Virtualization Management

Centrally manage and monitor your servers, desktop and application loads.

Determine migration strategies, server expansion plans and quickly balance over/under-utilized equipment.

Shift workloads off of equipment that needs to be repaired or perform an upgrade to hardware without impacting your users and having your staff work late or the weekends.

Application Virtualization

Benefits:

• Reduce hardware costs
• Reduce software costs
• Handle fluctuating volume
• Run different versions in a single user environment
• Reduce upgrade and migration times

Reduce incompatibilities between an application and the PC operating system by virtualizing the applications with a remote environment.

Install the application on a team of servers that allow your users to access them from anywhere in the world.

Centrally manage the upgrading, patching or delivery of new applications to a user or set of users. Quickly allow access to installed applications based on business needs without having to install it on the end user’s pc.

Desktop Virtualization

Benefits:

• Reduce hardware costs
• Centrally manage “PCs”
• Faster patch management
• Faster software installs
• Lower your TCO
• Centralized data management
• Extend the life of current hardware

Desktop Virtualization allows you to provision PCs from a central location. Easily manage and maintain a large number of clients from a central location.

Desktop Virtualization offers new and powerful opportunities for IT to deliver and manage corporate desktops and to respond to various user needs in a flexible way.

Reduce support desk calls by removing the opportunity for viruses, malicious code or unapproved software from being installed on user’s local machines.

Server Virtualization

Benefits:

• Reduce hardware costs
• Faster implementation times
• Less cooling
• Less electricity
• Less physical space

Make the most of physical resources to maximize your hardware investment.

Instead of purchasing more under-utilized servers, each dedicated to a single purpose, virtualization allows those servers to be consolidated onto a smaller number of fully-utilized machines.

Meet the ACCELA, a true storage solution that dramatically improves application performance. Leave the world of hard disk drives behind and take your business into the future with silicon storage.

Introducing the new INVICTA. Give your enterprise the most valuable advantage -- time. With INVICTA's unparalleled low-latency and scalable READ and WRITE performance, the days of waiting are over.

ITXen™ can help your business automate the storage of email and SharePoint files, manage data migrations, improve responsiveness to legal discovery, and manage information growth in accordance with your IT policies. ITXen™ will help to improve performance and cut storage costs through automation and optimized storage management products and services.

ITXen's™ storage experts can help your business backup and de-duplicate your business' critical data so that you’re maximizing your operational effectiveness. If disaster strikes - be prepared with disaster recovery solutions from ITXen's™ industry-leading technology experts. ITXen™ will assist you in preparing for and recovering from the effects of equipment failure or accidental loss of data.

ITXen™ can help you to maximize your storage utilization and increase the availability of data with proven storage consolidation solutions. Our experts can implement solutions to decrease your server space, increase IT responsiveness, and lower infrastructure and operational costs.

We all know that it is not sufficient to simply recover data, your operations have to be able to continue. ITXen™ can help you to develop or enhance your business continuity plan. keep your mission critical applications running and reduce the amount of downtime during project implementations to ensure business continuity. ITXen™ uses proven methodologies along with technology to provide the least amount of disruption to your business.

Security risks must be managed effectively and reliably. ITXen™ works with you to achieve security policies that oversee processes including physical, personnel data and information security covering, but not limited to, the following areas:

• General IT security policy
• Acceptable use policy
• Minimum standards security policy
• Graham-Leach-Billey
• HIPAA
• Sarbanes-Oxley

Providing an independent review of your company’s IT effectiveness, ITXen™ will ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your company’s data.

