Alethe Consulting helps companies of all sizes across all domains with combination of  new technologies and business models to unleash new capabilities and customer experiences. Your customers and business partners demand these changes. The chance to streamline operations and capitalize on new revenue-generating opportunities makes business transformation exciting—and rewarding.

Alethe provides consulting services in a wide technology spectrum. The consulting services broadly includes but not limited to the following domains.

Data Center Environment Consulting

Alethe is uniquely qualified to help businesses assess their data center and identify infrastructure risks, provide recommendations for improvement and offer accurate project cost estimating and guidance throughout implementation.

In today's hyper-competitive markets, where you measure network downtime in lost profits, Alethe Consulting designs solutions that protect against some of the leading causes of downtime, hardware damage, data loss, and decreased productivity. Alethe sets the standard for 'always' available solutions for data centers, server rooms, network, network operations centers, and other mission critical facilities.

A good plan is critical for a successful data center design project. The data center design process starts with our client's management staff, determining the business's data center objectives and availability requirements. We follow with a thorough survey of the existing systems and facilities. We then work with the IT staff and the facility staff to identify and quantify the data center project needs and combine them with our understanding of the trends and migrations strategies required to adapt to future changes. Finally, we develop a conceptual data center design from which we develop construction budgets and schedules.

Alethe Consulting focus & provide consultancy services on the following aspects of the Data Center Design

Infrastructure High Availability

All data center designs are judged by their ability to provide continuous operations for the Applications, Servers & Network services they support. Data center availability is affected by both planned (scheduled maintenance) and unplanned (failures) events. To maximize availability, the impact from each of these must be minimized and/or eliminated.

All data centers must be maintained on a regular basis. In most data center designs, scheduled maintenance is a planned event requiring network downtime. For this reason, general maintenance is often forgone, leaving long-term availability to chance. In robust data center designs, concurrently maintainable systems are implemented to avoid interruption to normal data center operations.

To mitigate unplanned outages, both redundancy and fault-tolerance must be incorporated into the data center design. High-availability is accomplished by providing redundancy for all, major and minor, systems, thereby eliminating single points of failure. Additionally, the data center design must offer predictable uptime by incorporating fault-tolerance against hard failures. (A hard failure is a failure in which the component must be replaced to return to an operational steady state.) A data center achieves high-availability by implementing a fully redundant, fault-tolerant, and concurrently maintainable IT and support infrastructure architecture in which all possible hard failures are predictable and deterministic.

Data Center Flexibility & Scalability

A data center must support fast, seamless, growth, and deployment of new services without a major overhaul of its infrastructure and without a major disruption to its operation.

A data center designed for flexibility can adapt to changing business conditions and thereby the demands put upon its function. The use of modular systems within the data centers design, where the characteristics of the modules are known and the steps to add more modules are simple, is an excellent method for achieving flexibility.

Another key component in achieving flexibility is scalability. Scalability is the design concept of proactively planning for changing requirements. A data center that is scalable has the capacity to sustain rapid growth in performance, the number of devices that it can host, and the quality of services offered. Again, the use of modular systems is an excellent strategy to address growth without major disruptions. A data center achieves flexibility by implementing a modular IT and support infrastructure architecture allowing it to adapt quickly to unanticipated growth.

Physical Data Center Design in lines with Green IT Norms

We provide data center consulting services on the physical design of the Data Centers. We encourage our customers to adopt Green Data Center Technology. A green data center is a repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the mechanical, lighting, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. The construction and operation of a green data center includes advanced technologies and strategies.

We put an advantage to bring the green Data Center concept in following ways: 

• Minimizing the footprints of the buildings
• The use of low-emission building materials, carpets and paints
• Sustainable landscaping
• Waste recycling
• Installation of catalytic converters on backup generators
• The use of alternative energy technologies such as photovoltaic, heat pumps, and evaporative cooling
• The use of hybrid or electric company vehicles

We consider & provide the consultancy services to optimize the following aspects of the Data Center Design to make it a environment friendly Green Data Center

• Physical Layout of the Data Center
• Cooling considerations
• Power considerations
• Security & BMS
• Energy efficiency

Platform Consulting

We provide Platform Consulting Services across the following domains

Capacity Planning & Sizing (Servers, Storage, Network Devices & Bandwidth for any Enterprise Solution)

Our Consultants provide the Capacity Planning & Sizing reports for large & complex Enterprise Solutions. Which includes sizing for the server hardware which would be required by the given set of OS, Applications & Database, Sizing for the network devices & Storage. We also use tools like VMware Capacity Planner or PlateSpin Power Recon which provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center by collecting hardware, software and services inventory for all server workloads with absolutely no manual effort

Storage Migration & Consolidation:

 Our keen understanding of various storage technologies as well as hardware, software and networking technologies gives us a valuable insight while delivering storage integration-(SAN & NAS, VSANs) solutions. Our Consultants enable organizations to update and consolidate their data assets, by replacing legacy direct-attached storage systems or complex heterogeneous combinations of servers and storage with new storage platforms. This allows organizations to lower management costs improve storage management and reap greater return on investment

Data Availability & Archival

Alethe Consulting help & enables organization in data protection, ensures availability of critical information assets, and optimizes resource utilization & efficient management of information of the organization. Our consultants help organizations to design & achieve centralized backup & recovery solutions. Also we help organization to define & achieve content archiving & retention to enable them for Compliance & legal discovery purposes.

Application & Database Re-Design & Consulting

Our consultants at Alethe Consulting help organization to re-design their applications/database & IT infrastructure to optimize the operational cost & improve the overall system performance. We study & understand the customer business process & current setup.  After the completion of audit, analysis & capacity planning of the current infrastructure we propose an optimized architecture. These solutions are enhanced based on our design philosophy of making solution more Flexible, Manageable, Robust, Scalable and Secure.

Network Consulting Services

Network down-time or poor quality of service today directly translates into revenue losses for organizations and enterprises today. One of the most vital offerings from Alethe Consulting is empowering its clients to meet such ever demands using our Network consulting Services.

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