Future state strategy, planning, and implementation

Architect, transform, and modernize environments for secure, efficient, and reliable IT. 

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OVERVIEW
Strategically transform IT environments into your future state vision

IT transformation and architecture modernization can challenge even highly skilled IT teams. Achieve your IT outcomes faster and with less risk by partnering with our team of experts in architecture redesigns and executing IT transformations. 

  • Technical debt and old architectures prevent the adoption of new technologies and the benefits they enable
  • Managing the efficient and successful integration of multi-cloud and hybrid IT architectures into an existing landscape
  • Slow or unsuccessful change that doesn’t move the needle or move it fast enough to meet the organization’s goals
  • Lack of experience in planning and executing foundational architecture changes and IT modernizations
  • Migrations that take too long and include too much risk or downtime
Get the Flexential take on trends shaping AI and edge computing
Future state design and strategy
Work with experts to design IT architectures, technical strategies, and roadmaps that align technical solutions with organizational needs.
Modernization planning
Receive detailed transformation plans to achieve your future vision while minimizing disruptions, risk, and simultaneously accelerating outcomes.
Experts, industry best practices, and proven methodologies
Achieve your IT outcomes faster and with less risk by leveraging an experienced team that uses proven methodologies and industry best practices.
Successful transformation execution and deployment
Avoid downtime and service interruptions with a team experienced in executing transformations and launching new deployments.
Increase network redundancy and network performance
Rearchitect your existing environment to a modern network and achieve the benefits of a hybrid IT or multi-cloud landscape.
Reliable, redundant, multi-cloud connectivity
Design and enable reliable cloud-to-cloud connectivity across providers and sites.
SERVICES
Architecture and modernizations that enable your organizational priorities
AI Strategy
Achieve your desired AI future state

Guide and empower your organization to utilize AI responsibly and securely.

  • Execute a clear AI strategy with a defined and achievable future state.
  • Align IT, security, GRC, and business stakeholders on a single vision.
  • Build responsible AI capabilities that advance organizational priorities while governing risk and security.
  • Strengthen and create policies and ethical guidelines to support AI security, privacy, and compliance.
  • Understand and mitigate your organization’s unique risks from AI.
  • Improve AI results with proactive data management for data quality, integrity, and bias management.
  • AI Strategy, Road Mapping, and Governance
    Align stakeholders with a clear AI strategy, an AI governance framework, and an agreed, actionable roadmap. Roadmap includes risk mitigations, compliance support, and promotes the safe use of AI. 
    This service aims to enable your organization to create responsible AI use that safeguards your organization and its vital data.
Networking
Modernize with experienced network architects

Solve for reliability and performance with a network architecture that delivers resiliency, low-latency, and security.  

We create future-ready designs, modernize and operate networks to meet the demands of multi-cloud, multi-site, and edge computing. Network architectures, support, and ongoing operations are based on proven best practices and industry standards. 

  • Use modernizations to improve security, reliability, performance, resiliency, and compliance.
  • Minimize downtime and scale-out infrastructure without impacting reliability when demands increase.
  • Reduce management overhead, streamline operations, and minimize service interruptions for improved user experiences.
  • Efficiently connect and segment your on-premises, colocation, public, and private cloud environments for reliability and security.
  • Experienced and certified Flexential network architects and engineers who operate using industry best practices.
  • Cloud Fabric Design, Deploy, and Maintain
    Secure, high-performance, and resilient connectivity to major Cloud Service Providers; includes ongoing optimizations and expert support.
  • Network Edge Maintenance and Optimization
    Provides continuous edge operations that reduce incidents and improve performance, security, and scalability. For organizations with distributed, complex, or hybrid infrastructure landscapes.
  • BGP / IP Failover Design, Deploy, and Maintain
    Establishes and maintains a tailored network architecture that automatically reroutes traffic in the event of a failure.
  • Network Architecture and Modernization
    Design, planning, and implementation of modern, networks for improved operational efficiency, security, reliability, performance, and compliance.
  • Interconnect Strategy and Planning
    Design, configuration, and operations of scalable, low-latency interconnection solutions that improve application performance and reduce network complexity.
  • Firewall Migration Planning and Execution
    Low-risk, secure, and efficient transition of firewall environments.
Infrastructure
Partner with experienced architects

Resolve complexity and chaos with infrastructure architecture that delivers resiliency, scalability, and security. We create future-ready designs that modernize infrastructure and support your business and technical objectives.

Our experts work across on-premises, colocation, public, and private cloud environments. 

