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IBM SoftLayer to AWS migration offered the advantage of lowering the cost, increasing the scalability and performance. Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped our client move faster as a company and manage project growth. 

THE PROBLEM: LOW PERFORMANCE AND HEIGHT HOSTING COST

The client rented physical servers from the IBM SoftLayer. He was worried about a state of those physical servers and of a risk of possible breakage. It could cause a quite long downtime of the system – to restore the system and to replace the broken data or web server. Keeping a similar server in an on-hold mode was a quite expensive approach. Also, the client couldn’t build out capacity as and when it was needed. This caused performance, flexibility, and scalability issues.

So, when the client began experiencing capacity issues, there was a choice: either invest in bigger boxes and more RAM or move to the cloud. Continuing to use a hoster meant spending between 25% to 50% more than was needed. 

THE SOLUTION: MIGRATION TO AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)

After evaluating several solutions, it was decided to eschew the IBM Softlayer provider in favor of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloud Flare based on how strong its network proposition is.

Security and scalability—those two things were critical for us. By using CloudFlare, we got the protection we needed. It was easy to implement and very cost-efficient.

Ultimately, AWS represents one of the most advanced and reliable, cloud-based environments. It is not only cost-effective, but AWS has a far more extensive developer toolset available than IBM Softlayer. 

The client’s business is running its website using core AWS services: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS MariaDB, Amazon DMS.

THE RESULT

The advantages of migrating to the AWS cloud are obvious; the facts and numbers are showing it: 

➤ Moving to AWS environment, the DevOps team had left almost the same configurations, while significantly improving scalability and performance.
➤ Saves 44% annually on hosting costs. 

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The end-client is a nonprofit healthcare sharing organization, where members share each other’s medical expenses. The product offers medical financing and serves as an alternative to the high cost of health insurance. This means health care costs are shared among members of the organization who band together to help each other pay for medical expenses. Rapid growth created a challenge for their organization in terms of its infrastructure and scalability. It was important to have a fully reliable application and secure HIPAA compliant cloud hosting environment that would be available 24/7.

The challenge was to build a secure and robust high-load system for healthcare sharing automation.

Meeting healthcare-specific needs, we realize that with HIPAA compliance, secure cloud-based infrastructure in AWS is a great asset. AWS provides a secure environment that meets HIPAA compliance requirements, and a complete set of easy-to-use, flexible tools to manage growing amounts of data using solutions for high-performance computing, archiving, and storage.

When the capabilities of AWS are combined with DevCom’s software architects and certified DevOps engineers, it results in a personalized solution that enables healthcare organizations to store securely, process, transmit, and analyze information. It helps to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

By using Amazon Web Services, HIPAA compliant cloud hosting, the client has improved online security, eliminated downtime, and reduced the time and effort required to maintain company systems. The client was able to eliminate waste and enable the application to make full use of the available infrastructure.

•  99.99% uptime in the cloud.
•  Better security than on-premises.
•  Easier to achieve HIPAA compliance.
•  Flexible to setup a high-load configuration.
•  13% higher satisfaction.
•  AWS business support.

With DevCom’s IT support services, Nonprofit Organization can focus on the strategic activities needed to achieve their growth goals, which start by creating a fully reliable application and secure HIPAA compliant cloud hosting environment.

The application enables members of a global MLM company to use their internal ERP (enterprise resource planning) system on-the-go. It provides a range of useful features for lead management and reporting. In short, the application allows viewing personal and team snapshots, tracking SMS campaigns, contacting management, viewing reports, and much much more.

Features:

● Personal Profile

● Lead Management Tools

● SMS Campaigns

● Reports

● Messenger

● News Feed

● Terms of Service implemented 

HomeCare CRM is a tailored CRM solution developed for an American Heating and Air Conditioning company. The main goal of the solution is to enable company employees to work with the CRM on multiple devices both stationary and mobile. HomeCare CRM has all the necessary features for optimizing and improving productivity of on-the-go employees. 

