Cutting IT Costs During A Financial Downturn
Client Overview: The client is the world leader in recovery auditing services. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, the client has over 1000 associates servicing clients in more than 30 countries. Business Problem: Following the acquisition of its top competitor, a leading Audit Recovery firm had experienced significant growth in IT assets yet did not standardize or change its purchasing strategy. For several years after the acquisition, systems and supporting gear were purchased on an as-needed basis for each new application or project. The industry began to change and more competition entered the market which resulted in a sharp decline of revenue. In 2006, the ...
Disaster Recovery For A Florida Food Provider
Client Overview: A major food supplier with customers ranging from small delicatessens to major grocery store chains located throughout the United States. Business Problem: Years of non-standard builds and procedures for implementing technology led to an inefficient infrastructure. Coupled with the fact that the company had a major operations center in the middle of Florida's hurricane country, new management determined that a new design was needed in 2008. The company had six regional offices in the Eastern half of the US, relying on local storage and non-technical support staff in most of the sites. Two major data centers in New York and Florida were ...
How To Start Reclaiming Valuable IT Dollars Today
The company is trying to cut costs wherever possible. Whether headcount has been affected or not, you still need to reduce what you are spending while delivering more and more services to your company or clients. How can you possibly increase productivity while decreasing costs? Sound familiar? Doubtless, you've heard the phrase "work smarter, not harder" at least a few times before. But just how do you achieve that? If you are among the vast majority of companies that have done a lot of technology growing over the past several years without taking the time to purposefully streamline your operations, you may be in ...
Company Profile
The Carlone Technology Group is headquartered in Chicago, IL and consists of a network of highly skilled resources located throughout the United States covering a wide range of specialties. Our ideology is simple - we feel that all businesses require a solid technology strategy in order to be successful and competitive in their industry. We help our clients better align IT with the goals and objectives of the business through proper analysis and by providing intelligent solutions to complex business problems. It is no secret these days that every business is looking for ways to reduce operating costs and streamline operations. There ...
Benefits of Virtualization
Whether you are currently aware of the many benefits of virtualization or not, one fact is clear – virtualization technologies will provide the foundation for future infrastructures and change the model of computing environments as we know them today. Today’s data center is moving towards an “agile computing” environment which decouples your business’ applications from individual and specific server assets. With virtualization, the total collection of your resources – Disk, CPU, RAM, and NIC – comprise a defined pool of resources that are dynamically allocated in real-time to meet the needs of any given task. Further, systems are dynamically moved ...
Go Green Without Spending Your Green
"Going green" is all the rage these days. It is a concept that we should all embrace for the betterment of the environment and to more efficiently consume resources. Green practices start with a frame of mind or a goal to deliberately focus your actions to be aligned with green concepts. Companies gain a great advantage by declaring themselves "green" through tax breaks and public opinion, second to actually helping the environment. Companies should take caution when declaring a green state to obtain publicity or favor in that even if you have implemented every change possible to be classified as a green ...
