Advisory & Transformation Data Center Solutions

Agilant Data Center Services are led by a consultative approach, with the goals of creating better business outcomes and a fantastic end-user experience.

A broad portfolio of end-to-end services designed to deliver better business outcomes by improving the efficiency, agility, and security of customer IT infrastructure, systems, and processes.

Advise & Strategize

Data Center Architecture

Business Continuity Planning

Cybersecurity & Risk Analysis

Hybrid Strategy

Disruptive Technologies

Data Center Architecture

Design & planning services aimed to improve a data center’s scalability, performance, flexibility, resiliency and maintenance.

Options

  • Business Objective Review with Stakeholders
  • Data Center Tier & Facilities Review
  • Storage, Virtualization, Network Design
  • Comprehensive Security Design
  • Model Planning for Support

The Agilant Experience

Agilant Data Center Architects advise on where & how server, storage, networking, and other resources should be placed, interconnected, and utilized in a workflow.

On average our architects have 20+ years of experience in their respective domains:

  • Certifications & Technical Skills to validate data center requirements and associated architecture
  • Business Skills to understand organizational requirements and stakeholder vision.

Benefits

  • Single Point of Contact for End-to-End Services
  • Flexible, Scalable Models for Future Growth
  • Designs, Security & Risk Management
  • Operational Improvements — Efficiency, Quality & Security of the Network

Business Continuity Planning

Often referred to as BC/DR: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery — A service designed to reduce the impact of unexpected events on business operations, such as a pandemic, blackout, or natural disaster.

Options

  • Analysis: As-Is, Business Impact
  • App Tiering — General to Critical Applications
  • Secondary DC Selection
  • IT Strategy & Support Contingency Planning
  • Planning Guide w/ Communication Protocols

The Agilant Experience

Agilant works with line of business leaders to understand how their business works, including system priorities, technologies for protection & recovery, and continuity requirements.

With that understanding, we work together to create a solid plan:

BC = business operations, such as essential policy, procedures & processes.

DR = IT, such as backups, data copying, and network restoration.

Benefits

  • Alignment of IT Strategy with Business Objectives
  • Customer defined RTOs & RPOs are used as design objectives
  • Comprehensive Roadmap + Solid Methodology = Peace of Mind
  • Minimize Financial Loss & Negative Effects on a Company’s Strategic Plans, Marketing Position, Operations & Reputation

Cybersecurity & Risk Analysis

A service that helps customers identify, manage, and protect data, information, and assets that may be vulnerable to a cyber attack. It includes regulatory compliance, system & risk factor identification, and protection planning.

Options

  • Gap Analysis
  • Security Design & Evaluation Services
  • Effectiveness Testing
  • System Implementation
  • Cloud Security Principles & Methodology

The Agilant Experience

Security & Risk Analysis has two blended focus areas:

  1. Security — seeks to identify, understand, and analyze critical local, national and international security issues
  2. Risk — includes risk assessment, characterization, communication, management, and formulation of policy

Fundamentally, Agilant Analysts answer these questions:

  • What can go wrong?
  • What is the probability?
  • What are the consequences?

Benefits

  • Security Return on Investment
  • Assurance — Investment Meets Expectations
  • Overspend Prevention (hardware & software)
  • Awareness & Understanding of Organizational Boundaries & Entry Points

Hybrid Strategy

Services designed to combine the benefits of on-premises & colo data centers, private cloud and/or public clouds services (such as AWS or Microsoft Azure), allowing customers to quickly respond to changing business needs.

Options

  • Cloud & Application Selection Criteria
  • Cloud Workshop
  • Connectivity Models
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • BC/DR Extension

The Agilant Experience

Use of a hybrid data center is a strategy that allows organizations to create the right mix of cloud and traditional IT to suit their needs.

The hybrid model enables greater IT efficiency, security, application elasticity, automation, and agility. It also allows a customer to grow based on their own pace & timeline.

