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Assessment Services
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Network Health Assessment
Network Security Assessment
Virtualization Assessment
SAN Assessment
Dox offers assessment services to help give your organization the information it needs to make critical business decisions.
If you are required to comply with regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC Rule 17a-4 or GLBA, obtaining a detailed assessment of your current environment is a critical first step in building a roadmap toward compliance.
After our expert certified engineers collect information about your environment, we will analyze the data with up-to-date industry standards and best practices in mind to bring light to potential problem areas. We can then provide you with a report detailing our findings from the perspective of your stated business objectives.
Network Health Assessment
What Is It?
This assessment provides insight into the network environment from a business perspective. There are several areas available for this type of assessment including an evaluation on: Firewalls, E-mail environment, Active Directory, Servers, Backup Strategies, Disaster Recovery, Desktops, Infrastructure, Phone Systems, Bandwidth Capacity and business-driven needs.
All areas in this assessment focus on performance, health and the end-user experience. Together or individually, these pieces will provide you with a snapshot of your current environment, along with recommendations to overcome business challenges.
Benefits
- Up-to-date documentation of network resources
- Insight into potential problem areas
- Ensure alignment of your network environment with your business goals
- Validation of policies and procedures already in place
What's In The Report
The output of the Network Health Assessment is a comprehensive document detailing your network's performance, health and end-user experience. Some of the document sections include:
| Executive Summary | Project overview, business drivers, success criteria, project phase, and key findings, as well as short-term and long-term recommendations. |
| Evaluation Results | This section includes detailed results and recommendations from the areas you have chosen for your assessment. These areas may include: |
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Network Security Assessment
What Is It?
This evaluation provides insight into the network environment from a security and technological perspective. There are several areas available for this type of assessment including an evaluation on: Firewalls, E-mail environment, Internal Network, External Network, Physical Security, Social Engineering, Active Directory, Servers, Desktops, Infrastructure and Wireless.
All areas in this assessment focus on the security of various network components and user access to the network. Together or individually, these pieces will provide you with a snapshot of your current environment, along with recommendations to remediate security and vulnerability concerns.
Benefits
- Up-to-date documentation of network security posture
- Insight into potential problem areas
- Validation of policies and procedures already in place
What's In The Report
The output of the Network Security Assessment is a comprehensive document detailing the security of various network components and user access rights. Some of the document sections include:
| Executive Summary | Project overview, success criteria, project phase, and key findings, as well as short-term and long-term recommendations. |
| Evaluation Results | This section includes detailed results and recommendations from the areas you have chosen for your assessment. These areas may include: |
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Virtualization Assessment
What Is It?
A virtualization assessment is an accurate estimation of how an organization can better utilize existing or new server hardware. Using a proven assessment methodology, we determine potential consolidation ratios using a collection of server performance metrics. The results of this assessment will enable your organization to develop a plan to successfully implement virtualization.
Consider This Service If...
- You want your Stakeholders to see increased ROI and lower TCO
- You want to know how much you can increase utilization of IT assets
- You want help with consolidation or virtualization planning
- You want help with choosing the best virtualization technology for your particular situation
What's In The Report
The output of the Virtualization Assessment is a comprehensive document detailing virtualization candidates and consolidation scenarios that are crucial to the success of a virtualization deployment. Some of the document sections include:
| Executive Summary | Project overview, business drivers, success criteria, project phase, and key findings, as well as short-term and long-term recommendations. |
| Server Inventory Summary | The Server Inventory Summary section reviews the technical aspects and performance of the server inventory as revealed by the data collection process of the Server Virtualization Assessment. |
| Server Utilization Assessment | The Server Utilization Assessment section details the utilization metrics across all monitored workloads during the monitoring period of the Server Virtualization Assessment. |
| Poor Virtualization Candidates | The Poor Virtualization Candidates section provides an overview of excluded servers that are not suitable for virtualization due to not meeting the criteria for a successful virtualization. |
| Consolidation Scenarios | This section provides recommended scenarios for a consolidation project based on the findings of the Server Virtualization Assessment. |
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SAN Assessment
What Is It?
A SAN assessment is a detailed analysis of the configuration and performance of your existing Storage Area Network. Using a proven assessment methodology, we will identify configuration problems that may be the cause of current or future performance issues. The results of this assessment will enable your organization to implement a SAN configuration that is best designed to meet the needs of your environment as well as your budget.
Consider This Service If...
- You want your Stakeholders to see increased ROI and lower TCO
- Your SAN seems to be filling up too fast
- You are considering "data mining" for Business Intelligence
- You are considering a server consolidation or virtualization plan
- You want help with choosing the best SAN configuration for your particular situation
What's In The Report
The output of the SAN Assessment is an Executive-Level Report and a Detailed Documentation Report. The Executive-Level Report will contain a summary of our findings and recommendations. The Detailed Documentation Report will contain technical details of our assessment, with sections including:
| Configuration Overview | This section will summarize the current configuration in a high-level overview. |
| Switches | Details about each of the SAN's switches will be documented in this section, including: Capacity, Firmware, Power, Cabling, Controls, Naming, Zoning and Monitoring Settings. |
| Storage Layout and Specifications | This section will document the current configuration of the Storage Unit, Drives and Arrays, Volumes, Business Copy, and Backup and Recovery. |
| Recommendations | Proactive Fix Notifications and Gap Analysis for Best Practices wil l be detailed in this section, as well as summarized in an Executive Overview. |
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