Our IT environments have become intricate and complex. Our systems have become a mixture of physical, virtual, on-premise, off-site, and hosted. Our environments can easily become overwhelming, making a robust management strategy vital.

The IT world runs on its servers. We're continuously adding new servers to our environments as the demands for new applications come in from the business. Deploying a new system is not the challenge. Deploying those systems with the proper forethought and planning needed for high availability and centralized management is the challenge.

Mission critical systems can't go down. That's usually what the business will tell you. How do you meet that challenge?  It doesn't matter if you're running UNIX, Linux or Windows; you have to know what's involved in meeting that demand. You have to know the effort, the costs and the risks involved, but what are all of the options? Did you know you could have near real-time replication to a hosted server in the Cloud? Or, that your physical server could fail over to a virtual server? Options like this can save significant time and money while still meeting the business demands.

So, you have an assortment of hardware, running different operating systems on both physical and virtual environments, talking to different storage types running a plethora of applications. It may not all be located in the same place. You may not even have physical access to the equipment. Yet in the end, it's all your responsibility. You need to know what you have and where it is. You need to know how old it is and when it's due for the scrap heap. Is it still under maintenance? You need to know how healthy it is, and how well it's fulfilling its job. Most importantly, are the applications servicing your end users with optimal performance?

At STA, our STA practice provides you with solutions to all of these challenges. The range of projects we've fulfilled over the course of our 16 years in business has helped us develop a proprietary methodology utilizing industry standards to ensure best practices are met. Regardless of where your systems management needs are focused today, STA will provide you with solutions that deliver with absolute assurance; meeting and exceeding expectations. To back this point up further, we put it all on the line by guaranteeing everything in writing with our Solution Warranty--unlike our competitors.

STA Delivers

• Server design, implementation and support
• Server high availability, clustering, failover and fault tolerance
• Systems administration and operations management
• Monitoring and Alerting solutions -- both hosted and on-premise
• Customized systems management solutions
• Cloud Readiness assessments
• WAN infrastructure acceleration
• Maintenance Contract Management
• Environmental Support Agreements (ESA)

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