Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet). The planning for IT infrastructure has always been a challenge for any organization due to increasingly incrementing demand for resources. Even when an organization plans for it well in advance, optimization of Infrastructure is not easy. Companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft saw these issues as an opportunity, and thus, Cloud Computing originated.

Cloud Computing is a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources — networks, servers, storage, applications, and services—that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

Mantra has been an early adopter of newer technologies and Cloud Computing is no different. Mantra has deeper expertise in SOA and SaaS, and this has helped us in adopting Cloud Computing seamlessly leveraging Cloud Computing service models to our customers’ advantage.

Mantra Cloud Solution Offerings

 

Migrating Existing Enterprise Applications / Applications/Services to Cloud architecture
Most organizations have already invested a lot of money in building applications to automate their business processes. It would have been an expensive effort to reengineer these existing applications to various cloud platforms. However, as a prudent business requirement, cloud platforms offer various tools for migrating existing applications and services to cloud with minimum cost and effort. Mantra has pioneered in helping its customers by reusing most of their existing applications and services and migrating them to cloud platforms, manually and with the help of tools. 

Building Cloud-based Applications/Services
One of the key aspects of cloud computing / platform is to provide enormous scalability; however, appropriate design considerations need to be taken to make it a reality. Mantra has been evolving and following best practices to make sure that the applications and services built by us use the cloud platforms optimally. Mantra has gained extensive experience making applications and even more on SOA services on various cloud platforms. Mantra has implemented a few tools to make development for cloud databases easy. 

Creating Private Cloud
Very large organizations are looking at consolidating their internal investments by building a private cloud fabric or infrastructure on top of their existing resources in various datacenters. Working with various customers in the private cloud space has enabled Mantra to gain vast experience in building such systems. 

Integrating with Cloud-based Services
Organizations are trying to acquire off-the-shelf services from the market for their non-core business functions to reduce or share the cost for such business scenarios and applications. However, integration with core business functions and applications becomes a critical task in successfully running business. Mantra has been involved in various On-demand services / SOA initiatives to make such integration successful for many of our customers.

Cloud-based Applications
Mantra has started moving some of our internal applications to Azure as well as Amazon platforms to manage our infrastructure efficiently. Mantra has built required applications and tools for integration and single sign-on between Intranet-based and cloud-based applications. Mantra is also helping some customers in hosting their solutions on cloud platforms such as Amazon, Google App Engine, Force.com, and Azure.