The Data Intelligent Enterprise to Survive and Thrive
Does this require any more persuasion post pandemic?
Cloud, Big Data, AI, and IoT: Often touted as the fundamental pillars of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a multi-impact phase described as more revolutionary and larger than the last three. However, if we lean closer, what seems like four different technologies on the surface form part of a larger whole.
Modern enterprises are fast expanding into diversified endpoint ecosystems: mobiles, user PCs and laptops, smartwatches and wearable devices, biometric devices, sensors, and more. Gargantuan amounts of data flow from these endpoint ecosystems to the centralized Cloud IT ecosystems where the same is stored and processed with cutting-edge analytical solutions. AI solutions run on top to generate smart business insights, automate key processes, and lay the groundwork for further innovations, affecting the firm’s endpoint footprint across and the market. The cycle repeats with information and intelligence at the core.
Such competency is fundamental for 21st-century businesses. But, what’s the reality?
The connected universe would span to 31 billion devices by 2025, generating data in the range of 175-180 zettabytes
CIOs rank Data Analytics Competency as the numero uno factor while considering market relevance and competitiveness
Top performing organizations utilize analytics 5X more than peers
Advanced analytics results in 33% more growth and 12X more profits for enterprises
Cloud4C: Beyond the Obvious
Over a hundred million businesses today still lack basic awareness and skill sets on data management, let alone deploying AI for intelligent transformation. Major reasons include insufficient storage, inertia with age-old legacy infrastructure, crippling cybersecurity strategies, and traditional, non-smart business models. While Facebook and other digital giants have already voiced for the Metaverse (an embedded digital reality for starters), many major corporations are still struggling to replace their paper documentation. Workflow management is painfully offline-centric even to this date.
Cloud4C, the world’s leading automation-driven, application-focused managed cloud services provider, ensures the perfect transformation journey to being a data-empowered, intelligent enterprise. Migrate to the cloud at zero disruption to business as usual, optimize processes with leading hyper automation-RPA solutions for maximum ROI, modernize core assets (virtualization of legacy systems, infrastructure, computing resources, networks, servers, data centers, storage, platforms, third-party systems), and onboard advanced applications to digitize operations and workflows across all departments.
Embrace a full-stack data management suite including data collection, cleansing, monitoring, dataflow administration, data modernization, and deep information analysis. Augment data operations with advanced business intelligence (Deep Data Analytics + AI), proprietary platforms to generate smart insights for informed decision-making. Secure all databases, dataflows, data centers, and assets with Cloud4C’s advanced cybersecurity offerings and threat intelligence. Gain 24/7 data consulting and support to address any requirement, anytime.
With Cloud4C, gain an end-to-end partner to streamline your data intelligent enterprise vision. Tomorrow is today!
5 Common challenges in implementing Enterprise AI
Preparing your organization for Data Analytics and AI
Building an artificial intelligence infrastructure involves deliberate and strategic planning around storage, networking and AI data needs among others.
As the volume of data grows the storage needs to scale up too. Ensuring proper storage capacity, IOPS (input/output operations per second), and reliability to deal with the massive data amounts are required for effective application of AI.
Figuring out the storage needs of an organization depends on many factors. For instance, advanced, high-value neural network ecosystems might have scaling issues related to I/O and latency. Similarly, BFSI firms that depend on real-time trading decisions may need fast all-flash storage technology.
Another key factor would be the nature of the source data - Will applications be analyzing sensor data in real-time, or will they use post-processing? How much AI data applications will generate. As databases grow over time, companies need to constantly monitor capacity to plan for expansion.
Networking is another key component of deploying AI, requiring periodic upgrades. Deep learning algorithms are highly dependent on communications and enterprise networks must be highly scalable with high bandwidth and low latency. Companies should automate wherever possible. Software-defined networks (SDNs) powered by machine learning create intent-based networks that can anticipate network demands or security threats and react in real-time.
Having powerful compute resources, including CPUs and GPUs is critical for AI infrastructure. While a CPU-based environment can handle basic AI workloads, deep learning involves multiple large data sets and scalable neural network algorithms. To support that, companies must turn to GPUs to enable organizations optimize their data center infrastructure and gain power efficiency.
Organizations have much to consider here. This includes data storage, processing, and management of the information utilized or generated by the AI. One of the critical steps is data cleansing or scrubbing. This includes removing data from a database that is inaccurate, incomplete, improperly formatted or duplicated.
Data quality is especially critical with AI. Deploying automated data cleansing tools to assess data for errors using rules or algorithms is of paramount importance as the output is only as good as the input.
