Integration Services

Canvas Systems offers assessment, configuration, implementation and maintenance services to help you reduce IT infrastructure complexity and operational management costs and improve efficiency and performance. Our team of certified IT engineers and experienced consultants offer the following Integration Services:

Data Center Relocation Services
Network, Security and IP Telephony
Virtualization and System Migrations
Storage Optimization and Backup/Recovery

Data Center Relocation Services

Whether you are moving a few servers across the street or hundreds of systems across the country, relocating your data center is a daunting task. Most companies are not equipped with the resources or manpower to dedicate to this kind of undertaking — that's where we come in. Canvas Systems has the multi-vendor hardware expertise and logistics experience to handle your move every step of the way. You can rest assured that your equipment will be re-installed in the same condition in which it left the original location.

Features of Canvas Systems Relocation Services:

Project management
Multi-vendor hardware expertise
Mirror hardware and serial number swap
Diagnostic testing
Insurance coverage
Go-anywhere capability
Storage capabilities
Complete equipment packing and relocation
Dedicated trucks for your hardware
Prevention and planning: on-site hot spares

We stand behind our work, and we work to satisfy our customers. There's no need to waste valuable time, money and resources searching for individual companies. Canvas Systems is the one-stop shop for all your data center relocation needs.

The move went flawlessly.
—CIO, AGL Resources
Speaking about Canvas Systems' role in the company's data center relocation

No budget to purchase a duplicate environment?

When downtime is not an option and purchasing a duplicate environment is too expensive, consider Canvas Systems' IT equipment rental program as a cost effective solution. Our rental program allows you to build and rent a duplicate environment of servers, storage & networking. While your servers are down, we can also propose permanent upgrade options to optimize your IT investment. Click here to learn more about IT equipment rentals.

Network, Security and IP Telephony Services

Network Services
Canvas Systems' certified engineers can perform an accurate and detailed assessment of your IP network, providing you with a comprehensive evaluation of the capabilities you have today and recommendations to help fulfill forthcoming network goals. By understanding what you currently have and your company's objectives for the future, Canvas can recommend a strategy for maintaining, troubleshooting and planning for future network growth.

Security Services
Canvas Systems' security solutions provide a comprehensive, enterprise-wide evaluation of your company's security architecture, which helps point out any weaknesses or threats to your network. Canvas then presents you with a plan to reduce risk, maintain legislative compliance (HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and SCADA Systems) and minimize the possibility of data downtime or theft. We put security in your hands and give you the tools to protect your most valuable business assets.

IP Telephony Services
Canvas Systems' team of network experts has the knowledge, skills and experience to help you implement an IP Telephony solution that meets your business needs. We can make the necessary network assessments and work with you to implement a winning strategy. What you end up with is a single, converged network solution that delivers measurable ROI in the form of increased workplace collaboration and employee productivity, reduced upfront capital expenditures, and enhanced customer service capabilities.

Virtualization and System Migrations

Virtualization
Virtualization is more than just a buzz word — it's a way to deliver greater resource utilization and improved flexibility at a tremendous cost savings. Canvas Systems' engineers are virtualization experts. Canvas certified VMware infrastructure specialists will assess your business needs, carefully plan your deployment, and provide you with a roadmap to guide you through the virtual infrastructure adoption lifecycle, from the step-by-step procedures for building systems, to well-defined, repeatable processes for the ongoing management of your virtual infrastructure.

IBM System i (iSeries, AS/400) Logical Partioning (LPAR)
With LPAR, a single iSeries system's resources (processors, memory, etc.) are divided to create multiple, independent iSeries systems on a single machine. The end result of this partition is the system being "separated" into a primary partition and one or more secondary partitions. Each iSeries partition can then be used for different purposes, such as database operations or separate test and production environments, and can communicate with the other partitions as if they were each in a separate machine.

Systems Migrations
Canvas performs the following System Migration services:

Plan, configure and map out migration methodology, including server capacities and migration schedule
Document OS and hardware migration including backing up the current system
Install and configure system software
Restore and verify that system utilities are operational
Provide installation record and staff training

Storage Optimization and Backup/Recovery

Storage Optimization
Utilizing industry best practices, Canvas Systems will assess your current storage environment to create a single source of high-performance storage for multiple types of servers. By combining storage resources on a SAN, Canvas can help companies centralize systems for ease of management.

Backup/Recovery
Canvas Systems' knowledge and experience in ensuring restorable data helps our customers leverage best practices in design, architecture, implementation and monitoring of their backup infrastructure. Canvas uses proven technologies and expertise gained over years of experience to ensure the backup and restorability of our customer's most valuable asset, their data.