Consulting Services from Blue Monitor are advisory services that help clients assess different technology strategies and in so doing, align their IT strategies with their business strategies. The consulting services, among other things, has helped customers to improve their ability to make informed investment decisions with the services that provide detailed cost/benefit analysis of their current environment.
Whether customers are trying to improve upon existing facilities/systems, relocating/ consolidating their data center, architecting & designing high availability solutions etc, our strong intellectual property and expert Blue Monitor in a wide array of technologies has placed Blue Monitor as one the leading providers of IT infrastructure consulting services.
Our consultants specialize in helping organizations plan for new technologies in a cost effective way while retaining existing investments whenever possible. We value-engineer growth plans to address our clients’ goals and objectives, and provide real return on investment
• The list of consulting services that Blue Monitor provides includes but not limited to
• Strategy Consulting
• Data Center Optimization / Consolidation services
• Infrastructure solutions - Architect & Design
• Database services
• Network services
• Performance Engineering Services
• Disaster Recovery solutions
• Enterprise Voice and Contact Center services
• Process Consulting - IT Operations
• ESM Tools Consulting
Blue Monitor has over the years established Best Practices to offer best of breed Infrastructure solutions to its customers. We leverage strategic relationships with some of the world's best technology companies to bring the perfect technology answers and customized infrastructure solutions to our customers.
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES
As more and more enterprises embrace Microsoft platform for their Desktop and Enterprise computing, we at Blue Monitor Technologies are committed to create a positive impact for our customers business and its people. With over two decades of experience in providing infrastructure solutions on Microsoft platforms for wide range of our global customers we have developed our solutions which are tailor made for the diversified and dynamic requirements of our customers. This coupled with our alliance with Microsoft as one of their top System Integration Partner enables us to stay ahead with the latest products and technologies.
The Microsoft practice comprises of over 500 technologists with the best Microsoft skills in the industry and proven implementation experience delivering business-critical, high-quality solutions.
Our solutions help customers consolidate their IT infrastructure, build and integrate Microsoft Infrastructure cost-effectively, and drive better ROI. Each Engineering solution we design is a mix of Innovative, intellectual property, and best practices we've gathered from previous projects.
Our solutions blended with our Global delivery capabilities; proven quality process helps our customer to meet the organizational IT goals and CIO’s stiff ROI challenges.
We were first to adapt to the Application Compatibility Factory initiative for Vista with Microsoft. We are their TAP (Technology Adoption Program) partners for System Center Operations Manager 2007, Vista and Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC).
Blue Monitor Technologies offers the full lifecycle end to end service offering in the Microsoft space from consulting to post implementation support. The service spectrum spans across all the major Microsoft products like Desktop solutions - Vista, Windows XP, Office solutions, OS Imaging Server Solutions - Windows 2003 server build, SMS, MOM, Active Directory design and implementations including storage solutions Messaging Solutions – Implementation of Exchange 2007. Migration from Exchange 5.5 to 2003/2007, migration from Notes to Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007
Application Packaging Services – Factory model Application Compatibility for Vista, Packaging MSI solutions for desktop applications using WISE, Install shield, Radia, Marimba etc. and Software distribution services.
Services
Blue Monitor provides service offerings to take care of IT infrastructure management needs and complements this with accomplished delivery experts. A brief description of these services is as follows:
ENTERPRISE SERVER SERVICES
Blue Monitor Enterprise Server Management makes managing mass server sites simple with a single, comprehensive product. It effortlessly scales to manage thousands of distributed Windows, UNIX and Linux servers from one or many control points.
Delivering real-time alerting, rapid root-cause analysis, and historical availability monitoring by monitoring thousands of in-depth metrics, Blue Monitor provides deep performance, usage and availability metrics and includes core functionality for:
Real-time monitoring and alerting
Drill-down analysis for effective troubleshooting
Tracking availability and service levels
Command processing and rules-based automation
Historical reporting and capacity planning
Server consolidation
Software and hardware inventor
This service specializes on the design and deployment of various server components from Microsoft platform. This includes the operations system Windows Server 2003 and its various sub components and services like file and print services, Terminal Services, media services, and clustering services.
Blue Monitor has expertise in designing and developing clustering solutions and has experience of having implemented Microsoft 7 node clusters for large production networks.
To further enhance the core capabilities in remote offshore based delivery, Blue Monitor has come up with delivering shared services for Server build services from an offshore based factory. The capability has been built based on our experience of having deployed more than 1500 server builds for its various clients spread globally from US and our offshore based center in India.
Salient features of Remote Server Provisioning Factory
Shared Factory setup to remotely build Infrastructure and application servers, including clients.
Customized Tools to automate server build work flow from request notification to quality checks automation
Tools to monitor server build progress and status – web portal
Knowledge base
100% Offshore based
Experience of Delivering 1500+ servers from a factory model setup for multiple global customers
Extendable to deliver value added services like Server Patch Management, Server Application Migration Services
Asset Management Services – with built in tools
Flexible Pricing Models – Pay per use or fixed price
Shared Resources – Hardware, software, tools licenses, skill base and knowledge base.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Gaining access to new customers and markets, cost reduction, and the need for maximum flexibility with real-time interaction – these are major organizational issues driving the need for cloud delivery and consumption models.
