IT Health Check
Our IT Health Check Services compare your infrastructure design to best practices and support levels, and from there makes recommendations to improve the service levels and offerings.
An IT health check represents an essential way of evaluating your business’ inner IT workings to ensure that there are no security breaches or potential problems which are waiting in the wings. As well as ensuring that systems are properly set up, a network health check also helps to guard against the exposure of lost productivity and company downtime and ensures adequate protection can be put in place against any possibility of unauthorized entry.
Regular appraisal of your IT environment is essential to obtain assurance that appropriate controls are in place to protect essential systems and data.
IT Health Check Services:
Blade Health Check
Over the years there have been many new enhancements to the blade servers, the enclosure and the I/O modules supported. NDM has been performing HPE BladeSystem Health Checks for many years and have the experience, knowledge and expertise to perform a health check and update.
NDM works with your IT and lines of business managers in a highly interactive engagement to understand your business priorities and drivers. From this we deliver a Big Data strategy document specific to your organization that summarizes our findings with specific use case development and recommendations.
Deliverables
- Documentation of the Current Blade Infrastructure
- Short term recommendations for performance or availability improvements
- Long term recommendations to match the business strategies
- Comprehensive health check report addressing the entire HPE BladeSystem platform and an Upgrade BladeSystem Environment (System Health Check)
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Network Health Check
With the widespread adoption of BYOD across the enterprise world, most companies are beginning to see unprecedented growth to their networks. Your employees and guests expect to be able to bring their personal devices to work and connect to the wireless network. This trend brings about inherent security risks and performance impacts. The NDM Network Heath Check aims to address these issues and many more by providing your company with the information it needs and helping create a plan to address any current or future issues in your network.
The key to keeping your network healthy is information, and that is what NDM aims to provide with this exercise. The NDM Network Health Check Service will give you a comprehensive breakdown of each device on your network, along with any recommendations on changes that need to be made to ensure a secure, fast network going forward. NDM will perform a network evaluation of your monitoring software (if applicable), and attempt to isolate any historical problems we come across. Finally, we will look at the configuration of your wireless network and test all SSID’s for performance and security flaws, so that you have a complete IT Security Health Check to rely on.
Deliverables
- A comprehensive network evaluation and report of all your switch configurations and wireless configurations, along with any changes we recommend making on the network to ensure continuity. This will include a breakdown of serial numbers for each device and an overall topology of your network, along with recommendations on where to target future network upgrades.
- A detailed report of our findings in your network management software (if applicable), along with our recommendations on remediation tasks. If no network management software is present we will give a recommendation on the “best fit” network management software for your organization going forward.
- A report of any security flaws we find on your network and any associated remediation tasks we recommend.
Benefits
- Ensure best practices are being followed on your network
- Documentation and knowledge transfer throughout the proces
- Installation verification testing of network devices
- Validation of your overall network configuration and security
- Gives you the information you need to make informed purchasing decisions with regards to network upgrades.
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Storage/SAN Health Check
With the explosion in storage and data, many customers do not review their entire storage and SAN infrastructure. Changes in the requirements due to data growth require changes in best practices and configurations. Data center infrastructure must evolve rapidly to improve resiliency, increase business responsiveness, and keep up with the growing demands of new applications while reducing overall power consumption.
Is your storage running at optimal performance? NDM Storage / SAN Health Check services reviews your entire storage and SAN Switch infrastructure to determine the overall health, performance, and capacity of your storage environment. Proper maintenance is essential to providing the best storage performance, availability, and capacity planning. Changes to the environment and automation can have a profound impact on your storage performance. A periodic review can help extend the life of your storage and improve the overall TCO. Schedule your data center health check today.
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VMware Health Check
Your organization has chosen to use VMware technology and has realized many of the benefits. Since the initial implementation, there have been changes to the business requirements, operations and technologies. Now it is time to review the current platform to see if changes or updates need to be performed to ensure you have optimized the performance and availability. Factors such as consolidation, cost savings, dynamic provisioning, and fluid migration are possibly impacting your VMware implementation.
You have been running VMware technologies for several years. With all the changes and enhancements, is it configured correctly, according to current best practices? How effective is your virtual environment? Is it being utilized effectively? VMware touches many aspects of your data center, including servers, storage and networking, and the organizations and processes that control them. NDM VMWare Health Check Services will review your current environment, compare it to current products and best practices and provide recommendations to optimize your current infrastructure. We can review both your server and client platforms. Contact NDM today to get started!
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SIEM Health Check
This service is still being engineered. More Details coming soon…
Schedule your IT system health check today
With a professional assessment of your IT infrastructure, you can take the steps necessary to avoid potential problems down the road and reduce the odds of downtime and lost productivity. Contact the experts at NDM today to get your network health check scheduled!