At the heart of any application and platform are the services which run on hardware. Each layer in a stack from the application server to the bare metal can have hundreds of configurations and combinations of configurations which will make systems work. But only some of those make a system run well. The Enterprise platform that EMC provides with Documentum, Captiva, and SourceOne requires design and planning to support successful deployments, and Beach Street has highly qualified people that can help.
After having spent years with the EMC CMA (Documentum) platform, our consultants have been involved in almost every combination of server, operating system, and base software installation (RDBMS, Application Server) along with the entire EMC Documentum, Captiva, and SourceOne product suites.
Whether you are a new adopter of Documentum technology or have a complex HA & DR environment, Beach Street's Infrastructure Services team can help your staff with:
- Capacity Planning for enterprise platforms
- Basic first-time installation, documentation, and training
- Disaster Recovery planning and implementation
- High Availability and Failover configuration
- Strategies for Performance Tuning, Monitoring, and Backup
- WAN distributed configurations
- Documentation, Run Book, and overall knowledge share for employees
All Beach Street staff are required to undergo a rigorous training regimen which begins with infrastructure installation, well in advance of getting to a level of development or configuration specialty. In addition, our knowledge of combinations of application servers, RDBMS platforms, Operating Systems, and Storage components is invaluable to our customers infrastructure needs.
We believe that the cornerstone of any infrastructure services we perform is the documentation we produce. It is specifically geared towards hand off and maintainability for our customer's infrastructure staff.
To learn how we have successfully assisted our clients with Infrastructure Services and how we can help your company, contact us.
With a solid design and experienced staff, Beach Street Infrastructure Services can help you avoid the following pitfalls:
- Improper Capacity Planning and System Sizing leading to underpowering your enterprise platform, causing user frustrations and lack of adoption
- System inefficiency from incorrectly configuring software components in the application architecture
- Wasted time and inefficiency in deploying evolving application functionality due to lack of supporting process and procedures for deployments
- Security deficiencies in externally facing applications as well as high security in internal applications.
- Need for handoff of technical details for current internal staff.
Beach Street follows a Streetwise™ process for infrastructure services where the understanding of requirements in the details of users, content sizes, application throughput expectations, and corporate standards come to bear.
Each implementation instance may have unique requirements that require rigorous analysis of the following factors that can impact design:
- Application Functionality Specifics
- Amount and size of content files
- Amount and type of users and application roles
- Requirements for High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery (HA & DR)
- Distributed Configurations
- Corporate standard for OS, RDBMS, and Application Servers
- Corporate standards for information security
For examples of how our clients have benefited from working with Beach Street's Infrastructure Services, we hope you'll read through some of our case studies below: