Designing, building, assessing and troubleshooting IT infrastructures is in our blood. We learned how IT infrastructures work while obtaining BS and MS degrees from the University of California Berkeley and Santa Barbara in the 1970's and we've been building them ever since. We've been specializing in Microsoft technology since the early 1980's.

The following subsystems form the basic IT computing framework in most organizations.

The higher level subsystems are dependent on the lower level subsystems. Security and disaster recovery permeate everything.

In a well engineered IT framework (the kind we build), these subsystems work together to provide a smooth running IT operation. And when things go wrong, recovery times are minimized.

We apply the following technology.

Area	Specialty	Description
Network	Internet Connections	T-1, frame relay, DSL, cable
	Remote Access	VPN, Terminal Services, Network Streaming
Servers	File & Print Services	Windows 2003/2000/NT4, Linux
	Directory Services	Active Directory
	Messaging Services	Exchange 2003/2000/5.5 (in-house & hosted)
	Web Services	IIS, ASP.NET, HTML, Cold Fusion, SQL
Workstations	Operating Systems	Windows XP/2000/NT4/98
	Manufacturers	Dell, HP, Toshiba, IBM
Security	Firewalls	Fortinet, Firewall-1, Sonicwall, Watchguard, Linux
	Network Scanning	Qualys, nessus, nmap
	Anti Virus	TrendMicro & Symantec small business solutions
	Anti Spyware	Spyware Doctor, Symantec
	Software Updates	Software Update Services (SUS)
Disaster Recovery	On site backup	ntbackup, Veritas
	Off site backup	IBackup
	Data Recovery	DriveSavers

We conduct IT assessments that analyze the state of an organization's IT. We produce a written report that summarizes our findings and recommends corrective actions.

We conduct 3 types of assessments: basic, enchanced and in depth. We always conduct an assessment when we begin a long-term engagement so we understand the operation. We also conduct assessments on an "as-needed" basis.