Agilant plans & manages the orchestration among the various platforms.

Benefits

  • Multi-Cloud Comparative & Cost Analysis
  • Knowledge Share on Options & Pitfalls
  • Streamlined Security, Control, and Visibility
  • Better User Experience & Lower Latency
  • Reduced Data Center Management Costs

Disruptive Technologies

Consulting services to propel customers forward in their technology exploration, evaluation, and adoption as countless modern data center solutions & vendors flood the industry.

Options

  • SD-WAN Options and Designs
  • NFV (Network Function Virtualization)
  • Cisco ACI (App Centric Infrastructure) Design
  • VMWare NSX Design
  • PoC & Features Comparison

The Agilant Experience

With traditional IT approaches struggling to support the ongoing digitalization of modern businesses, customers can trust that Agilant will keep them ahead of the curve.

Agilant consults on “Disruptive Technologies” that are…

  • Revolutionary – new to the market, offering a game-changing technology or a new business model.
  • Evolutionary – solid in the market, providing new innovations and cost advantages.

Benefits

  • A Digital Transformation & Automation Roadmap
  • Comprehensive Design Guides that Incorporate Security & Compliance Concerns
  • Vendor Agnostic Solutions
  • A Single Point-of-Contact for Future Deployments

Implement & Optimize

Assessment

Onsite & Remote Deployment

Data Center Migration

Security Operations

Assessment

Powerful, investigative tools built to address the gap between current and desired states. Our objective is to align all aspects of IT-enabled services, including people, process and technology.

Options

  • Storage, Virtualization & Network Assessment
  • Data Center Assessment
  • Cybersecurity & Risk Assessment
  • Business Continuity Assessment
  • Compliance & Regulatory Assessment

The Agilant Experience

Depending on the type of assessment or the data that needs to be collected, parts of the process may be conducted onsite and/or remotely.

  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Walkthroughs
  • Operations process reviews
  • Network scans
  • Testing

Based on the findings, Agilant can then offer expert recommendations.

Benefits

  • Proactive Identification of Root-Cause, Gaps, & Unforeseen Risks Before They Impair Performance or Impact Experience
  • Prevent Costly Future Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Downtime
  • Smooth Deployments
  • Proper Scaling of Users & Technology
  • Detailed Snapshot / Benchmark for Future Planning

Onsite & Remote Deployment

Services to configure, deliver and install data center infrastructure, including staging & logistics, scheduling, and quality control.

Options

  • Hardware Rack & Stack
  • Compute, Virtualization, Network & Storage Deployment
  • Storage Platform Migrations
  • Security Appliances & Software upgrades
  • VDI Performance Testing

The Agilant Experience

Deployments require the management of multiple hardware and operating system platforms along with the ability to integrate servers, networking equipment, and storage technology.

All deployments are carefully planned, and their progress closely maintained by Agilant Program and Project Management teams.

  • Timelines & Goals
  • Deployment Phases
  • Stakeholder Communication

Benefits

  • Access to a “Deployment Army” of Implementation Engineers
  • Multivendor / Multiplatform Certifications
  • PMI Certified Project Managers
  • Access to a 150K sq ft Integration Facility for Staging, Imaging, Integration & Deployment Scheduling

Data Center Migration

Also referred to as a Data Center Relocation, this service moves select assets from one data center environment to another while minimizing operational impact.

Options

  • Planning & Architectural Design
  • Data Center Build Out
  • Migration & Testing Services
  • Go-Live & On-going Support
  • As-Built documentation

The Agilant Experience

Migrations occur for various reasons, including organizational expansions, mergers, changes in regulatory requirements, moves to the cloud, or even physical office moves.

