Network Consultancy

Your network infrastructure is the foundation on which the rest of your IT environment is built. Over time, the new and different demands being placed on your network may mean performance, scalability and resilience deteriorate. Data Integration's Network Audit Services review your network architecture and make recommendations to improve current performance or advise how best to accommodate future growth. We provide you with a Network Audit Report containing both short- and long-term recommendations and concrete proposals to solve the network problems identified.

Why use the Data Integration Network Audit Services?

Our Network Audit Services have been developed to assist our customers in ensuring that their network infrastructure remains effective and supports the rapidly changing needs of your organisation. Our services can help you determine how well your existing infrastructure is serving you or we can we advise on the impact of rolling out new services and applications. The extensive experience that Data Integration has gained through planning and managing a wide range of customer networks, means that we are ideally qualified to provide you with a detailed analysis of your current network and recommend changes or additions that will optimise performance.

Network analysis

Our Network Audit Services include an inspection of your network to collect information to help you analyse your current and future requirements. Depending upon your requirements we can investigate a specific issue for you, or we can conduct a more comprehensive network audit. The areas we can assist you with include:

• Network architecture review and definition
• Network system hardware and software configuration inspections
• Review and documentation of the physical layout of your network (including media and physical topology)
• Network application performance evaluation
• Current and future network traffic and load analysis
• Evaluation of network interoperability issues
• Operational recommendations for your network system
• Evaluation of network usage by application and user
• Application performance profiling and benchmarking
• Recommendations for ongoing network / system monitoring / trending / reporting

Report & recommendations

Following the network analysis stage, Data Integration will provide a comprehensive report of our findings along with recommendations for improving your current infrastructure and planning for future growth. The recommendations might include:

• The right network configuration to support new network-based applications
• Optimizing the current network configuration in both the LAN and WAN environments
• Identification of actual and potential problems related to network load or network-based software