WAN
- Faster provisioning due to simplified configuration/orchestration/zero-touch-provisioning (ZTP)
- Improved branch network availability due to simplified and less-brittle configurations
- Carrier savings from implementing hybrid WANs
Pricing
£600 to £1,600 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
9 5 3 1 2 6 0 8 8 7 8 4 9 7 2
Contact
Company85 LTD
Carina Stanford-Hotson
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7965 0000
Email: PurpleUKGovSales@team.telstra.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Company85's (part of Telstra Purple) 4D Methodology - 1 Discover More, 2 Define More, 3 Deliver More, 4 Drive More - underpins all of our engagements, and provides predictable, repeatable outcomes for IT change. Step 1: Snapshot (Discover more) Undertake a rapid assessment to assess feasibility, outline potential outcomes and benefits to the organisation and define the scope of the future solution. Step 2: Strategic Blueprint (Define more). Provide strategic insight and accelerate decision making. Undertake detailed requirements capture or gap analysis. Create the roadmap or blueprint for the future state. Articulate the impact and benefits and prioritise activities. Define the budget requirements/ business case. Review with organisation's stakeholders to gain buy-in. Step 3: Accelerated Adoption (Deliver more) Modernise technology and undertake service transformation. Architect and design improved services, based on best practice, addressing process, technology and people needs. Drive accelerated implementation and smooth service transition through proven methodologies. Step 4: Managed Services (Drive more) Provision of interim operations and tailored managed services to meet operational gaps.
- Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
-
Company85 (part of Telstra Purple) services support public sector organisations in the transition to G-Cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services with service offerings aligned with each stage of the transition. We offer services designed for transitioning both Enterprise applications and Desktop services.
These are supported by security, network and data management service offerings to assist organisations in addressing the security, regulatory and compliance requirements of moving to the cloud.
Telstra Purple's Accomplish More 4D methodology is a robust, proven, 4-stage approach to cloud adoption. It ensures you realise the benefits sooner while avoiding the pitfalls. - 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 work with subject matter experts within organisations to define the quality assurance and testing approach required to ensure transformation to the cloud with minimal business impact.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
-
- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- Yes
- Security testing certifications
- CREST
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
- Company85 (part of Telstra Purple) cloud services and solutions are designed to maintain service availability, to manage cost, security, compliance, user access and more. Our cloud management tools, ISO27001 processes and deep-domain expertise keep you in control of your cloud services to provide you with the confidence that your assets are secure, optimised and compliant. We manage a choice of high performance global public cloud services from world-leading providers that we make easy to set-up, scale and control. We deliver them over our own reliable, dynamic software defined networks so we can guarantee performance and availability. Telstra Purple also provides, to the same standards, global colocation and managed private cloud through data centre ownership and strategic partnerships. Through this model we provide a full breadth and depth of solutions to meet our customers’ business needs.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- N/A
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Bsi
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 20/04/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Consulting Services
- 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
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
As a leading telecommunications and technology provider and a large energy user, Telstra has an important role to play. We are harnessing technology, digital and connectivity solutions to accelerate action on climate change and minimise our impact on the planet. We are leading by example and using our scale and voice to accelerate the transition to a more environmentally sustainable world. We are driven to make a difference beyond our business by encouraging and enabling our customers, suppliers and communities to do the same. Telstra’s risk management framework provides the foundations and key processes for identifying, assessing and managing environmental risks. Climate change is a key risk for Telstra and we are working to mitigate and adapt to its impacts through our environment strategy. To us, addressing climate change means taking ambitious steps to decarbonise our business, and helping our customers and suppliers do the same. We are a member of the United Nations Global Compact’s Business Ambition for 1.5°C, pledging to help limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. We are committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, aligned with the Paris Agreement. To achieve this, we have set an emissions reduction target that has been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as aligned to a trajectory to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Decarbonise Telstra In FY23, we achieved a 19 per cent reduction in our scope 1+2 GHG emissions compared to the previous year and have achieved a cumulative 30 per cent reduction against our baseline year of FY19. We achieved this by improving the energy efficiency of our network and our infrastructure, accelerating the decommissioning of legacy technology and leveraging the reduced emissions intensity of the electricity grid as the use of renewable energy increases.Tackling economic inequality
Doing business responsibly is the foundation for our sustainability strategy. It guides our commitment to do the right thing, builds trust, manages risk and drives positive change for our people, our customers and our communities. We do business responsibly by:
• improving how we create products and services so they are sustainable, inclusive and sold responsibly
• driving transparency of our supply chain and upholding the highest standards in human rights
• conducting business with fairness and transparency to build trust with all our stakeholders
• being a diverse, inclusive and flexible workplace
In FY23 we spent over $20 million with over 30 First Nations businesses, certified or registered by Supply Nation, further improving on our last year's spend of $14 million. We continue to build our strategy at a category level and actively work with our strategic partners to promote supplier diversity more broadly throughout our supply chain. We also actively work with our suppliers to gain better insights into our emissions and identify reduction opportunities. We have partnered with CDP through their Supply Chain Program to engage our suppliers to more effectively account for and address their climate change impacts. This partnership enables us to deliver training, tools and support on environmental disclosures to over 400 suppliers, an increase from approximately 200 suppliers in 2022. This covers 80 per cent of our spend.