Data access management is highly critical, requiring efficient processes to share information with only those who need it. Data management strategies ensure that users, machines, and various endpoints have easy and fast access to data without compromising security. This necessitates proper data access controls such as IAM, data encryption solutions, and more.
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Big data storage: Infrastructure requirements for AI
As the volume of data grows the storage needs to scale up too. Ensuring proper storage capacity, IOPS (input/output operations per second), and reliability to deal with the massive data amounts are required for effective application of AI.
Figuring out the storage needs of an organization depends on many factors. For instance, advanced, high-value neural network ecosystems might have scaling issues related to I/O and latency. Similarly, BFSI firms that depend on real-time trading decisions may need fast all-flash storage technology.
Another key factor would be the nature of the source data - Will applications be analyzing sensor data in real-time, or will they use post-processing? How much AI data applications will generate. As databases grow over time, companies need to constantly monitor capacity to plan for expansion.
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AI networking infrastructure
Networking is another key component of deploying AI, requiring periodic upgrades. Deep learning algorithms are highly dependent on communications and enterprise networks must be highly scalable with high bandwidth and low latency. Companies should automate wherever possible. Software-defined networks (SDNs) powered by machine learning create intent-based networks that can anticipate network demands or security threats and react in real-time.
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Artificial intelligence workloads
Having powerful compute resources, including CPUs and GPUs is critical for AI infrastructure. While a CPU-based environment can handle basic AI workloads, deep learning involves multiple large data sets and scalable neural network algorithms. To support that, companies must turn to GPUs to enable organizations optimize their data center infrastructure and gain power efficiency.
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Preparing AI data
Organizations have much to consider here. This includes data storage, processing, and management of the information utilized or generated by the AI. One of the critical steps is data cleansing or scrubbing. This includes removing data from a database that is inaccurate, incomplete, improperly formatted or duplicated.
Data quality is especially critical with AI. Deploying automated data cleansing tools to assess data for errors using rules or algorithms is of paramount importance as the output is only as good as the input.
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AI data governance
Data access management is highly critical, requiring efficient processes to share information with only those who need it. Data management strategies ensure that users, machines, and various endpoints have easy and fast access to data without compromising security. This necessitates proper data access controls such as IAM, data encryption solutions, and more.
Offerings: Optimize or Start your Data Analytics and AI adoption with Cloud4C
We can help you address all challenges that we stated above. Read on..
Detailed, domain-specific assessment, consulting, and support to help integrate cutting-edge analytical processes with data modelling and designing
Data Archival as per industry regulations for automated, efficient data profiling and data cleansing
Streamline data collection, processing, and analysis from multiple sources and IT ecosystems to ensure a universal data architecture
End-to-end data ingestion and management across all cloud landscapes. Deploy cloud-native data analytics and AI tools to modernize workflows of cloud and all connected landscapes
Deploy advanced automation, RPA tools to optimize critical business processes and outcomes. Generate maximum benefits and least costs. Filter out redundancies or hyper-effective and optimized business processes in real-time.
Utilize Big Data solutions to identify resource and cost-hungry processes, approaches, systems. Fix inefficiencies and improve productivity to reduce overall enterprise expenses
Monitor and manage infrastructure health in real-time to prevent sudden outages and disasters
Gain universal visibility to business functions, systems, processes, workflows, applications, and performances in real-time, via intuitive analytical dashboards and smart reporting. Smart insights served via a single pane of glass for informed decision-making
Single SLA services up to application login layer, DevOps-based development, and testing frameworks
Defined data engineering, data modernization, data ops project management and tool integrations with flexible choices of ETL tools and services
Advanced static and dynamic dataflow monitoring, security with SIEM-SOAR, MDR, EDR, SOC, threat intelligence solutions
Seamless AI and data governance - compliance with local, national regulations and industry standards, up to date methodologies
Seamlessly address all infrastructure-networks, platform, data storage, and management concerns to deploy advanced AI solutions and services. Embrace ready-made models and libraries to deploy AI on-prem, across remote ecosystems, and edge environments.
Automated management of your workloads with proprietary, novel intelligent solutions such as Self Healing Operations Platform, Universal Cloud Platform to accelerate data intelligent enterprise goals and strategies
What can you expect?
Cloud4C End-to-end Data Management, Analytics, and AI Solutions and Services
Gain competitive advantage, improve process efficiencies, innovate via data. Our data and analytics consulting services are design-led and framework-based to help you with an optimized roadmap to make your enterprise and decisions data-enabled. Your big data and AI projects can function the same way they did as pilots even when they scale up exponentially.
