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Mobile networking is fast becoming the standard for how most of us do business at least part of the time. A growing percentage of the workforce is mobile both inside their organization, travelling and telecommuting. The expectation is to be able to work from anywhere, seamlessly and securely and to provide the same for visiting/temporary personnel.
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Network Integration & Support |
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The design, integration and support of a network infrastructure is at the heart of ALI’s expertise. We integrate operating systems, network infrastructure and applications, so organizations stay focused on their operations.
ALI’s engineering staff has a wide variety of technical skills and many years of hands on experience. Our engineers are certified with credentials in technologies including Microsoft, Cisco, Novell, HP, Citrix and VMWare. We are sought out by organizations seeking excellent technical support and customer service.
Samples of network infrastructure issues we routinely address include:
- Keeping mobile employees connected and productive
- Licensing management
- Providing email, voicemail, faxes, voice traffic, wireless access and live video - seamlessly
- Managing IT expenses for bandwidth, equipment, software, on-going support and maintenance.
- Minimizing security threats and identity management.
- Proactive management of system updates to minimize vulnerabilities.
- Roll out new applications & infrastructure upgrades.
- Augmenting support staff.
Networking Expertise Areas & Specializations:
- Microsoft Network Infrastructure Specialization
- Novell Workgroup/Collaborative Solutions, Resource Management & Linux.
- Cisco Switching, Routing & Core Infrastructure
- Cisco Converged Networking
- Remote network access and systems management
- Network directory management, consolidation, resource clustering, virtualization and identity management
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Technologies such as collaboration, cloud computing, and web applications promote productivity for an increasingly distributed workforce. You need to employ these technologies and protect your company, while allowing the freedom and flexibility that your employees have come to expect.
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Reduce downtime caused by attacks and threats, to reduce risk to your organization, employees, and data. We deploy solutions that automatically update against the latest threats. |
| Enforce business policies, comply with best practices. |
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As your environment changes, ALI’s staff of specialists offer guidance and options to protect critical assets, and support consistent, enforceable policies to any person, device, and location. |
| Protect critical business assets. |
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The Security solutions we deploy improve network resilience and prevent business disruption, through defense from threats and malware while easily integrating new employees, devices, applications, and services. |
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Data Storage, Data Archiving & Data Management |
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Storage technology can be confusing and expensive. It is also one of the greatest risk exposure for organizations. But it doesn't have to be. The team at ALI has the breadth of skills and expertise to assess and design a cost-effective backup and archiving solution. Our staff understands solutions from the market leaders and will help you select and deploy and option that addresses each client's unique needs.
| Data Storage Consolidation |
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Consolidate & Save. Data growth creates management and cost containment challenges. Today’s expectation is to achieve more with less. With Storage Consolidation solutions that are easy to manage, ALI can help you solve your data storage challenges. We integrate solutions from HP and Cybernetics that enable us to scale a solution to meet the budget and priorities of each client. |
| Email/Data Archiving |
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Reduce risk with archiving. Email and Electronic Communication Archiving systems reduce the costs and risks associated with legal discovery and increase efficiency by automating data retention and disposal policies. ALI offers options for Email and Electronic Communication Archiving solutions that integrate with all major messaging environments, including Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, as well as Bloomberg and SMTP messages. |
| Mange Unstructured Data |
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Not all data is created equal, why manage it that way? Unstructured data is the fastest growing data-type, creating storage management challenges and increase IT costs. ALI provides a cross platform File Management solution that ties file storage to users’ network identities. This allows file management to intelligently manage files based on relevance and author while to optimize existing storage investments. |
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Training is a vital component to minimizing system support costs, increasing the return on investment, and ensuring adoption of new or changing productivity tools.
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Server Virtualization & Application Virtualization |
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Virtualization is about improving utilization of IT resources. Virtualized network servers streamline the amount of equipment, power and management required. Applications can also be virtualized, making it possible to encapsulate legacy applications to run on newer platforms and significantly streamline application roll out testing & deployment.
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IT Network Managed Services |
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Today's business systems are the lifeblood of an organization's daily operations. Any interruption of service has a direct impact on the bottom line. Ensuring maximum uptime is of vital importance.
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IP Telephony & Communications |
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Phone systems are rapidly merging into the IP data network – opening up new opportunities for efficiency, cost reduction and more responsive customer service.
Deploying IP based phone solutions, along with specialized collaboration & communication applications collaboration is a particular area of expertise for the ALI team. We have been deploying IP based phone systems and the applications that extend the reach of voice communications for over 10 years.
ALI is a Cisco Advanced Specialized Unified Communications partner and our staff is well known for our expertise designing and integrating phone systems, video conferencing solutions and applications that improve communication flows, so that employees can access primary decision makers quickly, enhance collaboration, and improve productivity to positively affect their business.
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Companies are realizing significant travel and long distance savings using IP telephony, integrated voice and Web conferencing and/or video conferencing solutions. |
Faster decision making and customer service response
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Secure unified communications help coworkers, partners, vendors, and customers stay in touch, and access the information and expertise they need in real time. Single number reach, integrated voicemail and email, the ability to take a conference call into a web conference from even an iPhone – all contribute to getting the job done better and faster. |
| Innovate across the value chain |
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Unified Communications capabilities embedded into work flows and business applications can transform business processes and increase customer satisfaction. |
| Integrate applications |
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Unified Communications integrated with other applications allow workers to collaborate in real time using their favorite tools and software. ALI’s staff of developers has particular expertise in application integration. |
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