IT management is faced with the challenge of imploding budgets while increased business demands are placed on generating value through the IT infrastructure and an overextended staff. Infrastructure Management is the complete end to end planning and maintenance of your technology assets. If not executed correctly, it is the area that can absolutely destroy an IT budget with a constant barrage of problems stretching the IT staff to the maximum with the only result being customer dissatisfaction. With consolidation and a higher dependence on consistent and stable IT delivery, it is more important than ever to have an outstanding team assisting and supporting all aspects of your infrastructure. The ValCom team has consistently won awards from major manufacturers for the consistently high rankings of service and customer satisfaction levels. From desktop management to Active Directory planning and implementation, ValCom has the qualifications and experience to make a major impact at how technology is deployed in your organization. ValCom’s staff maintains a high level of commitment to drive down the cost of deploying IT through precise planning, best practice integration and maintaining your infrastructure, resulting in a steady state environment and user satisfaction.
Industry analysts agree that storage requirements continue to grow at a rate of 50% to 125% per year. Surveys performed by Meta Group indicate that the low cost SATA/ATA storage market alone will grow 85% in the next 12 months. A core challenge for all IT executives is how to manage more data with fewer resources and improve on the existing return on data retention investments. The challenge gets more complex when compliance issues for HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC requirements and new state legislation become part of the overall issue. How efficient your data strategy is will strongly indicate how cost effective your data storage management is. Are there multiple copies of the same file stored in multiple places on the network? Is the file that hasn’t been accessed for twelve months on the same high speed storage subsystem as the files that are accessed every day? Do you have the tools to track the location and usage of data within the company to help IT successfully handle issues from audits to disasters? A high return from storage investments requires a data strategy that is a combination of processes and tools. ValCom can help you with your data strategy by:
As best of breed technologies create a heterogeneous environment and there is a higher need to adapt to dynamic business requirements, companies begin to struggle with the complexities of how to best integrate and manage their investments while enabling greater returns from their technologies. ValCom has the expertise to leverage innovation to reduce costs and improve IT execution through workload consolidation and resource optimization. High performance, better utilization of existing IT assets and optimization of IT inventory can make a quantum leap in extending the value potential of the enterprise without sacrificing the quality or availability of service. ValCom will utilize the latest tools to collect network transaction data, provide you with a detailed analysis of the measurements, make recommendations for sustainable improvements and, if desired, can be depended on to implement those changes.
Thriving in a highly competitive and extremely benefit and value minded business environment requires more than just buying some technology and then setting the correct set of configuration parameters. From a strategic level, an agile network takes the company’s business objectives and focuses on using IT to improve the core competitive strengths of the organization. Technology must be pre-planned; not only to what impact it can bring to the business now, but how it can exploit additional synergies in the future in a heterogeneous environment to continuously drive impact and value. ValCom consultants can help build a bullet-proof plan for success by understanding your environment, identify technologies to align solutions with your business goals and help create a compelling business case to implement these technologies. ValCom can offer:
ValCom's depth of technical expertise, reliable services and utilization of industry best-practices cover every aspect of your IT infrastructure - from the desktop to infrastructure management and security. We can provide network integration, Active Directory design, LAN/WAN design, security, staffing, internet and networking consulting, either on-site or remotely. ValCom believes that a complete understanding the customer's need is essential. Our experienced engineers, project managers and managers will work closely with you to understand your needs and goals along with your environment. ValCom will conduct a needs analysis and document what we understand your needs are. We will clearly present in writing details, issues, processes, recommendations and options for you to consider. ValCom’s goal is to eliminate cost over-runs and project completion problems through proper planning, good communication and accountability.
ValCom's Mission Critical Support Team covers every aspect of server support and repair, from telephone assistance to on-site service, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our support specialists and system engineers are prepared to handle any network outage to ensure that your downtime and costs are kept to a minimum. With increased end-user support, environmental challenges and budget constraints, many businesses are finding it both costly and nearly impossible to face the difficult challenges of supporting complex local, wide and storage area network environments. ValCom's Mission Critical Services offerings are designed to meet those challenges with: