Windows 2000, Active Directory, Exchange 2000
Windows 2000 Server / Active Directory is a more stable environment than NT 4.0. It is also much more complex and powerful. In addition to being formally trained by Microsoft, SHI engineers have been implementing Windows 2000 / Active Directory / and Exchange 2000 projects since the products were first released. We can provide expert consulting on the planning, design, and implementation of this new platform and ensure that you are taking full advantage of your investment.
Network Infrastructure Consulting
Our engineers will review your network to determine if we can help improve your network's performance, stability, and availability:
- Routing optimization
- Shared hub network upgraded to a switched network
- Multi-layer switching
- Fault tolerance
Network Security
We will perform a security audit your network for free and provide you with our professional recommendation. We also have a great deal of experience implementing the many components of network security.
External Network Audit
Our Network Security Audit includes a penetration scan the output of which is a series of detailed reports describing any network vulnerabilities we discover; and an audit of the your network device configurations to evaluate vulnerability to concentrated attacks such as denial of service and to evaluate any security implications of your network's design.
If we identify any security weaknesses in your network, we will help you develop a plan for remediation. We also provide consulting for developing corporate policy to manage network security.
Firewall
A firewall is the first step towards reasonable network security. We can recommend the best one for your network and help you install it. We can also provide terms for 24X7 remote management and support of your firewall.
Intrusion Detection
We can implement a solution for your staff to manage, or we can install agents on your network and use our remote management console to monitor your network 24X7 to identify, record, and arrest any unauthorized traffic on your network. Our managed service also includes alerts and periodic reporting for a fixed monthly fee.
VPN
Virtual private network leverages your existing investment in the Internet. Plus it is more cost effective and scalable than supporting RAS. Use its secure technology to extend your LAN resources to remote offices, home users, and laptops.
Content Security
This consists of tools designed to help protect the organization from inappropriate use of corporate IS assets including Web surfing and email attachments. Many of these solutions also enable you to manage the size of your email data store.
Server Security Hardening
Often a server's operating system is its greatest security liability. For a per-server fee, our network engineers can systematically evaluate your servers to determine which patches they are missing, if any, and bring them up to the most recent and well-tested hot fixes.
Antivirus
We implement solutions that provide automated updates of virus definitions to gateway, mail server, and desktop modules.
Inexpensive & Secure WAN Connectivity with VPN
Are you looking for an inexpensive and stable alternative to expensive leased-line connections for supporting your branch offices?
Do you want your home and remote users to replace their modem connection to the LAN with one that leverages their existing Internet access?
Is your company expanding rapidly and in need of a simple way to distribute your LAN services to remote offices?
For the price of a small project SHI Network Consulting will replace your costly direct branch office connections with a secure and stable point-to-point VPN (virtual private network) through your existing Internet service. Your VPN data will flow encrypted through the Internet.
Additionally, a client access VPN solution will replace your remote users' dependency on a modem pool and long-distance dial-up costs. By definition, VPN extends the LAN to all of your remote users.
High Performance WAN Access to your Core Business Applications
Companies with branch offices and remote users often struggle to provide these users with acceptable performance to HQ over the WAN. The problem is that many core business applications were written at a time when distributed environments were much less common than they are today. The solution is reducing the bandwidth requirements of such applications with Windows NT Server, Terminal Server Edition or Citrix MetaFrame.
SHI Network Consulting can quickly set up thin-client services between your remote users and centralized servers to enable simple, fast, and secure distribution of your core business applications. Once in place this infrastructure scales very well to accommodate new users anywhere regardless of existing hardware.
Microsoft Exchange Optimization
SHI Network Consulting has extensive experience optimizing Exchange environments for performance and high-availability with the following solutions:
- Native virus protection on and in front of the Exchange server
- Content Security
- Backup and recovery
- Storage Management (attachments and archiving)
Other Network Services
Desktop Imaging
The most efficient way to standardize; desktop images also guarantee quick restoration of client configurations in the event of failure.
Systems Management
We can implement a solution for your staff to manage, or we can monitor your network's uptime using our remote management console. Our managed service includes alerts and periodic reporting for a fixed monthly fee. We also offer a variety of emergency response services that guarantee uptime.
Server Backup
We will review and test your existing backup solution to ensure reliability. We can also implement updated backup functionality such as bricks level mailbox backup for easy restoration of individual mailboxes. Or we can replace an outdated backup solution with a faster and more reliable one.
Managed Services
Many of the solutions we implement as consulting may instead be provided as managed services:
- We can use your hardware and software and simply provide an engineer for installation and maintenance
- We can place our hardware and software on your network and have full responsibility for providing you the solution for a fixed, monthly fee
- Or we can host the solution entirely for you, off site
Managed Email
If you run a small or medium-sized business and you want email without the administrative burden, we can lease you the equipment, implement it at your facility, and manage it 24X7 for a flat monthly fee and no up-front costs.
Solutions for Lotus Notes Environments
SHI Network Consulting has been providing customers with Lotus Notes consulting for over 10 years. We can help you with almost any Lotus Notes project including:
Email migrations to and from Lotus Domino
Domino security audits
Web-enabling and securing Domino servers
Domino R5 SMTP messaging setup
Application server setup
Domino server assessment
Application tuning
Domino Enterprise Services implementation
About SHI Network Consulting
SHI Network Consulting, the consulting division of SHI, is a leading provider of technical services. The privately owned parent company, SHI, was established in 1982 and is now one of the largest suppliers of PC products and services in the world, with year 2000 sales of more than $1.4 billion. SHI Network Consulting is also certified by the State of New Jersey as a Minority Business Enterprise.
SHI Network Consulting maintains active status as a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, a Lotus Premium Partner, and a Cisco Premier Partner.
Jennifer Pankow, Enterprise Service Solutions
Voice: 732-868-6142
Email: jennifer_pankow@shi.com
http://www.shes.com
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