Network Assessment
- Asking the question: How well is your network performing?
- Providing a comprehensive network strategy to fit the needs of your business today and in the future.
- Maximizing your network performance.
- Reducing IT costs.
- Enhancing your network stability, scalability and security.
The network environment encompasses a wide range of electronic networked activities, including information services, products, hardware and software, and telecommunications resources that users and providers receive from the network. As a long-term investment, the network must be scalable as needed; hence, it must be based on robust, scalable technologies. The performance of your network environment answers one key question: "How well is your network doing what it claims to be doing?"
Customer Benefits
Professional network assessment can serve a number of useful purposes, such as:
- Addressing network capacity, performance, fault tolerance and availability issues.
- Monitoring network activities and services as part of security measurement.
- Assisting better planning for future network development.
- Providing early warning to help avoid network crises.
- Defining systems, traffic and configurations.
Our Phased Approach
At Hitachi Software, we provide you with statistical and analytic reviews of your existing network environment based on our years of network experience, using the latest network assessment tools.
Our Network Assessment Services
- Interviewing your IT and business managers and documenting your business and user requirements.
- Providing a Statement of Work for your review and approval.
- Creating a detailed project plan.
- Examining and documenting your existing network environment, including network hardware inventory, software and applications, router configuration, switch configuration, network cabling, protocol usage, and memory utilization.
- Evaluating current network performance, including traffic patterns, bandwidth optimization, and Internet connectivity, network vulnerabilities, security policy and backup procedures.
- Detailing all findings in an Assessment Report.
- Identifying opportunities for network consolidation, simplification and cost reduction.
- Evaluating additional network infrastructure upgrades aimed at meeting your short and long-term business goals.
- Planning and designing additional recommended networks.
Also see Network Infrastructure Design .
- Revising project plans.
- Performing in-depth testing in our lab.
- Executive project planning.
- Performing periodic follow-ups, based on additional maintenance contract.
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