- Data Maturity Assessment
- Data Strategy Blueprinting and Roadmap
- Data Strategy aligned to Business Objectives and growth
- TCO optimization for Data Analytics & AI Adoption
- Industry-specific data consulting services
Traditional Data Warehouse (DWH) systems and processes are unable to render the growth that enterprises are really capable of. The presence of siloed data, high time to insights, inefficiency across multiple systems, limited analysis of data, challenges in security and compliances ask enterprises to consolidate siloed data sources and migrate legacy systems onto the cloud.
- Data migration from legacy to cloud platforms
- SAP, on-prem data to Data Lake migrations
- Traditional Data warehouse (DWH) to data on cloud
- Vertical-based use cases
- Adaptive application and asset modernization
DataOps refers to continuous support and management of the Data pipelines post the implementation and setup of a Data-related use case on the cloud. DataOps supports the underlying Infrastructure, Application (ETL and transformation code), and the Database in a Data Analytics solution.
- Data Pipeline setup, support, and management
- AIOps-powered managed services
- Incident, problem, and change management
- Operational tuning and operational automations
- Data Platform Security Management
- Performance Measurement and Reporting
- Support Resolution and defined SLA for managed analytics
Focuses on practical applications of data collection, processing, and analysis. Data scientists process large-scale organizational information to generate insights and solve essential use-cases for immediate impact.
- Data discovery and ingestion
- Data integration
- Data lakes
- Data Warehouses
- Master Data Management
- Visualization
- Reporting
- Dashboards
Integrate deep, smart analytics across business processes with AI, ML, and Deep Learning Capabilities. Modernize, and smarten up processes related to enterprise strategies, service delivery, operations, customer management, supply chain management, and monitoring with cutting-edge intelligent analytics.
- Data Science Solutions with AI and ML
- Use case-driven Data Modelling
- Recommendation Engines
- Sentiment Analysis
- Image, Speech/Text, Video Analytics
Secure static and dynamic dataflows across the entire organization. Monitor, analyze, and protect databases, data centers, and dataflows across the firm’s entire IT stack. Embrace deep threat hunting, remediation capabilities paired with advanced threat intelligence and smart cybersecurity solutions. Implement a stringent data governance framework and ensure seamless compliance to local-national regulations and international standards.
- Data shielding with data masking, data encryption, etc
- Application and API security management
- Databases and data center security management
- SIEM-SOAR, and Risk Analytics
- Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing
- Threat Intelligence
- Identity and Access Management
- Data Obfuscation
- Role-based Access Control
- Network Security
- Logging and Monitoring
- Data Reconciliation and Reporting
- IT Risk Advisory and Maturity Modelling
- Regulatory and Compliance Support
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Data Consulting
Gain competitive advantage, improve process efficiencies, innovate via data. Our data and analytics consulting services are design-led and framework-based to help you with an optimized roadmap to make your enterprise and decisions data-enabled. Your big data and AI projects can function the same way they did as pilots even when they scale up exponentially.
- Data Maturity Assessment
- Data Strategy Blueprinting and Roadmap
- Data Strategy aligned to Business Objectives and growth
- TCO optimization for Data Analytics & AI Adoption
- Industry-specific data consulting services
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Data Modernization
Traditional Data Warehouse (DWH) systems and processes are unable to render the growth that enterprises are really capable of. The presence of siloed data, high time to insights, inefficiency across multiple systems, limited analysis of data, challenges in security and compliances ask enterprises to consolidate siloed data sources and migrate legacy systems onto the cloud.
- Data migration from legacy to cloud platforms
- SAP, on-prem data to Data Lake migrations
- Traditional Data warehouse (DWH) to data on cloud
- Vertical-based use cases
- Adaptive application and asset modernization
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Data Ops
DataOps refers to continuous support and management of the Data pipelines post the implementation and setup of a Data-related use case on the cloud. DataOps supports the underlying Infrastructure, Application (ETL and transformation code), and the Database in a Data Analytics solution.
- Data Pipeline setup, support, and management
- AIOps-powered managed services
- Incident, problem, and change management
- Operational tuning and operational automations
- Data Platform Security Management
- Performance Measurement and Reporting
- Support Resolution and defined SLA for managed analytics
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Data Engineering
Focuses on practical applications of data collection, processing, and analysis. Data scientists process large-scale organizational information to generate insights and solve essential use-cases for immediate impact.
- Data discovery and ingestion
- Data integration
- Data lakes
- Data Warehouses
- Master Data Management
- Visualization
- Reporting
- Dashboards
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Advanced Analytics and AI
Integrate deep, smart analytics across business processes with AI, ML, and Deep Learning Capabilities. Modernize, and smarten up processes related to enterprise strategies, service delivery, operations, customer management, supply chain management, and monitoring with cutting-edge intelligent analytics.
