Company name

DataCentrics Consulting Services

My company is best described as a:

Data Center Consultancy

Company website

http://www.dcconserve.com

Jobtitle/position

Director

My role is best described as:

Strategic Consulting and Tecnical Advisory Services

I am:

Independent Data Center Consultant (not tied to a vendor), Considered a Subject Matter Expert (see areas of expertise)

Relevant qualifications & certifications (Please list certification authority + dates)

Certified Information Security Manager, ISACA - 2006

My main areas of expertise are:

Cloud Computing, Data Security, Disaster Management, Green Initiatives, Infrastructure Management, Networks, Planning

More about me (How long have you been in the industry, expertise, career history, ambitions, website/blog, etc)

We are focusing to provide strategic consulting and business advisory services in Data Center & Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Application Delivery & IT risk management including Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.

Functional Areas:

1. Data Center - Partnering with some of the key OEMs and Service Providers in the Data Center physical (non-IT) and logical (IT) infrastructure
a. Strategy / System Analysis,
b. Design / Build,
c. Migration / Consolidation,
d. Management,
e. Audit / Survey
2. Application Delivery - Working with CA, Compuware, Solarwinds, and Shunra
a. Application Performance Management and Optimization,
b. Network System Analysis, Troubleshooting and re-architecture
c. WAN Acceleration
3. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery with emphasis on IT Risk Management – Partnering with DRI International, RecoveryPlanner, and local experts in BCP/DR.
4. Cloud Computing - We recently started a practice to provide strategic consulting and technical advisory services to key enterprise clients to embrace Cloud Computing in their enterprise IT architecture.

The following 7 steps are used from inception to completion:
a. Define - Cloud Architecture, IaaS, Saas, PaaS – XaaS
b. Assess - Benefits and Challenges, Strategic, Risk and Finance Impacts
c. Design - Requirement Analysis and Draft Architecture
d. Integrate - End-to-end Design, Connectivity, Resilience and Security
e. Implement - Transition Management and Migration
f. Operate - Service Management, Operations and Monitoring. and
g. Monitor - Compliance, Risk and Governance