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Nowadays everybody has touched or worked with a cloud solution for private or business use. Many are convinced of the benefits of the cloud; such as better business agility, flexibility, transparent recurring costs, and quicker access to new technologies. But when you have decided to make the transition to the cloud for your business, how do you know which is the right solution? A quick understanding of these concepts should provide the guidance necessary to start deciding what solution is right for your situation. Public Cloud A public cloud is normally owned and operated by a third-party service provider. Today's commonly known public clouds are operated by Microsoft and Amazon. Leveraging a public cloud can be ideal for small and medium sized businesses, or businesses that have fluctuating demands. The primary benefits of the public cloud include the speed with which you can quickly deploy standardised IT resources and the ability to pay only of the services and resources you use. And, due to the huge size of these public clouds, you can scale compute power up and down as business demands, within a matter of minutes. Private Cloud These types of clouds are usually owned and operated by larger enterprises or service providers having access to data centre facilities and computing resources. A private cloud involves a distinct and secure (multi-tenant) cloud based environment in which only one specified customer can operate. Like with other cloud models, private clouds will provide computing power as a service within a virtual environment using an underlying pool of physical computing resources. However, under the private cloud model, the services running in this cloud are only accessible by a single organisation, therefore providing that organisation with greater control, data security and privacy. Hybrid cloud The hybrid cloud allows you to combine on premise, public cloud, private cloud or combine multiple private clouds to leverage the best of what each has to offer to meet business and operational needs. Businesses regularly use the public cloud for non-sensitive operations, including applications, workloads and data that are not under regulatory supervision. The private cloud scenario is ideal for hosting business-critical operations, and incorporate existing dedicated resources to achieve a highly flexible, agile and cost-effective solution. Our experience Most of our customers choose to take advantage of the security and privacy benefits of private and hybrid scenario's. Meaning, staying in control of their workloads and data.  The trend we see is that our customers are migrating workloads from on-premise environments into our data centres. Usually in a combination of dedicated private cloud solutions and a managed support services model.  The public cloud has a reputation for being affordable but when a company has to heavily invest in of knowledge of managing their own IT in a public cloud, this could become an additional heavy cost. And Besides, even though the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) created possibilities to host workloads and data of Professionals of the financial sector (PFS) on public clouds, it is a time consuming task to prove compliance to the regulator of those services and solutions hosted and managed on those public clouds. GITS PSF assists in finding the right hosting solution for any business case by leveraging best of all worlds. Customers stay in control and decide which business process, workloads or data they want to have migrated and hosted where. In addition, when a company puts data in the public cloud, it no longer has total control over it. The only way to truly guarantee the security and privacy of sensitive data is to keep it either in house, under the organisation's direct supervision, or to outsource the management of those workloads and data to a regulated managed service provider such as Global IT Services PSF. Control, compliance and security The outsourcing of IT services to a private cloud allows you nearly all the same benefits of hosting it in the public cloud, but more so. A private cloud scenario delivers all the agility, scale-ability and efficiency of the public cloud, but also provides greater levels of control, compliance and security. This is making it ideal for regulated businesses or those with strict data, regulation and governance obligations. Another key benefit of private cloud is the ability to have a bespoke solution that best suit your specific IT requirements, something that cannot be achieved so easily in the public cloud environment where most services are provided out of the box. Most important, the management by a service provider like GITS PSF will provide even more added value: greater level of efficiency, compliance, knowledge and security, making it ideal for businesses that do not have an internal IT department or do not want to heavily invest in acquiring this knowledge. For businesses that handle sensitive (financial) data, outsourcing IT to a private cloud environment is in our opinion the best solution at hand. Setting the first step towards a new IT or cloud environment is not easy.  Global IT Services PSF managed many digital transformation projects over the years. Are you interested to learn how we can optimise your current IT environment or help you with your next IT project? Please fill out the form below and let us contact you as soon as possible.