The four main types of Migrations are:

  • Relocation — one DC to another
  • Hybrid Migration — physical & cloud components
  • Consolidation — decrease the “footprint” size
  • Colocation — rented DC space

Benefits

  • Prevention of Unwanted Downtime & Data Loss
  • Mitigation of Access and Latency
  • Cost Savings & Cost Optimization
  • Security & Compliance Management
  • Communication Strategy

Security Operations

Also known as SecOps; a movement to facilitate collaboration between security & operations teams with the goal of reducing risk and improving business agility.

Options

  • Vulnerability Assessments
  • Risk Assessment & Remediation
  • Secure Hosting Services
  • Application Scans
  • Compliance Certification Assistance

The Agilant Experience

Agilant Security SMEs use customer culture and technology to address specific challenges, identifying unique best practices to remediate risk and improve the overall security landscape.

Agilant helps customers build resilience by:

  • Knowing their security posture
  • Reaching operational agility
  • Prioritizing remediation

Benefits

  • Hybrid Assessments Designed by Security Experts
  • Advice on Vendor Management, Regulatory Requirements, Security Frameworks & Policy Design
  • Offsite App Hosting w/ Redundancy & Security
  • Continuous Protection & Threat Prevention
  • Quick & Effective Response

Manage & Innovate

CISO-as-a-Service

Managed Services

Health Checks & Optimizaion

CISO-as-a-Service

Workforce offering that provides a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) resource to customers who need help in addressing security, compliance, and regulatory demands.

Options

  • Security Framework Construction
  • Architecture & Planning
  • Vendor Selection & Management
  • Regulatory Guidance & Agency Liaison
  • Policy Education & Enforcement

The Agilant Experience

Agilant employs a team of security experts who have mentored Fortune 500 companies and spent years in highly regulated industries.

Their focus is in building robust, end-to-end, security programs
that place customers ahead of the curve in defending assets while ensuring consistent, regulatory compliance.

The vCISO can assess and benchmark a company’s security posture, including technology, policy, reaction, education and communication.

Benefits

  • Removal of Infrastructure “Blind Spots”
  • Risk Remediation at all Layers of Entry
  • Maximum ROI on Security Investments
  • Cost Savings = Reduction of Unnecessary Products

Managed Services

Services that offer a proactive, 24×7 vision of what’s going on in the Data Center. They can help identify potential issues before they happen, providing a new level of DC stability and peace of mind for the IT Department

Options

  • Complete Observability into DC Assets
  • Rapid Response Engineers
  • Vendor & Asset Management
  • Remote Hands Svc (Remediate, Patch & Upgrade)
  • Site Runbooks

The Agilant Experience

Our platform offers proactive problem resolution within the ITIL framework and is fueled by our NOC engineers, who resolve thousands of alerts 24x7x365.

We monitor and support all types of compute, storage, virtualization, and network assets so customers can focus on their core business

With over 1M+ devices under management, our focus is on efficiency, accountability, and ease of use.

Benefits

  • Proprietary Software — Single Pane of Glass
  • Predictable Monthly Costs
  • Reduction in Ops Cost
  • Customizable SLAs
  • Security & Compliance
  • Customers can Focus on Core Business

Health Checks & Optimizaion

Provides a technical assessment of your computing environment, identifying vulnerabilities in security, performance, configuration, or availability before they affect critical operations.

Options

  • Onsite DC Health Check
  • Off-Site DC Health Check
  • Analysis & Recommendations

The Agilant Experience

Agilant performs regular and detailed health checks to maintain efficiency and ensure that customer systems and the business are always running at their best.

  • Data trends on resource consumption and performance
  • Proactive review of firmware and software
  • Adjust configuration parameters
  • Expected outcomes, benchmarks & TCO

We ensure that data collection occurs without impact to customer
usage or performance.

Benefits

  • Prevent Configuration Drift
  • Identification of Single Points of Failures (SPOF)
  • Mitigation: Unplanned Downtime or Runaway Costs
  • Security & Compliance
  • Version & OS Patch Controls
  • Improvement of Internal Business Unit SLAs