ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

VD Networks has a core competency in Architecture and Design. As an organization that has been building these technology Infrastructures for many years, VD Networks' customers benefit from the firm’s long-term experience, a unique perspective drawn from a wide variety of customer engagements large and small, and deep institutional knowledge of IT architecture and technologies.

With an experienced team well-educated on industry trends and best practices, and with deep relationships with technology resources at top vendors in the IT infrastructure market, VD Networks is uniquely qualified to assist customers in their technology journeys.

An architecture and design blueprint is at the core of any technology implementation plan. It takes into consideration all aspects of today’s IT infrastructure and capacity planning issues: hardware, computing, network, storage, and other dependencies. VD Networks advocates a short planning engagement to produce these planning assets to prioritize all aspects of the next-generation infrastructure build. This is a core foundational activity. To learn more about how VD Networks can address your needs, BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION

CLOUD MIGRATION 

Developing a clear business strategy and technology roadmap is a critical component for delivering a reliable and scalable cloud platform for users. VD Networks has been refreshing legacy platforms along with the ground-up construction of new cloud platforms to meet the growing need of clients’ cloud-based resource requirements.

By leveraging cloud resources as a primary production platform—or combining them with legacy on-premises assets—VD Networks can analyze and recommend approaches to solve client business objectives and performance requirements. VD Networks' team of experts deliver all required advisory and implementation services to deliver affordable, scalable, and robust cloud infrastructures.

With many options available for the implementation of this type of platform—private, public, and hybrid models—VD Networks functions best when working with clients from the inception phase of their cloud journey. This enables VD Networks to accurately map out necessary key steps and the end-state vision.

The VD Networks Cloud Architecture Discovery Workshop is designed to help identify your requirements. After confirming requirements, the team aligns business strategies with your overall IT and cloud computing.

VD Networks recommends at the outset a short collaboration that would produce an architecture blueprint outlining the cloud initiative and underlying activities and dependencies. The output of these workshops is a migration roadmap for building the future-state infrastructure, with an agreed-upon understanding of what will go into ongoing maintenance. This service addresses the complexity and challenges associated with a cloud-based infrastructure build. This includes dependencies and considerations of applications, workloads, and future growth.

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INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION

VD Networks has built excellent close working relationships with many of the major IT technology vendors over the last several years. These vendors include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell/VMWare, Nutanix, Cisco, Citrix, AWS, Microsoft, and many other IT specialists large and small.

As a preferred VAR (value-add reseller) partner of these industry-leading providers, VD Networks must meet strict technical certification requirements and make available value-add services to every partner’s clients and prospects.

VD Networks' Professional Services works hand-in-hand with each IT vendor's knowledge bases and technical engineering resources to deliver a full suite of proactive and reactive services and provide our clients with predictable and reliable service levels.

To this end:

• VD Networks' staff has numerous high-level certifications in a wide array of technology specializations ranging from network architecture design, VDI infrastructure, data center performance tuning, and many more. These skills complement and enable the IT solutions delivered to VD Networks' customer base. VD Networks continuously maintains and expands the professional knowledge base necessary to design, build and maintain cutting-edge solutions leveraging the software and hardware products from today's leading IT providers
• As a trusted advisor and technology partner that operates on behalf of its end customers, VD Networks delivers and implements solutions at the same level of expertise (if not greater in many cases) as if an individual IT provider was directly engaged. Customers benefit from the combined knowledge of a 20-year IT technology practitioner as well as the engineering staff of relevant IT product vendors

• VD Networks' Professional Services provides value-add services:

• On-premise:
  • Install and configure partner products
  • Capacity planning - create a recommendation based on projected loads
  • Health check/assessment – engagement designed to assess current state operation configurations and performance, and deliver an assessment summary
  • Software and infrastructure upgrades
• Cloud
  • Workload assessment
  • Workload migration
  • Cloud capacity planning: Compute, Storage, Network, and Maintenance services

VD Networks' longstanding vendor relationships allow the delivery of a variety of services that provide high value and predictable, dependable, and efficient support for every customer.

