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Data Center Services
Migration and Transformation
Organizations often spend millions on unsuccessful attempts to migrate data centers or technology services, or to transform platforms and infrastructure. While many companies are well versed in operational aspects of data center activities, database management, and virtualization management, few are experienced in the nuances and particulars of all the these areas and more, in the context of data center migration services.
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Agile Tech is specialized in the area of data center services to provide the necessary experience, specialized methodologies, processes and artifacts to manage data center migrations, re-platforming, virtualization projects, transformations and service transitions.
Consolidation, Relocation, Co-Location
Enhanced efficiencies can be found by consolidating multiple legacy data centers to a smaller footprint of primary and backup data centers. Relocating to mitigate disaster risk by geographic repositioning of data centers, leveraging co-lo facilities as appropriate for cost, and service transition are all complex tasks that Agile Tech has decades of experience successfully executing. We help in co-lo vetting and assessment, service provider establishment, risk analysis to existing data centers and new data centers and rationalization and costing projects. Agile Tech will develop a execute a successful migration, which can wholly leverage our experienced staff or in concert with your team.
Virtualization and Cloud
Virtualization is more than buying big servers and installing VMWare, OVM or LPARs. It requires not just the technical skills on how to architect and establish an efficient and long term environment, but it must also take into account a variety of peripheral factors, such as licensing, support, vendor limitations, storage, database, workforce/resources and operational activities. Virtualization is not always the answer and Agile Tech agnostic consultants will always provide the input that will serve your particular situation and set you up for success when it's the proper solution.
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Leveraging cloud computing makes sense in many situations but like virtualization, must be approached from a variety of directions to be used strategically. Agile Tech can help you determine a strategic roadmap to leverage private cloud, semi-private and public (such as AWS and Azure). We can help you rationalize and balance cost, risk, security, privacy and service provisioning options to make your use of cloud computing fit your company's current and future needs.
Database Transformation, Upgrades and replatforming
A large part of most businesses is their data and the databases that control the access to it. While some companies have DBA teams that perform DB upgrades and DB migrations more frequently than others, large migration projects are best performed by experienced professionals such as Agile Tech who know from experience the differences between routine operational upgrades and full data center/volume migrations. Whether moving from Oracle on AIX to Oracle on Linux (big endian/little endian), moving SAP or Oracle eBiz, doing a full re-platform and db upgrade at the same time, or no/low downtime migrations, Agile Tech knows the process is more than just a technical exercise. We have the experience in executing complex and hi-volume migrations, and adhere to proven methodologies that are developed from years of experience to ensure your project tracks to an established plan and has a predictable and successful outcome.
Advisory and Consulting
CTO as a Service
Sometimes small to mid sized companies, or divisions within larger organizations get caught up in the daily business of IT operations and miss strategic opportunities. CTO as a Service provides an advisory service to your organization to keep your company strategically aligned. Our CTO as a Service consultant will be aware of changes in technology or processes that impact your industry and help provide opportunities for continuous improvement through thought leadership on technology and technology management.
Technology Roadmap
Agile Tech' roadmap is an advisory service engagement that reviews an organizations current mode of operation, reviews strategic goals, risks, financial, resource, technology limitations, and provides a high level path towards a future mode of operation that aligns with long term organizational goals. The roadmap service can be used with our CTO as a Service to provide a long term advisory engagement, or used as a high level artifact before developing project plans, schedules and developing RFP's for milestones on the roadmap.
RFP, SOW, BID and Proposals
The experts at Agile Tech have years of writing, reading and responding to RFP's and proposals. We can help you draft an RFP that solicits quality replies and addresses your specific organizations risks and challenges. We can act as your external advisory service to help you evaluate proposals and replies from potential vendors and help you craft a Statement of Work.
How to successfully Insource?
Leveraging a global labor market or multiple vendors is not just a simple effort of using low cost labor pools abroad. A variety of factors determine the best location for leveraged support. Managers and IT departments are finding that their organizations, investors and end users are demanded a more sophisticated blend of services that balances cost with quality. AgileTech can help your organization properly Insource services to create cost effective, dynamic and robust support models.
Risk Assessment and Advisory
Agile Tech performs a variety of risk assessments and advisory services. Our most frequent engagement is to provide data center risk assessments as a precursor to a organizational data center rationalization effort. Using our established process we'll perform site visits and provide site risk assessments for owned and co-lo sites, nationally and abroad. The results of the risk assessment will often be an input artifact to our Technology Roadmap service to provide an accurate strategic vision of the future mode of operation.
Disaster Readiness
Proper Business Impact Analysis (BIA) create the foundation for successfully recovering a business when a disaster or disruptive event occurs. Business Impact Analysis allows an organization to quantify the impact of system to the organization and therefore determine it's level of criticality. Based on the determined criticality the organization can them implement next steps of planning based upon required recovery times, Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Work Recovery Time (WRT) and Mean Tolerable Downtime (WTD) are some of the elements determined as part of the Business Impact Analysis.
Business Continuity Planning is the general plan from which an organization will creates the activities which will be implemented to mitigate disruptive events. The goal of the BCP is to sufficiently details and prescriptive to mean the RPO, RTO, WRT and MTD that have been identified during the BIA development. AgileTech will help you create real world Business Continuity Plans to help protect your organization.
Information Technology is the backbone of most modern organizations and having proper Disaster Recovery plans in place before a disaster strikes is a critical factor in the successful recovery of your organization from a disruptive event. AgileTech will work with your team to assess your existing plans, advise on practical steps to improve and align with your business needs. We have experts that can function as your team in preparation of ITDR plans, or we can function as a trusted third party.
Organizational Resiliency is the blending of a variety of Disaster Preparedness components into a broad understanding of your organizations maturity to recovery and thrive during disruptive events. AgileTech offers proprietary assessment services which will evaluate the pillars of Organizational Resiliency, determining technology, process, people and leadership metrics to objectively benchmark your organization. We will provide analysis to objective data to determine a road map to improve your organizations resilience that is achievable, practical and time bound.
About Agile Tech
Advisory and Consulting Services
OUR STORY
Agile Tech is a privately held company whose core competency and primary focus is data center transitions and transformations. We are American based company in Delaware with with a significant remote staff, located mostly in the USA but with established Latin American offshore and near-shore capacity.
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Our leadership team averages 20+ years of experience and is comprised of veteran technology managers from industry and big 4 consulting organizations, as well as startup and mid-sized companies.
OUR VISION
We help small to mid cap companies by providing a level of expertise that is usually only available to large organizations. We work with our customers on strategy, technology, execution and support of their data center projects thru direct engagement, advisory and consultancy .
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Agile Tech is technology agnostic, thus , we can provide external advisory services of your existing plans, project management of your vendors and direct, unvarnished input to help you make the best decisions for your company; we do not steer you towards a predetermined solution. And certainly we can help you make the best purchases decisions with RFP, SOW, proposal and procurement consulting services as well.
OUR TECHNOLOGY
Agile Tech has a variety of customized tools we use in all phases of projects. We provide project tested artifacts for all engagements and use proprietary and COTS migration tools for efficiently managing data center projects. We implement best practice methodologies and the right people for the right job.