Small, focused teams - undiluted talent and expertise
The firm deliberately operates with small teams to focus on the quality delivery of consulting services from senior, experienced practitioners only. While small, we have an extraordinary knowledge base, with deep experience in technology, business and IT processes, and organizational transformation.Services
Our consulting services are centered on your most critical challenges and opportunities in strategy, organization, operations, transformation, technology, digital, analytics, governance and risk. We bring in-depth technical and functional expertise, but we are also recognized for analysis and delivery that spans silos and delivers value across the board. Working effectively with your staff up through the c-suite and board of directors, our solutions are more than just strategy or tactical; we deliver operational outcomes that meet strategic objectives.
IT Infrastructure and Operations Assessment
Regardless of size, companies today want to ensure that their IT Infrastructure is not only reliable, but is
architected and designed to support existing and future business opportunities. Too often times
maintaining and advancing technology along with the business, is overlooked or postponed, and not
aligned with the business. This can be true whether your IT infrastructure is on premise or sourced.
Further, IT Operations that support the business must also be agile, and adapt to business demands.
Business development and growth should not be deterred by IT technology or operations.
Management Partners helps these companies by assessing the current technology, current business
initiatives, and future business strategies and develops a program to ensure alignment.
Assessment Reports include the status and gap analysis of the following:
•
Data Center, including facility profile and age, tier rating, locations, owned or third party, security,
maintenance, power and cooling
•
Mainframe environment, including LPARs, maintenance, pricing if third party, capacity
•
Server infrastructure
o
Physical platforms – Wintel, Unix/Linux, etc.
o
Virtual environments
o
Application environments – Dev, Test, Prod
o
Security, Monitoring and Tools
•
Storage and Backup, including SAN, NAS, VTL, etc.
•
Network & Telecommunications – LAN/WAN, data and voice circuits, routing, security, firewalls,
telecom equipment, call centers
•
ITIL Processes & Procedures, including Change Control, Incident, Problem and Demand
Management
•
Other Infrastructure
o
Email – Exchange, Office 365
o
Collaboration Tools – WebEx, Microsoft Lync/Skype
o
High Availability (HA)/Redundancy
o
Refresh – Hardware, Facilities
o
Maintenance Plans/Contracts
o
Help Desk and Deskside Support
o
SLAs
o
Sarbanes-Oxley
•
Agile Infrastructure
o
Private, Hybrid and Public cloud
o
Hyperscale computing
o
Agile Maturity Model
o
Continuous integration, testing and deployment
o
DevOps
o
IaaS, PaaS
o
Organizational integration
o
Agile Metrics and communications capabilities
•
Disaster Recovery data center and infrastructure
•
Sourcing and Cloud Adoption
•
Contract Management
o
Review and assess current contracts
o
Assess Contract Change Management Process
o
Identify key renewals terms and conditions
o
Identify industry best practices
IT Infrastructure and Operations Assessment
© 2017 Management Partners, Inc.
Small, focused teams - undiluted talent and expertise
The firm deliberately operates with small teams to focus on the quality delivery of consulting services from senior, experienced practitioners only. While small, we have an extraordinary knowledge base, with deep experience in technology, business and IT processes, and organizational transformation.
IT Infrastructure and Operations Assessment
Regardless of size, companies today want to ensure that their IT Infrastructure is
not only reliable, but is architected and designed to support existing and future
business opportunities. Too often times maintaining and advancing technology
along with the business, is overlooked or postponed, and not aligned with the
business. This can be true whether your IT infrastructure is on premise or sourced.
Further, IT Operations that support the business must also be agile, and adapt to
business demands. Business development and growth should not be deterred by
IT technology or operations.
Management Partners helps these companies by assessing the current technology,
current business initiatives, and future business strategies and develops a program
to ensure alignment.
Assessment Reports include the status and gap analysis of the following:
•
Data Center, including facility profile and age, tier rating, locations, owned
or third party, security, maintenance, power and cooling
•
Mainframe environment, including LPARs, maintenance, pricing if third
party, capacity
•
Server infrastructure
o
Physical platforms – Wintel, Unix/Linux, etc.
o
Virtual environments
o
Application environments – Dev, Test, Prod
o
Security, Monitoring and Tools
•
Storage and Backup, including SAN, NAS, VTL, etc.
•
Network & Telecommunications – LAN/WAN, data and voice circuits,
routing, security, firewalls, telecom equipment, call centers
•
ITIL Processes & Procedures, including Change Control, Incident, Problem
and Demand Management
•
Other Infrastructure
o
Email – Exchange, Office 365
o
Collaboration Tools – WebEx, Microsoft Lync/Skype
o
High Availability (HA)/Redundancy
o
Refresh – Hardware, Facilities
o
Maintenance Plans/Contracts
o
Help Desk and Deskside Support
o
SLAs
o
Sarbanes-Oxley
•
Agile Infrastructure
o
Private, Hybrid and Public cloud
o
Hyperscale computing
o
Agile Maturity Model
o
Continuous integration, testing and deployment
o
DevOps
o
IaaS, PaaS
o
Organizational integration
o
Agile Metrics and communications capabilities
•
Disaster Recovery data center and infrastructure
•
Sourcing and Cloud Adoption
•
Contract Management
o
Review and assess current contracts
o
Assess Contract Change Management Process
o
Identify key renewals terms and conditions
o
Identify industry best practices
© 2017 Management Partners, Inc.
Services
Our consulting services are centered on your most critical challenges and opportunities in strategy, organization, operations, transformation, technology, digital, analytics, governance and risk. We bring in-depth technical and functional expertise, but we are also recognized for analysis and delivery that spans silos and delivers value across the board. Working effectively with your staff up through the c-suite and board of directors, our solutions are more than just strategy or tactical; we deliver operational outcomes that meet strategic objectives.
IT Infrastructure and Operations Assessment
MANAGEMENT PARTNERS
- Services - Overview
- Pre/Post M&A Assessment and Strategy
- Interim Executive Services
- Operational and Organization Transformation
- Strategic Sourcing
- Managed Service Integration and Sourcing
- Global Strategy
- IT Infrastructure and Operations Assessment
- Infrastructure Risk Assessment
- Data Center Design / Build / Relocate
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Operational Excellence
- Enterprise Information Management
MANAGEMENT PARTNERS
- Services - Overview
- Pre/Post M&A Assessment and Strategy
- Interim Executive Services
- Operational and Organization Transformation
- Strategic Sourcing
- Managed Service Integration and Sourcing
- Global Strategy
- IT Infrastructure and Operations Assessment
- Infrastructure Risk Assessment
- Data Center Design / Build / Relocate
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Operational Excellence
- Enterprise Information Management