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CERTIFICATIONS

Adding to our achievement of the highest levels of partnership and certifications with our technology partners, VD Networks' Professional Services team supports its consultative capabilities by also having received management certifications and accreditations such as:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) (Project Management Institute [PMI])
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• ISO/IEC 17024:2003
• Information Technology Services Management (ITSM)
• International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI)
• CompTIA
• Systems Security Professional (CISSP)/International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2
• Plus specific regulatory accreditations for healthcare, financial services, government and more

Examples of current vendor certifications include:

The ultimate outcome of engaging with our technology pathfinding professionals is that clients become more agile and innovative, secure, and compliant.

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DISCOVERY AND ASSESSMENT

VD Networks is a leading IT solutions provider having supplied solutions to their clients for several years. VD Networks has focused on Virtualization, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Security solutions to create agile, secure infrastructure platforms for its customers. We deliver this technology expertise through a full lifecycle model of professional services. These services include strategy consulting, architecture, design, and implementation. By taking the time to understand the client's goals, we position these programs for success. We are passionate about our clients and about delivering the highest quality of service in the industry.

VD Networks has developed premium relationships with many of the major infrastructure vendors including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell/VMWare, Nutanix, Cisco, Citrix, AWS, and Microsoft. These longstanding relationships allow VD Networks to deliver a variety of services that provides predictable, efficient support. Our expert-level skills range from design to implementation. For more complex programs, VD Networks can also provide project management.

VD Networks delivers a full suite of proactive and reactive services. Our standard engagement model starts with a collaborative discovery and assessment of a client’s current IT state. We then work with a client to map technology options to business objectives to arrive at a Future State, leveraging a consultation called the VD Networks  Discovery and Assessment Workshop.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The VD Networks Management Office (PMO) builds long-term client relationships as it sets and maintains enterprise-level execution standards for all project engagements.

With expertise gained from over two decades’ worth of projects spanning a highly diverse set of clients and service offerings, VD Networks Project Managers (PMs) are flexible and easily adjust to working within each stakeholder’s individual corporate culture. At VD Networks, the PMO ensures that PMs directly collaborate and communicate with clients throughout a project’s lifecycle, while transitioning them into ongoing maintenance and support. As trusted advisors, VD Networks PMs work with C-level, director-level, and technical engineering personnel and play an integral role in ensuring long-term client satisfaction and retention.

VD Networks' PMO sets and maintains best practice standards; the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) implementation framework is followed for every project. As part of this protocol, PMs review all scope details including deliverables, task dependencies, and prerequisites with the client prior to delivery.

The PMO’s project governance provides a clearly defined process for our PMs to use. This includes technical discipline templates along with project metrics which set the stage to ensure implementation efficiency. It also empowers PMs to perform effective planning, communicate to the project team at all times, deliver within scope, perform effective issue escalation and risk mitigation, and implement change orders as required.

The VD Networks PMO provides an ongoing relationship for clients. PMs have access to all VD Networks and Partner resources to best advise our clients. All of this ensures a seamless client engagement, whereby all project milestones are executed in a timely manner and remain within an allocated budget.

VD Networks follows the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) implementation framework for each of its projects. VD Networks' Project Management Office (PMO) mandates its project managers (PMs) to directly collaborate with clients and effectively communicate throughout the entire project lifecycle.

VD Networks PMs are expected to perform effective planning, define critical project milestones, remain within budget, perform RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), promote effective quality assurance, execute change orders when required, and provide project documentation. A detailed project plan outlining initiation, progress, and completion of tasks and pertinent milestones is utilized to ensure project timelines and goals are met. Certain key goals are paramount to this framework.

For each project, VD Networks PMs concentrate on ensuring the following global objectives:

• Customer satisfaction
• Project timelines are on or near the schedule
• All stakeholders comprehend the overall project goals, scope, and objectives
• All parties understand the project success criteria
• Effective communication between teams and the project’s executive sponsors
• Project escalations and action items are recorded and addressed in a timely and professional manner

VD Networks PM responsibilities and tasks include but are not limited to:

• Project kickoff meetings
• Ensuring compliance with a client’s preferred communications method (i.e., formal project plan, weekly status meetings, etc.)
• Client status reporting and meeting minute reporting
• Risk management and mitigation
• Coordination of all required VD Networks and customer project resources
• Handling of all required project and issue escalations
• Efficient processing of all required project change orders
• Certify that all project deliverables are successfully completed
• Project completion sign-off; project closure meeting and “lessons learned” discussion with the client