How do you know if you ’ re working with the right cloud managed services provider ?
Ask Syngenta , and they ’ d probably say the right partner is cloud-native . One that looks after your cloud environment in a reliable way while boosting agility , increasing speed to market , and unearthing major cost savings .
Syngenta is a leading Agricultural Technology ( AgTech ) company . Helping farmers improve yield , increase profitability and grow more sustainably are key factors underpinning the company ’ s strategy .
Cloud and data play major roles in connecting farmers with their technologies . Syngenta has a strong cloud and IT team , and were used to working with traditional CSIs and hyper-scalers to manage their environments .
It ’ s this added value that means some of the biggest and best companies are shifting to cloudnative MSPs to look after their environments .
Cloud natives know how to boost performance while reducing costs . They ’ ll deliver best practices to drive efficiencies . They make clever improvements that cut licence and capacity costs or reduce technical or security risks .
Cloud natives strengthen security without slowing enterprises down . They know how to implement bestpractice governance , take care of security operations , or conduct a Zero-Trust maturity assessment .
The impact of this approach is an agile , secure and reliable cloud team and environment that empowers the entire organisation .
Syngenta started working with Nordcloud in 2020 . At first , we came in to help migrate some workloads to the cloud . It was an opportunity to sow the seeds of a different , cloud-native approach .
There was a clear difference in how lean and nimble this approach was . So , when the team needed help with automations , we also got involved with those . The result : manual tasks that might ’ ve taken many hours previously could be completed in 10 minutes or less . Account vending processes that used to take many days were shortened to 5 hours .
Then the cost savings . Our FinOps experts took a microscope to the environment to identify potential savings . They harvested information around rightsizing , utilisation , and resource optimisation , identifying half a million euro a month in cloud savings .