Castlewood Consulting

Our job is to help you become more strategic in how you manage information technology by focusing on 8 core areas of IT strategy: Availability: The business depends on technology in order to serve its customers and to keep revenue coming in. All technologies must be able to continue to provide services in the event of a loss of key infrastructure and applications. Integration: In order to fully leverage your technology investment your infrastructure, applications, and processes need to work together. Manageability: In order to keep your technology up and running, you need to be able to manage it with a minimal amount of effort. Repeatability: When you expand your information technology assets, you should need to re-invent the wheel every time. Repeatability is the concept that existing technologies, solutions and processes should be easily reusable without requiring you to constantly start from scratch. Scalability: Your IT environment should be easily expandable without requiring you to rebuild an entire solution, infrastructure set or application. Standardization: Do you really need six different CRM applications? Does your business really require you to support ten different types of relational database systems? Standardization is the process of selecting the minimum number of common components used to build business systems. Supportability: Supportability measures how supported the environment is. Are you using an accounting application that was written by a programmer that has since disappeared into an Amazon rainforest? Are you using an operating system that has been unsupported by the vendor since 1997? Was your database system written by a company that's been out of business for 5 years? These are all factors that can impact the supportability of your IT environment. Security: All technologies should provide services in a secure manner and not put your organization at risk by allowing unauthorized access to your data and applications. A data breach can potentially cost your organization millions of ...