Infrastructure Computing Equipment -- Servers

Large standalone servers take up space, use more energy, and are harder to maintain than today's high density server solutions. Using individual servers for each application usually means that some servers are highly underutilized while others are stressed. Physical servers hosting mission-critical applications generally cannot be upgraded to meet new demand without complex testing and rollouts. And disaster recovery with physical servers can be challenging when critical hardware and drivers are no longer available.

Clarke Consulting can consolidate your servers to save space, save energy, and reduce management costs. Server consolidation, storage consolidation, and server virtualization are major parts of Clarke Consulting's Best Practices Infrastructure initiative, which offer your data center:

• Higher density to fit more computing resources into your existing server room;
• Lower management costs though common management tools;
• Easy implementation through server migration tools such as P2V (Physical to Virtual) Migration;
• Higher reliability and failover capabilities;
• Separating applications from physical servers through virtualization allows applications to share a pool of computing and storage resources, smoothing performance, and making performance increases as easy as copying a virtual server file to a new physical server.

Infrastructure Computing Equipment -- Desktops and Laptops

Clarke Consulting can help you deploy and maintain your desktops and laptops to meet performance and financial goals. Through standardization, common hardware images, common management tools, and set replacement policies, we can also help you lower the cost of deploying hardware to your employees. Our services include:

• Fleet standardization through recommended configurations with set lifecycles;
• Deployment of new machines for new employees and upgrading employees;
• Remote management;
• Patch management;
• Centralized antivirus and antispyware management;
• Asset tracking and identification;
• License compliance;
• Data protection and wiping;
• Disposal of assets per company policy.