Professional IT Services

Accurate planning at the onset can make for significant savings and proper equipment sizing in the end. Let our Professional IT Services team show you how to build a scalable, resilient infrastructure or upgrade to a more flexible architecture — one that will advance the business and better prepare it for the future.

We apply our decades of experience to selecting compatible and complementary technologies that remedy IT infrastructure challenges. Consonus Professional IT Services has helped numerous businesses reduce IT costs, improve infrastructure manageability, and mitigate risk. Our tenured professionals have achieved the highest certifications possible — ITIL, PMP, CAPM, Six Sigma along with specialize Agile training and SCRUM instruction — and can address your unique business infrastructure requirements to enable business continuity, failsafe data protection, robust backup solutions, operational efficiency and more.

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity

Keep your business up and running by creating a resilient IT environment and reducing the impact of disruptions. Our end-to-end approach to business continuity encompasses the following:

Assessments
Implementations
Data Migration
Upgrades
Health Checks
High Availability
Cluster Services

Data Protection and Backup

Establish effective controls for the organization that protect against risks. This includes specific solutions to address messaging and collaboration systems that result in lower costs associated with data archiving and retention, electronic discovery, and systems management. Capabilities include:

Archiving/Retention
eDiscovery and Audit
Messaging and collaboration security
Application backup and recovery
Remote office data protection
Data protection/backup assessments
Health Checks

Storage and Data Management

One of the primary causes of system failure during the early stages of the product lifecycle is improper installation and configuration. Consonus Professional IT Services can deploy high-performance storage solutions quickly and effectively. Our trained professionals can show you how to avoid data loss and associated downtime with solutions that improve success rates and data restoration capabilities. Competencies include:

Storage optimization
Data migration
Data replication and deduplication
Snapshot integration
Storage Health Check

Virtualization

Consonus IT Professional Services leverages proven methodologies, tools, and best practices to assess, consult, deploy, and manage the right virtualization solutions for your data center while addressing your business needs. Representing the top names in IT infrastructure and providing a flexible deployment model to accommodate a variety of different environments, our experienced consultants help plan, engineer, and operate your infrastructure using secure multi-tenant virtualized servers, storage, networks, and applications to support rigorous SLAs. Virtualization services include:

Physical to virtual migration
Performance testing
Virtualization Health Checks
Virtualization Current State Assessment
Virtualization Readiness Assessment
Virtual data center design and management planning
Virtual switch architecture design and implementation

Project Management

Whether you need coaching and leadership, process development, project recovery assistance, or training, the Consonus team of highly-experienced project managers can successfully deliver your project to completion. Using time-tested project management processes and methodologies, we make sure your project is on-time, within scope, and on-budget.

Data Center Relocations

Relocating a data center is a significant undertaking that requires adequate planning and management of the process. Consonus has the experience and methodology to plan and execute your data center move/relocation with flawless precision to prevent unintended business interruption.

Standardized Professional IT Services Options

Consonus Professional Services offers more economical service options that provide pre-determined hours and a simplified set of deliverables. These include:

IT Infrastructure Services — Turnkey solutions which consist of a minimum base installation service; additional add-on service components can also be purchased. The Service Start option is a fixed-scope, fixed-price service that includes pre-determined deliverables.
IT Consulting Services — Consonus provides a pre-determined number of hours for consulting services as directed by the customer.
VMware Implementation Service Start — Designed as a minimum-base implementation service and involves making the environment virtualization-ready
Data Protection Assessment Workshop — Designed to provide a cost-effective look into the capabilities of a customer's current data protection environment. The results provide recommendations for future data protection improvements.
Disaster Recovery Assessment Workshop — Designed to provide a cost-effective determination of your disaster recovery stance as it relates to your business objectives, Recovery Point Objectives, and Recovery Time Objectives.