Case Studies
Ridgeview Medical Center
Health Care organization with growing IT expectations led to the need to have increased data center visibility and expertise on an ongoing basis.
Client Challenge
- Increasing business demands
- Growing disaster recovery expectations
- Visibility into data centers and critical environments
- Facility management communication challenges
Services provided "Data Center Management as a Service"
- Capacity management, cost forecasting
- Site audits, best practice recommendations, inventory management
- Standard development and management
- Implementation management
End result
- Capacity aligned with business needs
- Clear understanding of growth and cost
- Compliance with standards
- Training of team members
- N+1 testing to ensure reliability
Pharmaceutical Company
Growing business demands with two aging regional data centers. Renovate and modernize existing data centers. Site audits, capacity management, cost forecasting, standard development, implementation management.
Client Challenge
- Aging primary and secondary data centers
- Need to develop a road map for data center upgrades over time
- Risk to existing IT environment during facility upgrades
Services provided "Advisory Services"
- Business and IT reliability assessment and review
- Growth forecasting
- Phasing approach, design and budget creation
- Presentation and recommendation
- Implementation and risk management
End result
- Phased approach on data center upgrades
- Multi-year budget creation
- Updates to both primary and secondary data centers
- Limited planned and un planned down time
- Minimized business impact
Transportation Company
Client Challenge
- Increasing business expectations of disaster recovery
- Disaster recovery site with increasing risk
- Current DR reaching end of life capability
- Equipment end of life
Services Provided
- Development of IT construction requirements
- Master planning
- Detailed data center design
- Product recommendation and selection
- Procurement management
- Implementation management
End Results
- Expectation alignment
- IT data center construction requirements
- Master plan to support current and future technologies
- In design
- Starting construction
Osseo Minnesota Schools
Data center failures interrupting the ability to deliver technology to the classroom. Master planning and phased approach to improve the overall reliabity and functionality of the data center.
Client Challenge
- Aging data center with multiple failure points
- Growing expectations for technology delivery to the classroom
- Painful outages
- Balance upgrades with budget constraints
Services provided "Advisory Services"
- Master planning
- Budget development
- Capacity forecasting
- Detailed design
- Product selection
- Implementation management
End Result
- Phased approach to align with budget capability
- Detailed data center drawings
- Growth forecast
- Product recommendation
- Implementation guidance
- Punch list development and vendor communication
High Tech Company
Client Challenge
- Sale of corporate site containing the primary data center
- Large number of 3rd party connections (voice and data)
- Scale across two colocations and cloud backup
- Old application and new staff
Services Provided
- Migration strategy
- Pre-move planning
- Data gathering and application mapping
- Event management
- 1st day of service oversight
- Problem resolution
End Results
- New built out co-location environment
- (3) Event Migration
- (274) VM's, (65) devices, (100+) websites, (85) business applications
- Virtual, physical, voice and call center
- Minimal customer impact
- Focused resolution of issues