- Data Science Solutions with AI and ML
- Use case-driven Data Modelling
- Recommendation Engines
- Sentiment Analysis
- Image, Speech/Text, Video Analytics
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Data Security, Governance, and Compliance
Secure static and dynamic dataflows across the entire organization. Monitor, analyze, and protect databases, data centers, and dataflows across the firm’s entire IT stack. Embrace deep threat hunting, remediation capabilities paired with advanced threat intelligence and smart cybersecurity solutions. Implement a stringent data governance framework and ensure seamless compliance to local-national regulations and international standards.
- Data shielding with data masking, data encryption, etc
- Application and API security management
- Databases and data center security management
- SIEM-SOAR, and Risk Analytics
- Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing
- Threat Intelligence
- Identity and Access Management
- Data Obfuscation
- Role-based Access Control
- Network Security
- Logging and Monitoring
- Data Reconciliation and Reporting
- IT Risk Advisory and Maturity Modelling
- Regulatory and Compliance Support
Cloud4C Expertise: A snapshot of Data Analytics and AI tools with leading Cloud Platforms
Ingest
Transform
Process
Analyze
Insights
Reporting
Governance
Ingest
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon Kinesis Firehose
- Amazon Schema Conversion DOC
- AWS DMS
- Amazon Glue
- Amazon Redshift Spectrum
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka
Transform
- Amazon Glue
- EMR
Process
- Amazon Glue
- EMR
- AWS Lambda
Analyze
- EMR
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon SageMaker
Insights
- Amazon Glue
- EMR
- Amazon SageMaker
Reporting
- AWS QuickSight
- Tableau
- Power BI
Governance
- IAM
- Amazon Macie
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon CloudTrail
- AWS Config
Ingest
- Azure Event Hub
- Azure DMS
- Azure Kafka
- Azure VM
Transform
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure HDInsight
- Azure Databricks
Process
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Databricks
Analyze
- Azure Databricks
- Azure SQL DW
- Azure Data Lake Analytics
- Azure Functions
Insights
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Synapse
Reporting
- QlikSense
- Tableau
- Power BI
Governance
- Azure Log Analytics
- Application Insights
Ingest
- BigQuery
- GCP DMS
- Pub/Sub
- BigTable
- Compute Engine
- Data Fusion
Transform
- DataProc
- BigQuery
- Dataflow
Process
- Data prep
- Data Fusion
- Cloud Functions
Analyze
- Azure Databricks
- Azure SQL DW
- Azure Data Lake Analytics
- Azure Functions
Insights
- DataProc
- Dataflow
- Cloud Machine Learning
Reporting
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Data Studio
Governance
- Cloud IAM
- Error Reporting
- Cloud Monitor
- StackDriver
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Cloud4C: Self Healing Operations Platform (SHOP)
Automated Intelligent Operations, Predictive and Preventive Healing on Cloud
Cloud4C SHOP is a low code AI-powered platform that seamlessly integrates different tools and solutions necessary to deliver managed cloud services to enterprises. The intelligent platform brings dozens of diverse operational platforms, applications together including auto-remediation and self-healing onto a single system. This enables the entire infrastructure and applications landscape to be auto-managed through a single pane of glass while providing customers with a holistic view of their IT environments. The platform improves engineers’ efficiency while also allowing engineers with less experience to handle more complex tasks.
SHOP transforms cloud management operations for your enterprise beyond comprehension. Integrate existing platforms including third-party systems and seamlessly connect with your cloud architecture through powerful APIs. Automate workflow management, IT infra administration, security management, and project delivery on the cloud with ease from initiation to end customer reporting. With SHOP by Cloud4C, prevent outages, predict risks and avoid threats before they occur, automate risk responses (self-healing), modernize cloud operations and asset administration, and improve overall engineering efficiency up to 50%.
SHOP makes Cloud4C the World’s largest Application-focused Managed Services provide
Integrate your cloud architecture with all your existing applications, tools, systems including third-party systems under one intelligent platform. Gain unparalleled control and security over your workflows, automate IT operations to optimize infra costs, and boost organizational productivity.
By using clustering and regression models, SHOP can predict any anomalies that might lead to outages in a system, making sure they are quickly dealt with even before they occur (Self Healing).
SHOP is also a full-stack infrastructure and Business Activity Monitoring solution that enables a 360-degree view of all the data relevant to flagging early warnings and issues that might occur.
