A business shouldn’t worry about technology hindering growth; it should focus on core goals. However, organizations face challenges supporting more people and complex networks while reducing costs. Leaders manage data growth, aging tech, and disaster planning, leaving little time for innovation.
Contour Data Solutions offers flexible infrastructure and expert services to tackle challenges in today’s data-driven economy. Our strategic data solutions feature top technologies and expert integration, backed by consulting. We help your company with tiered storage, backup and recovery, compliance, branch office solutions, and virtualized infrastructures.
Contour accelerates digital transformation by enabling customers to choose any cloud, providing security solutions and secure digital workspaces. Its data services help build tailored solutions to meet current and future needs. Contour supports key missions aligned with four IT priorities: Modernize Data Centers, Integrate Public Clouds, Empower the Digital Workspace, and Transform Security.
Businesses generate and store various customer, partner, and employee data related to sales, assets, liabilities, IT, and processes. Data Management maintains vital insights and competitive edges, but irrelevant data wastes resources and raises costs and risks. Managing this data while meeting compliance pressures strains IT resources, often leaving only 20% for new projects. Contour offers advanced intelligence, protection, and flexibility to simplify Data Management, streamline infrastructure, and maximize data value. Our ILM software, combined with Implementation Services, helps organizations store, manage, protect, and share information efficiently. Tiered Infrastructure, Storage Management, and Policy-based Movement free IT resources for innovation and cost reduction. Managed Resources enable agility through Modeling, Virtualization, and Orchestration. Protecting data ensures it remains an asset via replication, recovery, security. Sharing information boosts business value with collaboration, content, and repository services.
Contour's Process:
- Assess current environment and needs
- Architecture and Design Workshop
- Implement and migrate products/services
- Project Management
- Test and Acceptance
- Documentation
Benefits:
- Reduced costs in administration, storage, and development
- Cost-effective system consolidation
- Data archiving to low-cost storage
- Full regulatory compliance to avoid audits
Helping businesses define and implement resilience to protect critical systems during disasters.
Contour Data Solutions has vast experience in disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, offering high availability, data protection, and recovery services. We work with your team to understand your needs and design solutions that minimize RTOs and RPOs, whether on-premises, cloud, or hybrid.
Our approach ensures continuous availability for any application and data. The process includes assessment, design workshops, implementations, project management, testing, and documentation.
Benefits include real-time replication, tailored RPOs and RTOs, efficient resource use, granular restores, quick recovery, actionable analytics, managed services, and guaranteed RTOs and RPOs.
The experts at Contour Data Solutions simplify the backup and recovery process. We collaborate with your team to understand your business requirements and the implications of data loss so we can design a solution that minimizes your Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). Whether you’re looking for an on-premise, cloud, or hybrid strategy, Contour will create and implement a tailored solution to meet your needs.
Reduce backup windows and recovery times by leveraging Contour’s Backup and Recovery Services. Contour delivers the next generation of availability for the always-on enterprise, equipping businesses and enterprises of all sizes with the means to ensure availability for any application and any data, across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid solutions.
Contour's Process:
- In-depth assessment of your existing environment
- Architecture and Design Workshop with your team
- Products/Services implementations & migrations
- Project Management
- Test and Acceptance Plan
- Detailed Documentation
Benefits:
- Meet backup windows and recovery time objectives
- Efficiently utilize storage and network resources
- Ensure protection and offer granular restores for application-specific data from supported applications
- Analytics and visibility with actionable insights for data management and operational performance compliance
- Recover individual files, entire databases, or complete systems
- Option for fully managed backup and recovery services
- Guarantees for meeting Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives
Strike the right balance between leveraging existing infrastructure investments and tomorrow’s leading-edge technology.
Whether you are establishing a new IT infrastructure, upgrading an outdated network, or expanding network capacity, you can count on Contour to provide the design and delivery expertise needed to transition from a legacy environment to a fully redundant, next-generation solution.
Our Infrastructure Design and Implementation Services offer proven methodologies and best practices that accelerate your time to market, enabling you to realize a return on investment quickly. These services deliver rapid, outstanding design, implementation, and integration across all engagements and locations. Contour provides clients with access to field-tested experts who possess real-world experience
Contour can help you design and implement a technology framework that provides maximum scalability and performance to support your business. Through our proven process, we help customers design and deliver solutions in the following areas:
- Network
- Virtualization
- Security
- Data Storage
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
- Backup and Recovery
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- End User Computing and Mobile Device Management
- Software Defined Everything
- Process and Compliance documentation fro highly-regulated industries
Contour Process:
- In-depth assessment of your existing environment and business requirements
- Architecture and Design Workshop with your team
- Products/Services implementations & migrations
- Project Management
- Test and Acceptance Plan
- Detailed documentation
Benefits:
- Rapid, customized solution design and deployment
- Certified Engineers providing industry best practices and real-world experience
- Digital transformation to propel your business forward
- Create a collaborative and agile environment for users
- Increasing employee productivity
Providing a framework for managing and controlling EUC.
