Optimization & Consolidation


Fish achieve many benefits from schooling behaviour including better predator detection, minimizing the chance of individual capture, increased hydrodynamic efficiency and the schools are able to undertake complicated maneuvers, as though they have minds of their own.  As with schools of fish, organizations need to be tightly organized, synchronized and operate as a single unit in order to achieve the same advantages, such as operational efficiency, protection against competitors and simplified production.

Our highly specialized experienced consultants are ready to collaborate with your organization to help you gain efficiencies such as cost savings, reducing raised floor footprints, and simplify the configuration and support of your IT Infrastructure.


Many data centres
weren’t built to meet the power and cooling demands of modern servers.  Additionally many networks weren't built to handle the myriad of protocols and the volume of traffic as well as the need for immediate processing / transmission.  The total cost of ownership (TCO) of many of these facilities are growing at an accelerating rate and the increase in the quantity, disparity and immediacty of data being gathered, stored and processed has caused some data centres and networks to become inefficient.

   IT Infrastructure Optimization, Metrics, Desktop Rollout Consulting - Balardo Group, Toronto, Ontario

If your data centre floor is crowded or messy; your network is slow, congested and/or potentially insecure; staff are being stretched to meet growth demand; costs are escalating and budgets are constrained; too many locations are housing servers with subpar security and environmental conditions; or you have a need for operational resiliency; you likely need to examine optimization or consolidation options.

Balardo Group’s Optimization & Consolidation services have been developed from decades of experience working at all levels to tune your organization for greater effectiveness.  Our specialized project managers and consultants are ready to work with you to reduce costs, improve quality and provide leadership and direction.

 
Our key services are:

  • Business Cases
  • Technical Feasibility Studies
  • Opportunity & Co-Location Assessments
  • Technology Architecture
  • Virtualization
  • Data Storage Review 
  • Organization Structure Design
  • Security 
  • Budget Development
  • Process Changes
  • Testing / Dry Runs

Business Optimization & Consolidation: Sample Assignments:

Since 1989 we have been working with clients to address their challenging and demanding Optimization & Consolidation considerations.  For more details on some of these assignments please follow this link:

IT Project & Program Management Consulting Services for Businesses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada