Your Office Network

In its simplest form, setting up a network has become quite common place in both the home and small business environments. However, such perceived simplicity often results in unqualified individuals making costly decisions in regards to your business’s network and IT needs.

• Your office network can be a critical component of your businesses operation. Through the use of networking, you can:
• Share files and applications
• Share hardware resources such as printers, FAX devices, modems, and more
• Share an internet connection
• Perform centralized workstation backups
• Provide secured off-site access to your facility through the use of VPN technology
• Provide internal email services
• Monitor workstation operation
• And much, much more

It might be easy to plug equipment together. However, taking into account issues of security, scalability, redundancy, licensing considerations, network integrity, seamless integration and other operational considerations can be a completely different issue.

Grayworld Media has the experience and knowledge necessary to insure that your network will be planned, implemented and maintained effectively and securely.

Consulting

Grayworld Media can make available our extensive IT experience and knowledge. We can help to determine how effective your current network configuration is and what adjustments can be made to improve the workflow, security, and operational effectiveness of your future or existing network.

Strategic Planning

Weather you are planning a new network or upgrading and existing network, Grayworld Media can help. We can assist you in creating a short and long term IT strategy for your business that is tailored realistically to your business plans and budgetary gridlines.

Survey and Documentation

Documentation is a critical aspect of all IT endeavors. Grayworld Media will often require a thorough network survey and documentation be conducted by us for new customers prior to any IT installations, upgrades, or recommendations;. When we are done; we will have a complete inventory, basic security evaluation, network diagram, overview report, recommendation list to work from on all present and future projects.

The benefit of performing this process is to insure that there is a reference point for all networking projects. It also will ensure that nothing is overlooked or missed prior to starting our planned IT project. In addition, documents generated from this process can be extremely useful to your in-house network administration team.

Recommendations

It is very common for us to discover unexpected network bottlenecks and security issues when coming into a new business environment. For this reason, Grayworld Media can help identify these issues and document them in a clear list of prioritized concerns along with approximate time and cost required to correct them.

Hardware and Software Acquisition

Grayworld Media can assist in acquiring the hardware and software you will need for your networking environment. We can take the burden of purchasing off your shoulders; providing the necessary research and vendor contact for your purchasing needs.

Additionally, we have developed unique partnership arrangements with various hardware retailers, wholesalers and service providers. These relationships often allow us to get direct preferred access to manufacturer information, support and discounts. Hardware and software purchasing and installation services are available to all Grayworld Media customers.

Implementation

Once we have a clear and documented plan of what your needs are, Grayworld Media can implement the plan and provide all installation services required to get your IT project completed.

Maintenance

Grayworld Media can also offer a regular maintenance and monitoring service through the implementation of a Maintenance Agreement.