about daymark solutions - getting to know us
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Getting to know us
About Daymark Solutions
About Daymark Solutions
Year in Business
250+
Technical Certifications
450+
Complex Deployments
Extensive vendor-independent expertise
Deep technical knowledge
Proven customer success through our 8-Phase Methodology
25+
On-staff Consultants
7+
Years avg. tenure (long-term relationships)
5x
Best Places to Work
We Take Pride In Creating Solutions
Our New England based technical consultants invest the time to understand the unique requirements of your
business. Our vendor-neutral approach, combined with our experience of more than 450 deployments enable
us to solve your complex problems.
200+
Complex Financial Service IT implementations
We Take Pride In Our Customer’s Success
Enhancing customers experience by transforming the IT infrastructure
“You have gone above and beyond this year to
help us with our DR migration and SAN
initiatives.”
• Increase customer satisfaction & loyalty by
building better technology
• Reduce annual operational costs $200k by
consolidating & upgrading applications and
retiring legacy systems
• Improve data recovery (RTO) from 1 day to 2
hours
• Implement training, education, documentation,
& managed services to augment operations
Meeting Compliance & Leveraging Infrastructure
• Ensure all IT auditing standards are met
• Ensure regulatory Disaster Recovery
compliance
• Ensure no downtime or application delay
no matter the route chosen
• Leverage your existing IT infrastructure
• Manage the massive increases in
customer data while ensuring you control
cost“We’re confident that Daymark could execute on
the design, deployment, and testing – all critical
components of a successful project”
Fast and secure access to business critical reports
“Excellent job of understanding and meeting our
needs. The level of engagement, follow-up and
expertise was great.”
• Improve critical reporting run times from
72 hours to 6 hours
• Enhance financial visibility and insights for
fund managers
• Implement off-site disaster recovery
solution to ensure quick & easy access to
critical financial and client workloads
Staying ahead of the technology curve
• Ensure new hardware configuration is compatible with existing infrastructure
• Leverage new technology to simplify & automate process
• Instant backup recovery of client machines without the need to resore backup server environment first – with file level recovery
• Balance backup workloads to increase efficiencies and mitigate risk
“Experience, attention to detail, and product
knowledge about existing and emerging
technology is what I value most about Daymark”
Cloud & Managed Services
VirtualizationData Protection
ComputeNetworkStorage
Building the foundation
• Comprehensive protection to
address security, regulatory
compliance and DR preparedness
• Seemless, consolidated, & efficient
• Maximize the value of IT
resources & staff
• Predictable costs and scalability
VM VM
VMVM
VM VM VM VM
• Secure, reliable, & scalable
• Optimized for business agility
A Holistic Approach To Your Success
Methodology
Assess
Architect
Acquire /
Provision
IntegrateImplement/
Migrate
Train
Document
Manage
• Whiteboard to keyboard
approach
• Faster internal skills
transfer
• Expert guidance &
documentation that is
actionable and
compliant
• State-of-the-art staging
& integration center
Gradient Assessment: What we Deliver
Category Overall
Rating
Overall
Rating
Sub Category Sub
Rating
Sub
Rating
Findings and Recommendations
Performance 5.0
I/O Profiles 8 Needs further investigation. Some latency identified on Array02.
CPU Utilization 8CPU Utilization was within normal thresholds for the timeframe
observed but unbalanced between controllers.
Cache Utilization/CP 4 Needs further investigation. Evidence of forced flushing on Array02.
Latency Reports 7Needs further investigation. Average latency within normal ranges but
we did identify latency spikes.
Workload Affinity 3 Workloads are not running on the most appropriate tier of storage.
Workload Distribution 3 Workloads are not balanced between storage controllers.
VMware Alignment 2Virtual Machines are not aligned which can cause significant
performance issues. Align all virtual machines and templates.
System Health
Architecture
Best Practices
Performance
Support
Daymark Partners
12
Next Steps to Getting Started
Executive Briefing
Working Session
Healthcheck or Gradient Assessment
Technical Demonstration
2014
New Office- March 2013
New Twitter “Look”
“Daymarkians”- from professional and out of this world, to fashionably savvy…
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge!
Trade Show Excitement
The Truck- Before
The Truck –
After in action!
Fishing Trips
Run to Home Base!! Our biggest Team to date
Holiday Party- Art Project
DaymarkTV was created!
Onward!!