Infrastructure Management Solutions

The Network Folks Infrastructure Management Solutions will allow you and your critical IT staff to focus on deploying new services or on revenue generating initiatives. Whether we remotely manage some or all of day to day information technology infrastructure operations or deliver project specific consulting, design, and implementation services. Our expertise and service offerings ensure peak system performance, security, and availability.



Interim Leadership

The Network Folks has nearly two decades of Fortune 500 and Department of Defense information technology leadership experience. Whether you need temporary leadership or assistance with budgeting, The Network Folks has the expertise and experience necessary to put your organization back on track.



Migration Services

The Network Folks understands that as systems mature, improving business processes and keeping abreast of advances in technology becomes critical for many organizations. Planning platform migrations, server consolidation and virtualization, upgrading operating systems, databases, or applications needs to be orchestrated carefully to guarantee non-stop operational support to business users, partners, and customers. This can be achieved through efficient Enterprise infrastructure assessment. Many clients have taken advantage of The Network Folks migration expertise to help them consolidate multiple networks, disparate systems, servers, and redundant applications, while minimizing service disruption for users.



Security Services

The Network Folks security services help our clients create, deploy and maintain a secure enterprise IT and eBusiness infrastructure that is both cost effective and efficient. The Network Folks provides a broad range of services to our clients by proactively designing, implementing, and monitoring secure infrastructures solutions. The Network Folks integrated identity management services to help organizations effectively manage multiple user identities across different systems and applications. Our identity management services include authentication management, role based access control and user administration. The Network Folks security experts help you guard against destruction of data and information assets, avoid pitfalls and impending threats that impact operations, and minimize danger caused by vulnerabilities in systems security.



Application Development /System Integration

The Network Folks can tailor off the shelf application packages to meet specific business needs, adding functionality that can capture specialized requirements, while integrating them with existing systems. The Network Folks can build fully instrumented applications or add customized extensions to popular off-the-shelf packages to make management easier. The Network Folks can put management hooks into your applications and then manage them remotely to maintain their availability. The Network Folks helps its clients to extend their management capabilities to cover their entire information technology enterprise, including their most critical business applications.

Performance Analytics and Management

The Network Folks can provide detailed infrastructure analysis that aligns, adjusts, and balances networks and network systems. Proactive trend analysis and planning enable your organization to maximize the efficiency of existing enterprise architecture design and technology assets to identify where and when additional resources will be required, before critical business operations are interrupted.



Remote Workforce Solutions

The Network Folks remote workforce solutions extends the enterprise by delivering secure, rich, and manageable network services to teleworkers and employees working outside of a traditional office environment. By providing full data and collaboration services, The Network Folks remote workforce solutions delivers a seamless office caliber experience to the end user, wherever they may be located. The Network Folks understands that what most organizations perceive as the office of the future is actually the office of yesterday. The real office of the future is shifting your workforce to home offices which will reduce your company’s overhead expenditures and make your organization a little bit greener in the process.



Enterprise Architecture Design and Implementation
 
The Network Folks offers specific services in architecture assessment, analysis, and enterprise architecture design that enables clients to define, change and evolve their information technology architecture according to their business needs. The Network Folks standards based enterprise architecture design expertise can address a range of IT architecture needs. From servers, storage, network, and security architecture to messaging systems, directory services, and web infrastructure. The Network Folks proven methodologies ensure that we deliver well architected, efficient designs that improve workflow and business processes. The Network Folks enterprise architecture design and implementation services can help your organization scale their applications to complement business growth.



Infrastructure Assessment and Optimization
 
The Network Folks enterprise infrastructure assessment services technical experts can discover all the components in your enterprise infrastructure and identify gaps in information technology operations. Enterprise infrastructure assessment is a significant challenge for many IT organizations today as their environments have become increasingly complex. The Network Folks can help determine where servers can be consolidated, storage or data center operations optimized, which services and applications are functioning efficiently or where there are performance bottlenecks. Through our enterprise Infrastructure assessment services, we have helped organizations implement business solutions without adding additional equipment. We do this by redistributing workload and improving processes or by identifying inefficiencies in data center operations that are draining money from your budget. With The Network Folks proven expertise in enterprise infrastructure assessment services, we can take a look at performance trends to see if you will need to tune your systems or add additional equipment and bandwidth.



Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

The Network Folks knows Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are extremely important processes that help organizations prepare for disruptive events, whether those events might include a hurricane, fire or simply a power outage caused by a backhoe in the parking lot. The The Network Folks involvement in this process can range from overseeing the plan, to providing input and support, to putting the plan into action during an emergency.

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