Infrastructure Architecture and Design

Typically, an information technology architecture is the blueprint for a company’s infrastructure. Today’s business dynamics necessitate a continual assessment of your existing environment measured against your objectives. Changes in your environment are governed by your business practices, workflow, and current and future business goals.

No easy task. In today’s complex and dynamic business and IT space, even the most astute IT executive may need a trusted partner to be able to conceive and configure an enterprise architecture that provides the flexibility, adaptability, scalability and reliability needed to support a growing business.

DCi has the business and technological expertise to analyze and document your company’s IT infrastructure, align it with your business and make recommendations to help you achieve both your business and technology objectives. DCi scales its services accordingly ranging from small and mid size organizations to multibillion dollar entities including the largest Health Care Delivery network in the region and a Financial Services industry leader

	Infrastructure Architecture & Design – Technology Assessment Service DCi’s Infrastructure Architecture & Design services includes a comprehensive assessment and audit. We work with your staff to carefully analyze your current IT landscape and identify which components will continue to offer value. Our report will include the recommended action for each IT Infrastructure component, which ones have the capacity to grow with your business – either as-is or with modifications, and which ones should be eliminated.

The goal of a compliance architecture is simply to implement controls that manage, document and ensure compliance. These controls can either prevent undesired events or detect undesired events. A compliance architecture supports the integration of controls into an organization by centralizing technology controls as appropriate and using technology to help enforce process controls. Some examples of technology controls include:

	Our consultants will perform a complete assessment of your company’s: Software application suite Server suite and infrastructure Network infrastructure Telecommunication infrastructure Data storage – including all applicable backup and recovery systems RAID, SAN, NAS, clustering Disaster recovery and business continuance infrastructure and your current recovery capabilities Security – including Web and E-Commerce services, Intranets, VPNs, wireless services and the effectiveness of any firewalls, data encryption and intrusion detection systems

With this detailed view of your IT operations, the next step is the completion of a thorough audit of your existing equipment and applications and their respective funding mechanisms and warranties. Our consultants will analyze how your current environment matches up against your current and future needs and provide you with a comprehensive report and IT infrastructure blueprint. The blueprint includes an action plan with recommendations for the technology, services, processes, support and funding mechanism necessary to meet your identified business and technology goals.

We work with you to ensure your enterprise architecture satisfies business needs. We can provide technology selection and standardization, process management, project management and infrastructure software design, implementation and management. Our team can offer insight on IT governance, enterprise IT architecture and IT processes and standards

Align your IT infrastructure with your business, allow DCi to help you determine whether the infrastructure you have in place can support your goals – now and in the future. We have the expertise to help you create the technology blueprint and environment to help you succeed.

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