Infrastructure

Organisations will see a number of benefits from effective Infrastructure Management, including:

• Reduced operational costs.
• Improved quality of service.
• Improved capabilities, enabling business to do more.
• Better control to outsource service provision.
• Better planning and portfolio management and asset management.
• Consolidation of networking and technology.
• The ability to supplement internal skills.

Aspire’s Approach

Our consultants work on some of the largest and most complex infrastructures in the UK.  This enables Aspire to have real-world experience coupled with business awareness and enables us to consult at all levels of an organisation.

We have developed methods and accelerators that make best use of our infrastructure experience. Our processes have and are being successfully applied to dozens of complex engagements for our clients.

An organisation’s infrastructure is the foundation for its IT Systems and therefore for its effective operation.  Our consultants work on the largest and most complex infrastructures: Public Sector, Retail, Manufacturing, Construction.  This real-world experience coupled with business awareness enables us to consult at all levels of the organisation.  We have developed methods and accelerators that make best use of Aspire’s infrastructure experience.

Aspire’s Infrastructure Methodology is broken down into seven major phases:

1. Plan and Organise to define the objectives, scope, constraints and deliverables of the project.
2. Analysis to produce a clear statement of business requirements.
3. High Level Design based on agreed requirements, principles and standards.
4. Detailed Design using selected technologies.
5. Migration and Implementation Planning.
6. Implementation.
7. Operation or management of the service.

With this methodology, Aspire’s clients have gained many benefits including:

• Clear understanding between all stockholders about the project and approach.
• A structured and manageable infrastructure development process that clients can validate.
• Vendor neutral consultancy and architecture.
• Standardised high quality designs and documentation.
• Implementation with reduced risks.
• Smooth operations based on real world experience.

Aspire Capabilities

Aspire’s Infrastructure services are a 50/50 balance of project work and consultancy. Our specific capabilities include expertise in:

• Infrastructure Strategy and Roadmap development, including strategy for sustainable green IT.
• Networking.
• Mobility consulting: from strategy and business case through to the architecture and design of mobile infrastructure.
• Data centre configuration and optimisation
• Virtualisation.
• Sustainable IT.
• Network Convergence Strategy & business cases including traditional telephony, IP Telephony and VoIP.
• Converged Network Architecture and Design.
• Converged Network Vendor Selection (RFP/ITT).
• Infrastructure audit.
• Business case development.
• Infrastructure Architecture and Design (Servers, Storage, Networks).
• Gap analysis.
• Change implementation.
• Disaster Recovery Consultancy and the Architecture and Design of DR Solutions.