Advisory Services
Automation Advisory
Technical Readiness Assessment:
Preparedness to adopt an automation strategy from network architecture, technology and deployment perspective
Operational Readiness Assessment:
Preparedness to adopt an automation strategy from an operational view point
Business Case Development:
Identify key desired business outcomes from the automation initiative and develop the supporting business case
Architecture Review:
Assessment of current and target architectures’ abilities to achieve the envisioned benefits from automation
Plan Review:
Determine if the plan is executable and will meet the business objectives
Strategic Roadmap Development:
Multi-year roadmap to deliver the desired automation solution and business values over time
Data Center Software Advisory
Leveraging Cisco expertise and industry best practices to:
Discover customer environment, including, existing architecture, data centers HW/SW and operations
Identify requirements and major pain points
Develop a strategy that connects business objectives with customer’s priorities
Assess:
Current state and goals of data center software across business and technology
Align
Drive architectural alignment and blueprint to achieve desired outcomes (business & technology)
Define
An implementation plan to serve as roadmap for success
Execute On:
Supporting customer execution activities and remain engaged in plan updates and strategy alignment
Provide review of current NMS tools for foundational network and network technology monitoring and management leading practices
Tools used:
- Onsite workshop
- Review current toolsets capabilities
- NMS and Instrumentation best practices
Tool areas to be reviewed in the NMS architectural review analysis:
- Fault Management
- Configuration Management
- Accounting
- Performance Management
- Security Management
- Network Infrastructure – Current & Future
- Network Management Initiatives
- Cisco Network Management Instrumentation