Features:

● Admin Panel

● Maps Module

● User Dashboard

● Reminders

● Lead Management

● Reporting

Dating Application is the Next Big Mobile Dating app which is targeted to be a tool for long-term relationship establishment. The initial app version has already gained 4.5-star rating on Play Store. Comparing to other dating apps, this application has more tools for personality traits identification and built-in clever matching system. The entirely new way to find new matches - is a question explorer. The questions can be chosen individually by user. The answer may also be filtered by quality, interest, dater criteria, etc.

Features:

● Clever Matching Algorithm

● Swipe-to-like Match Search

● Question Explorer

● Personality Traits

● Chat

● Personal Profile

● Connections

Thalamus is a task management application that allows time reporting and support of business processes. The application is simple enough to be used by customers without an overhead of technical details and allows user authorization via Google Apps. In addition, Thalamus has a great UI and provides a wonderful UX. 

Features:

● User authorization via Google-Apps

● Company Creation

● Project Creation

● Task Management

● Reporting

● TimeTracking feature

● CSV Export 

The Traminer platform enables fast development of tailored information software, and it consists of libraries, patterns and technical expertise. The platform works for any business model and enables employee mobility, collaboration and manipulations with Big Data. WIth the help of Traminer, developers can create software solutions that allow users to get current data on-the-go and offline. 

Features:

● Mobile: accessible distribution of information in real-time

● Offline First: zero latency and increased performance of mobile employees

● Big Data: handles up to 1M real-time records on devices

● Easy Sync: always-responsive with a background sync and no downtime

The Web Cloud Storage is a secured system used as a personal web storage with an emphasis on isolation and privacy. The cloud system provides an ability to allocate resources of different performance and hardware parameters and to use available cloud apps depending on the allocated resources. The Web Cloud Storage enables users to encrypt and to securely store their personal content and data beyond the reach of 3rd parties. 

Features:

● Personal Account

● Payment and Billing

● Private Search Engine

● Encrypted Data Store

● MarketPlace App

● Secure Mail 

The Comic Books Portal is a cross-functional solution for reading comics on-the-go.
It converts any comic book le into a readable and usable one in the epub format.
The platform allows a user to read comics in any comfortable way: panel by panel, box by box, or in a landscape mode. Finally, the Comic Books Portal is a cross-platform solution that synchronizes comics collections between all the gadgets.

Features:

● Decrypting and converting images
● Outstanding UX with a customizable UI
● Epub Generation
● Cross-platform synchronization

 The Soccer Training App is an application for young soccer players to train and motivate themselves in competitions and tournaments. It is a crossplatform app available for IOS and Android. The application consists of 4 main Departments (Technical, Physical, Psychosocial, and Lifestyle). Each department includes several training programs with interactive exercises and challenges. All departments consist of interesting videos, audio files, curriculum, and rewarding challenges.

Features:

● Training Departments

● Training Programs

● Personal Training Ground

● Individual Exercises

● Point System

● Tournaments and Competition

An innovative portal that allows members to manage their documents and interact with the marine community. The software solution records and analyzes a sea service by time in rank, time with company and time on vessel. Mariner Data Management Portal is an all-in-one solution for every mariner business.

Features:

● Store and access documents securely

● Receive expiry alerts, notifications and timely reminders

● Share documents with the ships' owner, company or prospective employer

● Record and analyse your sea service

The Photo Sharing App is a native iOS application designed to allow users to take snapshots with a comment and send it simultaneously to multiple selected platforms - storage locations, blogs, social media websites. The core app idea was to link all social network accounts in one application. The application uses standard APIs for integration with social media and blogs.

Features:

● taking a picture/video

● switching front/rear camera view

● setting the flash to on/off/auto

● using device’s library

● multiple social networks selection

● photo/video/text delivery to multiple social networks