Core Infrastructure Services

Identity and Access Management

Cogent Company can advise you on whether you should consider managing people and asset identities, solutions that should be implemented to manage and protect identity data (synchronization, password management, and user provisioning, to mention few), and how to manage access to resources from corporate mobile users, customers, and partners outside of a firewall. 

• Identity and Access Management: Managing identities and securing their access to appropriate enterprise resources through five solution areas: Directory Services, Strong Authentication, Federated Identity, Information Protection and Identity Lifecycle Management
• Remote Access; Use of the network remotely as if the users’ computers were directly connected to the network

Security and Networking

Cogent Company can advise you on whether you should consider implementing in your IT infrastructure to help guarantee that information and communication are protected from unauthorized access. This capability also describes mechanisms to protect your IT infrastructure from denial attacks and viruses while preserving access to corporate resources. 

• Network Access Protection: Health verification and remediation of a client before the client accesses network,client or server devices 
• Networking: Used to link network devices, peripherals, servers and clients. Networking servers include DHCP, DNS, WINS, directory and caching servers as well as remote access/application sharing servers and solution scenarios 
• Security: Client and Server security and anti-malware management (including virus, spyware, and rootkit detection). Edge security including proxy, firewall (both application layer and protocol layer), IPSec and SSL VPN, Access, Authentication, Authorization, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems.

Data Protection and Recovery

Cogent Company provides you guidance on structured backup, storage, and restore management. As information and data stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required.

• Data Protection Management: Optimization of disk-based backup and recovery

IT Management and Security

Cogent Company provides proven best practice guidance on how to cost-effectively design, develop, operate, and support solutions while achieving high reliability, availability, and security. While rock-solid technology is necessary to meet demands for reliable, available, and highly secure IT services, technology alone is not sufficient; excellence in processes and people (skills, roles, and responsibilities) is also needed.

Desktop, Device, and Server Management

Cogent Company can provide guidance on managing desktops, mobile devices, and servers as well as how to deploy patches, operating systems, and applications across the network. It also provides guidance on how you can leverage virtualization and branch office technologies to improve your IT infrastructure.

• Desktop - O/S: Desktop - O/S includes business scenarios where the primary decision is Windows versus Linux. The desktop OS workload includes: terminal services, Information Worker and business applications
• Mobility: Always be connected to the information you need. Includes mobile devices based on Pocket PC, Smart phone, portable data terminals and Web pads built on Windows CE
• POS Devices: Process customer transactions at checkout. The POS devices range from full-feature terminals with robust PC-like hardware configurations, rich applications running locally, and multiple peripheral devices, down to “thin client” POS terminals
• Presentation Virtualization: Support for server hosted applications where the user experience is similar to running a distributed application
• Change & Configuration Mgmt: Software distribution, change management, configuration management, license management, and reporting
• Operations and Service Management: Operations and Service Management  includes server and desktop monitoring, network management, application management (Exchange, etc.) and capacity planning
• Storage: Appliance for backup, archiving and storage of files
• Server Virtualization: A software technology which allows multiple operating systems to run on the same processor at the same time. Virtualization technology is used for multiple reasons including consolidation of server (from many to few) for higher utilization, legacy applications hosting (running older versions of the OS and applications), workload isolation, and simplified  management.
• Application Virtualization: A software technology which allows multiple incompatible applications to run on the same desktop at the same time.
• Desktop Virtualization: A software technology which allows multiple desktop  operating systems to run on the same desktop or server at the same time.

General Services

• Web Server - Internal Facing: Intranet web servers with the sole purpose of serving web content and web based applications. Technologies might include HTML, servlets and Java Server Page (JSP), Active Server Page (ASP), ASP.NET, PERL and PHP (PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor)
• Web Server - External Facing: Internet and extranet web servers with the sole purpose of serving web content and web based applications. Technologies might include HTML, servlets and Java Server Page (JSP), Active Server Page (ASP), ASP.NET, PERL and PHP (PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor)
• Mainframe Migration: Tools, products, services, content, training and programs from Microsoft and partners to simplify the migration of custom line-of-business applications hosted on the Mainframe to the Windows platform
• Unix Migration: Tools, products, services, content, training and programs from Microsoft and partners to simplify the migration of custom line-of-business applications hosted on Unix systems to the Windows platform
• File & Print: Store, access, share and print documents and files. Capabilities include FTP (file transfer protocol), network file system (NFS), and Windows file sharing (CIFS)
• High Performance Computing: A collection of computer nodes to work as one cluster in order to solve complex tasks or intensive calculation needs
• Server - O/S: Server - O/S includes business scenarios where the primary decision is Windows versus Linux.