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Network Innovations, Inc., together with its array of resources, has extensive experience in consulting, solution design, deployment efforts, auditing, and support.

It would be nearly impossible to fully capture all of our collective skills and company offerings for your review here, so we instead have outlined a few examples of the solutions that our staff has worked on recently. As you will see, we have helped organizations large and small—and we have solutions that appropriately match the size of your business as well as your budget.

• Environment: 200 user financial recovery firm
  • This industry has very strict compliance regulations in order to maintain existing contracts with their customers as well as apply for new customer contracts. As a result, audits of the network infrastructure are performed frequently and appropriate network hardening responses are required in order to satisfy the various requirements.
  • Active Directory upgrade from a 2003‐based backbone, to one built on 2008 R2 servers.
  • Migration from a single Exchange 2003 server to a multiple Exchange 2010 server infrastructure. The new servers were spread to different physical locations and a Database Availability Group (DAG) was implemented to create redundancy in their email messaging platform.
  • Deployment of multiple Citrix XenApp servers (also physically spread between their main office and a co‐location site) to support more than 180 concurrent user sessions. Group Policies were also leveraged in order to restrict end‐user access of the system. This lets management control access of the network—so the end user has what they need to perform their job duties, but nothing more. This effort greatly reduces the potential for users (with or without intention) to compromise the system and cause interruption in efficient workflow.
• Environment: 50 user medical facility with 3 offices (All clients in healthcare will have a widerange of needs out of their infrastructure—now more than ever with the push for Electronic Health Records (EHR))
  • All 3 offices leverage an MPLS backbone provided by a local ISP. The two remote offices must have uninterrupted access to the main office to access their email, corporate files, and line of business applications (which store patient records and schedules). In order to maintain high‐availability of their corporate site network, multiple Internet circuits have been deployed to run concurrently and are managed by a pair of firewalls with failover configured to protect against any one going offline.
  • Multiple Citrix XenApp servers were deployed to run all the applications needed by the staff. The Citrix servers are kept in a secure room at the main office and are accessed over the network—and from the remote offices over the MPLS network. This keeps all patient records and protected data in one physical location, which allows for central backup management and is easier to protect against data loss (DLP). To supplement this build, a front‐end secure website (using the Citrix Secure Gateway product) was deployed and is integrated with Active Directory. This provides users with the ability to work from anywhere and access the network through a secure and controlled medium.
• Environment: 15 user general contracting firm
  • This particular firm contracted us to help identify cost‐cutting solutions to minimize their IT cost in hopes of successfully navigating the financial storm over recent years. Among other efforts, we converted this environment from using individual workstations for corporate users as well as at the various remote job sites, to a Microsoft Terminal Server environment where users connect into their own desktop session on a shared server—allowing for reduced operating cost as well as replacing old workstations with durable thin client devices which require nearly zero maintenance and have no moving parts.
  • Years later, this firm has grown (both in opportunity for their business and in the size of their team) and needed to upgrade their infrastructure. We migrated their backbone from having two 2003 servers to two 2012 virtual servers running on one single physical server, leveraging Microsoft’s Hyper‐V platform. We also migrated them from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 and implemented mail journaling (to capture every email item that comes into or leaves any mailbox on their network).
  • A few additional upgrades were also deployed including: a new wireless network design (separating guest users from the internal users in order to provide guests access to the Internet but not allowing them to access the internal servers or data), upgraded switches to support gigabit, and a new tiered backup strategy was deployed which results in on premise daily backups for quick recovery needs as well as redundant offsite backups to protect against theft or destruction to the business’ structure.
• Environment: 150 user multinational architecture and design firm
  • Infrastructure upgrade from 2003 Active Directory to 2008 R2 Active Directory
  • Redundant firewalls that also support redundant Internet circuits at their main office (which leverage Branch Office VPN – BOVPN technology) to connect their additional offices that span the globe and ensure high availability to and from them.
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003 migration to Microsoft Exchange 2010 – leveraging several servers configured in a redundant fashion to achieve high‐availability. Additionally, a Citrix NetScaler was deployed to front‐end the Client Access Server (CAS) role and provide redundancy with that role in Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Again this is just a small sampling of projects that our staff has been involved in. Please reach out to us to discuss your particular environment and we would be glad to meet with you and see how you can be another one of our success stories!