Cloud & Data Center

Enable Cloud Agility

The cloud and data centers centralize IT operations and create the backbone for managing, storing and sharing data. Since these are critical services to businesses, they require high performing, reliable, and scalable solutions. Whether Public, Private, or Hybrid, distributed, or onsite, we help reduce the complexity of delivering optimal services to your business and customers. 

Bird Rock Systems’ expert Cloud & Infrastructure Architects work with your IT team to build the best value solution, designed to support your specific business needs. 

Public Cloud Platform

Hyper Converged Data Center

High Performance Computing

Unified Storage

Server, Desktop, Storage Virtualization

Disaster Recovery

We partner with the industry’s top technology producers to bring you the best Cloud, Servers, Storage & Virtualization technology.

Cloud & Data Center Services

Whatever your Cloud or Data Center needs, Bird Rock Systems can help. We offer several general Cloud and Data Center services to make sure you get exactly what you need, including: 

Health and Tuning Checks – Maximize your organizations technical investments and ensure your internal process is aligned with your current business needs. This engagement provides a report of what is working well with a specific technical product and recommended improvements.

Security Assessment – Paint a comprehensive view of your current security posture and a prioritized list of recommendations to strengthen security as well as prepare for a security audit. For an express assessment, security health check services are also available.

Cloud & Data Center Team as a Service – Mature your security program and execute on security initiatives with a skilled team: vCISO, Security Architect, Security Engineer and Project Manager. Learn more here.

Staff Augmentation – Bridge a gap between your organization IT team‘s availability and the demands of them. Fill immediate roles and access a larger talent pool. Bird Rock Systems supports training and payroll.

Systems Implementation – Servers, storage and virtualization solutions are designed, deployed and documented with best practices and considerations of reliability and performance.

Tools Assessment – Understand the state in which tools are configured in relation to best practices and maximize how your tools integrate with one another. Uncover opportunities to decommission technologies that have redundant features saving money and reduced network complexity.

vCISO Services – Create and lead security program for an organization that aligns with business initiatives.

IT and Initiative Roadmapping – Identify where your IT team and department currently stands and create a roadmap for future improvements to ensure your IT and technology grow alongside your business.

Whether you have a cloud first initiative, plans to lift and shift, or just looking to move low risk workloads to the cloud, we can help minimize rework and limit your risk of cloud disasters. In addition to Cloud Migrations, we can help your IT team become cloud proficient with our Advanced Cloud Service offering. Some of our most popular Cloud services include: 

Cloud Readiness Assessment – Identifies the dependencies and impact on your existing infrastructure and prepares you to begin adopting Cloud-based infrastructure, services and solutions.

Tagging Strategy – Creates a proper tagging strategy that optimizes cost, policy enforcement, governance and automation. This will provide rich reporting and comprehensive dashboards to bring visibility and communication across the organization.

Well-Architected Review – Assesses workloads to ensure that you’re following best practices in accordance with Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization. The assessment will provide a remediation plan to address gaps and satisfy audit requirements.

Cloud Security Health Check – Diagnoses your security posture, policies and processes specific to cloud workloads using cloud security tools and cloud security experts.

Cloud Security or Compromise Assessment – Assess cloud platforms for excessive permissions, vulnerabilities, and other misconfigurations.

For a holistic approach towards your Cloud first initiative, we recommend Cloud Team as a Service. Click here for details.

Private Cloud: Hyper Converged Data Center, Storage, Servers & Virtualization

While Public Cloud has gained wide adoption, private, on-premise, and hybrid infrastructures remain a requirement for customers because of certain use cases, types of workloads and preference. This involves: 

Data Center Relocation – Minimize downtime to ensure that critical business operations remain uninterrupted. We offer extensive testing prior to relocation, and data destruction options to protect sensitive information for unauthorized use. Get a customized moving plan for transition, we can accommodate whatever pace or requirements.
Implementation – Servers, storage, and virtualization solutions are designed, deployed and documented with best practices and considerations of reliability and performance.

Health Check – Understand current health of servers, storage and virtual machine environment in order to optimize performance, maximize resources, roadmap for future improvements and mitigate risk.

Active Directory Health & Capacity Assessment – Understand both how the Active Directory is configured and possible opportunities for improvement as we review the infrastructure, domain controllers, sites, namespace, authentication, replication, patching and more.

Disaster Recovery (DR)

Based on your recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) requirements, Bird Rock Systems can help you develop a “rock solid” data protection and service availability strategy. This requires us to perform a: 

Disaster Recovery Assessment – Understand the current backup strategy measuring speed, network throughput, client availability, backup server availability, media type and architecture to identify opportunities for improvement such as architecture changes and complementary technologies to support DR objectives.

Cloud Backup Assessment – As a supplement to the Disaster Recovery Assessment, Bird Rock Systems will analyze the return on investment of moving to cloud backup and disaster recovery versus your current process.