Technology Assessment
Aloha Technical Solutions can provide your company with a roadmap for your company's technology investments. We don't just consider performance; we also consider how the technology we recommend affects your productivity and ultimately your bottom line.

A typical plan will involve:

• A fact finding meeting to discuss the technology issues and challenges you face today and also what you would like to get from your company systems and network.
• An on-site evaluation of your existing technology.
• Detailed documents that presents our recommendations and the associated costs.
• A meeting to discuss the documents, any vulnerabilities and your priorities.

Aloha Technical Solutions is committed to your long-term success, and we are ready to be your trusted IT partner today.

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Whether your business has 5, 50 or more than 1000 PCs and servers, the data you are managing could be the most important asset you own. Protecting your data from system failure is the first step in data protection. Aloha Technical Solutions will help you build redundancy into your network to protect against system or component problems.

Everyone backs up their data, but not everyone can recover it.  Regardless of what the logs show the truth is that even if data is located, recovering it for any purpose in a timely fashion, whether to retrieve an important email for litigation support or to research customer history, data recovery is often more painful, time-consuming and costly than it needs to be.

Aloha Technical Solutions offers a wide selection of Disk-to-Tape, Disk-to-Disk and Disk-to-WORM solutions from top vendors like IBM which are designed to fit any organization’s needs and budget. If you lose your data for any reason, how quickly can you retrieve it or can you retrieve it at all?

At Aloha Technical Solutions, we are serious about protecting your data. We can design, and deploy a scalable and reliable backup and recovery solution using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and TSM Manager. Other design considerations such as system redundancy, a consistent backup schedule and a plan for disaster recovery are critical to protecting and retrieving your data.

Business Continuity and Compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other regulatory changes have created requirements for auditing the compliance of an organization’s IT infrastructure.  Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has emerged as an increasingly important corporate function, and ERM managers have quickly recognized that PCs represent the highest compliance risk category.

Many of our clients have invested heavily in increasing core infrastructure high-availability and performance.  The same investment has not been made in protecting desktop availability despite its growing importance to business processes. As a result the desktop support model that most IT organizations now use is expensive and provides little control. This inability to control the desktop degrades performance and availability, and negates the business value of investments made in the core IT infrastructure.

Aloha Technical Solutions can provide you with the means to control that risk and the reporting tools to provide specific evidence to auditors that your IT infrastructure is under control using unique software solutions from our key partners like IBM, Cisco and Persystent Technologies.

Server Consolidation, Virtualization, and Server Capacity Planning

Server Consolidation
Using the latest tools and methodologies we assist clients in discovering the capabilities and limitations of the systems they have in place including CPU utilization, storage capacity and how these resources are being used. We can then make specific recommendations for consolidation based upon their business and application requirements, space and power, and available budgets.

IBM BladeCenter Systems and IBM XpandOnDemand enterprise servers
Everyone is aiming to get more value out of their server infrastructure. Aloha Technical Solutions can assist in incorporating high performance, scalable systems like an IBM BladeCenter featuring IBM blade servers or IBM XpandOnDemand high-performance servers designed to fit your business needs.

Server Virtualization
Combining the server consolidation strategy with virtualization through another key partner’s virtualization platform, VMware VI3, dramatically increases the utilization potential of each server and amounts to a vastly enlarged pool of resources in a much smaller space.  For example, a fully populated BladeCenter or a 32-processor XpandOnDemand server could easily accommodate up to 70 virtual servers in a single rack system. The individual virtual machines (VMs) would allow multiple operating systems to run independently of each other on the same physical server, each running multiple applications, while sharing the distributed resources (memory, disk, network and CPU) of the BladeCenter or XpandOnDemand hardware.

Virtualization technologies enable our clients to cut expenses on hardware maintenance, energy and physical space requirements, thus getting more out of the money they spend. In addition the server infrastructure will ultimately last longer and perform better.

Another key benefit of virtualization is reduced time frames for server provisioning and application deployments. The traditional method for server provisioning requires planning sheets, budgets, quotes, approvals, manufacturing and shipping lead times, etc. that could be a 4-8 week long process. With a VMware implementation Technical Support can create a new VM server almost instantly without reconfiguring physical hardware. Test and development time frames are also be reduced because VMs configured for test scenarios can be simply and quickly turned into production machines.

Planning services specific to customer environment and business needs

Software Audits and Compliancy Service
Aloha Technical Solutions can provide an audit of your current software and licensing to ensure that you are current and compliant. We can assist you in deciphering the complex software licensing schemes and advise you as to any changes or upgrades you might need along with their associated costs. Our key software partnerships and software expertise allows us to make the right recommendations and to provide you with the products you need at competitive prices.

Email Compliance
We live in a litigious society. No organization is immune from the possibility of being sued or being named in a business partner’s lawsuit. These actions are costly and extremely disruptive to business. Aloha Technical Solutions can offer compliance solutions from IBM Tivoli or email archive solutions from IBM CommonStore. Having quick access to any and all emails should be as easy as a few keystrokes.

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