Expertise

IT Business Case Development

• Identify and assess organizational business requirements
• Identify and assess application-driven IT requirements
• Stakeholder communications
• Identify required resources (organizational, capital, technology)
• Estimate benefits, costs, risk tradeoffs
• Map solution set

Mobile Computing

• Mobile computing and networking strategy, business case development
• Application requirements analysis
• Product and system Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis
• Mobile enterprise and server architecture, design, topology, security
• Deployment recommendations, justification

Broadband Network Architecture and Design

• Application and network life cycle development
• Internet / Intranet / Extranet / private network design, interfaces
• Wide area network (WAN) routing
• Wide area network / Local area network (WAN/LAN) design
• Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

Information Security

• Enterprise, carrier and cloud-based information security review, strategy
• Information security business case development
• Information security architecture, design
• Vulnerability scans, corrective recommendations
• Security Policies, Guidelines, Standards, Procedures
• Disaster Recovery Policies, Procedures, Standards, Deployments
• Business Continuance Plans
• Access control, Proxy services
• Authentication, Authorization, Accounting/Auditing (AAA)
• Content and Liability Management, User Management
• Cryptosystems
• Firewall selection, integration
• Audit enforcement

Enterprise Data Center Architecture, Infrastructure

• Requirements, design
• High availability and risk assessment
• Application and network risk assessment
• Information security risk assessment
• Site selection
• Optimized power density
• Technology and support infrastructure definition
• Single point of failure (SPOF) analysis, identification
• Network operations center (NOC) analysis, optimization
• Disaster recovery, business continuity analysis, recommendations optimization
• Physical security
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time Between Outages (MTBO), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) analysis, recommendations, optimization
• Budgeting

Authoring

• White Papers
  • Technology, product, service offering white papers
  • Business Decision Makers (BDMs)
  • Technical Decision Makers (TDMs)
  • Internal-facing
  • External-facing
• Product Licenses
  • Authoring
  • Negotiating
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Policy-enabled network architecture and design
  • Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning
  • Policy validation, distribution, enforcement
  • “5 Nines”-to-“Three Nines” carrier-grade design, deployment

IT Rapid Economic Justification

• Requirements-driven IT alternatives analysis (computing, networking, systems)
• Enterprise IT drivers (networked applications, technical fit, rationale, justification)
• Value proposition
• Financial metrics
• Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Enterprise Rapid Economic Justification (EREJ)
• Recommendations, justification