OPNET offers a Network Assessment and Planning service for enterprises undergoing IT infrastructure consolidations and transformations that may involve architecture standardization, cloud computing, server virtualization, and the overall improvement of enterprise service delivery to end users.

Our methodology encompasses the assessment of baseline (“as-is”) performance using real operational data collected from the production network, which is then used to develop performance improvement recommendations and plan changes to the infrastructure.  We “test” and validate all infrastructure changes and recommendations in virtual (“to-be”) deployment scenarios to predict performance, mitigate risk, and establish benchmark service level metrics before production implementation.

Capabilities

• Analyze infrastructure transformations including data center consolidations, virtualization, application migrations, and cloud computing.
• Optimize end-to-end performance for total cost of ownership, scalability, and security.
• Plan and manage capacity to scale traffic to the levels expected using a “to-be” architecture representing a new, consolidated, or upgraded network infrastructure.
• Accurately predict end-to-end performance (including mission critical application response times) of planned architectures.
• Perform impact assessments to validate infrastructure changes before production implementation.

Related Services

• Cloud Readiness Performance Assessment
• Data Center Consolidation Performance Assessment
• Configuration Auditing and Proactive Change Validation Service