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Your data center is the heartbeat of your IT operation. But is it providing the processing power you need as efficiently as possible?
Sentinel helps to answer that question with state of the art technology and data center operational strategies that ensure you are getting the most out of your processing power at the lowest cost possible.
From the assessment to the execution stage, we provide an experienced team to support your data center needs. Our Data Center practice is committed to providing full life-cycle services for our client's data centers including assessment, analysis, physical design, technical design, build and management services for complex computing environments.
Sentinel's data center computing technology authorizations include:
- EMC Velocity Advantage Partner
- EMC Authorized Service Partner
- VMware VIP Enterprise
- VMware Value Added Consultant
- Microsoft Gold Level Partner
Providing products from the world leaders when it comes to maximizing the productivity of your data center is only part of what Sentinel provides to keep your data center humming. Sentinel also provides the expertise necessary to design data center strategies that consider your Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory and Outlook environments.
Sentinel's data center physical planning and technology area design qualifications include:
Sentinel's Technology Area Design consultants are Registered Communications Distribution
Designers (RCDDs), the building industry's highest certification in technology design. Members
of the Building Industry Consulting Services International, or BICSI, we are leading experts in the
areas of voice and data cabling, optical fiber and coaxial cabling. Additionally, we specialize in
the design and specification of technology areas such as computer rooms and NOCs, audiovisual
systems, security systems and the operational integration of all technology platforms. Our inhouse AutoCAD facility also allows us to prepare construction-ready drawings for all aspects of
technology delivery and integration, and our specification documents adhere strictly to the CSI
MasterFormat™ standards.
Sentinel's technology area design team provides complete assessments based on accepted industry open standards. If you're still exploring your options, we will provide complete information based on open standards for any manufacturer, in any situation.
In addition to this standards based approach, Sentinel's many industry partnerships provide us unique expertise on your exact technology situation, detailed technical information on servers,
wireless, storage, and networking systems are a phone call away for our design consultants. We can rapidly tailor your assessments for all short- and long-term needs.
Please click on the PDF below to learn more details about our physical planning and technology area design capabilities.
Sentinel's combined knowledge of IT and data center infrastructure provides us a unique perspective on the challenges companies face when building or upgrading data centers and the IT infrastructure they are designed to support.
Solution and Product Offerings
Sentinel offers the following data center services individually or combined to meet specific customer requirements:
- Reduce IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability of your infrastructure
- Server and desktop solutions available
- Multiple levels of DR to fit your needs
- Capabilities and Requirements Assessment
- Business Continuity Assessment
- A review of RTOs and RPOs for critical applications and supporting infrastructure
- A review of ability to meet requirements with the technology in place
- Identification of gaps and exposures and related recommendations
- Storage infrastructure solutions
- Increased Power Efficiency and a "Green IT" Approach
- Build, Engineering, Project Costing
- Strategy, Space and Capacity Planning
- Data Center Move, Migration, Consolidation
- Planning, Execution and Project Management
- Policy Development
- Security Policy Development
- Security Consulting & Design
- Content Filtering & Intrusion Detection
- Network Security Audits
- Managed Security
- Network Vulnerability Testing
- Network Assessment
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