Optimized Infrastructure and Application Architecture

An optimized IT Infrastructure reduces IT maintenance costs, delivers higher levels of service to your IT consumers, and empowers the business to dynamically leverage technology to gain competitive advantage.

Optimization enables a business to realize the full value of its IT infrastructure and platform investments and establishes IT as a strategic business asset that can facilitate innovation and respond quickly to change.

The diagram below illustrates Microsoft’s approach to adapting Gartner’s IT Infrastructure and Operations Maturity Model to help IT organizations evaluate their maturity and capabilities related to technology and operational aspects of their environment. IT’s goal should be one of continual improvement through refinement of processes and application of appropriate technology solutions to move to higher levels of optimization.

Statera offers the following services to help your organization achieve higher efficiencies and deliver higher service levels, while driving down operational and administrative costs.

• Infrastructure Optimization Assessment
  • Statera can help you evaluate your current state of IT optimization through a comprehensive assessment of your IT infrastructure in regard to people, process and technology. Statera can tailor the appropriate assessment scope for your organization, identify areas of improvement, and provide recommendations and roadmaps to desired state goals.
• Application Architecture
  • Applications (Microsoft and non-Microsoft) that utilize the Microsoft Windows Operating System platform need the proper server architecture to meet performance and reliability goals. Statera can architect high availability and performance into your applications by leveraging best practices in server configuration, clustering, storage, capacity planning and load balancing, to name a few. Statera has deep experience designing scalable, high performance server platforms for Microsoft applications such as SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Biztalk, MS SQL, and others.
• High Availability
  • Statera designs and engineers high availability clustered server platforms using proven clustering technologies from Microsoft and technology partners.
• Server Based Computing/Thin client
  • Statera can design and deploy thin client solutions based on Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Manager to deliver centrally hosted and managed applications that reduce administrative overhead, reducing costs and network bandwidth usage.
• ITIL Process Engineering
  • ITIL (IT Information Library) is gaining widespread adoption as a recognized compilation of IT services and best practices. Statera can help define ITIL processes so that your organization can adapt IT processes to your support organization and improve service levels.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  • Statera offers comprehensive DR/BC services that include planning and deployment to enable your organization to quickly recover from a disaster event and restore business critical IT services. Or fail over in the event of a disaster.s
  • Statera can perform Business Impact Assessments (BIAs), Risk Analysis, Technology, Hosting, and Product Recommendations to deploy workable DR/BC solutions specific to your unique business requirements.
  • Create DR plans and provide processes to regularly test the plan and modify based on changing business requirements.