Data Center Solutions
Let ConRes Solutions Engineers and Architects assist with your green IT needs and hardware virtualization, data center virtualization, consolidation, and migrations.
As a systems integrator, Continental Resources (ConRes) offers existing environment analysis with a focus towards green IT, data center virtualization, network infrastructure, future scalability, exchange migrations, disaster recovery, maintainability of your mission critical applications, and more. ConRes understands the significance and necessity of accessing data residing in your data center and the network infrastructure behind it.
Exchange Migration and Data Center Moves
As a trusted Microsoft Platinum Partner, ConRes solution engineers and architects can create and design an Exchange migration plan tailored for your network infrastructure needs. Important building blocks for exchange migrations include mailbox quantities, usage patterns, public folders, mailbox growth, non-managed storage, bandwidth and traffic pattern, and more. Exchange migration practices from ConRes incorporate the planning, technology implentation, and validation during your exchange migration or data center move to help reduce downtown and possible loss of data during the transfer. Our qualified professionals put an emphesis on all stages of the process, including pre-planning, coordinating with your IT staff, performing the exchange migration or data center move, and post move qualification.
Virtual Data Center Optimization and Consolidation
The benefits of data center virtualization include green IT initiatives such as reducing power consumption, reducing hardware and software acquision costs, and an overall better architecture for performance, security, and availbility. ConRes provides all these things for your virtual data center to stay up and running. With the help of qualified engineers and architects from ConRes, you can expect high quality service when consolidation or virtializing servers, storage, and other applications.
Data Center Discovery and Assessment Services
- Disaster Recovery & Backup
- High Availability
- Storage
- Consolidation
- Server
- Storage
- Virtualization
- Server
- Storage
- Desktop
- Application
- Data Center Assessments
- Data Center Moves
- Migrations
- Implementation Services
- Networking
- Microsoft Consulting
- Staging & Warehousing
- Security
Data Center Moves and Migrations
ConRes Data Center moves and migrations capabilities include:
- Move Plan Assessment
- Schedule and Timing Assistance
- Move/Project Assistance
- Cabling Assessment
- Mover Orchestration
- Impact Analysis
- Needs Assessment
- System/Peripheral Power Down/Up Assistance
- New Configuration Assistance
- Data Storage Analysis and Projections
Staging and Warehouse Services
ConRes has a staging facility in Nashua, New Hampshire where various electronic solutions are staged. ConRes Staging and Warehouse compentencies include:
- System & Peripheral Preparation per Install Requirements
- Configuration Preparation (pre-install)
- System Evaluation (pre-install)
- Proof of Concept Qualification
- Physical Inventory Housing Prior to Install
- Firmware and Image Loading Operating System Loading and Pre-Configuring
- Burn-in and Faulty Component Recognition
Case Studies
Case Study: Large Retailer (59 KB pdf file)
Retail client required single point of contact to address a large international rollout of IBM blade servers.
E-Books
E-Book: Navigating the Data Warehouse Appliance Selection and Purchase Process (265 KB pdf file)
In this eBook, IT and data warehousing professionals and business executives involved in data warehouse purchases will get an overview of data warehouse appliance trends and practical advice on how to evaluate and choose the right appliances for their organizations.
Multimedia
Video: Dynamic Data Center
In this video learn how a Dynamic Data Center (now called FlexPod) is an IT architecture that offers a comprehensive strategic solution to a range of data-storage and management headaches—which, in turn, generates rapid and robust ROI.
Solution Sheets
Data Sheet: G-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) Overview (836 KB pdf file)
Optimize application delivery across your globally distributed data center with F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic ManagerData Sheet: Hitachi Command Suite Server Option (1 MB pdf file)
Hitachi Command Suite server option provides rapid deployment and one-stop support from Hitachi Data Systems for organizations using Hitachi stogie with Hitachi Command Suite.Data Sheet: Hitachi Content Platform and Open Text Livelink's ECM Suite (769 KB pdf file)
The joint capabilities of Hitachi Content Platform and Open Text’s LiveLink ECM suite help address compliance, governance, and litigation, readiness needs through appropriate management, retention and disposition of content.Data Sheet: VIPRION Product Datasheet (1 MB pdf file)
Add more power! Each VIPRION platform is a single Application Delivery Controller (ADC) with modular performance blades you can add or remove with no disruption to your applicationsSolution Brief: Hitachi Command Suite Overview (859 KB pdf file)
Hitachi Command Suite is an integrated software suite for efficient management of virtualized storage and server infrastructures that lowers capital and operational costs by increasing utilization and deploying automated tiered storage infrastructures. It helps you flexibly align with changing business requirements and maximize return on IT investments.Solution Brief: Simplified Management With Hitachi Command Suite (1 MB pdf file)
The Hitachi Command Suite is a critical component of HDS solution for integrated management of a unified data infrastructure for all data types.Solution Sheet: BIG-IP LTM Firewall Security (911 KB pdf file)
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) has numerous security features that enable it to serve as a network firewall, so Internet data centers can deliver applications while protecting the infrastructure that supports their clients.Solution Sheet: Cisco Data Center 3.0 (976 KB pdf file)
Evolution of the data center to a more consolidated, virtualized, and automated environment.Solution Sheet: Cisco Unified Computing System (798 KB pdf file)
UCS data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system.Solution Sheet: Data Center (827 KB pdf file)
Data center discovery and assessment solutions.Solution Sheet: Infrastructure, Data Center Solutions and IT Professional Services Overview (729 KB pdf file)
Overview of professional services. ConRes Solution Engineers and Architects average over 10 years experience and focus on private cloud, messaging, networking, security, storage, IT staffing, unified communications VoIP, virtualization, wireless and Microsoft to build better data centers and IT infrastructure for your business.Solution Sheet: Optimizing Applications Virtualized Infrastructure (809 KB pdf file)
F5's Application Delivery Network (ADN) and optimization solutions integrate directly with virtual platforms and focus on optimizing applications and the network within the virtual infrastructure.Solution Sheet: VMware Virtualization and Cloud Management: Simplify IT Management (762 KB pdf file)
VMware Virtualization and Cloud Management solutions offer key business benefits to organizations including zero touch automation, policy-driven service assurance and management and cloud interoperability.
Whitepapers and Briefs
Whitepaper: Server Consolidation (688 KB pdf file)
Server Consolidation and Virtualization Efficiency studies offer a first step toward optimizing your infrastructure investments, lowering costs and improving your business flexibility.Whitepaper: The New Data Center Firewall Paradigm (952 KB pdf file)
A new data center architecture based on the firewall services of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) effectively combats modern attacks while providing significant capital expenditure (CapEx) savings.
