Services and Solutions

A well-structured and managed Governance model is a key step in looking at the demand on your IT organization and determining how to best utlitize your IT resources -- both human and system resources -- in supporting the enterprise. Virtualization provides unparalleled opportunities to streamline, optimize, and leverage those system resources, provided that there is good planning, process, and management of them. Virtualization offers organizations the opportunity to reduce costs and increase agility, however, if this is done without implementing best practices for management and security, virtualization may actually increase costs and reduce agility.

ISM has developed a detailed Governance process infrastructure -- Framework for IT Success^SM (a.k.a. "Fritz") -- with an appropriate mixture of both structure and flexibility to promote the agility afforded by virtualization and yet avoid some common virtualization pitfalls, such as virtual server sprawl and inadequate security.

The potential benefits of a virtualization initiative are many -- higher service levels, reduced risk through better business continuity, lower costs through better utilization of existing hardware resource -- but those benefits come with a price. That price is that your IT business processes need to be well defined, visible to the enterprise, and ideally automated to provide the appropriate checks and balances to the VM deployment.

Our Governance framework and 17 years of solution definition, along with our implementation experience and credentials -- VMware Certified Professional (VCP), (ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), (ISC)² Certification and Accreditation Professional (CAP) , ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), SNIA Certified Storage Professional (SCSP), SNIA Certified Storage Engineer (SCSE), and SNIA Certified Storage Architect (SCSA), among others -- will help you improve both your virtualization initiative and day-to-day operational execution.

Our Virtualization and Security services and solutions include:

• Assessment and Planning
• Process and Requirements
• Solution Evaluation and Technology Selection
• Solution Implementation and Deployment
• Education and Training