Virtual Infrastructure

• Benefits include dramaticly increased speed and flexibility allowing near real time response to changing business needs while minimizing the administrative complexity of overall data center operations
• Provides greater risk management controls during data center server and application consolidation and migration activities
• Services offered: business case development, server virtualization assessments, server and desktop virtualization pilots and proofs of concept, full scale planning, design and migration services, and server and application consolidation and rationalization

Data Center Planning

• Benefits include consolidation and optimization of existing datacenter assets
• Determination of key sourcing strategies (in-source, outsource, co-source)
• Establishment of target state requirements and architecture
• Analysis of migration strategies
• Development of customized consolidation recommendations and/or relocation plans for data center transformation

Data Center Network Architecture and Engineering

• Identification of touch points within the current environment
• Creation of configuration standards
• Development of system test plans
• Development of transition plans for turnover to the operational environment
• Focus design areas: LAN, VLAN, WAN, WLAN, Fiber Channel, Dynamic Routing, Content Caching and Streaming, IP/Subnet, QoS, and Convergence

Data Center Migration

• Manage logistics, leadership, and technical resource coordination
• Application service performance and availability profiling and baselines
• Application service migration
• Physical equipment moves
• Testing and acceptance processes and procedures that are key activities in any large scale migration

Data Center Management

• Network monitoring
• Server management
• Failover/Disaster Recovery