  • Increase reliability, security, and performance.
  • Minimize service interruptions, reduce operational overhead, and deliver improved user experiences.
  • Security, compliance, reliability, and resiliency are built into your future state design.
  • Technical strategy based on organizational needs with documented current state challenges.
  • A detailed, documented roadmap from the current state to your desired future state.
  • Infrastructure Architecture Design
    Expert consultation and tailored architecture designs that align with business and technical requirements. Future-ready architecture that is secure, scalable, resilient and provides the performance to meet evolving business needs. Designed to improve IT responsiveness, reduce operational complexity, and support long-term growth and change with agility.
  • Architecture Strategy and Planning
    Infrastructure architecture strategy and implementation planning to re-architect, modernize, and transform environments. This service focuses on strategy and roadmaps for creating secure, stable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure that aligns with an organization’s business objectives and technical requirements.
Enable Hybrid IT
Create competitive advantages with hybrid IT

High-performance, resilient connectivity has expanded the possibilities for multi-cloud and hybrid IT landscapes.  

Competitive advantages can be found by strategically placing the right workloads in the right locations and leveraging modern infrastructure, services, and operations.  

  • Maximize ROI  using the most optimal services and technologies to achieve your business objectives.
  • Improve user experiences with the best-performing and most cost-efficient environments for your workloads.
  • Increase resiliency, security, and reliability for improved service delivery. 
  • Extend the useful life of your environments by planning for future technologies in advance.
  • Workload Placement Strategy & Planning
    Workload placement is a strategic decision-making process for determining the optimal environment for hosting IT workloads. 
    Our process includes 15 operational, financial, and technical criteria to determine workload placements: on-premises, colocation, private cloud, public cloud, PaaS, or SaaS environments.
  • IT Transformation and Modernization
    The IT Transformation and Modernization service leads organizations to a future state based on business and technical requirements. 
    Our architects design, plan, and execute a modernization roadmap that establishes secure and stable IT while eliminating technical debt and increasing security, reliability, and compliance. Our domain experts consult, design, build, secure, and operate mission and business-critical IT systems.  
Migration
Go live with minimal downtime

Implement detailed and documented best practice strategies, procedures, and test plans for data, application, VM, cloud, and firewall migrations. Migrations include testing and UAT before cutovers.

  • Reduce migration risks
  • Minimize downtime
  • Execute successful, fast migrations
  • Uses proven best practice methodologies that reduce risk and improve reliability, security, and stability
  • Reduce migration complexity and unknown risks through thorough planning
  • Gain expert knowledge transfer to your IT staff, enhancing internal capabilities
  • Security and Optimization for Cloud and Colocation
    Expert operations for a secure and efficient transition into Flexential environments. Includes migration planning and execution, security assessments, vulnerability identification, penetration testing, and ongoing optimizations. 
  • Migration Strategy
    Planning service for  minimal risk and downtime migrations. Assesses workload portability, dependencies, and delivers a tailored migration strategy for safely migrating data, applications, virtual machines, and firewalls.
  • Data and Application Migration Planning and Execution 
    Flexential migration experts discover, assess, plan, test, and execute data and application migrations to colo and cloud environments. 
  • VM Migration Planning and Execution 
    Flexential migration experts plan and execute fast VM migrations to colo, or cloud environments. Includes discovery, assessment, and testing. 
  • Cloud Migration Strategy
    Delivers a tailored, low-risk migration strategy and detailed plans. Includes detailed discovery of workloads, dependencies, and architecture. 
  • Cloud Migration Planning and Execution 
    Flexential experts plan, test, and execute low-risk migrations to public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.

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Explore additional products and services you may be interested in. Schedule a consultation with our expert team and learn how you can benefit from Flexential Professional Services. 

 

Interconnection

Get access to an industry-leading 100Gbps network backbone, hundreds of carriers, subsea cables and low-latency connections to cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.

 

Colocation

Our strategically positioned colocation footprint features 40+ data centers across 18 high-growth markets and 300+ on-net carriers delivering secure, redundant, and efficient high-density power without the cost or responsibility of in-house data centers.

 

DevOps

Establish successful DevOps environments with an expert and cost-effective platform team that also provides 24x7x365 support to accelerate your DevOps transformation.

FlexAnywhere®: Hybrid IT flexibility without compromise

Flexential's highly connected FlexAnywhere® platform delivers tailored infrastructure with automation, a pay-as-you-go-and-grow model, and scalability for your business needs.

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Accelerate your hybrid IT journey, reduce spend, and gain a trusted partner

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