Professional Services and Consulting
Getting the most from your IT resources. Deciding which new technologies are right or your enterprise. Dealing with technology that’s becoming more and more complex. These are questions that most IT operations deal with daily.
We can Help
With nearly 20 years of experience in delivering Professional IT services to Fortune 1000 enterprises and Public Sector agencies around the world, Bull is uniquely qualified to help you get answers to these questions.
Bull can help you bridge the gap between your business needs and today’s newest technologies. Whether you’re looking to build your infrastructure from scratch, expand, integrate, or investigate ways to scale, Bull offers a range of professional consulting services to meet your needs.
Consulting Services
In an open, rapidly-evolving world, organizations need to constantly adapt their information systems to the changes around them. Our experience in complex systems infrastructure management provides you with access to professionals who can assist you with all phases of project planning, design, implementation and tuning in a number of specialized areas, including:
IT Infrastructure Assessments
Enterprises experiencing poor reliability, response time, application availability, unhappy users, and eroding IT services may be to the result of an IT Infrastructure failure. In today’s fast paced markets, companies need to focus on their core competencies and not IT infrastructures, which can sometimes lead to fractured and incomplete services. When this happens, many enterprises find themselves with weaken IT that does not provide the information or services they effectively need to fuel their businesses.
Many companies, today, are benefiting from Infrastructure Assessments that are geared to locating broken and fractured services. At Bull, we can help with an Infrastructure Assessment that includes a comprehensive study of the Network Infrastructure and servers. A presentation and written report are delivered to the customer at the conclusion of the assessment, which includes our findings and recommendations. Recommendations are generally provided in two categories. “Quick Wins” identify those suggested actions that can be completed with limited effort and expense. The second category offers more strategic recommendations and includes at some level a recommended IT infrastructure architecture. To learn more, click on the information link below.
Network Design and Deployment
Many enterprises today are faced with IT networks that are operating at or below their optimum efficiency levels. Inefficient networks are responsible for significant amounts of lost time, money, productivity, and business. Bull’s Network design services are geared towards helping make your company's networks operate more efficiently.
Whether your network covers a few offices or spans the globe, you need reliable core Services to support your enterprise’s information and data flow. Bull specializes in the development of scalable solutions for DNS, DHCP, routing (eBGP), VLAN, layer 2-6 switching, load balancing and high availability design. Services include:
- Business needs and requirements definition
- Assessment of current situation
- Identify technology alternatives to meet business requirements
- Gap analysis
- Design and specification of network components
- Project management
- Implementation Services
- Performance tuning and diagnosis
- Monitoring and management
Windows and Mail Migrations
As a Microsoft Certified Partner, Bull has the experience to ensure a timely and predictable migration to Microsoft Windows technology, enabling your enterprise to benefit from the reliability, availability, and scalability afforded by this highly-productive operating system for enterprises of all sizes.
Migration to the enhanced Services provided by Microsoft Windows is one of the largest undertakings for any IT organization. While this migration offers many significant benefits, it can also be fraught with pitfalls. Bull has a wide range of experience that will enable you to migrate or deploy a new Windows based Services infrastructure. Bull can assist with all details of your migration, including the enhanced features of Active Recovery Services, enhanced security, and core network Services such as DNS and DHCP Services, which include:
- Assessment of business needs and a requirements definition
- Planning and Design
- Active Directory Planning
- Security and Policy Design and Planning
- Back Office Design and Planning
- Server Capacity Planning Deployment
Data Center Design, Build-out and Migration
Managing a data center is one thing, but building a new data center can be both an expensive and complicated process. It requires a comprehensive look at many factors and includes balancing an enterprise’s business objectives with its IT strategies and long-term goals.
Bull has been operating its own data centers since the early 1990s, and most of our personnel have been involved with data center management and operations since that time, or for many years earlier. Our staff has experience designing and moving our own data centers, as well as a number of others. This wealth of experience can be leveraged by our customers faced with the need to move and/or upgrade data center facilities.
Bull offers a broad range of services from planning, to design, engineering, monitoring and maintaining data centers that incorporate critical infrastructure technologies.
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