After our Kick-Off event held at ICC in Wales, I can share some key highlights regarding Softcat's strategy for the upcoming year and beyond. 🚀
🌐 Leading the Charge in the Cloud Revolution - Our primary focus remains on our ongoing partnerships with leading cloud and marketplace giants such as Microsoft, AWS, and GCP. We are fully prepared to support the growing trend of cloud adoption by offering unparalleled commercial and technical assistance, expert consultancy services, and customized managed solutions. As a value-added reseller, we are committed to adapting to the ever-evolving procurement landscape, simplifying the process for our valued cloud clients, and upholding our dedication to customer excellence.
🌥 Curious about how Softcat can accelerate your journey into the Cloud?
Here are some noteworthy observations:
Over the next 12 months, more than 50% of enterprise data and workloads are expected to transition to the public cloud.
A staggering 32% of cloud expenditures are currently wasted.
85% of organizations are either embracing or planning to adopt Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, including databases, containers, and data management.
An impending cloud skills shortage looms, with an 83% challenge expected.
A substantial 69% of organizations are enlisting partners to facilitate the migration of their enterprise workloads (Source: Flexera State of Cloud 2022 Report).
🔍 Our suite of cloud services includes:
Cloud Advisory: Guiding your journey from start to finish.
Cloud Architecture: Crafting a tailored path exclusively for you.
Cloud Implementation: Constructing your desired destination and ensuring a seamless migration.
Cloud Support & Operations: Providing personalized support aligned with your unique operating model.
🎯 What You Can Expect:
Reclaiming valuable time by eliminating the daily IT grind.
Reducing technical debt through infrastructure migration and modernization.
Optimizing cloud expenditures for long-term sustainability.
🤝 Key Partnerships We Take Pride In:
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud
🌟 Core Cloud Fundamentals & Managed Services Offering:
IT Service Management
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Cloud-Native Event Monitoring, Security Posture Management, and Compliance Reporting
Patching and Backup/Recovery
Dedicated Service Delivery Team
💼 Cloud Billing & Support:
Centralized cloud procurement and invoicing
Cloud billing and invoicing support
Technical support for Microsoft CSP
AWS Partner-Led Technical Support (PLES)
Streamlined software procurement via AWS Marketplace
🔍 In Summary, Anticipate:
Consistency and maturity through our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) approach.
Commercial predictability ensuring cost transparency.
Reinvestment of your cloud expenditure into innovation opportunities.
A robust cloud management platform.
Enhanced environments that prioritize security, cost-efficiency, sustainability, and reliability.
🎉 After months of planning we are here at Kick Off 2023 and the Partner Experience! 🎉
More than 2,000 Softcat staff have gathered at the ICC Wales today at the biggest event in our diary to reflect and celebrate our past year, plus set our sights on an amazing FY24! But one of the best bits? Engaging with 60+ of our incredible vendors, service partners and distributors. 🤝
A big thank you to each and every one of them who've poured all their energy and creativity into ensuring we have the most immersive and engaging experience today. 💜 And we can’t not thank our amazing internal teams who have worked so hard for months to get to this point – Events Team, Partner Marketing, Alliances, Strategic Sourcing, Partner Management and our office Kick Off Champions.
Here's to growth, collaboration, and an unforgettable event! 🥂
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