Global IT Services PSF (GITS PSF) is an independent Luxembourg based service provider regulated by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). We are managing complex IT environments for our clients since 2005. Every day, with our dedicated team of 20 professionals, we earn their trust, by providing technical and operational excellence, compliance, data security and innovation. GITS PSF operates a highly secure and state of the art dedicated hosting and cloud platforms from the Luxconnect Tier IV datacentres located in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. These platforms hosts tailor made solutions and capabilities to provide highly secure, flexible and affordable private IT environments. These solutions leverage the latest technologies and are deployed and managed according to the highest standards possible. Our experience For many years, we are specialized in end to end IT outsourcing for Professionals of the Financial Sector (PFS). Cloud services and platforms are managed by a highly driven and knowledgeable team of 15 dedicated network, system and support engineers. Together with our strategic partners and technology providers we are able to develop innovative IT and cloud solutions that contribute to our client’s business results. Due to our comprehensive solution and services portfolio we can deliver bespoke solutions for any small and medium sized businesses. Among our clients, we are proud to have fiduciaries, fund administrations (AIFM, ManCo), banks, asset management and substance companies, mostly subject to regulatory supervision, with a global reach. Our aim is to make our client’s organizations smarter, better, compliant and more secure with IT and cloud solutions that are build based on the highest standards and backed by tailored Service Level Agreements. The GITS CLOUD The GITS Cloud hosts a wide range of solutions and services that are reliable, tailor made, secure and cost efficient. See it as a One-Stop-Shop for managed hosting, cloud services, business continuity, security, data protection and connectivity solutions. Leveraging the latest state of the art technologies and believing in the endless possibilities IT and Cloud have to offer. GITS PSF is the cloud and managed services provider of the future… Private cloud & hosting solutions Today, our clients move their complete IT environments to the cloud or leverage some form of hybrid or private cloud environment. GITS PSF are able to offer improved security, compliance, data access, analysis and utilization for any cloud or hosting scenario. The solution portfolio provides for a wide range of managed private and hybrid cloud capable hosting services such as Hosted Email, virtual desktops, virtual servers, and (SaaS) applications. We can host any type of application while guaranteeing complete segregation. Private & Hybrid cloud solutions Managed Server hosting Workspace hosting Hosted Exchange email hosting GITS-Box (secure document sharing) Application hosting Business Continuity solutions To prevent data leakage, or a compliancy breach, GITS PSF solutions and services per default are protected by end-to-end multi layered security solutions on datacentre, network, application and infrastructure levels. We protect our client data via a twin datacentre strategy and a clustered multiple firewall layers, intrusion detection systems, 2 factor authentication and certified encryption. Online Backup and long-term retention Disaster Recovery Data Protection services (GDPR ready) Business Continuity Planning Monitoring services Connectivity solutions We have many years of experience managing, building and securing our own redundant high-speed network backbone in Luxembourg. It offers high-capacity and low latency connectivity solutions to clients and guarantee end-to-end availability of our services and solutions. Built on this foundation, and together with our trusted connectivity partner (LuxNetwork) we offer a sophisticated catalogue of connectivity, fiber and network related services. Network security solutions Network monitoring Fiber connectivity Internet bandwidth Virtual Private Networks Point-to-Point connections (local & international) Managed Services Our wide range of managed services optimize the performance of any environment and act as an extension or replacement of any existing IT organization. Global IT Services PSF is your partner for the operational IT management. Service Level Management Design, Audit and reporting 24×7 Active Monitoring Cloud Optimization Change Management Incident Management Patch Management Hardware acquisition Software and license management Consultancy and Audit Advisory services GITS PSF acts as a long-term partner for the management of any project and support of your strategic and operational challenges. Following industry standards while giving special attention to service, data protection and security according to the quality and confidentiality standards set by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). We deliver high quality and performance for the right price. Interested to learn how we can optimize your current IT environment? Please fill out the form below and we will contact you as soon as possible.