CIO Bulletin

Mission Cloud – Delivering a comprehensive and differentiated suite of agile cloud services designed to help businesses

"At Mission Cloud, we understand that DevOps is about understanding your environment’s complexity and empowering your organization with the right people and tools who can meet your cloud objectives and business goals."

Effective management continues to be the key priority for most organizations, as cloud adoption continues to rise in the US. To address this challenge, the American-based organizations choose different ways to manage their cloud infrastructure. Some manage it themselves, and some bring in a Cloud MSP to ease their immediate complexities, while some choose to have a managed cloud service provider who can handle broader mission with a clear vision on managing hybrid environments and resources. Cloud managed services takes away the burden of managing and maintaining the cloud environment, allowing SaaS owners to focus on doing what they do best – building great applications and landing even more new customers.

Mission Cloud is a cloud managed services provider with deep know-how in launching and harnessing the power of the cloud. The company believes that cloud technology is the greatest business transformation tool, and its mission is to help you harness that power to transform your business and to make your company’s mission a reality. Through its dedicated team of expert cloud operations professionals and solutions architects, Mission delivers a comprehensive suite of services to help businesses architect, migrate, manage and optimize their AWS cloud environments. Whether you're competing for a World Championship in the NBA, launching a new product or service, or growing an existing business, they are ready to help you design, build, and manage robust, scalable technology solutions that empower your team to innovate and excel. At Mission, they believe your success is their success too.

"Mission Cloud transforms your cloud environment into a catalyst for long-term organizational growth and success."

Cloud Management Now Made Simple

Cloud Architecture & Engineering: Reaching your AWS cloud’s higher potential can accelerate innovation and drive competitive advantages, but getting there is no small task. Today, many organizations lack the resources, expertise, and strategy required to maximize the value of their cloud. Mission Cloud Elevate provides you access to a pod of highly-skilled cloud architects and engineers that support a wide range of services related to architecting, building, and optimizing in AWS. Through their unique agile service delivery model based on continuous engagement and delivery, they help advance your cloud initiatives faster and more reliably. Whether you need support building new infrastructure or modifying existing infrastructure through an agile approach, Mission Cloud Elevate can help transform your AWS environment to take full advantage of all the features and benefits AWS has to offer.

Cloud Integration: With ever-increasing pressure to innovate faster, adapt more rapidly to unprecedented change, and work more efficiently, you can't afford to deploy high-impact internal resources on the day-to-day management of your AWS environment. These daily operational tasks are a near-constant distraction, pulling engineers and developers away from the core tasks that drive growth and innovation for your business. With Mission Cloud One, they manage your AWS environment for you. Mission Cloud One is a managed AWS service where their team of AWS-certified experts continuously monitors, maintain, and optimize your AWS environment, enabling your team to focus where it matters most — driving value for your business. With Mission Cloud One, you can rest easy knowing that you’ll be working with experts: Mission’s AWS-certified engineers are backed by Alert Logic’s industry-leading security analytics, infrastructure, and certified SOC analysts.

Cost Optimization & Governance: To maximize performance-for-spend in AWS, you must align best practices and governance procedures to realize efficiencies across your cloud environment. By partnering with Mission, you gain the knowledge, skills, and collaborative processes required to optimize costs and enhance governance in your AWS cloud. Maintain alignment and compliance with common AWS account security standards and avoid major business-impacting issues with Alert Logic Essentials security checks and alerts. Use the latest tools and technologies, such as CloudHealth and Alert Logic Essentials, to increase performance, reduce spending, and improve security. In collaboration with CloudHealth, the leading cloud management software for visibility to cloud infrastructure, the Ebook explores 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.

Cloud DataOps: Data is the new oil, providing organizations working in the cloud a deep wellspring of operational and analytical potential. Tapping that source, however, requires a clear and salient approach to data architecture, processing, and utilization: an approach rooted in agile execution, best practice alignment, and a deep understanding of cloud-native platforms and tools. With Mission Cloud DataOps, you gain a team of AWS data experts capable of helping you discover, envision, and realize your most ambitious data and analytics initiatives. The team, comprised of experienced veterans with diverse and complementary skill sets, works closely with your team to create a robust foundation for future optimization, growth, and success.

AWS Cloud Security and Automation

Automation is critical in today’s cloud landscape, and so is the frequency of automation. DevOps enables your organization to serve customers better and compete more effectively by fully automating the continuous integration and deployment pipeline, enabling frequent releases. As an AWS Premier Tier and DevOps Competency Partner, their DevOps team will empower your team with AWS best practices to automate historically manual and slow processes. Mission Cloud leverages the full AWS technology stack and tooling, helping you operate and evolve your applications quickly and reliably.

By partnering with Mission Cloud, you'll get a team of Cloud Solutions Architects and DevOps engineers with proven experience in thousands of AWS DevOps projects implementing infrastructure and automation to successfully design, build, and manage your AWS environment

As the cybersecurity landscape is constantly changing as businesses must act decisively to improve their security posture as attacks grow in frequency and sophistication partnering with a cloud managed services provider to navigate your requirements of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and identify remediative solutions can bring ease and peace of mind to the process. Mission Cloud is an AWS Level 1 Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) dedicated to helping businesses using AWS improves their security posture and empowering them with the knowledge of available options.

AWS Disaster Recovery Planning and Execution is critical to ensure your business can quickly resume operations after an unplanned incident. They help by evaluating your current infrastructure, developing a strategy specific to your needs, and testing and implementing AWS services for a rapid and reliable recovery. Their certified engineers have extensive experience in developing AWS disaster recovery plans. Accurately assess the security of your AWS environment and implement proactive choices to prevent vulnerabilities with the comprehensive processes. Their cloud advisors can walk you through your AWS Security options based on your needs and environment.

The Pre-Eminent Leader

Simon Anderson is the Chairman, Founder, and Chief Executive Officer of Mission Cloud Services. He is a cloud industry chief executive and entrepreneur. He founded Mission in 2017 to accelerate enterprise cloud transformations by delivering a differentiated and agile suite of managed cloud and consulting services. Partnered with AWS, Mission’s always-on services enable its customers to scale and outpace competitors by leveraging the most transformative technology platform and enterprise software ecosystem in history. Mission is backed by Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill Partners, which focuses on mid-market growth investments. Prior to Mission, Anderson was the CEO of DreamHost, the web hosting and cloud services company, and also a co-founder of software-defined storage company Inktank, which he sold to Red Hat for $175M. Prior to his executive leadership in the cloud industry, Anderson worked in venture capital and in law, where he holds a degree. His educational background includes the Australian National University and Harvard Business School.