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Varrow Consulting

Varrow Consulting experts address our clients’ needs for IT Strategic Planning, IT Service Management, IT Optimization, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning. We assist our clients with ensuring that future IT projects are aligned with the needs of the business, and are integrated into a comprehensive Future State Architecture which reduces complexity, reduces operational costs, reduces risk, and increases agility as it is implemented over time.

 

Our team has extensive experience in helping clients improve the effectiveness of IT, across a broad range of industries and company sizes. We do this through a personalized, high-touch approach that is both more effective and more affordable than similar services offered by large integrators and consulting firms.

 

Our Consulting Services include:

 

•          Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Consulting – Establish and Align Business and IT expectations for availability and recoverability, including rational Recovery Time Objectives, Recovery Point Objectives, and HA requirements through a Business Impact Analysis. Evaluate ability of current infrastructure and processes to meet business recoverability requirements. Determine optimal DR strategies to meet the business requirements; Develop the business case and multi-year RoadMap for improving recoverability at a justifiable cost.

•          IT Future State Assessments - What should your IT infrastructure look like 12/24/36 months from now? What are the benefits, business justification, and proper role of Cloud Computing in your Environment? What is a rational  Roadmap to move from your current state to this improved Target Architecture?

•          IT Service Management – Both formal process and organizational improvements using ITIL Best Practices,  as well as “common sense” approaches for improving IT processes and for driving cultural changes within the IT organization.

•          IT Strategy Assessments – Assess the current ability of IT to meet business requirements for services and service levels; identify barriers to improvement; recommend adjustments to IT structure, governance, personnel, planning, budgeting, business expectations, and technology architecture to improve IT & Business alignment.

•          Data Center Assessments – Evaluate the capability of current data center facilities to meet the capacity and operational requirements of the business. Establish plans for improving data center capabilities, or for addressing constraints in space, power and cooling as the IT infrastructure outgrows the available data center capacity. Evaluate alternatives for provisioning additional data center capacity to meet the requirements, including build vs. host decisions. Understand the likely impact of trends like SaaS and Cloud Computing on your data center requirements.

 

Contact Varrow for a complimentary initial meeting to review our successes and determine which of these services can help you achieve you IT strategic objectives.