Today, the end user is central to the digital workplace. Users access multiple devices from various locations, expecting secure, available data. Contour has helped many organizations implement EUC solutions that enable self-service access, boosting flexibility, productivity, and savings.
Contour’s EUC solutions support transforming and managing your end-user landscape through well-defined frameworks, tools, and solutions.
Contour Process:
- Assessment of your environment and business needs
- Architecture and Design Workshop
- Implementation and migration of products/services
- Project Management
- Test and Acceptance Plan
- Detailed documentation
Benefits:
- Personalizing the user experience
- Transitioning to next-gen workspaces
- Fostering a collaborative, agile environment
- Increasing employee productivity
- Identity Management
- Compliance
- Security
- Application Management
- Device policy frameworks
- Enterprise Mobility
Internet of Things (IoT) connects devices and consumers, enabling a digital world with analytics and access to data and applications. It drives business opportunities and results by providing insights on customers, allowing better products and services. Leading firms adopt digital models that remove silos, connecting machines, assets, and people via intelligent networks. Contour offers a secure, scalable framework with remote access, dashboards, analytics, and security to support IoT strategies.
Industries impacted include manufacturing, transportation, defense, agriculture, retail, logistics, banking, oil, gas, mining, utilities, insurance, smart homes, cities, food services, hospitals, and healthcare.
IoT benefits include resource efficiency, reduced human effort, lower costs, increased productivity, real-time marketing, decision analytics, improved customer experiences, and high-quality data.
Contour process involves assessing current environments, conducting architecture workshops, product implementation, project management, testing, and comprehensive documentation.
To support business growth, consistent management and automation of the virtual data center are critical first steps. Automating manual tasks frees up time for IT teams to provide more strategic value to the business. Additionally, you need a solution that learns and adapts to your unique environment, rather than something with a one-size-fits-all approach.
Virtualization Management enables the following:
- Consistent Management
- Automation and Control
- Intelligent Operations and Predictive Analytics
Contour Process:
- In-depth assessment of your existing environment and business requirements
- Architecture and Design Workshop with your team
- Products/Services implementations & migrations
- Project Management
- Test and Acceptance Plan
- Detailed documentation
Benefits:
- Reduced capital and operating costs
- Minimized or eliminated downtime
- Increased IT productivity, efficiency, agility, and responsiveness
- Faster provisioning of applications and resources
- Greater business continuity and disaster recovery
- Simplified data center management
- Availability of a true software-defined data center
Virtualization Management streamlines virtual data center management through automation and adaptive solutions, supporting business growth. It offers consistent control, intelligent operations, and predictive analytics, following a process including assessment, design, implementation, and documentation. Benefits include reduced costs, minimized downtime, increased efficiency and agility, faster provisioning, improved business continuity, simplified management, and a true software-defined data center.
Contour offers a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) built on industry-leading virtualization, combining compute, storage, networking, and cloud management. It extends virtualization to network and storage, making data center services easy and cost-effective. Deploy applications on private or hybrid clouds with seamless workload mobility and managed by a policy-driven cloud platform. The solution is secure, with encryption, micro-segmentation, and workload security policies that follow workloads across networks. Automation treats physical networks as a capacity pool, reducing bottlenecks. It supports compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and HIPAA through micro-segmentation. The process includes environment assessment, design workshops, implementation, project management, testing, and documentation. Benefits include cost savings, minimal downtime, increased efficiency, faster provisioning, business continuity, and simplified management.
Helping organizations accelerate application deployment and delivery by providing automated, on-demand application delivery, dramatically reducing IT costs through policy-driven workflow automation.
From implementing a hybrid WAN to improving cloud-based application performance, to creating a dynamic security perimeter and rolling out a software-defined network, Contour makes it remarkably easy to build the WAN your business needs at the performance you expect.
Say goodbye to traditional routing protocols and hello to savings of up to 50% of your WAN costs and a 95% increase in WAN throughput. Contour builds a foundation that allows you to combine disparate WAN networks—including MPLS, LTE, and internet links—into a single, high-performance hybrid WAN fabric.
Deploy cloud applications and SaaS across your enterprise in minutes and get instant application performance monitoring.
