Proven Results

Challenge

A regional healthcare provider was running 40+ aging physical servers across three office locations. Hardware failures were increasing, backup windows were expanding, and the IT team was spending most of their time firefighting instead of improving services. There was no centralized management, no standardized builds, and no documented disaster recovery plan.

Solution

We designed a converged infrastructure using VMware vSphere across two primary sites with shared SAN storage. All physical workloads were P2V migrated to the new cluster with zero unplanned downtime. We implemented vMotion for live migration, configured automated failover with HA/DRS, and deployed Veeam for image-level backups with off-site replication.

Result

Hardware footprint reduced by 60%. Failover time went from hours of manual intervention to under 30 seconds of automated recovery. The IT team reclaimed 20+ hours per week previously spent on hardware maintenance. Full DR capability was established for the first time in the organization's history.

Challenge

A financial services firm processing real-time transactions was relying on a single ISP connection with no failover. Any ISP outage meant a complete halt to trading operations. Previous attempts to add a second ISP had failed due to asymmetric routing issues and lack of BGP expertise in-house.

Solution

We obtained an ASN and provider-independent IP space, then designed a dual-homed BGP configuration with two Tier 1 ISPs. We implemented route maps for traffic engineering, configured prefix-based failover with BFD for sub-second detection, and established monitoring with automated alerting on BGP state changes. Full documentation and runbooks were delivered to the operations team.

Result

99.99% WAN uptime achieved over the following 18 months — zero unplanned outages. ISP failover now occurs automatically in under 2 seconds. The client also saved 15% on bandwidth costs through traffic engineering across the two providers.

Challenge

A 200-user corporate campus was running a flat Layer 2 network on unmanaged switches. Broadcast storms were a weekly occurrence, there was no traffic visibility, and security segmentation was nonexistent. IoT devices, guest Wi-Fi, and corporate workstations all shared the same broadcast domain.

Solution

We replaced all unmanaged switches with managed Cisco Catalyst switches in a collapsed-core topology. We designed a 12-VLAN architecture segmenting corporate, guest, VoIP, IoT, management, and server traffic. 802.1X was implemented for dynamic VLAN assignment, QoS policies were configured for VoIP prioritization, and RSTP replaced the default STP configuration for faster convergence.

Result

Network throughput improved 3x. Broadcast storms eliminated completely. The security team gained full visibility into traffic flows between segments. VoIP call quality complaints dropped to zero. The network is now scalable to 500+ users without architectural changes.