Application Delivery

By centralizing the control of applications, this technology can turn your servers into a secure access point for client-server applications delivering on-demand access to users anywhere. Delivering applications instead of installing them allows your company to:

    * Reduce costs
    * Provision new applications in seconds, not days
    * Increase responsiveness to the business
    * Increase staff productivity
    * Consolidate workloads onto fewer servers
    * Increase utilization rates for servers
    * Speed virtual desktop deployments
    * Significantly boost performance
    * Enhance data security and manageability
    * Zero-downtime hardware maintenance

There are a lot of different solutions, Async can help you find the application delivery solution that is right for you.

Storage

Async Associates works very closely with HP - LeftHand Networks to complete solutions requiring an end to end application delivery solution. With HP - LeftHand we are able to tailor a solution for almost any environment that is cost effective and is also very scalable.

Storage plays a key role in enabling the benefits of a virtual server infrastructure. HP - LeftHand Networks offers a storage environment designed for a virtual environment, which makes it an ideal match for Citrix servers. HP - LeftHand implements a virtualized storage system that is similar in concept to the virtualization applied to the servers, offering these benefits to IT organizations:

Simple Management and Flexibility. Virtual server environments tend to grow and change more organically than physical server environments. The same is true with the storage associated with those virtual servers as new storage volumes are created, deleted, re-sized, and moved constantly. HP - LeftHand SANs are flexible and easy to manage, because they are designed to accommodate changes such as these. Volume provisioning within the SAN is automated; growing, shrinking or moving an iSCSI volume takes a few mouse clicks and requires no downtime.
Scalability. It is difficult to accurately predict storage performance needs within a virtualized environment. Often the aggregate I/Os per second (IOPS) requirement against a SAN is the critical factor that causes user dissatisfaction and the need for storage re-provisioning or upgrades. LeftHand’s architecture addresses this problem in two ways: First, each LeftHand storage node includes CPU, RAM, cache, and network bandwidth. As new storage capacity is added to the SAN, all the necessary components are also scaled ensuring that no performance bottlenecks are created. HP - LeftHand SANs also address the re-striping of volumes. When a new storage node is added, existing volumes are automatically re-balanced to include the expansion nodes. Existing applications and virtual machines see increased IOPS automatically, and end-users see improved response time.
High Availability. Both planned and unplanned downtime becomes more impactful in a XenServer environment as compared to a physical server environment due to the increased number of servers. HP - LeftHand SANs are architected to keep volumes available both during administrative activities as well as during component outages. We can offer the highest availability because of SAN/iQ® software’s patented Network RAID feature, which protects not only against single component failures, but also against many multiple component failures. SAN/iQ Network RAID can be extended to protect against environmental failures (power, sites, racks, air conditioning) as well by physically separating the storage nodes into multiple locations.

Storage Virtualization

Storage Virtualization enhances data availability for virtualized servers, so that you can:

Meet the high availability requirements driven by your server consolidation
Provision storage resources dynamically and intelligently, based on business needs
Protect the data in the virtual data center for disaster recovery and business continuity
Scale for growth and adapt to changes in business requirements without rearchitecting the storage solution

An open ISCSI SAN from HP - LeftHand allows you to gain continuous access to underlying storage, clone storage volumes and more.

Let Async help you decide which products would best suit your environment.

Virtualization

Virtualization is a core enabler of application delivery because it allows application resources – servers, applications and desktops – to be dynamically coupled and reassembled on the fly.

Virtualization

Application delivery systems are built on a foundation of virtualization, combined with application-specific networking, security and service management to ensure the best delivery experience.

Bringing together applications, databases, and services onto fewer, highly reliable servers is a key IT trend. Through consolidation initiatives, IT managers can respond to the need to cut high management costs associated with the proliferation of small to mid-size distributed servers in their organizations. Some of the benefits to virtualization are utilizing computing resources more efficiently, lowering total cost of ownership, increased service levels, improved availability, reduced floor space demands, and increased control.

Let Async help you decide which products would best suit your environment.

Security

It’s tough out there, trying to deliver uninterrupted, secure access to vital applications and information in a world where new information platforms, applications and devices are launched every day. Computing environments are increasingly diverse and complex. Systems and people from newly acquired companies must be integrated quickly. Security is a constant worry.

If your network is connected to the internet, you are at risk from many different types of attacks. The objective of security auditing is of course to investigate the system from the attacker’s perspective. The goal is to identify exposures and risk before seeking a solution. IT security needs to be developed as an integral part of corporate policy and risk management procedures.

SECURITY AUDITS & PENETRATION TESTING

We provide:

Detailed analysis of complete network, disaster recovery plan, policies and procedure manuals
Complete assessment of your network’s vulnerabilities
Detailed recommendations on how to secure those vulnerabilities

We provide most services related to information security. If you do not see precisely what you need here, please feel free to contact us for more information on how we may be of assistance to your organization.

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