Enterprise Provisioning

The process of building and maintaining an enterprise-class information technology (IT) infrastructure requires the ready availability of inexpensive, reliable -- and extensible – equipment.

PBG can satisfy a wide range of hardware – and software – requirements, while respecting our clients’ budgets. Ask about:

  • Our pre-owned servers and PCs; each reconditioned and certified
  • Our inventory of discounted IT and telecom systems
  • Our privileged partner status with vendors like NetApp and Ericom
  • Our Asset Management and Configuration Services, to help preserve enterprise hardware and software investments; and
  • Our premier service and support after the sale

Finally, as virtualization specialists, PBG can help prolong the life of older, last-generation PCs, and enable the purchase of new, less expensive – and more energy-efficient – thin client PCs.

Web Service Development

The Internet, or World Wide Web, has evolved into an essential medium for business communications, enabling enterprises to:

  • Pitch products and services to a global audience (a process called e-commerce)
  • Form – and electronically administer – complex supply chain relationships
  • Promote collaboration among enterprise employees, and among enterprise business partners
  • Reduce enterprise reliance on physical facilities, thereby helping to realize the potential of a mobile workforce; and
  • Establish a more intimate connection with enterprise customers and other stakeholders

To help our enterprise clients expand their Web presence, PBG provides a wide range of Web Services, including:

  • Conventional website development
  • Website development with e-commerce options, like an online catalog and shopping cart
  • Web application development for creating software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings

Data Preservation & Restoration

In today’s knowledge-based enterprise, the ability to preserve and restore electronic data is essential: first, as a means of protecting intellectual property; and second, to comply with an ever-increasing number of data retention rules and regulations.

Often dismissed as a routine housekeeping chore, traditional data backup and recovery operations are notoriously unreliable. According to one estimate:

  • Forty (40) to fifty (50) percent of all backups are not fully recoverable; and
  • Up to sixty (60) percent of all backups fail.

Adding to the problem is the potential loss of files that are created and deleted between backups.

To ensure the reliable preservation and enable the rapid restoration of enterprise data, PBG offers Data Preservation and Restoration, an online backup and recovery service.

With Data Preservation and Restoration, new data files are automatically copied – in real time – to a secure PBG Data Center. The files are transmitted and stored in encrypted form to prevent unauthorized access, and a simple client interface permits easy file restoration.

With Data Preservation and Restoration, there are no tapes to mount, no jobs to run, and no worries about data availability, either current or historical. Disaster recovery is automatically addressed, as is the need to produce data on demand.

Data Preservation and Restoration works in virtually any IT environment, including Windows, SQL, Exchange, Oracle, Notes, and more. Data Preservation and Restoration supports a number of advanced features like Snapshot Data Protection, Live Exchange and SQL Backup, and WAN-Speed Restores.

Managed Services

As new technologies evolve, and as new threats emerge, the process of managing and maintaining an information technology (IT) infrastructure is growing more complex – and more expensive.

PBG Managed Services are designed to help enterprise clients relieve their IT burden by outsourcing select IT functions to PBG’s team of skilled technicians.

PBG Managed Services enable an enterprise to:

  • Concentrate on its “core competencies.”
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant IT governance standards and regulations.
  • Eliminate the need to recruit and retain highly-skilled – and highly-priced – IT professionals.
  • Rationalize IT policies, protocols, and procedures with leading supply chain partners.
  • Adopt IT best practices.
  • Establish a predictable IT cost structure.
  • Retain and relinquish control over IT functions as appropriate.

PBG Managed Services are available in several flavors, and are tailored to the unique need of our clients. Clients may choose from:

  • Managed IT Services: Ensuring smooth and reliable IT operations.
  • Managed Security Services: Ensuring the protection of IT systems and data.
  • Managed Continuity Services: Ensuring the continuity, or rapid recovery, or IT operations in the event of a disaster.

Server Virtualization

Today’s enterprise data center is overcrowded, hosting dozens of servers connected by miles of cable. Many of these servers are single-purpose systems, serving the needs of a single operating system, information system, user application, or user community. As such, servers are often underutilized and over-resourced, considering the requirements they place on power utilization, air conditioning, floor space, and IT support services.

