The cloud is no longer an outlier but an essential part of business transformation strategies. Cloud has been, and continues to be, is a strategic key to unlocking growth. Still, some organizations struggle to overcome the barriers of cloud to fully adopt it into their infrastructure. Hybrid Cloud offers a way to address these obstacles to create adaptable, efficient operations. Evolving Solutions has defined an approach, with Modern Operations at its foundation. This approach enables businesses of all sizes to take full advantage of the opportunities that the cloud has to offer – and evolve and thrive in any situation. Evolving Solutions CEO Jaime Gmach sat down with the CEOViews team to share details on how they help business accelerate their growth.
Introduction
Evolving Solutions is a technology solutions provider that helps clients modernize and automate their mission-critical applications and infrastructure to support business transformation. Their business is focused on client-centric consulting and delivery of technical solutions that enable modern operations in a hybrid cloud world.
Since its inception, the team at Evolving Solutions has kept its clients’ goals at the forefront of everything they do. They deliver technology solutions that are closely aligned with clients’ business objectives, providing them with the agility and innovation to succeed in an ever-changing world. This means that the company is constantly expanding and advancing to better meet client needs. Most recently, this has involved building and investing in transformative technology areas including modern networking, observability, hybrid cloud, DevOps, and automation and orchestration.
Journey & Legacy
Evolving Solutions has been in business for 27 years and the pace of technology change is faster than ever. The name Evolving Solutions is meaningful as it represents the company’s reputation for expertise and shared values with clients and vendor partners. It also highlights the company’s recognition that change is constant, especially in the technology industry.
The success and growth of Evolving Solutions is attributed to the talented people it hires, develops, and supports. The company has an employee tenure above industry norms and continues to seek out top talent. In 2022, Evolving Solutions was recognized as a Star Tribune Top Workplace, ranking #6 in its category. The Top Workplaces program recognizes the most progressive companies headquartered in Minnesota based on employee opinions measuring engagement, organizational health, and satisfaction.
Approach
Evolving Solution’s overarching approach is driven by the theme of Modern Operations to enable a future-ready business.
The organization defines Modern Operations as the processes, skills, and tools required to ensure a hybrid cloud environment is stable, available, reliable, secure, and performing as expected. It’s the capabilities IT teams have been delivering for decades, transformed to address the complexity of an environment that takes advantage of the innovation cloud provide. A Modern Operations approach has four areas of focus in addition to the platforms required: Data Protection, Automation, Observability and Data Access and Connectivity.
Evolving Solutions is a technology solutions provider that helps clients in modernize and automate their mission-critical applications and infrastructure to support business transformation.
To succeed at IT transformation, there are a few things to keep in mind.
First, many of the disciplines are the same, but teams need to learn to do them with code. This requires learning new skills, adopting tools and processes that may seem foreign at first, but are well aligned with the historical mission of an operations team.
Second, it’s a proactive approach to supporting the innovation of an organization. A modern operations environment is easy for developers to consume and fits within their process. This reduces the last-minute changes and costly adaptations needed to support a new application – even those that get “thrown over the wall.”
The result enables a future-ready business is one that can evolve and thrive in any situation, especially unexpected and impactful events. Future readiness is based on agility, resilience, standardization, and leveraging technology tools to develop capabilities that address organizations’ needs based on market and customer demand changes.
Evolving Solutions provides strategic value to their clients by utilizing an approach that ensures technology investments fuel innovation, drive business efficiencies, and enable teams.
Hybrid-Cloud Approach
Cloud is not a place. Cloud is a set of disciplines™ is more than just a tagline for Evolving Solutions; it is how their teams work.
Evolving Solutions starts with the belief that Hybrid Cloud environments enable modern operations. A hybrid cloud is a combination of a private cloud (on-premises data center) and public cloud instances that allows data and applications to be shared between them. It offers the benefits of leveraging existing technology assets and investments while also incorporating additional capabilities from public cloud providers or as-a-service vendors. This cloud model provides the ability to scale capacity up or down to handle business demands for with the security, flexibility, resilience, and cost-efficiency businesses require to survive, compete, and grow.
The Future
According to Gmach, the last few years have taught us that disruption is the norm, and the pace of change is on a continuous cycle of acceleration.
Organizations need a partner with a perspective and approach that can help them evolve and thrive in any situation, especially the unexpected.
Evolving Solutions provides strategic value to their clients by utilizing an approach that ensures technology investments fuel innovation, drive business efficiencies, and enable teams. The hybrid cloud environment provides data resilience and security, integrates automation, captures the power of artificial intelligence (AI), and focuses on financial optimization. This is complemented by a strong set of ecosystem partners to enhance their capabilities and allow them to deliver comprehensive, cutting-edge solutions that help drive their clients’ businesses forward.
