Networking strategy and optimisation services - network infrastructure optimisation

Overview

Network infrastructure is a cornerstone and a critical part of your business process. With the increasing Infrastructure to cope with the organisations growth, it becomes crucial to examine the network and see how best to optimise performance and standardise the network to prevent frequent network outage.

With the growing business challenges where the organisations dependency on the network has increased on one hand and on the It budgets are reducing. This along with growing business is leading to an expanding need for an optimised IT environment. Without a clear understanding of the network infrastructure, and the possible impacts of new business initiatives onto the network, severe performance issues may occur which might result in substantial loss of revenue and customer dissatisfaction.

Network Infrastructure Optimisation Services is packaged to provide you with complete insight into your network performance and functionality. This service will aid you for capacity planning resource re-deployment, service provisioning and re-engineering of the network.

NIOS Features

IBM Networking Strategy and Optimisation Services - network infrastructure optimisation has been developed to help organisations better understand their network, address a particular problem or reduce network costs. Optimisation initiatives typically:

• improve network performance
• reduce costs
• leverage new technologies
• simplify network operations and management
• provide a benchmark for future comparisons

Network infrastructure optimisation services will identify high yield opportunities for optimisation.

NIOS Value proposition

Business need:

• Web enabling business applications
• A merger or acquisition requires two networks to be merged
• Building an Intranet to improve communication across the organisation
• Becoming more dependent on the Internet to conduct your business
• Expanding the business reach and/or services to new areas
• Require a clear view of business application performance and its growth trends
• Branches and/or mobile employees require stable, secure, cost effective and fast access to the data center
• Planning to adopt new technologies in the near future (e.g. video conferencing or mobile implementations
• Local network need to perform up to the end-user/client/partner/suppliers expectations

Solution:

The network infrastructure optimisation assessment will address the following areas:

• Performance -- the ability to meet the end-user and application response times required for high productivity
• Scalability -- allowing you to expand or contract the network, with limited disruption and expense, in response to significant shifts in your business environment
• Security -- features to protect the integrity of your information as it traverses your network, against a variety of perils and threats, while maintaining privacy
• Availability -- capable of responding to peak-period requests, as well as providing high-quality, reliable service, 24x7
• Modularity -- using open architecture standards to allow for selection and use of the best products on the market
• Adherence to industry standards -- enabling easier integration of diverse components and systems into a high-performance network

Customer Benefits:

Our expertise and proprietary methodologies bring you the following benefits

• Cost savings
• Security improvement
• Performance improvement
• Availability improvement
• Net management and monitoring improvement