Cloud delivery models enable new business and IT approaches through standardizing applications, infrastructure, testing environments and business processes to improve service delivery, while realizing new levels of efficiency.
The number of choices associated with cloud requires a solid business case for moving to a cloud delivery or consumption model - and there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Are you bypassing the critical step of building a strategy and business case in a race to capture the benefits of cloud computing? Since cloud affects all dimensions of the enterprise, from business strategy and operating models, to technology integration and organizational transformation, it requires a solid business design and implementation roadmap.
Rethink and challenge current business models, testing processes and IT strategy in order to deliver real business impact. Blue Monitor can help your business decrease costs and achieve innovation through its cloud consulting portfolio.
Strategy and Change Services for Cloud Providers- How can the cloud help you approach these new opportunities, and what strategies should you adopt to pursue them? What is the impact to your organization and how will you implement new cloud initiatives? What is your implementation and partnership roadmap that leads to being a successful cloud service provider?
Blue Monitor can help you address these questions and develop a cloud provider roadmap that is built on analysis of your organization's cloud opportunities and capabilities, through a three-phased engagement.
Analysis and vision phase – Assesses your business strategy, as well as cloud opportunity and readiness, to help determine how you can deliver cloud computing for increased customer value.
Strategy design phase – Includes a strategy and operating model for target market segmentation, customer readiness and alignment with business goals. A technology integration report is created to help you understand the architecture and model for delivering cloud services.
Implementation roadmap – Defines the entire process, along with a project plan needed to launch a cloud environment.
VIRTUALIZATION
The IT challenge is clear — simplify and optimize your infrastructure so that your business can efficiently respond in a cost-effective way. With our extensive portfolio of virtualization solutions, we can help you build a resilient infrastructure optimized for cost-effectiveness, simplified management and flexibility. We have a team of virtualization specialists who can help you leverage complementary approaches for:
Improving IT asset utilization
Creating an available and resilient infrastructure
Enabling rapid response to changing business requirements
Employing virtualization and system-management technologies to increase flexibility and responsiveness
Virtualization offers a strategy that transcends physical boundaries to improve service delivery, drive down infrastructure costs and help manage risk. Applications are only available if the underlying infrastructure is available. Virtualization can keep applications running through server, storage and application server failures. Consolidating onto virtualized servers means less physical machines to restore. Virtual machine configurations stored in networked files can be restored quickly to another site in the case of a disaster – as a part of your business resilience plan. Storage virtualization allows you to restore to different device types without having to have a mirror image of all your expensive storage at a disaster recovery site.
More and more organizations are viewing virtualization as an enabler to move from managing individual resources to managing resource pools as if they were a single server, storage device or application. Virtualization, together with a strong service management platform, can help lower the cost of adding more IT resources to the cloud.
A central component of the Windows platform, Active Directory directory service provides the means to manage the identities and relationships that make up network environments. Directory services is an integral part of any enterprise today and Blue Monitor can assist its customers to design, implement, migrate and sustain the directory services. Due to wide experience on managing heterogeneous networks and enterprises Blue Monitor brings the knowledge of integrating multiple directory services and can assist in migrating from one directory services like Novel NDS or Sun One Directory services to Microsoft based Active Directory
• AD design and implementations
• Server migration ( including remote server build)
• Domain Consolidation
• Middleware applications configurations
MESSAGING SERVICES
For most organizations today, email is the one of the most important and critical business application. And this makes email management very crucial: Service outages needs to controlled, security and spam threats are increasing, downtime windows needs to be controlled, legal and compliance requests are increasingly complex, and server and storage performance challenges continue to escalate.
That’s why Blue Monitor engineers have developed the Messaging Services Group (MSG) which will help organizations design, build and manage a stable, secure and a seamless Email services. Our Messaging solution encompasses Design/Build and Managed messaging solutions that ensures that:
• 100% accessibility to email and BlackBerry Services
• Secure from Virus and Spam mail services
• 100% compliance to all legal and archiving and retention policies
• Assured Server performance levels
• On-time backup and restoration of mail services
We specialize on the latest and recent technologies like Exchange 2007 design and implementation as well and have our strengths on
• Exchange 2007 design and migrations
• Exchange 2003 design and migrations from Exchange 5.5/Exchange 2000
• Exchange to Zimbra migrations, and Exchnage to Open Exchange Migrations
• Exchange Management through a dedicated or a shared global command center model.
APPLICATION PACKAGING
Blue Monitor has over two decades of experience in delivering infrastructure management services (IMS) to customers worldwide. To further enhance our core capabilities in offshore delivery, Blue Monitor come up with delivering offshore services based on factory shared model. The Factory Model has evolved from Blue Monitor’s Innovation process and delivery efficiencies, quality improvements are driven through standardization of processes.
Factory Model enables Blue Monitor to manage client’s distributed desktop and application infrastructure efficiently through combination of VSSM - Virtual Shared Services Model, Process Standardization –
BS 15000/ITIL and Re-usable Components. This Model enables leveraging Specialized Knowledge and Learning gained from architecting various MS infrastructure optimization solutions across the Globe. The ‘Factory Model’ highlights Blue Monitor’s commitment to excellence and its ability to innovate and add value to our clients.
Blue Monitor has the business experience and technical expertise to blend best practices with the right toolsets to ensure successful application packaging in the enterprise environment.