To mitigate supply chain risk we have implemented a range of procedures and programs to ensure the high labour management standards we expect are being met. Our Supplier Code of Conduct sets out the minimum standards we expect from our suppliers and forms part of our standard purchasing terms. Through our policies, Supplier Governance Framework, training and audit program, we work with our suppliers to assess whether they are meeting our standards.Equal opportunity
We are building diverse teams and creating inclusive environments to enable our employees to be their best, which enables us to provide better service to our customers and community. Our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ambitions are powered through collective action and allyship. We have five Employee Representative Groups – Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples, MOSAIC (Culture & Language), Rise (Gender Equity), Spectrum (LGBTQ+) and TelstrAbility (Accessibility). Throughout the year, management and the Board assess our progress in achieving our objectives. Diversity objectives are included in monthly business reports and in Group Executive scorecards. Our inclusive recruitment practices that resulted in a gender representation increase from 33.5 per cent in FY22 to 35.2 per cent in FY23, Telstra continues to invest in developing and retaining women through multiple programs.
Telstra’s social and environmental partnerships have delivered critical business objectives, community outcomes and employment opportunities. We work with supplier enterprises that support people with disability or people experiencing disadvantage. Our Supported Workforce Program created opportunities for 155 people who performed cleaning and grounds maintenance activities at 5,080 sites across the nation. We continue our work to federate accessibility and inclusive skills through a series of 40 online modules and facilitated training sessions to up-skill our designers developers and staff in other product design roles. Each module was designed to provide general disability awareness, combined with role-specific skills. We also developed custom modules to enhance the skills of Telstra employees in creating accessible documents and presentations. Additionally, we provided training on Easy Reading and Plain Language to our content writers and Accessibility team, integrating these practices into our content guidelines. We continued our Inclusive Tech Lab this year, engaging 1,000 senior members of Telstra in experiences that simulated disabilities and showcased how technology and design can both help and hinder accessibility.Wellbeing
Over the past 12 months, we have increased our strategic focus on a psychosocial risk-based approach to preventing work-related harm. Telstra has invested significant resources and dedicated expertise so that our systems, processes and supports meet these obligations. Our evidence-based approach considers many factors that can both positively and negatively impact mental health. Our programs and initiatives are delivered under three strategic pillars: • Capability of care – our people understand the factors that can positively and negatively impact mental health, know the importance of connection, have the courage to check-in with each other and know where to access available support. • Psychological risk management – a robust, integrated, and embedded risk management approach that supports our people to understand and manage risk. • Support and recovery – best practice and easily accessible support services which enable our people to remain at or return to safe and sustainable work, minimising the human and financial impact of ill-health. There is no single metric which can accurately measure how well an organisation supports its people and manages mental health risk. For this reason, Telstra uses a suite of data points including psychosocial risk profiling, including the number, nature and location of reported mental health incidents; contributing factors to mental health incident reports and the demographics of our injured/ill workforce; the strength of our reporting culture; the uptake of our targeted support services, participation rates in mental health-related education and training and our Culture and Employee Engagement Survey responses. Our campaign to reduce the stigma associated with mental health and encourage reporting has resulted in a positive upward trend in mental health reporting, particularly non-work-related incidents. Our Employee Assistance Program utilisation rate remains higher than the industry average at 8.4%, indicating that our people are increasingly more comfortable in proactively seeking support.
Pricing
- Price
- £600 to £1,600 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 PurpleUKGovSales@team.telstra.com.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.