new Internet technologies.
Services Offerings for Small & Medium Businesses
We help small and medium businesses in three different ways.
IT Outsourcing Advising
We apply a unique mix of strategy and technology to help clients achieve profitability and growth, business efficiency improvements in the customer experience and greater infrastructure advantage.
What we do for small and medium businesses:
- Expert Review - Optimized outsourcing advice, review and purchase.
- RFI/RFP - Support and management.
- Negotiations - Flexible terms and conditions, pay as you grow.
- Ongoing Provider Support - Performance monitoring and optimization, re-negotiation advice.
IT Consulting
We help companies use technology as a competitive weapon. We begin by reviewing weaknesses, opportunities, and growth potential of existing and prospective business models. We identify and assess technologies that can be used to establish advantage in the market.
What we do for small and medium businesses:
- IT Planning - Current state assessments, determine business goals, cost & demand drivers.
- IT Analyst Services - Timely market data tailored to client's specific needs.
- IT Research and Planning - Customer trends, cloud adoption, service positioning.
- Architect and Design - Establish a solutions blueprint and architecture design.
- IT Road Map Development - Cloud, CDN, Data Center, Security & WAN Optimization solutions.
- IT Benchmarking - Assess capabilities, share methodologies and approach emerging areas.
Internet Strategy Development
We believe that companies should conduct annual web strategy assessments to define key competitors, market opportunities and consider new business drivers. Strategy assessments lay a foundation and serve as building blocks for your go-to-market strategy.
What we do for small and medium businesses:
- Create Competitive Advantage - Benchmark and position above your competitors.
- Identity and Branding - Assess brand position and establish plans to improve online awareness.
- Outsource Digital Marketing - Campaign development and management for web marketing.
- Social Media Strategy - What is your social media plan? We can help build one.
- Build Value Added Services - Insight, perspective, and expertise to help build new services.
Technologies Advancing Small & Medium Businesses
We are specialized in the following Internet technology solutions.
Cloud
Our team helps companies understand how cloud solutions and technologies can be used to reduce cost, improve performance and lower IT barriers. Not all cloud offerings are created equally, each has different advantages, opportunities and risks. We advise on the points of consideration, such as position in the marketplace, cost, flexibility, terms of service, security, network performance, work-flow, reach and management.
Our expertise:
- Cloud Hosting - SMBs have much to gain by moving existing application workloads to the cloud.
- Virtual Servers - Cost effective starting point for small companies and hosted projects.
- Virtual Private Data Center - Assist with on-ramp and market positioning for grid deployments.
- Cloud Storage - Inactive data is the perfect candidate for migration into the cloud.
Content Delivery Solutions for Small and Medium Businesses
Leveraging content delivery service providers, you can count on better performance, dependable scalability and cost effective outsourced solutions. We advise companies on providers and solutions, offering technical guidance in architecting and deploying new services.
Our expertise:
- HTTP Delivery & Edge Caching - Improve website performance.
- Video and Rich Media - Deliver high quality video, live and on-demand to global audiences.
- Content Monetization - Video advertising networks, distribution channels, and video commerce.
- Streaming for Live Events - Broadcasting live events on the Internet with a platform and player.
- Digital Rights & Asset Management - Latest in content protection and assest management.
Data Center Services & Hosting
Looking for data center space or hosting services? Get an independent data center review to compare complex colocation facilities and service offerings in your city or region. For the past 10 years we have been conducting regular market reviews and have reviewed over 220 cities in more than 35 countries including just over 800 data center facilities worldwide. Space, power and pricing change on a day-to-day basis. We help our clients get an up-to-date snap shot of regional markets, focusing on facility and provider capabilities, support structure, position in the market and risk factors.
Our expertise:
- Data Center & Colocation - Cabinets, cages, suites and custom configurations as needed.
- Managed Hosting - Single servers, complex environments, virtual servers and cloud.
Media Platforms
Internet platforms are used to manage video, media, collaboration, file sharing, presentations, advertising, viral campaigns as well as other web services. We help our clients understand the difference between provider solution offerings and identify the solution that best meets their needs.
Our expertise:
- Internet Video Platforms - Manage an Internet TV channel with an easy work flow process.
- Social Media Platforms - Next-generation collaboration and social tools.
- Video Ad Platforms - Include video advertising solutions with targeted, real-time ad insertion.
- Advanced Players - New technologies virtually eliminate buffering, stalling, and playback glitches.
