IT Infrastructure Services – Consulting, Implementation, Management – to Increase Your Business Sustainability

IT infrastructure consulting

Our team can assist you in determining your current IT infrastructure state, and further help you build and realize an IT strategy aimed at improving your IT infrastructure efficiency.

ScienceSoft offers the following services in terms of IT infrastructure consulting:

• Audit of the entire IT infrastructure according to the industry standards if applicable (e.g., HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR).
• Analysis of the IT infrastructure management processes based on ITIL principles and their further optimization.
• Designing a detailed plan to improve your IT infrastructure performance.
• Identifying operational issues and data protection risks and defining a way to eliminate them.
• Providing consultations and trainings for your employees to improve their infrastructure management skills.

IT infrastructure management

Our offering in terms of IT infrastructure management includes the following services:

• IT infrastructure administration

  We apply our long-term experience in ITSM to maintain the performance of your network, Windows and Linux servers, databases, hardware and software operability to help you keep a high level of your business productivity and minimize systems downtime

• IT infrastructure monitoring

  With the help of such tools as System Center Configuration Manager (for Windows servers) and Ansible (both for Windows and Linux) our team is well versed in, ScienceSoft can detect and mitigate performance or security issues before your employees or external users find them. Thus, we’ll help you maintain a high level of user satisfaction

• IT infrastructure troubleshooting

  ScienceSoft’s IT team offers you their 24/7 availability and readiness to mitigate the issues related to your IT infrastructure scalability, its uptime, resource utilization, storage use, and many more

• IT infrastructure evolution

  We are ready to take the overall responsibility for managing minor and critical changes you need to make in your IT environment, e.g., improve the data protection within your IT infrastructure by proper implementation of security measures like IDS/IPS, DLP, SIEM, or perform a smooth movement of your workloads to the cloud with the minimal downtime

Cloud infrastructure consulting

ScienceSoft’s team of certified cloud architects will help you to find a suitable approach to integrate a cloud strategy into your general business strategy. We offer professional consulting services on migrating your business to the cloud faultlessly and increasing the number of cloud services used across your organization to accelerate your business operations.

Cloud infrastructure management

ScienceSoft’s cloud administrators can set up and maintain your cloud-based IT infrastructure. Our experts provide cloud management services focusing on:

• Properly setting up your cloud-based IT infrastructure.
• Configuring and optimizing AWS, Azure, and other cloud services usage.
• Constantly monitoring your cloud-based IT infrastructure to detect problems before your users do.
• Planning and further implementing changes and expansions meeting your needs and requests.
• In case the applications managed by another vendor are concerned, cooperating with the vendor, possibly applying the DevOps approach.
• Providing you with consolidated billing (one bill for AWS services and our cloud services).

Cloud infrastructure monitoring

In case you do not need to outsource all the cloud infrastructure management activities, our team is ready to deliver ongoing monitoring services to ensure the prompt detection and prioritization of operational issues occurring within your cloud infrastructure and relating to resource utilization, network performance, etc. To deliver high-level monitoring services while avoiding downtimes within your cloud IT environment, we properly configure Zabbix, Nagios and similar tools.

Cloud infrastructure security

As a Gold Microsoft Business Partner equipped with the competencies in Data Platform, Datacenter, and Messaging, and an IBM Business Partner in Security Operations & Response, ScienceSoft is ready to ensure the security management and threat protection across your cloud infrastructure by:

• Constant monitoring of the protection level of your cloud environment to deliver up-to-date information on any suspicious activity happening within your IT infrastructure.
• Defining the steps to cope with potential and actual security risks.
• Analyzing information and event logs we get from your cloud solutions to identify suspicious activities and prevent security breaches.
• Eliminating identified security issues and restoring the cloud infrastructure security.
• Applying security policies, if needed, to make your cloud IT infrastructure meet the security standards (PCI DSS, HIPAA, and others).

Cloud migration

ScienceSoft’s team can perform a full-scale migration of your on-premises IT infrastructure to the cloud with the minimal downtime during the migration process. We can seamlessly put your IT infrastructure in the virtual environment to increase its flexibility and scalability with the reduced operational costs. Having the experience with a number of cloud computing platforms, we can help you create an agile cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Data center management

Our data center experts are ready to make your data center operational capabilities meet with your business needs, close any data center operational gaps, improve your data center efficiency by automating various routine processes in your data center, such as data center scheduling and monitoring, application delivery.

ScienceSoft’s data center management services include:

• Installing and properly configuring servers, storage and network appliances, and other data center components.
• Managing data center workflows.
• Retiring or adding data center components if needed.
• Carrying out the migration of an on-premises data center to the cloud with the minimal downtime.
• Managing regular enhancements of data center components (servers, storage, networking equipment, software) according to your requests.
• Managing optimal load balancing and data distribution across your data center.
• Providing the security of your data center and regularly performing backups to ensure data safety with the help of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), Veeam Backup & Replication.
• Designing a disaster recovery plan to avoid data loss.
• Ensuring a complete transparency over the data center components, e.g., computers, storages, networking hardware, software.

Data center monitoring

If you do not feel like outsourcing all the set of data center management activities, ScienceSoft offers their data center monitoring services separately. Our team supervises the entire data center infrastructure, be it on-premises, cloud-based or hybrid. To ensure constant monitoring within your data center infrastructure and deliver you detailed insights into your data center state, we use such automated monitoring tools as Zabbix and Nagios. ScienceSoft provides:

• Ongoing monitoring of Windows, Linux servers and computer systems to ensure they perform properly and avoid unplanned downtimes.
• Monitoring of data center operations and predicting or quickly addressing any arising issues to avoid business interruptions due to unexpected downtimes.

DevOps consulting

ScienceSoft’s team is ready to consult you on how to apply the DevOps approach to:

• Automate and accelerate the provision of a new infrastructure for a new software development project due to the use of IaC approach.
• Align the development and testing environments with the production to avoid the differences between their configurations and software failures on production.
• Speed up infrastructure modifications, software updates and bug fixing due to the application of CI/CD and application release automation (ARA) approaches.

DevOps implementation

ScienceSoft’s team provides you with the end-to-end service aimed at the faultless implementation of the DevOps approach. Taking into account your business needs and requirements, we:

• Develop a comprehensive strategy for the implementation of the DevOps approach.
• Set up and configure DevOps tools for containerization (Kubernetes, Ansible), CI/CD (GoCD, Jenkins), IT automation (Terraform, Chef), application monitoring (Prometheus, Zabbix).
• Launch your DevOps initiative avoiding downtimes and provide you with after-launch support until your goals are achieved.