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Soroc helps clients build successful data center strategies to assure business continuity, support growth and drive maximum agility for a business and its workers. Soroc accomplishes this by identifying the best technology solutions and leveraging industry best practices to optimize IT resources including storage, servers, network and the physical data center.

In addition to strategic consulting, Soroc specializes in the deployment of large-scale data centers. Services include rack, server and communications equipment installation / configuration, data center relocation (de-installation, freight coordination, re-installation), cabling and IMACD.

Soroc also assists clients in evaluating the suitability of various data center location options including Greenfield, retro-refit, 3rd party co-location or managed services.
Consolidation+ Consulting Services
Business Planning
  • Core infrastructure analysis
  • Consolidation strategy
  • Needs analysis
  • Business case development:
    • TCO/ROI
    • Set target scope
    • Savings analysis
Data Center
  • Data Center consolidation
  • Moves migrations
  • Forklift vs Over the Wire
  • Integration design
  • Translating systems from current to target
  • Green field opportunity
  • Defense in Depth security
  • N-Tier enforcement
  • Network services
Storage
  • NAS/SAN strategies
  • DAS to SAN/NAS
  • Data De-duplication
  • Compression / encryption
  • Centralizing backup / recovery
  • Data replication
  • Business continuity / DR
  • Off-site data storage
  • Boot from SAN
  • Storage virtualization
  • Data migration
Server
  • Server virtualization
  • Blade server migration
  • Workload aggregation
  • Service level metrics
  • Resource-based chargeback
  • High availability solutions
  • Power A/C reductions
  • Increase utilization
Network
  • LAN/WAN optimization
  • Bottleneck analysis
  • Director/Field switch optimization
  • Wireless integration / optimization
  • Network virtualization
  • Network security consolidation
  • Protocol aggregation / encapsulation
  • VOIP
  • IP subnetting
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