Consulting services
Senior IT guidance without adding a senior hire
IT consulting is outside expertise that helps an organization plan, design and deliver changes to its infrastructure, security and recovery. Storcom provides vCIO-style guidance, architecture design, multi-year roadmaps and hands-on project delivery across cloud, backup, disaster recovery, security and infrastructure, so lean IT teams get senior judgment without a full-time hire.
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What does Storcom consulting cover?
vCIO-style guidance
A senior advisor for budget planning, vendor and renewal decisions, risk priorities and the questions your leadership or board asks about IT.
Architecture
Designs for storage, compute, networking, backup and DR built to your workloads, recovery objectives and growth.
Roadmaps
A sequenced plan that ties refreshes, migrations and security work to your budget cycle, so projects land in the right year.
Project delivery
Procurement, migration and deployment by the team that wrote the plan, with a defined scope and handoff.
Practice areas
Disaster recovery and business continuity
Recovery strategy, application tiering, runbooks and test plans built to a stated RTO and RPO.
Cyber recovery
Plans and controls for recovering from ransomware, including immutable copies and clean restore points.
Information security
Phishing simulations, incident response plan development and security governance, with vulnerability and exposure assessment delivered through CrowdStrike Falcon.
Network optimization
Architectural design and planning, audit reporting, device implementation and upgrades, managed network implementation and Wi-Fi heat mapping.
Cloud transition
Virtual, physical and cloud migrations, backup and archive planning, automated dependency mapping and cloud cost modeling.
When should you bring in a consultant?
| Situation | What Storcom delivers |
|---|---|
| VMware renewal quote is much higher than last term | Three options modeled and priced: stay and right-size, hosted private cloud, or re-platform |
| Storage array or servers are near end of support | A refresh comparison across vendors, sized to your data, with a migration plan |
| Backups run but nobody has tested a full restore | A recovery test against real RTO and RPO targets and a documented runbook |
| An auditor, insurer or customer sent a security questionnaire | A review of the questionnaire against the controls you have, and a prioritized gap list with remediation options |
| Leadership wants a move to the cloud | Workload sizing, dependency mapping, cost modeling and a migration plan |
How a consulting engagement runs
Discovery
A working session on your goals, environment, timeline and constraints.
Analysis
Data collection and sizing with your team, so the recommendations rest on your own numbers.
Recommendation
Findings, options and a roadmap, walked through with your team.
Delivery
Storcom implements the approved work, or hands your team a plan it can run on its own.
Frequently asked questions
What is a vCIO?
A vCIO, or virtual CIO, is an outside advisor who provides part-time IT leadership: budgeting, roadmaps, vendor decisions and risk priorities. Organizations without a full-time CIO use one to get senior guidance without a senior hire. Storcom provides vCIO-style guidance alongside its architecture and project work.
Do Storcom consultants only recommend products Storcom sells?
Storcom works with many vendors across storage, servers, data protection and security, so recommendations are not tied to a single product line. A recommendation can also be to keep and extend what you already own. Every option comes with pricing so you can compare.
Can Storcom deliver the project, or only the plan?
Both. Storcom can deliver a roadmap your team runs on its own, or carry the work through procurement, migration and deployment. If you want ongoing help, Storcom can also manage the result with 24×7×365 support.
How does a consulting engagement with Storcom start?
Every engagement starts with a discovery call, a no-cost conversation about your goals, environment and timeline. From there Storcom scopes the work and gives you options before you commit to anything paid.
Start with a discovery call.
Tell us what you run today, what is changing and what worries you. We listen, ask questions and tell you plainly whether and how we can help. No cost, no commitment.