Empowered Networks

Virtualization Services

Virtualization is a journey that starts with Server Consolidation and can lead to Dynamic IT  (or Cloud) Empowered offers a family of services to help you get the most out of your journey – helping you optimize your investment in virtualization and move as quickly as you want towards Cloud.

In all cases, Empowered uses a practical hands on approach that blends industry best practices with real-world experience to create a practical, action-oriented and measureable outcomes.

Empowered Virtualization Maturity Assessment

It’s sometimes difficult to know how to move forward if you don’t know exactly where you are.  Empowered uses a practical hands on approach that blends industry best practices with real-world experience to create a practical, action-oriented and measureable assessment of where you are on the Empowered Virtualization Maturity Model.

Using a 10 point process, Empowered will work with your team to identify where you are, and where you could be by when.  You’ll also get an assessment of the gaps you’ll need to fill, and a series of pragmatic recommendations on how to move to the next stage.

 

Physical to Virtual Transition Solutions

Whether you’re just staring out with Virtualization or whether you’re down to virtualizing those really key and complicated applications, Empowered can help.  We’ll help you assess what’s needed and put together a plan to move to virtualization in a seamless fashion.  We have skilled people to help you if you want and for as long as you need them.

We have tools to recommend and a lab to use to do application performance benchmarking to measure performance before and after the transition We don’t leave till everything is working flawlessly. Whether its people, process or product, we’re all about helping you.

Virtualization Management

“You can’t manage what you can’t see” is an adage that applies especially well in Virtualized environments where VMs are mobile and be anywhere at any time, where capacity management is a key part of your arsenal to deliver optimal IT services and maintain your initial ROI from virtualization, and where your traditional management tools , KPIs and processes don’t always work in your virtual world.

Empowered knows  IT management. We’ll help you understand what the most important KPI’s are for you based on what’s important to you.  We’ll help you develop the right processes to make management work well, we’ll help you collect the right data and transform it into useful information, and we’ll help you integrate your virtual world with your physical world.  Whether its people, process or product, we’re all about helping you.

Virtualization Optimization Operations Plan

As the number of VMs in your environment grows, complexity increases significantly, and process weaknesses are exposed and magnified.  Underestimating the impact of Virtualization and not preparing for it early will increase your risk and will stop your migration to Cloud.  Ensuring that you move along the path to Cloud in a measured fashion, incorporating the right process changes, adding the right skills and using the right tools will ensure that your IT will become that dynamic, cost effective and manageable service that supports the business as they want to be supported.

In addition to ensuring that your management systems are optimized, we’ll help  you develop the right processes (with a special emphasis on Release, Change, Configuration and Capacity Management) to make your data center work more efficiently, and we’ll help you embrace standardization to maintain operational efficiency and reduce the probability of errors. We’ll assess and recommend tools to make this transition even easier, and we’ll help you integrate your virtual world with your physical world.  Whether its people, process or product, we’re all about helping you.

Cloud Acceleration Services

An extension of Optimization, Empowered Cloud optimization services help you with the transformation of your IT into a fully dynamic IT group.  We’ll address any organization-based adoption barriers to cloud both within and outside of IT.  We’ll ensure your process maturity is at a high enough level to support key Cloud features such as management, automation, and chargeback, and that the tools you have in place support and enhance your environment and your goals.

People, process and tools are all critical components of this transformation and our role can include advice, planning, risk mitigation, tools, team enhancement, executive support and process optimization among many others.