SymTex are a Microsoft SQL Server
Consultancy with a proven track records over the past 12
years of providing high-end mission critical and highly optimised
database environments. Most of our consultants have
previously worked with professional database consultancy companies
for several years and prior to this have been DBAs, database
developers or software developers before moving on to a consultancy
role.
Symtex have hundreds of clients throughout the
UK who after a small initial engagement of a few days, and seeing
the alignment of requirement to our offering, then go on to agree
parameters for larger responsibilities and project
involvement.
We have excellent references from clients in
the financial sector also located in the City and have recently
completed consolidation projects across a variety of hardware and
virtualisation technologies to reduce the management
overhead of the database estate whilst increasing
scalability, business continuity planning and disaster recover
scenarios in addition to increasing the throughput of the
consolidated database environment.
Our approach is flexible and lead by your project team,
working with multiple stakeholders providing
on-demand access to on-site consultancy backed with telephone
support. As a high level summary our typical engagement of
this nature runs through the below steps, however this is a very
organic process.
- Initial Engagement
- High level review of estate
- Project Brief
- Current Direction and Progress
- Team and In house Skills
- Consultant compiles Recommendations Report
- Audit and review
- Server Estate
- Current Capacity \ Workload
- Application Environment
- Data Feeds
- Scheduling
- Design &
Planning
- Future growth, capacity planning
- Storage requirements
- Processing requirements
- Disaster recover, failover
- New world logical design
- Redundancy
- Data Protection
- Migrating to the new world
- Failback planning
- Environment build
- Stabilisation period
- Migration testing
- Migration
- On site consultant to oversee activities