IT infrastructure and the design, staging, and support of the corporate, government, and public sector data centers have been a keystone of Derive’s solution practice since the company’s inception more than 20 years ago.
We develop and deliver infrastructure and data center solutions utilizing the best products and services available from our top strategic alliance partners, including HPE, HP, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, Nutanix, Dell, VMware, Veeam, WebAir, and other industry-leading vendors.
After collaborating extensively with clients — which we refer to as technology pathfinding — to gain a deep understanding of their business goals and needs, we then design and implement solutions sourced from these global leaders, with additional services that are unique to Derive.
Derive has helped some of the most important businesses, government agencies, and public sector enterprises in the Tri-State and New York Metro area to modernize their infrastructures. From partial technology refreshes to ground-up new data center construction, Derive’s customized solutions leverage powerful server, networking, and storage technologies, coupled with the latest hyper-convergence and cloud technologies. Our solutions encompass hybrid cloud, public and private cloud facilities, plus virtualization, IoT, and edge computing capabilities.
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Derive Technologies brings two decades of general business and IT infrastructure experience serving healthcare, financial services, government and public sector, and professional service clients large and small in the New York Metro area and throughout the Eastern Seaboard.
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Why Cloud Computing?
According to one of our technology partners, Microsoft, the "why" of cloud computing is obvious: "…it lets IT offload complexity and burden, " enabling business teams to "…focus on addressing the growing demand for new applications, new devices, and new solutions.”
In today’s fast-changing world, IT is more challenging and exciting than ever, and the call for “more and faster” often can be answered with cloud computing. According to Microsoft, cloud computing enables employees to “deliver new projects and products, manage more devices easily, crunch more data quickly, and spin up development and test environments faster."
To summarize the most important reasons for utilizing cloud technology:
Additional considerations include:
When managed properly, cloud computing can deliver the performance and scalability IT departments need at a reasonable cost.
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Although enterprise organizations have taken the lead in hybrid cloud adoption, for most SMB organizations, the question isn’t whether they will adopt a hybrid cloud computing model — but when.
Hybrid computing can help organizations realize cost efficiencies while achieving aggressive performance and reliability goals.
Derive helps clients plan and implement the most cost-effective and sensible combination of on-premise data center resources, private cloud, and public cloud computing assets to achieve their business objectives, performance goals, and reasonable costs.
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Benefits
Some tangible benefits of HCI include:
Derive has experience across on-premise, cloud, hybrid cloud and hyper-converged environments. Derive’s team of experts can advise your organization through a short Risk and Architecture Assessment or as part of a longer-term relationship within our Virtual CTO program. Derive has extensive experience with using a number of leading software products, including Nutanix, HPE SimpliVity, Dell VXRail, and Cisco Hyperflex.
Notes on Converged, Hyperconverged, and Hybrid IT
Although converged and hyper-converged infrastructure are similar in many senses, converged infrastructure relies upon hardware building blocks; hyper-converged infrastructure is entirely software-defined. The latter is in many aspects more flexible and easily scalable.
Combining cloud with on-premises IT can result in unparalleled flexibility and scalability for your business. But the resulting hybrid IT environment introduces complexity that can impact productivity. Hyperconvergence as a software-defined solution offers a cloud-like experience across your entire infrastructure. With software-enabled automation and simplified hybrid cloud management to streamline and speed operations, you can focus on new projects that deliver a competitive edge.
HPE Simplivity is powered by InfoSight, HPE’s AI-powered management software. This platform is ideal for edge, ROBO, VDI, and general virtualization use cases. VM-centric management and mobility, built-in backup and DR, and data efficiency combine in a hyper-converged architecture that’s optimized from data center to edge. Benefits include:
Nutanix is an industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure solution, delivering any application at any scale to power your business growth. Derive partners with Nutanix and has the skills to deliver this enterprise-class solution. Nutanix’s robust platform can run uninterrupted and allow maintenance to be accomplished without service interruptions. Disaster recovery, integrated security and cloud integration ensure predictable performance and efficient operations with Nutanix Enterprise solutions.
Cisco HyperFlex enables multi-cloud IT with an adaptive platform that can service applications wherever it resides. Leveraging Cisco HX software innovations, HyperFlex delivers a simplified performance solution. It is a leader in scaling, support for multiple hypervisors, and flexible cluster scaling with availability zones. With Cisco-certified planning and purchasing, implementation, and ongoing management and support services from Derive Technologies, Cisco HyperFlex solutions can be utilized in any environment.
Dell VxRail, built-in partnership with VMware, VxRail provides a fast path to transform operations and data center infrastructure. Like the other HCI solutions, VxRail is a unified HCI platform. The VxRail HCI System software-defined architecture consolidates compute, storage, virtualization, and management. Being engineered for VMWare, this HCI implementation drives operational efficiencies with full-stack integration. The software also has automated end-to-end lifecycle management and AI-based predictive analytics.
VxRail has multiple configuration options, and this is where your organization can leverage Derive’s practice leads and architects, who can assess requirements and build a target Infrastructure. The configuration of these systems can be done in the Derive configuration center in New York City.
Key benefits include:
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Derive has a core competency in Architecture and Design. As an organization that has been building these technology Infrastructures for 20 years, Derive’s customers benefit from the firm’s long-term experience, a unique perspective drawn from a wide variety of customer engagements large and small, and a deep institutional knowledge of IT architecture and technologies.
With an experienced team well-educated on industry trends and best practices, and with deep relationships with technology resources at top vendors in the IT infrastructure market, Derive is uniquely qualified to assist customers in their technology journeys.
An architecture and design blueprint is at the core of any technology implementation plan. It takes into consideration all aspects of today’s IT infrastructure and capacity planning issues: hardware, compute, network, storage, and other dependencies.
Derive advocates a short planning engagement to produce these planning assets to prioritize all aspects of the next-generation infrastructure build. This is a core foundational activity.
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Derive Technologies has provided business and technological innovation for our clients through progressive, decades-long relationships with some of the world's most important providers of core infrastructure, cloud, mobility, collaboration, security and numerous other solutions.
