Overview
No matter what your sourcing model is, in-house, outsourced, mixed, or very likely a mix of all, you want to understand the service requirements of your organization with regards to information management.
Information Management decisions are critical to most organizations and are an opportunity to understand the information flow of the business. Infrastructure and storage events often enable server consolidation and high availability configurations and cater for data requirements based on normal growth, new, or expanding application, regulatory requirements, business acquisition, data management, identity management and technology refresh. Arados Consulting services are helping you do achieve just that and more:Our Services
Information Management Services, Service Delivery and creation of a Service Catalogue
This service will help you to define Information Management Services as a set of policies, processes, practices, services and tools used to align the business value of information with the most appropriate and cost-effective infrastructure from the time information is created through its final disposition. Taking into account all sector specific legal/regulatory/compliance and security requirements enhances the business value. Information is aligned with business requirements through management policies and service levels associated with applications, metadata and data. A Cost model will be included to provide the basis for charge back and invoicing. Hooks to forecasting and Capacity planning are part of the outcome of a successful project. A tool to manage and maintain the catalogue is a major deliverable.
- Assessment (business, regulations, compliance, security)
- Data Classification and Service Catalogue
- Storage Service Development
- Web based tool to create and maintain the service catalogue
- Cost Model
- Forecast modeling
Assessment and Audit Services- Business Continuity assessment or audit
- Storage efficiency assessment
- Strategic, Tactical, Situational assessment
- Compliancy requirements or audit
- Cloud Readiness Services
Information Management Infrastructure Strategy and Architecture
This service will help you to define your Information Management infrastructure strategy, to define detailed business requirements, which then also can be used to issue a RFP.
- Define business requirements
- Prepare and run RFP
- Assessment, Planning and Design
- Strategy and Architecture
- Infrastructure Design
Business ContinuanceThis service is all about building a data and storage infrastructure to support business continuity concepts for high availability and disaster recovery
- Data Availability Planning
- Storage Replication Design and Implementation
- Backup and Recovery Design and Implementation
- Disaster Recovery Design and Implementation
Consolidation and Virtualization
This service will enable virtualization or consolidation projects by building a solid plan to execute on.
- Virtualization and Consolidation Planning
- Data Migration
- Technology Refresh
Storage Management & Operations
This service will establish storage management architecture based on the application of procedures and processes to ensure the availability, accessibility, performance and protection of storage data and storage devices.
- Storage Management Planning
- Storage Management Design & Implementation