Establish a dynamic network security perimeter based on contexts that include groupings of specific applications, users, and/or branch VLANs. Keep contexts secure without re-configuring the network, deploying new hardware, or changing the network topology.
A software-defined enterprise (SDE) spans both the data center and the enterprise WAN, so you enjoy the same benefits in the WAN as you’ve come to expect in an SDDC. Reduce hardware costs and support more rapid network provisioning thanks to network virtualization.
Contour Process:
- In-depth assessment of your existing environment and business requirements
- Architecture and Design Workshop with your team
- Products/Services implementations & migrations
- Project Management
- Test and Acceptance Plan
- Detailed documentation
Benefits:
- Centralized network provisioning
- Holistic Enterprise Management
- Granular security
- Lower operating costs
- Hardware savings and reduced expenditures
- Cloud abstraction
- Guaranteed content delivery
Leverage Contour's Contract and Renewals Management team to efficiently manage your IT support and maintenance contracts.
Contour consolidates your contracts into one platform, whether you have one or hundreds of hardware and software agreements. Our experienced specialists help you research, select, and execute the right contracts for your organization.
We manage existing contracts or establish new ones tailored to your needs, monitoring expiration dates to ensure continuity of security, support, and compliance.
We support networks, servers, and storage, ensuring you get the right products under the right agreement, readily accessible.
Our expertise covers all major hardware and software brands, including Dell EMC, Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, and more, for various needs from virtualization to creative software.
- Standard Operating Procedures
- IT controls assessment and measurement
- IT governance
- IT risk assessment / control benchmarking
- IT audit training
- IT internal audit outsourcing / co-sourcing
- IT policy and procedure manual
- ERP control and assurance
- Data assurance
- Accurate – verify content
- Accessible – easy access for auditors and employees
- Comprehensive – include all required content
- Clear and user-focused – ensure understanding
- Agile and adaptable – update easily
- Technology compatible – organize content with existing systems
- Standardized and scalable – maintain consistency and include training
Be prepared. Prevent costly and time-consuming inconsistencies during audits.
Industry standards demand proper documentation of policies and procedures across business processes like sales and IT. This is vital for compliance and avoiding unnecessary work from audit findings.
Why Contour? Contour simplifies documentation by updating and creating policies. We help you document new business processes and quickly finalize policies to achieve "regulatory readiness".
Benefits:
- Inventory assessment of existing contracts
- Cost-effective licensing options
- Evaluation and recommendations for upgrades
- Licensing aligned with business needs and budget
- On-time renewal management
- Business change roadmap
- Minimize license overages
- Improve software compliance
Welcome to the cloud with our white-glove service!
Should you move to the cloud? That question has long been answered with a resounding "yes". Many companies are transferring workloads to stay competitive.
While cloud benefits—agility, innovation, and lower IT costs—are clear, migration can be complex and disruptive. Companies need to understand the journey before diving in.
Contour has helped hundreds design and migrate from on-premise to cloud solutions. A Credit Card Processing firm wanted a hybrid cloud for hundreds of thousands of monthly transactions. An energy company is creating a cloud-enabled operating model to realize its “as-a-Service” vision. An Alarm company saved millions on leases by transferring 90+ workloads and data to the cloud in weeks.
Contour Concierge Services create an integrated Cloud Marketplace, Service Catalog, and Management platform operated on behalf of clients.
Benefits include:
- Eco-System – Manage and deploy cloud where it makes sense.
- Security – Ensure services follow consistent security policies.
- Governance – Transparency on cloud consumption and costs across multiple clouds.
- Cost Analysis – Metrics on usage and finances across providers.
Our mission offers:
- A customizable Marketplace and Service Catalog
- An automation engine for onboarding, provisioning, management, and analytics
- An API Manager for integration and control
- A analytics platform with consumption and financial metrics
- Federated Security for authentication, authorization, and policy management
- Flexible consumption models and financing options
Contour's cloud services let internal IT focus on strategic goals instead of daily operations. Whether using DPC, VDC, Public Cloud, or Hybrid, Contour acts as an extension of your team.
Our Advantage:
- Comprehensive solution consultation and design services to meet your particular project objectives
- Converged infrastructure solutions offer organizations sophisticated IT infrastructure options.
- Maximize physical resources with virtualization solutions.
- Strong vendor relationships support expedited implementation and installation services
- Transform and simplify IT environments with efficient data storage management solutions.
Contour helps companies accomplish the key missions that move them forward, freeing them to shape an unlimited future. These key missions align with four strategic IT priorities: Modernize Data Centers, Integrate Public Clouds, Empower the Digital Workspace and Transform Security.
