Data Center Consulting

Datatrend can assist you with …

• Strategy
• Best Practices Processes
• Staff Augmentation
• Server, Data Center, and Storage Management

Getting a handle on your data center involves aligning your objectives, your needs, your staff, and your infrastructure. Datatrend’s experts are highly skilled in the complicated process of aligning all of these aspects for optimal data center control and management.

A Wide Range of Data Center Consulting Services

Our data center consulting services include the following:

• Strategy formulation - Long range planning, technology strategy, and proactive optimization of computing resources are key areas of our expertise. Datatrend can help you with a comprehensive strategy that drives real cost savings through carefully planned initiatives, or simply provide needed strategic consulting to help you develop the right strategy, plan, or approach to solve a specific challenge.
  
  
• Data center design and planning - Datatrend can assist you with all aspects of data center plant management including construction, additions, migrations, consolidations, floor planning, power and cooling, security, troubleshooting, and more. Our team of certified project managers and experienced engineers will design and implement a solution that results in an optimized data center environment.
  
  
• Best practices improvements - Our team can help with the evaluation and recommendation of industry standards and practices, such as ITIL process framework and Six Sigma quality standardization. We can also assist with IT policy formulation and implementation, such as data retention, compliance management, server/storage management disciplines, and security. Moreover, we can help you improve efficiency through organizational assessments/alignments, process improvements, and staff consolidations.
  
  
  • ITIL Best Practices - Learn more about how Datatrend can help you drive real gains in the efficiency and effectiveness of your business through IT service management optimization
    
    
  • Data Center Automation - Find out more about Datatrend's capabilities in Data Center Automation solutions to help you streamline your IT operations
    
    
• Staff augmentation – see below for more details.
  
  
• Server, Data Center, and Storage Management – Includes SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage) planning and implementation; fail-over redundancy planning and implementation; optimization of server and storage resources; recovery of underutilized resources; migrations and conversions; systems and storage management strategies, disciplines and technologies; as well as solutions to challenges posed by relocation or consolidation. And these are just a few of the many areas we can address.

Staff Augmentation

Many organizations have a need – whether on a one-time, occasional, or ongoing basis – to supplement their existing IT team with technical professionals. Datatrend can help customers by augmenting their staff with individuals who possess the key skills they need for a given project or initiative.

Datatrend has a deep, rich bench of experienced IT professionals that are available as consultants or as an integrated team member. Skill areas range from CIO level consulting to hands-on engineering, architecture, and systems administration.

Learn More about Data Center Consulting here.