To help reduce the size of the enterprise server farm and, thus, improve server utilization, PBG has partnered with Ericom to provide the Server Virtualization solution.

Server Virtualization is a software solution that divides a physical, or real, server into multiple virtual servers, or virtual machines. Since each virtual server is capable of performing the functions of a real server, the number of real servers may be reduced, often by a factor of five or more.

Server Virtualization enables enterprises to:

  • Reduce the number of physical, or real, servers.
  • Lower server-related power and air conditioning costs.
  • Recover data center floor space normally allocated to server hardware.
  • Shorten the server data backup process.
  • Improve server reliability, availability, and serviceability.
  • Lessen the demand for IT support services.
  • Decrease the total cost of server ownership.

Desktop Virtualization

In today’s increasingly competitive economic climate, business is conducted 24X7. Whether working at home (on a personal PC), or on the road (with a company-supplied laptop), business users need access to the applications and data available at the office.

Until recently, the only way to accommodate remote workers was to copy (or download) the applications and data they might need to their local PCs. This process was not only time-consuming but problematic, because the local PCs often featured a different operating environment. What remote workers really wanted – and needed – was a way to access their office PC – and office PC environment – anywhere, anytime, from any PC.

To satisfy this need, PBG has partnered with Ericom, a leading provider of application access and virtualization solutions, to provide the Desktop Virtualization (VDI) solution.

VDI enables enterprise users to:

  • Access their office PCs anywhere, anytime -- from their home, the road, a customer site – anywhere they have access to a PC and high-speed Internet connection.
  • Protect their critical data – which remains housed at the office – from loss or theft.

VDI enables enterprises to:

  • Establish – and enforce – a standard PC configuration, thereby simplifying maintenance.
  • Expedite the provisioning of remote workers, thereby easing administration.

Storage Virtualization

According to one estimate, the amount of information is doubling at the rate of once every seven months, and the pace is increasing. At the enterprise level, IT planners are forced to contend with an explosion of e-mail and other data which must be stored in a readily-retrievable form, often for a period of years. In this environment, achieving the maximum utilization of each storage device is not only prudent, but essential.

To help realize this result, PBG has partnered with NetApp, a leading manufacturer of enterprise storage systems, to provide the Storage Virtualization solution.

Storage Virtualization is designed to improve storage utilization and flexibility, increase application uptime, reduce administrative overhead, preserve the investment in existing storage infrastructure, and facilitate the introduction and integration of new storage systems.

Storage Virtualization enables enterprises to:

  • Consolidate storage resources into a single, virtualized storage pool.
  • Offer a consistent presentation of storage to virtual machines.
  • Provide high performance access to virtual machine disks.
  • Perform live migrations of virtual machine disk files across storage arrays.
  • Support multiple connectivity options, including FC and iSCSI SAN, NFS, and internal storage disk.
  • Eliminate virtual machine storage I/O bottlenecks and free up valuable storage capacity.
  • Reduce the total cost of storage ownership.

Application Acceleration

According to one estimate, more than 85 percent of today’s workforce is located outside of enterprise headquarters. Providing these remote workers with high-speed applications means more than increasing network bandwidth; it means reducing network latency. In simplest terms, latency is the interval between the time a specific action is initiated, like a user downloading a webpage, and the time the results of that action are first detected, as when the webpage begins to fill the user’s screen.

To reduce latency and, thus, improve application response time, PBG has partnered with Expand Networks to provide the Application Acceleration solution.

Application Acceleration enables enterprises to:

  • Guarantee the performance of critical business applications even in congested network environments.
  • Diminish the effects of satellite retransmissions (induced by signal noise).
  • Ensure the right applications are receiving the right class of multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) service.
  • Dedicate the appropriate bandwidth for IP telephony applications.
  • Permit real-time data replication and synchronization.
  • Expedite the remote data backup process.
  • Improve remote application performance while reducing the need for remote IT support.
  • Enhance remote worker productivity.
  • Increase the return on network investment.