IIS Technology

A Data Center means exactly that. It’s the center of your operations. As such, any level below optimal is hurting performance, capabilities, ROI, and more.

IIS installs and delivers Data Center Solutions that can add flexibility across your infrastructure, simplify management, lower cost of ownership, and protect investments.

We begin by assessing these areas:

• IT operations (provisioning, data mobility, application rollout and support)
• Network overview (LAN and WAN design and costs)
• Backup design and operation (Backup and recovery times, retention, archiving)
• Storage network infrastructure
• Disaster recovery capabilities (including application recovery)

Our assessment results determine where you can make improvements to simplify operations, provide better means of protection and recovery for critical applications, and where costs and service levels can be improved.

If your enterprise is like most, you're probably spending 70% or more of your IT budget on ongoing operations and maintenance. This leaves only 30% for innovation and investment back into the business.

Leading industry analyst firm Forrester suggests companies shift to spending 60 percent or less of the IT budget on maintenance and 40 percent or more on innovation. This will achieve better alignment between IT spend and business needs. Yet, most enterprises are not sure where to begin.

IIS can help you with a wide range of transformation assessments. Together with HP, our experts provide rapid-turn consulting services as a great first step as you look to jump-start or re-start your infrastructure and applications modernization efforts.

Depending on both your immediate and long-term needs, we can execute Virtualization assessments, Security and Risk assessments, Infrastructure Modernization assessments, Environmental assessments, and more.

Our toolsets and software run in the background of your system and can analyze an endless number of operational conditions. We analyze the results quantitively, and just as importantly, qualitatively, to make powerful and transformational recommendations from there. Assessment is a science, but there’s also elements of art - we make part of our mission to always bring creativity and inspiration to assessment.

Virtualization Assessment Service

Physical and Virtual Server Assessment Services

Services are delivered remotely over a one to two week period. A virtual data collector and reporting tools are installed to collect information on the virtual and physical infrastructure. The information is then analyzed and a customized best practices recommendation document is prepared with remediation recommendations.

Requirements

• Virtual machine for installation of collectors
• IP connectivity and Administrator equivalent account for data collection
• Setup of data collectors

Deliverables

Gap Analysis

• Collect and review performance and configuration data
• Prepare virtualization analysis based on industry best practices
• Prioritize recommendations

Remediation Plan

• Develop virtualization plan designed to address server virtualization with the highest ROI
• Review gap analysis and virtualization recommendations with customer

Consulting Services Proposal

• Develop customized proposal to implement their virtualization recommendations

Virtualization, being the young area it is, holds both incredible opportunity and the potential to go somewhat astray if not delivered and implemented expertly and on target.
In partnership with HP, our Virtualization Services can maximize the positive opportunity. To help you realize the results that virtualization promises, we offer consulting, education, implementation and support services.

Through Virtualization Services we help you develop a virtualization strategy that matches your business and IT needs. We design the solution. We can install the solution, train your staff and help you transition it into production. And we help you merge your virtualized environment into effective and efficient operations processes.

The drive to virtualization—for data centers and clients—promises to reduce both acquisition costs and operations expenditures. And it can give IT more control over a complex environment. receive with dedicated resources.

Virtualization Services help you achieve those benefits promised, helping your enterprise deliver on its promise.

Virtualization Infrastructure 
Best Practice Jump Start Service

Virtualization Deployment Services

Services are delivered on site with some of the work being performed remotely. This service is intended to provide full turn-key installation of a virtual environment based on proven best practice recommendations and includes knowledge transfer and documentation.

Requirements

• LAN, WAN & SAN design and diagrams
• Servers, licenses, network interfaces, SAN
• Access to LAN/WAN/SAN/server Administrators

Deliverables

Plan

• Verify virtualization readiness
• Review design
• Schedule resources and necessary maintenance windows
• Identify servers to be virtualized

Build

• Install ESXi
• Create sites/clusters and resource pools
• Configure Network connection and virtual switches
• Specify SAN requirements
• Configure resource allocations
• Configure and Setup virtualization LUNs

Deploy

• Create up to VMs/templates
• P-to-V up to 1 physical servers
• Document environment
• Provide operational BEST practice recommendations
• Knowledge transfer for up to 4 individuals

Virtualization Assessment Service

Physical and Virtual Server Assessment Services

Services are delivered remotely over a one to two week period. A virtual data collector and reporting tools are installed to collect information on the virtual and physical infrastructure. The information is then analyzed and a customized best practices recommendation document is prepared with remediation recommendations.

Requirements

• Virtual machine for installation of collectors
• IP connectivity and Administrator equivalent account for data collection
• Setup of data collectors

Deliverables

Gap Analysis

• Collect and review performance and configuration data
• Prepare virtualization analysis based on industry best practices
• Prioritize recommendations

Remediation Plan

• Develop virtualization plan designed to address server virtualization with the highest ROI
• Review gap analysis and virtualization recommendations with customer

Consulting Services Proposal

• Develop customized proposal to implement their virtualization recommendations

If our mission becomes a move to the Cloud, then along with Cloud Solutions come Cloud Services and Consulting from IIS, and our experts who can guide your enterprise through the entire Cloud process.

Areas that you can benefit from include:

• Application Transformation to Cloud Services- 
Determine the cloud suitability of your applications. Identify what actions you need to take to run your applications in the cloud. This is an essential step in planning the transformation of your application and infrastructure environment.
• Cloud Consulting Services: 
Includes planning, design and implementation services. These services help you understand the technology implications of your cloud strategy as well as the people and process elements.
• Cloud Education Services
: Train your staff and manage through your cloud convergence.
• Datacenter Care Service
: Analyze your current state and applications. Plan for your future state with design, deployment and operating processes, while evolving your data center towards converged cloud.