Utilization Assessment
You may be surprised to find out how low your utilization rates really are for your IT assets. Most companies drastically underuse their IT assets -- the industry average is about 10%. Learn what your utilization is and how you can improve your bottom line and quality of delivery.
Note: This assessment must be performed either in conjunction with or after an Asset Assessment.
Business Benefits
- Baseline your current utilization profile
- More effectively use current capacity
- Redeploy underused assets where and how they provide the greatest ROI
- Identify near-capacity assets and understand ways to provide additional resources
- Discover network bottlenecks, misconfigurations, and single points of failure
- Obtain detailed, actionable recommendations for improvements and corrections
During the Utilization Assessment, ASG's experienced engineers will:
- Evaluate your utilization of your IT assets
- Make specific recommendations on strengths, weaknesses, modifications, improvements, and upgrades
- Assist with network resource allocation, utilization, planning and performance
- Identify network single points of failure
- Identify new technologies that can improve your network
- Provide information to assist with network expansion and budgeting
- Help maximize your return on technology investment
Services Included
- Interview of key customer personnel regarding network requirements
- Identification of your business network priorities, needs and constraints
- Identification of network single points of failure
- Identification of network problems
- Temporary installation of network discovery software tools
- Output from network discovery tools:
- Wall map of network topology
- Connectivity maps by individual subnet
- Connectivity maps by Cisco VLAN (if present)
- Connectivity maps by workgroup
- List of Used IP addresses
- List of Unused IP addresses
- Router configuration details
- SNMP device details
- Switch configuration details
- Network device details
- Server configuration details
At the end of the assessment, ASG will provide a report, in both written and electronic format, which details all discoveries and results. This report also includes an Executive Summary and specific, actionable recommendations. ASG will also provide a wrap-up summary presentation.
Optional Services Available
Workgroup Discovery:
- Collection of equipment type details
- Collection of asset information
- Collection of maintenance contract information
- Preparation of information sheets for network and workstation devices
- Quarterly
- Semi-annual
- Annual
- Roadmap for addition of network hardware, software and/or services
- Identification of most cost-effective method to add network hardware, software and/or services
- A separate request for proposals (RFP) document usable for soliciting bids for network hardware, software and/or services
Contact us today for more information.
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