Infrastructure
Is your Infrastructure as stable, cost effective and as scalable as it could be?
One of the major challenges companies face today is building and maintaining a stable, cost effective and scalable environment that supports their current and future business goals and objectives.
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Architecture
Architecture - Concord's infrastructure solutions are based on a comprehensive approach to improving business capacity by fine tuning or overhauling your underlying technology infrastructure to ensure you have the most cost effective and efficient processes and systems. Whether your goals are to use power more efficiently, diminish infrastructure complexity, virtualize, consolidate or ensure your organization is prepared for disaster, Concord's solutions are customized to meet your unique company needs.
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Governance Vision, Strategy & Roadmap Tools Program/Project Management Requirements and Purchasing CMDB Data Center Optimization |
Best Practices & Standards Competency Centers Distribution of hardware/software Tools to control assets and manage machines ITIL COBIT ROI Modeling |
| Virtualization
Virtualization - As companies realize the cost to power their data centers, many cases are surpassing the cost of the equipment itself and there is increased focus on improving those operating efficiencies. Concord's approach to virtualization allows our clients to increase the ROI on their existing and future server expenditures by maximizing resources, optimizing deployment and development processes, reducing business continuity costs and mitigating their security concerns.
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Architecture and design of storage, host and product Server Evaluations |
VMWare Microsoft Oracle Mainframe Partitioning |
| Network Integration
Network Integration - Concord provides network integration consulting and project management expertise to assist in deploying and managing converging technologies like voice, data and video.
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Voice, Video and Data Local Area and Wide Area Networks Hardware Standards, Protocol and Best Practices |
Standardized images Deployment policies Tools to control assets Tools to manage machines |
| Server Architecture
Server Architecture - Companies today have increasing power and space demands that are essential to the success of meeting strategic business objectives. Starting with the clients' current state, Concord uses industry best practices, standards and protocols to customize a solution to each organization's unique needs.
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Evaluation of Environment Define Standards Scale Infrastructure Evaluate System Utilization Define Current and Future State |
Engineering Databases Operating Systems Client/Server Remote Access Application Installation |
| Capacity Planning
Capacity Planning - Concord will facilitate planning for hardware consolidation, expansion and performance-problem identification. Consistent with the ITIL Framework, decisions about specific architecture changes will become business decisions, based upon delivered business services.
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Storage/Host and Network-based Capacity Management System performance and utilization Tiered Storage and Archival Demand/Supply Forecasting Statistical Analysis and Reporting Metrics |
Monitoring and Modeling Automated Frameworks SAS/Oracle Capacity Mgmt. Information Systems (CMIS) Tivioli/BMC Patrol/HP Openview EMCSmarts |