Corporate Technologies’ professional services organization can help you realize a computing infrastructure that will satisfy your business needs today and will scale to meet tomorrow’s—through our four-part methodology.

Architect
We start by working closely with clients to develop the optimum infrastructure blueprint that will satisfy their particular needs. We fully analyze business drivers, taking into account both application and industry requirements, so you can be sure you are getting the best use of every IT asset in your organization.

For example, some applications with stringent high-availability requirements—such as those found in financial services organizations—are best supported by a highly redundant computing network. Compute-intensive applications—such as those required by R&D and life sciences firms—may best be supported by a single large computing device that provides highly efficient use of system resources.

Corporate Technologies also takes your existing IT infrastructure into account.
We audit your current systems to leverage and optimize what you already have in place. If we discover underutilized capacity, we may use it for anticipated spikes in demand. If we see the need for additional computing resources, we ensure that any technology we recommend fully complements that already installed.

And because our professional services professionals take a holistic view of your entire enterprise, you not only get a state-of-the-art computing infrastructure. You also get one that takes into account the complexities of integration, capacity planning, network security, and licensing.

Integrate
The architectural design of best-practice IT infrastructures is just the beginning of Corporate Technologies’ professional services. Before we integrate a new solution into your production environment, we bring all the hardware and software components together in our unique Interoperability Lab, to ensure all goals established in the architectural phase are met. Only then do we integrate the new solution into your existing IT infrastructure. To ensure that the integration goes smoothly, the engineers responsible for testing the solution in our Lab are the same ones who integrate the solution in the field.

Corporate Technologies not only expertly implements the design so your infrastructure performs flawlessly—we do it quickly. Our proprietary Auto-Build Process “memorizes” your operating system and application, and it automatically replicates them on identically configured servers, delivering a rapid and consistent integration.

And because we are sensitive to your business and regulatory requirements, our integration always take both into account. In a financial services organization with low-to-no tolerance for downtime, for example, we would develop new infrastructure fully off-line before cutting it over.

Optimize
Corporate Technologies also ensures that your infrastructure is optimized on several levels. To reduce data center costs and complexity—while deploying new services and managing unpredictable data growth—we help clients consolidate servers. Our professional services engineers are expert at migrating information from disparate systems to a single server—with no interruption in service or impact on performance.

We also optimize infrastructure so it can be sustained—either by your IT group or our professional services. Because we design every infrastructure with best practices in mind, we readily accommodate all your important upgrades—hardware, software, or firmware.

Support
Corporate Technologies’ professional services team provides comprehensive support throughout the client engagement, from architecting an infrastructure solution through optimization.

We are highly knowledgeable about how IT infrastructure products work in a wide variety of production environments, and we can provide clients with advanced project management skills. Corporate Technologies routinely project-manages multimillion dollar engagements to ensure that our solutions meet agreed-to time, budget, and business requirements.

At the end of an engagement, we collaborate with our client’s IT staff to ensure full knowledge transfer, supported by excellent and comprehensive documentation. Post-engagement, we remain fully available on a consulting basis, whether to answer routine questions or advise on system upgrades and updates.