• IT Operations Audit Report
• Security Policy analysis report and summary
• Disaster Recovery Assessment report

ITXen™ designs customized training programs to conduct Security Awareness Seminars to train your staff on best practices for protection of confidential information, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Demonstrate and provide recommendations:

• Social Engineering
• Password strength and integrity
• Office policies and best practices

ITXen™ verifies compliance with licensing agreements and works with our clients to establish the most cost effective solutions for those agreements. We will help provide:

• License Compliance Report
• License Renewal Summary and Cost Analysis
• Summarize the risks/penalties eliminated

The assessment includes but is not limited to:

• Assessment parameters:
  
  
  • Here we determine the scope of the assessment and what deliverables will be due
  • We include the work schedule and budget
    
    
• Data collection and discovery
  
  
  • Using the knowledge of your staff, industry standard tools and our experience, we capture a true picture of the current environment.
    
    
• Analyze collected data to identify
  
  
  • Policies and procedures
    • what is currently in place
    • what needs to be added
  • Data backup and recovery
    • backup windows
    • success rates
    • sufficiency of current procedures in the event of data loss.
  • Access controls and security
    • physical
    • network
  • Identifying single points of failure
    
    
• Document findings and make recommendations
  
  
• Deliver an assessment report
  
  
  • The final report will be presented to all interested parties in your company. Here questions will be answered by the experts who performed the assessment and the recommendations explained in greater detail as needed.

At the end of the assessment your company will have in hand:

• Proposed up to date IT policies and procedures
• A roadmap for system refreshes/upgrades
• A clearer vision of the IT staff’s roles and responsibilities
• A more efficient, clearly defined IT strategy that aligns with the corporate goals and objectives.

Areas we can assess:

• Backup and restoration
• Change control processes
• Disaster recovery
• Inventory
  • Hardware
  • Software licensing
  • Warranty status
• Network/Telephony
• Operating system patches
• Policy and Procedures
• Software version and license compliance

A central component of the Windows platform, Active Directory directory service provides the means to manage the identities and relationships that make up network environments.

Design: Allow ITXen™’s experienced technicians to review your structure and recommend an Active Directory implementation strategy that will reduce costs, issues, and the need to rebuild in the future by correctly designing a structure that will grow with your company.

Merge/Trust: ITXen™ can also help with consolidating or merging Active Directory domains and forests as your company continues to grow from new opportunities.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is designed to deliver increased protection for your business and give anywhere access for your employees, while being operationally efficient to deploy, manage and maintain.

Keep your e-mail system running at lower cost
New data replication capabilities in Exchange Server 2007 drive increased availability at a lower cost.

Access e-mail, voice mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, anytime
In Exchange Server 2007, your employees can access their important inbox information from virtually anywhere using their desktop computer, laptop computer, a browser window from any Internet-connected computer, their mobile device, and even using a basic telephone when no Internet connectivity is available.

Get affordable, enterprise-class mobile messaging that’s better than ever
Exchange makes enterprise-class mobile messaging a reality by offering industry-leading scalability, native integration with compatible devices for lower total cost of ownership, and by providing a variety of device options to suit today’s business needs.

Empower employees with unified messaging while saving money
With new unified messaging in Exchange Server 2007, employees can receive their e-mail, voice mail, and faxes through a single inbox that can be accessed from anywhere.

Reduce compliance risk in a way that makes sense for your business
Exchange Server 2007 incorporates features specifically designed to help your business comply with corporate, regulatory, and legal requirements.

Take advantage of powerful Web access
Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2007 provides a rich, Outlook 2007-like experience in a browser and is great for use at home, at an airport kiosk, at an internet café, at a friend’s house, or anywhere where there is an Internet connection available. No VPN or network tunnel is required.

Boost administrator productivity with new tools
Exchange Server 2007 helps administrators save time and reduce effort with advanced management tools.

Ease deployment and management
Deploying Exchange Server has never been easier. Exchange Server 2007 has a modern, modular architecture based on server roles. The server role concept is integrated into setup and deployment, helping to eliminate potential errors resulting from manual configuration, reducing the surface area for malicious attacks, and simplifying day-to-day management.

Optimize your investment for future growth
As a native 64-bit application, Exchange Server 2007 breaks through past memory and cache limitations for higher performance and increased scalability even as mailboxes sizes grow to accommodate employees’ demands for more storage.