Methodology
The below four-phase process of our consulting model covers all facets of a successful Linux migration,
customers can engage us at any point during the project life cycle. This proven methodology
promotes higher quality engagements and ensures customer success.
Assessment
It is crucial that you have a high performance, flexible and scalable architecture to
ensure quick response to your business needs. To create the right IT strategy for your organization, our assessment
service capture and analyze your business and technical requirements. Based on our extensive Linux infrastructure and
storage expertise, ShaoLin will propose the right solution that bridges your your business needs.
ShaoLin's consultants evaluate the project objectives within the context of the
identified operational environment to determine project risks, opportunity, and specific functional requirements.
During this phase a project team is assigned resources are allocated, and project scope is clearly defined.
Planning and Design
Prior to implementation, it is critical to have an appropriate design and planning that
addresses your unique business and technical needs. As a platform-independent provider of enterprise Linux solution, ShaoLin
is positioned to help you compare various options and determine the right design for your IT architecture with open source
software.
After assessment, our consultants translates the functional requirements into design
specifications and establishes the roadmap for development. We ensure a successful blueprint that minimizes design iterations,
and presenting the right capacity planning elements, so the solutions can scale with your growing business needs.
Implementation and Validation
Next, ShaoLin applies best practices to optimize our products in your operation up and
running quickly and efficiently. We provide guidelines for "best practice" implementation to achieve superior results,
rapidly and cost-effectively to increase your return on investment. The principal deliverable of the implementation and
validation phase is the tested and validated software. This process is defined in detail in the test plan and includes
testing the applications interfaces and dependencies on other system entities.
Support and Management
Finally, ShaoLin keeps the solution in in your business running at optimum performance levels
and offer extensions to the functionality of ShaoLin products. After our engineers implemented the validated solution in a
production environment, we also provide ongoing operations support and management services to ensure that you continue to
derive the maximum benefit from your IT architecture, and your environment staying reliable and resilient.
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