As an IT manager in today's hypercompetitive environment, your challenge is to be agile, innovative, keep the organization secure, and, of course, control costs. Easy, right?
Shinya Sakuta | Apr 2, 2018 | 3 min read
An accomplished IT leader, Kevin oversees the company’s Professional Services practice, helping customers modernize and automate, as well as enabling digital transformation to deliver true value to their users and organizations.
Kevin joined Advizex in 2016 as National Practice Director before becoming Vice President, Professional Services in 2019. As National Practice Director, he oversaw several nationwide practices, including IT Modernizations, the Oracle Business Unit, ServiceNow, and Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery.
With threat attacks increasing in frequency and scale, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans are crucial for all businesses. the BC/DR Advizer® assesses where you are today and gives us the next steps ensuring you’re safe today and tomorrow.
Networks often become complicated and downright messy. Our highly specialized engineers are skilled at assessing networks and resolving issues to ensure they’re as secure as possible.
Tap into our proven method for helping you map out exactly where you need to go. Every organization is different, and our goal is to make recommendations based on yours. With so many options, security strategy can be overwhelming. With the Security Advizer, it doesn’t have to be.
As networks become increasingly complex and threats become increasingly savvy, your organization needs to be proactive in finding the danger, and fast in remediating it. XDR provides holistic visibility into traditional endpoints, network, and cloud services.
Thanks in large part to cloud-based technology, remote access has never been easier. We’ll work with you to determine the best way to combine a positive user experience with a security policy that protects your organization.
Giving you the ultimate in access control, next-generation firewalls are essential for any security strategy. Leveraging the technology to support your organization needs a specialized team. It needs Advizex.
While crucial, backup and recovery solutions are all too often a struggle. It’s a full-time job, and IT departments cannot always prioritize it above other business-critical initiatives. This is where Advizex comes in. Our Backup, Storage & Disaster Recovery Cloud Managed Services combine backup and recovery expertise with application, data, and other infrastructure skillsets to help make sure you’re always ready. No matter what.
Successfully managing and supporting your servers plus Linux, Unix, or Windows operating systems requires someone to be on-call around the clock every day. Rather than staff multiple people, let us do it for you. Our capabilities span across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment models. We’ll monitor, administer, patch, maintain, and enhance, freeing your team to focus on their projects and initiatives. 
The network is the backbone of your IT operations, and keeping it running successfully requires someone to be on-call around the clock every single day. Rather than divert multiple people from projects and initiatives, let us monitor, administer, backup, maintain, and patch your network systems as needed. 
When it comes to monitoring, administration, and management of your virtual environment, Advizex Cloud Managed Services has you covered. Our team is experienced at in-depth server virtualization services to ensure the underlying platform allows your applications — and your business — to run efficiently.
Thanks to cloud computing, organizations expect new business applications and services to be deployed faster than ever before. While IT departments want to move to a hyperconverged or converged infrastructure or to a complete software-defined data center, planning and deployment can present several challenges. Not to worry. As an extension of your IT department, from implementation and monitoring to maintenance and optimization, Advizex can help.
Part of IT Service Management, IT Operations Management (ITOM) is managing the production environment of IT that offers the services that their consumers utilize. Delivery automation, experience management, performance analysis, and everything in between comes under this umbrella. It’s important to be on top of your game, and Advizex helps ensure you are. 
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Jumpstart | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Residency | Optimization Services | Custom Scoping 
Whatever your cloud platform of choice, it needs to be properly managed to be effective. Traditional tools aren’t usually built with comprehensive cloud management in mind. Each cloud comes with its own system, leaving IT departments burdened with learning and maintaining multiple systems. We can fix that. 
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Jumpstart | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Residency | Optimization Services | Custom Scoping 
IT departments are at the hub of business. Any time there’s a new idea — from small to big, from products to services — delivering results depends on IT’s ability to make it happen. Through better design, delivery, and support practices, IT Service Management (ITSM) helps IT departments reach their full potential, so the business can reach its full potential. 
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Jumpstart | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Residency | Optimization Services | Custom Scoping 
Getting it right is never more important than it is in Identity & Access Management. While the basic idea is simple — make sure people are who they say they are and give them access to what they need — the maintenance can be extraordinarily complex, especially as your user base increases. From the back-end configurations to the front-end user experience, management is a priority. It’s a matter of accuracy and trust.
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Optimization Services | Managed Services | Custom Scoping
Modern business requires modern communication, and the need for efficient internet-based group collaboration tools has exploded. Conversations (two-way and group) represent just one aspect of the overall collaboration landscape. Collaboration also includes asset management, online services, and automated workflows, all of which can vastly improve productivity and increase the speed at which your business can move.
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Managed Services | Custom Scoping
For IT departments, the Digital Workspace provides a single pane of glass for consumed IT services and management. For your employees, it lets them work from anywhere and on any device. When planned and implemented strategically, the Digital Workspace can save time and increase productivity.
Services include:
Assessments | Planning Services | Design | Jumpstart | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Residency | Optimization Services | Managed Services | Custom Scoping
Modern business requires reliable and transparent networks. Over time, networks can easily become neglected, putting the business at risk for unplanned downtime or risk to their security posture. Advizex Network Solutions can help design, implement, and manage your network regardless of its current state.
Services include:
Assessments | Planning Services | Design | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Managed Services | Custom Scoping
Whether you’re a large business or a small one, data directs nearly every decision. Databases are a critical component of the overall infrastructure, impacting performance and availability. From database architecture planning to project implementation, Advizex ensures that your databases are resilient, cost effective, secure, and functioning as they should.  This is where Advizex shines. We bring knowledge and experience to give you unparalleled insights.
Services include:
Assessments | Planning Services | Design | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Optimization Services | Managed Services | Custom Scoping
Abstracting software from hardware gives organizations the ability to meet their ever-changing business needs more efficiently. Leveraging the intelligence in software, organizations gain key features that enable them to provide consistent results while scaling, as needed, at a rapid pace. Digital transformation, here we come.
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Jumpstart | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Residency | Optimization Services | Managed Services | Custom Scoping
From on-premises to the cloud and vice versa, our Public Cloud Managed Services help ensure that your platform and/or infrastructure serve your business needs. Most IT departments know the benefits of a cloud strategy but seek outside expertise to make it happen as efficiently and with as little disruption to their already busy staff as possible. Advizex has that expertise — and experience.
While the legacy security approach was to protect your organization from outside threats, Zero Trust architecture provides a holistic approach to protecting against all threats regardless of origin. Zero Trust isn’t one product but rather a set of principles and architectures. It’s multiple capabilities working together simultaneously.
The key to creating agile, innovative IT operations comes down to automation followed by orchestration. Removing human intervention removes human error and inconsistency while freeing that person to focus on continual improvements for the business. Not sure where to start? We can help
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Jumpstart | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Residency | Optimization Services | Custom Scoping 
Public, private, or hybrid — whatever your cloud platform of choice it needs to be properly managed to be effective. Traditional tools aren’t usually built with comprehensive cloud management in mind. Each cloud comes with its own system, leaving IT departments burdened with learning and maintaining multiple systems. Advizex can fix that.
Services include:
Planning Services | Design | Jumpstart | Design & Deploy | Implementation | Residency | Optimization Services | Managed Services | Custom Scoping