You’ve just been told that your company is about to double in size in six months. You think you have a plan in place for adding workstations, expanding your server capacity, and adding physical connectivity. But now you are worried about bandwidth and capacity. One of the teams has been complaining lately about file transfer speeds, and every now and the backup window blows out, even though you just upgraded your storage. The wireless network has good and bad days, and the branch sites, well they just don’t call you anymore. Most of the time the network behaves as if it’s invisible, and while problems are usually found higher in the stack, sometimes it’s tough to rule it out as a root cause.
A network evaluation is a good place to start. It’s a cost effective and will give you deep insight into a piece of your infrastructure you may not be fully familiar with. We can provide assessments based on performance, relevance, scale and reliability. We’ll look at overall design, growth areas and best practices. If you wish, you’ll be provided with a comprehensive document which describes it’s state in granular detail. Once you have the full picture we can provide a roadmap for improvement.
It doesn’t matter which network vendor you use, networks are built mostly on open standards. Network Assessment documents can be helpful when shopping around, and help your vendors understand the way things are, and what you need. If you have structured purchasing processes, like RFP, then you will save some time when it comes to writing up requirements.
Contact us today about a Network Evaluation.