Advent One’s model offers flexibility with services delivered via local resources, allowing customers to outsource all of their IT operations or just a few key areas where they feel additional help would be beneficial. Its modular Managed Service offering can deliver enhanced services to custom fit business requirements and allow them to focus on achieving the strategic imperatives of the organisation. Further, through Advent One’s portal, customers have access to data and insights which can be leveraged for planning business growth and innovation.

With a long history in building and managing complex environments across a range of leading-edge and legacy technologies, its specialists can ensure that a transition to Advent One Managed Services considers the best outcomes for the business, whether that is a public cloud, on-premise, or a hybrid cloud solution.

Working across a range of leading industry vendors and verticals, Advent One has successfully demonstrated how organisations can maximise their previous investments while transitioning and transforming their business to meet the demands of the future.

Advent One has a modular packaged platform managed service with pre-integrated capabilities to provide a turn-key PaaS solution and is targeted at lowering the barrier of entry to an enterprise-grade PaaS platform.

The platform runs on any environment and accelerates a customer’s transformation journey, adopting emerging technologies reliably and securely. The services offered include:

• 24/7 availability and monitoring
• Automation as a Service
• Managed security services
• Operational efficiency
• Leveraging the industry’s best technical skills
• Keep systems up-to-date and compliant.

Advent One’s Managed Services have evolved over several years, and it has been through this evolution that it has moved from a ‘Run/Operate’ towards a ‘Run/Improve’ model. Consequently, Advent One works closely with its customers on an ongoing basis to continually add value to their IT environments.

The Managed Service team looks for opportunities to help customers deliver the best outcomes through a continuous improvement program. Advent One takes a customer-centric approach to fully understand the customer’s business and the environments on which they rely and provides a personalised engagement designed to meet the organisation’s specific needs.

As a company scales, the demand for new and existing IT environments increases exponentially. Automating infrastructure management and processes helps customers increase agility and provides better control of these environments.

Through automation, we provide increased availability of data, higher performance, zero downtime and security. Automating routine IT tasks can lead to greater productivity, so internal teams can spend time making a more significant impact on the business. By simplifying change, enterprises gain the time and energy to focus on innovation.

Advent One’s broad scope of IT specialisation means its team has skills across several areas of IT automation and can offer a wide range of IT services, such as automating existing processes and building and securing new environments and configuration and management of new or existing environments. Advent One works closely with its customers to:

• Design and implement automated processes
• Implement and configure the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Provide ongoing knowledge transfer and mentoring
• Integrate with CI/CD processes and pipelines.

Advent One creates bespoke solutions to meet the specific needs of its customers. Some of the specialist use cases include:

• Environment and Application Deployment
• Configuration Management
• Security Baselines
• Automated Patching
• Automated Disaster Recovery with Red Hat Ansible
• Data Migration and Management of unstructured data.

To break down complex tasks and processes, automation and simplicity go hand-in-hand. Advent One helps customer IT teams to source and build tools that enable quick design and deployment, requiring human intervention only when necessary. The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform does this with one of the most accessible paths to continuous delivery in the industry.

Continuous delivery means zero downtime with true multi-tier, multi-step orchestration. Modern data architecture can deliver significant control over operations to orchestrate the configuration of servers in batches, all while working with load balancers, monitoring systems, and cloud or web services. 

Ansible lets users define “plays”, which select a particular group of hosts and assign tasks to execute or roles to fulfil. The order in which these plays run, and the hosts on which they run, are tightly controlled by Ansible. For example, migrating a database schema and flushing the caching servers before updating application servers may be actioned by running a straightforward play. This is much more efficient than sending out individual orders to servers.

Advent One is experienced in developing automation within diverse cloud, infrastructure or hybrid environments across different specialisations and technologies. Advent One focuses on fitting automation solutions into its customers’ existing development practices that are integrated into any workflow.