With in-depth knowledge and expertise in both proprietary and open-source Virtualization technologies, we objectively assess and deploy the optimal solution to fit your environment and meet your strategic goals. We take a holistic view to support the entire virtualization technology life cycle - from consulting, planning, assessments, design and implementation to ongoing management, training and support

Analyze and Assess

As part of the Virtualization services, Frontier will determine during the assessment whether virtualization would work in your environment. It is an interactive session with key members of your organization, which helps us gain insight about your IT infrastructure, to evaluate IT operations readiness for Virtualization adoption.

During this phase we analyze your current environment as well as your business and technical objectives to determine if and where it may make sense to leverage virtualization. As part of this analyses and assessment phase, Frontier will collect and assess data on IT environment assets and utilization, review IT portfolio for target virtualization candidates for current and planned IT projects to determine if it is impacted by Virtualization. Develop a TCO comparison, such as Infrastructure costs for servers, storage, networking, power/cooling, Operations costs for provisioning and administration and Investment costs for software licensing, design, plan, deployment and management.

Architect & Design

With experience and expertise in handling system integration projects, Frontier custom-designs an end-to-end virtualization solution that reflects the unique requirements identified in the business requirements phase. To translate the customer business needs into a successful architecture, we provide a detailed project plan and timeline that outlines the specific servers to be virtualized and the overall design of the new environment. Architect and design is focussed on a target set of servers, storage and network, infrastructure for consolidation and/or containment, which is then iterated for each targeted infrastructure for virtualization.

Deployment

Frontier's Virtualization infrastructure deployment service transforms the architect & design recommendations for technical change into true business benefits. Central to this is the installation and/or migration of infrastructure, initiation of new or improved technology and services. Our deployment team works closely with the client to efficiently test, validate, configure, implement and integrate new infrastructure and convert physical machines to virtual machines, consolidate multiple virtual machines into a single physical server. Conduct knowledge transfer, execute rollout plan and support client system administrators in post rollout phase.

We also verify that the newly delivered infrastructure meets the performance criteria established in the architect and design phase, by monitoring and tuning for performance as necessary. Finally the complete task is documented as a comprehensive operations guide and directs us in providing future support and management.

Support

With expertise and experience that is both deep and broad, Frontier can offer any level of customized operational support that blends with your existing staff and capabilities. We have experienced consultants and engineers with specialized skills for virtualization and related technologies that can join your team or can be provided as a temporary resource for maintaining and administration of your virtual environment.

Frontier support for Virtualization includes three components, such as On-line and On-site support, Time and Materials Support and Skilled Manpower Outsourcing.