 Storage
The core of any enterprise is a highly available storage solution which provides reliability and resiliency for corporate wide applications such as ERP, CRM, Email and Web Technologies. Merrimac Solutions, Inc will provide a customized solution using best-of-breed products to help reduce planned downtime, lower your company total cost of ownership (TCO) and ease server consolidation.
The customized storage solution will include the appropriate Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) or iSCSI solution, based on your current capacity, expected growth, archival needs and business continuity plans.
Backup and Recovery
Is your backup window shrinking? Has your storage capacity doubled in the past two years?
Many administrators find that refreshing tape backup hardware will reduce their backup window by 20% but this solution doesn’t meet all of the business needs. Merrimac will provide a solution that includes one or more of the following technologies;
- Tiered storage and disk-to-disk backup
- Virtual Tape and De-Duplication
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
- Software and Appliance Based Solutions
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
Devastating acts from New York and Oklahoma City have left many businesses and individuals concerned about the possibility of future threats and their impact. Your company must resume its most important functions in an emergency mode as quickly as possible.
Disaster Recovery plans should contain thoughts toward; recovering enterprise business operations, recovering workgroups (where employees can work), salvaging building contents, resumption of telecommunications services and computer equipment.
Merrimac Solutions, Inc. will assist your enterprise with the following;
- Identification of all computer systems, applications, employees, equipment and supplies needed for recovery
- Creation of Risk Assessments, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Disaster Recovery Plan, Business Continuity Plan
- Development and testing of backup procedures for critical files and computers systems
- Negotiations with third party hosting centers for off-site storage, recovery of critical systems and/or workgroup recovery
- Identification of all third party business partners who are required for your recovery effort
- Testing your plan to ensure its capable to provide the required level of support for your business process and recovery of the enterprise
Maintenance of the plan
Project Management
Merrimac Solutions project managers will provide supervision and control of the work required to complete your project’s vision. Our project managers will schedule, monitor and control various project tasks and lead the project implementation. Merrimac Solutions is also a contributing member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and Chicagoland Chapter
http://www.pmi-chicagoland.org/about_us/
During each project, the Merrimac project manager and your staff will collaborate in one or more of the following areas;
- Project Integration Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Time Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Communications Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Procurement Management
Operating Systems/Applications/Virtualization
We provide installation and migrations for all major operating systems and applications; VMWare, Windows, Linux, Unix and their associated applications such as Exchange, SMS, GroupWise and SQL.
Many customers have found that server consolidation utilizing a SAN, Blade Technology and VMWare saves them hard dollars in power consumption and hardware service contracts. In addition, they have re-gained valuable data center rack space. This integrated solution provides a reduction in the backup window and server recovery times and paves the way for disaster recovery and business continuity planning. Lastly, our clients now have a more efficient and standarized method to rollout new servers and applications.
Merrimac also has experienced Engineers who can assist with LAN, WAN, Security, Load Balancing and Wireless Projects.
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