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Derive Technologies™ – 30 Years of Data Center Optimization and Transformation Experience

Derive Technologies has been a leader in the design, implementation, optimization, monitoring, and maintenance of business data centers for three decades. This began with pioneering solutions for personal computer networking, eventually expanding to complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructure solutions for health care, financial services, government, education, legal, advertising and other enterprises of all sizes. We continue to support, improve, and reduce the costs of, traditional data center models, while bringing corporate and public sector infrastructure into new business, and fiscal and energy-efficient, virtualization, cloud, mobile and other current, and future, paradigms.

Our data center solutions, in the words of our Tier One Alliance Partner, Hewlett-Packard (HP), “modernize data center facilities, infrastructure and applications.” This helps our customers’ IT organizations to “reduce cost and complexity while growing capacity for new applications and services.”
 

Data Center Management and Transformation Solutions

According to HP, “IT needs to respond quickly to changing business and technology requirements and deliver the innovation your business needs to grow. HP Data Center Transformation solutions provide the fastest path to your Converged Infrastructure, so you can accelerate IT, reduce sprawl, and take advantage of new technologies.” We collaborate with HP, and other industry leaders including our Tier One Alliance Partners, Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, VMware, Symantec, Apple, DataCore Software, and numerous others to deliver flexible solutions that let you “focus resources on technology that delivers innovation and helps creates a foundation for agile service delivery.”

Our portfolio includes:

1. World class data center design services for facilities modernization

2. Industry-leading servers, storage and networking hardware utilizing the most cost-efficient purchasing, maintenance and refresh services, implementation, and onsite and remote management for traditional servers and blade systems, storage devices, controllers, and much more

3. Unifying business and management software

4. Consulting and outsourcing services

5. Energy-efficient hardware, intelligent software and services to reduce power and cooling requirements

6. Virtualization and cloud services

7. 360-degree security solutions—peace of mind for all businesses with devices, applications, data, physical security, and policy in mind
    

Virtualization Solutions

Derive has been a leading innovator in data center virtualization since the inception, more than a decade ago, of IT-as-a-service solutions. With HP, VMware, Microsoft, Symantec, and others, we, in VMware’s words, turn our customers’ datacenters into flexible infrastructures, “with the performance and reliability needed to run enterprise applications on the platform trusted by the most demanding datacenters around the world.” With this, according to VMware, we help our customers to leverage “existing assets and applications while offering self-service deployment and provisioning through virtualization.” This model enables you to “reduce power needs while freeing your IT staff from mundane administrative tasks so they can focus on innovative solutions to your changing business needs.”

Our cost-effective virtualization solutions include:

1. System virtualization

2. Application virtualization

3. Data and communications virtualization

4. Business continuity and backup

5. Security for the virtualized data center

6. IT-as-a-service modeling
    

Read more about Derive’s virtualization solutions
 

Cloud Solutions

Derive has embraced cloud and IT-as-a-service solutions holistically, enabling us to offer the entire spectrum of services to bring data, communications, storage, backup, and much more into the cloud. In HP’s words, we:

1. Build “new private and public cloud computing solutions to deliver the complete service portfolio to your customers, partners and employees. Your cloud services should be secure, open, automated, resilient and seamless.”

2. Manage and secure the “entire cloud service portfolio to enable governance, security, and service quality. Enable a single, unified management approach of the complete services portfolio—regardless of source—across the entire lifecycle.”

3. Transform the “IT environment to deliver services through an open infrastructure that includes private cloud, public cloud, and traditional.”
    

Read more about Derive’s cloud solutions
 

Network Design

Our LAN, WAN, and WLAN design, implementation, support, and refresh solutions optimize the performance of your environment and enable you, with more secure, stable, scalable and cost-effective technologies and services, to sustain dramatic business growth and mobility. Our consultants have achieved the highest level of certification with our networking manufacturer partners to build customized solutions that enable you to handle real-time business demands. Among the current demands that Derive supports every day are our customers’ needs for high-speed networking so that enterprises of all sizes are up and running in virtualized and cloud environments 24x7.

Our network design, implementation and support solutions include:

1. Need analysis and assessment of LAN/WAN/WLAN technologies
    
2. Development of short and long-term LAN/WAN/WLAN support, growth, and transformation strategies—for traditional, virtualized and cloud-enabled models
    
3. Identification of, purchasing options for, and implementation and support of, emerging LAN/WAN/WLAN technologies
    

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Derive Technologies is headquartered in New York City, one of the most important business centers of the world. We possess long-held knowledge of the implementation of processes and technologies that keep businesses in the greater New York area, across the country, and around the world, up and running at all times. Because of our location, we also have special insights into the critical business need for disaster recovery planning and data replication.

Together with our key infrastructure technology partners, Derive, in HP’s words, plans, designs, tests and deploys, “end-to-end solutions” that protect data centers, applications and data, “against diverse downtime threats and ease recovery in the event of a site outage.”

As HP says, we work with our customers to:

1. “Evaluate preparedness and identify operational risk”
    
2. “Define specific continuity needs and objectives”
    
3. “Deploy solutions to meet requirements”
    
4. “Provide continuous data center and work area facilities to meet requirements”
    

Our solutions include, as illustrated by HP’s roadmap:

1. Data Center Virtualization Services (for greater control, extensibility and protection of critical business technologies, applications and data)
    
2. Business Continuity and Recovery Services
    
3. Business Continuity Consulting Services
    
4. Business Recovery Services for the Data Center (in traditional, blended, virtualized and cloud infrastructure)
    
5. Data Replication Services
    
6. Disaster Tolerant Services
    
7. ITSM Assessment Services
    
8. Mission Critical Support (onsite, offsite, as well as a mix of both services)
    
9. Recover-All Services
    
10. Security and Risk Management Services
     
11. Server Operation Services
     
12. Software Operation Services
     
13. Storage Operation Services

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Data Center Management and Transformation Solution Case Studies

• Global Investment Firm – Data Center Relocation/Blade Server, Storage & Network Implementation (PDF)