Infrastructure Services
Vistorm Infrastructure Services include Health checks, Assessments, Design and Implementation services including a number of possible technologies to facilitate secure, scaleable and flexible Infrastructure. This revolves around 4 core solution areas; Application Delivery, Secure Server Virtualisation, Secure Messaging and Identity and Access Management.
Vistorm has over 10 Years experience in successful large scale infrastructure deployments utilising a focused consultancy team. Vistorm can advise on and implement a scaleable and secure solution, ensuring that demanding service levels and productivity targets are met.
Amongst others, Vistorm are a Citrix Platinum Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, and a VMware Authorised Consultancy. Core Technology Vistorm has extensive capabilities in include: VMware (including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Services, Microsoft SoftGrid, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, Altiris and Appsense.
Application Delivery
Securely deploying core business applications to an increasingly distributed and mobile global user base, accessing via desktops, laptops, thin clients or even mobile devices, is a vital IT requirement. By using an integrated application services delivery framework based on the combination of Citrix, Microsoft and VMware technologies, Vistorm is able to provide a comprehensive strategy for organisations to meet these demands. Vistorm’s Professional Services team are experts in architecting and delivering data centre based solutions and can provide the necessary technical expertise and depth of experience to help deliver a flexible, reliable, secure and performance-oriented application service infrastructure for your business.
Virtualisation is an increasingly popular strategy that provides numerous operational benefits, including cost-effective server consolidation, lower data centre power consumption, rapid and reliable business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities and flexible test and development environments. Virtualisation decouples the server operating system and application services from the underlying hardware platform, delivering flexibility and optimisation of available resource. Vistorm offers a number of packaged services for tactical assistance with virtualisation, such as Virtualisation Assessments that determine the potential reach of virtualisation within your data centre, to full-scale strategic solution implementation incorporating virtual workload management technologies.
Secure Messaging
Messaging and collaboration solutions play a mission-critical role in any organisation. In order to handle an ever-increasing wave of security threats originating from both outside and inside, to deal with mounting compliance pressures and to provide the highest levels of service availability demanded by users, businesses need to consider not just the core 'email' functionality, but also remote access capabilities, anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering, archiving and storage and instant messaging requirements. With a pedigree in security practice, Vistorm offers a multi-layered approach to architect and deliver 'best practice' Microsoft Exchange implementations that provides the integrity around an assured messaging and collaboration solution.
Identity Management and Directory Services
The requirement to manage user identities now extends beyond just user account management within a single domain or directory service inside an organisation’s boundaries. Increasingly organisations will have multiple directories, disparate data repositories, mainframe systems, application databases with multiple passwords, strong credential systems, such as smart cards and digital certificates, and face the need to incorporate the management of trusted 3rd party identities accessing internal services from outside of the organisation. Implementing solutions to manage the lifecycle of complex identity information across a heterogeneous enterprise is not to be under-estimated. Vistorm offers leading Identity and Access Management solutions and is able to assess your organisation’s particular requirements and design an integrated approach that synchronises directory services, manages certificates and passwords, drawing them together within a metadirectory system, and delivering automated tools for user provisioning. Vistorm also has extensive experience in the design and deployment of Microsoft Active Directory as the fundamental directory services architecture.
User Environment Management
The diversification of application delivery methods and the increasing pressures to provide authorised applications based on group membership, or to particular user requirements, pose administration challenges in terms of balancing flexibility of access with tight control of the user’s application environment. Business applications only deliver business value when being used efficiently; inconsistent working environments lead to unpredictable application performance, user frustration and ultimately loss of user productivity. Vistorm understands these challenges of the optimised user environment and designs integrated solutions that include the management of roaming profiles, flexible printing environments, protected and optimally performing systems and assured quality of service for applications delivered via desktops (physical and virtual), mobile laptops, thin clients and web browsers.
Asset and Patch Management
Keeping pace with the ceaseless, on-going, requirement to protect systems from the rise of widespread security threats, that target known vulnerabilities, is a constant IT challenge. Along with the resultant downtime and expense an exploit can bring, increasing concerns over regulatory compliance and the need to have complete visibility of assets is driving many organisations to seriously consider strategic enterprise-wide patch management solutions, rather than tactical point resolutions. Vistorm is able to provide a number of alternative technologies from Microsoft, Symnatec (Altiris) and PatchLink that will provide a framework for managing and maintaining system updates. Vistorm also offers services to assess an organisation’s requirements and deliver a best practice disciplines to patch testing, change management, patch deployment and systems audit enabling consistency and compliance across the entire server and desktop infrastructure.
Secure Archiving & Storage
The lifecycle management of terabytes of corporate data is a challenge for many businesses, especially when this extends to multiple data sources including network file systems, email systems, instant messaging and collaboration systems. In addition, organisational liability issues have meant that more stringent corporate governance is required around the retention and storage of data. Vistorm is able to help organisations in addressing these challenges by designing and implementing an integrated archiving and storage strategy that combines industry-leading technology with cost-effective solutions.
Server Infrastructure Health Checks
Vistorm's Server Health Check service is an ideal way to obtain an expert's view of an organisation's key server operating environment. The service provides the certainty of knowledge that the target server infrastructure is optimised for its intended use, meets best practice standards, is performing at the highest possible levels and is stable and robust. Commissioning regular health checks ensures a cost-effective approach to proactively identify performance, configuration and availability problems before they impact the business applications. Vistorm specialise in core capabilities around Microsoft, Citrix and VMware based server health checks.
