North Wind Business Solutions LLC
Navigating through transformational change with the innovative and competitive use of technology....
Providing a Complete Suite of Business and IT Solutions
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IT Infrastructure Services
Protecting your critical IT investments and service levels so that you can focus on your business
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Selecting and managing the optimal IT infrastructure to host your business applications requires planning, keeping abreast of accelerating changes in infrastructure products and managed services, and a sourcing strategy that aligns with your business and IT strategies. But have you also addressed other key infrastructure services that are critical to protecting your customers, revenues, and profitability? We can perform a health check on your IT infrastructure and related services to ensure that your infrastructure strategy is sound and that you have adequately protected your business.
Data Center Management Services
We are at the tipping point for cloud computing. There are many business advantages to cloud computing but the principal benefit is business agility - taking the IT friction away from achieving business change.
We can help you select the right Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and navigate through the decisions you will need to make regarding use of a public, private, or hybrid cloud solution.
Prefer a purpose built, self-managed
co-location solution? Through our network of cloud and co-location partners, we can provide you with several options that can include this service offering.
Routine Backup and Recovery
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Have you addressed routine backup and recovery of your critical systems? Do you have fully automated solutions to address this business requirement? Do you test your backup media on a regular basis to make sure that you can restore your critical data? Are you also performing full system backups on a periodic basis?
Our experts can design and implement a comprehenisve, fully automated backup and recovery strategy that will minimize downtime and reduce operations costs.
Network and Systems Management
Do you nave written service level agreements (SLAs) for all critical IT infrastructure and business applications? Who first reports outages of your critical systems, response time problems, or reliability problems? If your answer is "my customers" you need a network and systems management solution.
These automated solutions monitor your critical infrastructure and applications to make sure that they are available, reliable, and responsive to your customers needs
24 x 7 x 365. If your systems fail to meet these SLAs, these solutions automatically notify your IT operations staff so that they can restore service.
We can help you develop your SLAs and develop and implement your network and systems management strategy.
Business Continuity​
If your primary office space goes dark can your business continue to operate? Do you have a backup facility and plan if your current office space is no longer usable and do you test and update this plan at least once per year? A business continuity plan addresses the temporary replacement of your primary office facilities required to conduct business.
There are many cost-effective ways to handle this problem. We can help expedite the review of various business continuity solutions and create a written plan that will enable you to replace your office facilities within a matter of hours versus weeks.
Disaster Recovery​
Do you have a written disaster recovery plan and do you test it and update it at least once per year. What are your recovery time objectives for critical systems? How long can your business survive without critical systems? Where is your disaster recovery facility?
Internet and mobile commerce, which offer time, location, and process convenience to consumers to conduct business globally 24 x 7 x 365, have made an effective disaster recovery plan a critical business requirement. There is never a good time to take the system down, and consumer tolerance for system outages has disappeared.
We can help you create and test a written disaster recovery plan that will recover critical systems in a timeframe required to maintain customer service expectations and protect your business.
Full Stack Engineering
Who is implementing your IT network, storage, and server software images? Is this being done in compliance with standards based methods?
Your infrastructure devices, network operating system software, and middleware software constitute the hardware and software "stack" that hosts your critical business applications.
Optimizing this stack to support your applications, protect their respective service level agreements, and meet your critical data security compliance needs requires engineering experience, discipline, and skill. We can provide you and your IT operations team these full stack engineering services through trusted partners.