SHOP collects all contextual data at the time of the anomaly to present relevant root cause scenarios enabling coherent and complete responses. Avail critical service disruption report analysis and elimination of recurring issues across OS, database, applications, platforms, etc. Proactive monitoring and preventive maintenance, service improvement across all areas from Infra to the Application layer.
Our home-grown ML engine ensures the best possible remedial action suitable to the problem and the system.
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Intelligent, Automated Operations Management
Integrate your cloud architecture with all your existing applications, tools, systems including third-party systems under one intelligent platform. Gain unparalleled control and security over your workflows, automate IT operations to optimize infra costs, and boost organizational productivity.
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Predictive & Preventive
By using clustering and regression models, SHOP can predict any anomalies that might lead to outages in a system, making sure they are quickly dealt with even before they occur (Self Healing).
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Collective Knowledge
SHOP is also a full-stack infrastructure and Business Activity Monitoring solution that enables a 360-degree view of all the data relevant to flagging early warnings and issues that might occur.
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Situational Awareness
SHOP collects all contextual data at the time of the anomaly to present relevant root cause scenarios enabling coherent and complete responses. Avail critical service disruption report analysis and elimination of recurring issues across OS, database, applications, platforms, etc. Proactive monitoring and preventive maintenance, service improvement across all areas from Infra to the Application layer.
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Remedial & Autonomous
Our home-grown ML engine ensures the best possible remedial action suitable to the problem and the system.
Intelligent Process Optimization and end-to-end Automation with Cloud4C Hyper Automation, RPA Solutions for Maximum ROI
Cloud4C deploys advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms, solutions, and platforms to continually optimize complex processes and IT ecosystems in real-time. Avail full-stack automation and modernization of workflows and operations to grant enterprises the freedom to focus on core offerings and business growth. Take IT hassles out of the equation, once for all.
- Extract large volumes of data from various sources
- Convert unstructured data to structured data
- Data validation using intelligent document processing engine
- Remove the possibility of manual errors
- Integrate with existing business process and upload/update extracted dat
- Visualize the entire process map and paths
- Discover processes, trends, patterns, and deviations
- Identify good candidates for automation
- Define & Configure Key Performance Indicators
- Identify process deviations /inefficiencies impacting the metrics
- Gain actionable insights to improve business outcomes
- Find new automation opportunities
- After automation, monitor and see improvements in KPIs
- Automate routine/labor-intensive as well as cognitive tasks
- Leverage reusable objects, optimize robots, and improve efficiency
- Integrate with existing business systems
- Test and deploy custom-built bots
- Enable faster and accurate end-to-end process automations with in-house RPA Center of Excellence
Why avail Cloud4C Data Analytics and AI Solutions and Services?
One of most trusted Managed Cloud Service providers with expertise in Data Analytics, and AI solutions in APAC, MEA, and the Americas for 12+ years
World’s largest Application-focused, high-end managed services provider with AI-driven, automated migration operations
Comprehensive experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, OCI, AWS, IBM Cloud, Ali Cloud etc. Data Migration involving heterogeneous data and complex enterprise applications.
24/7 Support backed by 2000+ cloud certified and analytics experts, 25 dedicated Centres of Excellence
Zero Friction Data Modernization Model with industry-leading Cloud Adoption Factory approach at 99.95% availability, zero outages, near-zero delays
25000+ Apps and Databases migrated, 3000+ databases handled, 10,000 TB+ Managed Databases with no-fail 0.5 million transactions per hour.
Large scale database modernization experiences for 1000+ clients including 10 of Top 25 Global Clients.
Proven Expertise in Data Ingestion, Aggregation, Cleansing, Analysis, and Insights generation with cutting-edge AI solutions: Data and IT Modernization, Data Ops, Data Engineering, Cloud Data Analytics, and Management offerings
Advanced Managed Data Analytics, Business Intelligence with effective management for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
Proven Expertise with Hyper Automation and intelligent RPA solutions for end-to-end automation - 1.2 million man-hours saved and 1.5 billion payments processed, 35X faster reporting, 100% efficiency.
Dedicated DR on Cloud offerings with automated recovery-backup, failback-failover mechanisms, zero data losses.
200+ Compliance and DR drills and audits done annually with stringent compliance to industry specific and geography specific regulatory standards.
Dedicated Cloud Managed Security and Data Security Services Expertise, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated SOCs, end-to-end data encryption, and verification.
Cloud4C proprietary solutions including Self-healing Operations, Universal Cloud Platform, and more.
Cost-effective as-a-service engagement models offering single SLA up to App layer
1 Billion+ Fail-safe Hosting Hours administering 40000+ VMs.
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