Network Infrastructure

In any business, it is critical to protect and organize business information, to access information and resources remotely and to make the most of existing computers and equipment. Introducing the right technology can help you accomplish these goals and save you time and money. The foundation of effective technology starts with a server.

If you’re a business owner with two or more computers, you may have considered using a server system to help you keep your data more secure, run your business more efficiently, and communicate more professionally and effectively with your customers. If you haven’t set up a server in your business, perhaps you’re overwhelmed by the idea of researching the subject. Or, maybe you have limited staff to help you accurately determine your technology needs.

Advanced Network Systems specializes in affordable, integrated server system solutions and employs a staff of experts who have extensive experience in designing and maintaining server infrastructures for businesses like yours. In the past, servers were used only by large companies because of their high cost and complexity, but our business server solutions offer small and medium-sized organizations significant advantages in terms of improved productivity and security as well as time and cost savings versus a peer-to-peer network.

Driving revenue and cutting costs, two common objectives for small businesses today. Advanced Network Systems provides organizations with the tools and resources to help them achieve these objectives.

With a server, you can:

• Provide a central access point for information instead of housing information on individual computers.
• Back up your company information to help prevent data loss and to save time.
• Enhance security by controlling access to sensitive data (financial records, personnel information).
• Share equipment (fax machines, printers) and resources (Internet access) to reduce your costs.
• Work remotely with easy and secure access to desktops, files, email and calendars from an Internet connected PC or mobile phone.
• Easily set up new users, computers, and network access as staffing levels fluctuate.
• Look professional by consolidating email accounts with your own company hosted email.

Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the management of IT infrastructure. With virtualization, servers become dynamic software files that can be provisioned, managed, secured and protected with greater speed and efficiency using an on-demand pool of infrastructure resources. At the same time, applications can be delivered seamlessly with the highest levels of availability and service, without the cost and complexity of traditional IT solutions.

Before virtualization, IT departments would run one application per physical server machine in a one-to-one relationship. Once servers are virtualized, many applications (each in its own virtual machine) run on each physical server, creating a many-to-one relationship. Being able to run more business applications on fewer physical servers directly affects bottom line profitability by dramatically reducing administration, hardware, software, power and datacenter space costs. Virtualization also offers advanced capabilities to support business continuity and compliance requirements. It enables the encapsulation and protection of a complete system—configurations, application installation and data—into a small set of files which can be quickly restored without the complexity of traditional solutions.

Advanced Network Systems’ expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, along with industry-leading virtualization platforms, have helped organizations of all size achieve efficient, controlled and flexible IT environments.

Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Virtualization Software

1. Get more out of your existing resources: Pool common infrastructure resources and break the legacy “one application to one server” model with server consolidation.
2. Reduce datacenter costs by reducing your physical infrastructure and improving your server to admin ratio: Fewer servers and related IT hardware means reduced real estate and reduced power and cooling requirements. Better management tools let you improve your server to admin ratio so personnel requirements are reduced as well.
3. Protecting Assets and Improving Disaster Preparedness and Recovery. Securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service. Eliminate planned downtime and recover immediately from unplanned issues.
4. Gain operational flexibility: Respond to market changes with dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.
5. Improve desktop manageability and security: Deploy, manage and monitor secure desktop environments that users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.

See: The Benefits of Virtualization for Small and Medium Sized Businesses (pdf)

Next to its people, data is a company’s most valuable asset. Businesses of every size rely heavily on data that is both increasingly complex and increasingly regulated. Central data storage and management help organizations achieve compliance with government and industry requirements, and help to ensure that business-critical data will be available when needed. Storage area networks, or SANs, are common solutions for businesses seeking to simplify storage. Unlike direct attached storage (DAS), which creates disparate, random islands of information, SANs centralize data storage. Disaster recovery solutions—a necessity in today’s world—are easier to implement on SANs, and the stored data is easier to manage than in a DAS environment. Companies that leverage server virtualization for high availability and disaster recovery need shared storage to take full advantage of the shared infrastructure
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Advanced Network Systems offers a variety of cluster SAN solutions that are built from the ground up to be flexible, scalable, and highly available. Our cost-effective SAN options deliver all of the features of enterprise-class storage and are an excellent fit for disaster recovery, business continuity and virtualized storage solutions.

An organization’s network becomes a strategic asset through effective architecture, deployment and operations. Therefore, having a network platform that supports both critical services and innovation is an essential business requirement.

Advanced Network Systems helps you build the right foundation for an intelligent, secure network that features best-in-class routing and switching technologies. Our design and implementation services mitigate the risk, delays and total cost of network deployments. We use industry-leading practices and time-tested methodologies to build the platform and capabilities you need today, along with the security and flexibility required to integrate new technologies and applications for tomorrow. Talk to us today to ensure your routing and switching network is designed and optimized for your specific operational needs and future opportunities.

We consider your technical requirements and network design goals to create an architecture optimized for your organization that can reduce the need for costly redesign, improve performance, and scale to support future change.

Today’s high-speed, high-demand network environments mean it’s critical that your cabling is going to reliably support the technology and applications your organization is running. Advanced Network Systems offers design and installation of CAT 3, CAT 5, CAT 6, multi-mode or single-mode fiber and coax cabling systems for facility upgrades, expansion, relocation or new construction projects.

Whether your network is within a traditional office or in multiple buildings in a campus environment, Advanced Network Systems can provide the cabling infrastructure to connect data, voice, video security and multimedia systems — regardless of their manufacturer.