Enterprise Network Consultants – Professional Network Outsourcing
Outsourced IT Network Consulting and Infrastructure Strategy

Exiis Corporation is highly focused on transforming existing infrastructure strategies and designs into highly functional and reliable IT processes; specifically mapped to applications and business processes. At Exiis Corporation, our focus is to assist your organization the best way possible, by protecting your IT information data, lowering costs through virtualization of servers, storage, and network devices. By consolidating your current infrastructure, managing your IT services, and delivering highly reliable system resources, networks can grow and strive in a managed and structured environment.

We have developed a phased approach to assist organizations with infrastructure strategy planning and have capitalized on the evolving IT processes that are available in today’s competitive market. By leveraging current IT processes, our comprehensive approach provides a clear direction and assists our team in developing efficient processes, improving the productivity of your workers and building on your current infrastructure design.

Consolidating resources provides scalable, efficient, and manageable infrastructures

Understanding the business value and impact of critical information assets within your business is the first step in identifying and delivering a solution that provides stability, reliability, and centralized management. Many ad-hoc network environments experience significant losses in productivity, data loss, and storage capacity. Operational losses occur because of the lack of a structured approach to planning, continuity, and disaster recovery processes. Mission-critical data that was thought to be backed up has never been tested only to fail when a restoration is needed the most. Growing networks oftentimes rely on older, manual processes for management of network resources, complicating the management process and adding to increased inefficiencies exponentially. These and other areas of network management lead to increased costs, a reduction in services, and prevents the ability to provide scalable solutions.

By providing a comprehensive review of your current network and infrastructure resources, the enterprise consulting team of Exiis Corporation is able to provide a clear solution on how resources can be combined, easily managed, and scalable. Many legacy applications needed to maintain operations can be virtualized in an environment that will remain stable and oftentimes provide increased reliability, ridding the network of older and unnecessary servers. By reducing the dependency on hundreds of servers, hard drives, networking components, and even simple components such as server cooling fans, reduces your exposure to risk of failure and increases your overall efficiencies.

Backup and Recovery for Disaster Recovery – Disk Library Solutions

Many organizations rely on older, inefficient, and failing tape drive devices as their primary source for disaster recovery planning. Add to the inherited limitations of tape media as a backup solution, the time to restore a single, mission-critical file within an enterprise can be time-intensive and inefficient, especially when that information is needed immediately. Having a structured, best practice approach to network archiving processes, availability to network backup datasets, and access to this information is viable to the survivability of any enterprise backup strategy solution.

Taking advantage of improved hard disk backup technologies is paramount to any growing network and to meeting the needs of disaster recovery and continuity goals. By replacing aging tape drives, libraries, and related equipment with enterprise solutions, such as a CLARiiON Disk Library solution will improve recovery processes dramatically. Systems such as CLARiiON will allow IT staff and management to quickly and efficiently backup and restore both minor and major changes seamlessly and easily. Access to mission-critical applications and their related data, such as Enterprise Customer Relations Management (CRM) information, Enterprise Resources Processes, internal portal information from content management solutions such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), or replacing mission-critical e-mail services such as Microsoft Exchange Server is available for immediate restoration and operations.

Archiving and retaining historical data information can be somewhat challenging—information considered to be invaluable for the success of certain operations or development processes are notoriously known for hogging network resources, data storage, and overall network performance. By identifying and determining the essential requirements for data archiving, solutions can be put into place to automatically move this information on a regularly scheduled basis. By capturing network processes, analyzing data requests, and understanding historical references, Exiis Corporation consultants and infrastructure architects can determine the optimal solution for your environment.

Affects of Efficient Disk-based Solutions

Benefits that result by moving from tape-based backup solutions to disk-based cannot be emphasized enough. For one client, the time to execute a full production dataset for a mission-critical Office SharePoint Portal solution went from seven hours to one! The solution provided additional benefits such as reducing the required disk space for many applications because the need for a business continuance volume was eliminated from the process, Time to recover files were also dramatically improved from 9 GB an hour to 45 GB an hour! Immediate benefits included a shorter learning curve for IT management and staff, the ability to build on top of existing backup requirements, and the higher reliability and availability to stored network information.

Business Continuity and Reliability

Enterprise networks need to deliver information and business processes 24x7 regardless of natural or man-made disasters. Rapidly growing infrastructures combined with an under-staffed IT team can spell disaster in the case of a local or regional disaster. Business Continuity Planning and regularly scheduled failover testing scenarios must be at the heart of every organizations information technology department. Exiis Corporation consultants and systems architects can assist organizations in determining and classifying applications that are mission-critical in nature and absolutely required for the continued success of the organization. During a recent evaluation, one of our clients identified over 200 applications across several functional groups and was totally convinced these were required for continued business operations and the success of the organization. Exiis Corporations IT team was able to identify that out of the 200 applications listed, only 28 were absolutely required for continued operations and, with proper consolidation of network resources and applications the number of applications could be reduced to somewhere around 15-18 mission-critical services.

A false persona of network security and stability can exist within enterprise networks; the feeling that the company is so big and that IT has massive backup and restore processes in place, negates the need for management and staff to review on-going network processes and mission-critical continuity. By assessing the current infrastructure and continuity plans, Exiis Corporation can uncover inefficiencies that exist and assist the organization in determining and providing solutions that support and deliver a solid continuity plan.