Technology Consulting
We bring a personal touch to our expertise by working directly with our clients to identify the unique data center and cloud service solutions their business needs. Learn more about our consulting services. Experienced in numerous vertical markets, Avalon’s team of product specialists can design cutting-edge solutions to meet your business needs. Blending our extensive IT expertise and product knowledge we customize your existing products to seamlessly combine with advancing technology.
Virtualization 2.0 – Life After VMware. Virtualization and Hypervisor Selectionon
Identify and evaluate alternative virtualization and hypervisor solutions to replace or augment VMware, ensuring alignment with your organization’s performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency goals.
What we do:
- Peview your existing VMware Infrastructure, including virtual machines, application workloads, storage, and networking.
- Identify pain points, challenges, and limitations in the current setup.
- Define business and technical requirements for virtualization, including interoperability with existing systems, ease of management, and flexibility.
- Compare potential solutions against defined criteria, including performance and resource utilization, integration with current environments, vendor support/community ecosystem, and potential migration complexity, and risks.
- Analyze licensing models, operational dependencies, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
Our goal is to maximize your technology ROI, optimize cost savings, and reduce risk through thorough evaluation and selection of the right hypervisor platform.
Technical Blueprint – Long-Term Technology Strategy Planning
Develop a comprehensive, forward-looking technology strategy that aligns with your organization’s business goals, optimizes technology investments, and positions for sustainable growth and innovation over the next 3–5 years.
What we do:
- Review your current technology infrastructure, applications, and processes.
- Analyze emerging technologies and industry trends relevant to your organization
- Align technology initiatives with your business objectives and market demands
- Create a phased technology roadmap blueprint that outlines short-term priorities and long-term goals.
- Establish standing discussions to review and update the plan as needed to ensure your technology strategy delivers the desired business outcomes.
Our goal is to enhance decision-making with a clear vision for technology adoption, improve operation efficiency and cost optimization as well as strengthen competitive positioning through innovation and adaptability.
Infrastructure Modernization – Technology Evaluation and Recommendation for Data Center Design, Cloud Integration, and Life-Cycle Management
Modernize the organization’s data center infrastructure by leveraging cutting-edge technologies and best practices, ensuring improved performance, scalability, efficiency, and alignment with future business needs.
What we do:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical and business goals and requirements such as workload demands, compliance, disaster recovery, and growth projections.
- Evaluate operational efficiencies, cost models, and life-cycle status of current assets.
- Analyze and recommend modernization strategies including aaS (As-A-Service) solutions, Cloud Integration (hybrid or multi-cloud), and SDDC (Software-defined data center) infrastructure.
- Develop a modernization action plan that includes architectural designs, technology recommendations, Implementation support, project timelines, budget estimates, and ROI analysis.
Our goal is to empower your IT to support modern technical initiatives such as AI, Big Data, and IoT, while improving the resilience, security, and overall efficiency of your infrastructure.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solution Design
Design and document a comprehensive Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solution that ensures your organization’s critical operations and data are protected against disruptions, enabling rapid recovery and minimal downtime in the event of a disaster or unforeseen incident.
What we do:
- Review your current existing continuity and recovery practices
- Identify critical business processes, dependencies, and infrastructure
- Develop a strategic approach for BCDR, focusing on robust backup/recovery and replication mechanisms, high availability, and rapid recovery solutions for mission-critical business applications.
- Create a testing and validation framework to regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the BCDR plan.
Our goal is to enhance your IT resilience and preparedness for unforeseen events by providing clear actionable runbooks to maintain business continuity and recover critical systems during disruptions. This will also safeguard the company’s reputation and financial stability.
IT Infrastructure Optimization – Environment Health Checks and Best Practices Recommendations.
Assess the current state of the organization’s IT infrastructure, identify performance bottlenecks, vulnerabilities, and inefficiencies, and provide actionable recommendations for optimization in alignment with industry best practices.
What we do:
- Conduct a detailed review of the hardware and software infrastructure and analyze system resource utilization and performance capabilities.
- Identify outdated or unsupported hardware, software, and configurations as well as potential single points of failure or high-risk dependencies.
- Compare current infrastructure setup/configuration against the latest industry’s best practices.
- Highlight areas for improvement and provide recommendations to enhance performance, reliability, and efficiency.
Our goal is to develop a repeatable action plan to proactively evaluate the health status of your infrastructure and implement necessary critical improvements and upgrades, which will help your business to drive the highest resource efficiencies and cost savings, and your IT achieves optimized performance and stability.
IT Staff Augmentation Planning
Enhance the organization’s IT capabilities by providing skilled professionals to augment existing teams, ensuring timely delivery of projects, seamless operations, and the flexibility to scale resources based on business demands.
What we do:
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to determine specific IT skill gaps and resource requirements
- Identify short-term and long-term staffing needs based on current projects and operational goals
- Provide highly qualified and experienced IT resources across key domains including system configuration, infrastructure management, data migration, M365 implementation, optimization and virtualization, and cloud deployment.
Our goal is to provide your IT with cost-effective and scalable staffing solutions that will help address project demands, and operational challenges and deliver high-quality business outcomes.