Leverage Consulting

Journey to the Cloud

David — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 04:05:51 +0000

As we “Journey to the Cloud”, whether it’s for a business or individual, the need to learn new technologies, new skills and new operating models is a given. The old “systems integrator” type of IT consulting firm must evolve into a “cloud integrator” in order to guide organizations in the design and implementation of the many details involved in moving to the cloud. There is plenty of mystery and confusion in the current mass of cloud products and services.

Companies need to have visibility and transparency of application costs, application/data geography, and application status/performance across any cloud through a consistent management interface.

One of the areas where cloud integrators can help shed some light upon is an accurate financial analysis on different hybrid cloud options and an organization’s true cost of providing IT services. This will enable design of a much more cost-effective hybrid cloud architecture as well as a charge back system that optimizes resource utilization.

With vendors pushing “converged solutions” and cloud providers offering “on-demand solutions”, it forces the integrators to decide if they invest in people (architects, consultants) or software (development) expertise. Both can be profitable, but both are also considerably different business models than traditional “systems integrators” delivered in the past.

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Leverage – The Cloud

David — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:03:17 +0000

Our Custom VPS Cloud servers will run any software you request. Our agile and efficient data center runs on 64 bit Xeon CPUs, RAID 10 and Thunderbolt storage on Cisco Gigabit switches all with redundant power supplies and UPS with propane backup generator for a 99.99% Uptime Guarantee.

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Leverage Analytics

David — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:32:35 +0000

When things get so interesting, the first thing to do is to not become paralyzed by complexity. The second thing is to not just do more of the same thing or active inertia.

Analytics can help inform and influence current and future technology investments in a positive way. Respect the budget and honer the ROI.

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Leverage Security

David — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:57:29 +0000

CompTIA Security+ certification validates that Leverage Consulting understands your ongoing need for network and data security. CompTIA Security+ is an international, vendor-neutral certification that demonstrates competency in:

• Network security
• Compliance and operational security
• Threats and vulnerabilities
• Application, data and host security
• Access control and identity management
• Cryptography

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Leverage Certified on site technicians

David — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:56:09 +0000

Leverage provides networking and hardware refresh, wireless, , voip, site surveys, maintenance and augmented IT staffing. CompTIA A+ 220-801 covers the fundamentals of computer technology, installation and configuration of PCs, laptops and related hardware, and basic networking. All of our technicians must have one or more current Comptia and/or Cisco certifications.

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