Recent Projects

  • File Server & Migration Services

    New Server and Migration Services for Baltimore Religious Organization

    Q2 2021
    In April, Data Networks provided a new server deployment plan and migration services for a Baltimore-based religious organization, ensuring operational continuity with their current applications, data, and services during the transition. This project included analyzing and preparing the existing host server for the migration services, deploying the new server with Windows Server 2019, configuring the […]
  • Vulnerability and Risk Assessment

    Foundational Security with Azure for Local Prep School

    Q2 2021
    In April, Data Networks completed a vulnerability and risk assessment to provide visibility into the vulnerability of assets deployed in a Local Prep School’s network. The risk assessment consisted of scanning to identify networked assets, determining potential vulnerabilities, and assessing potential vulnerabilities. Data Networks’ engineers completed this assessment by conducting an external and internal vulnerability […]
  • SQL Server Migration

    Physical to Virtual Server Migration for Washington State Public School

    Q2 2021
    A Washington State Public School District discovered their SQL database, running on a physical server, was aging and no longer under support. Data Networks assessed the District’s environment and recommended deploying an optimized Virtual Machine for hosting SQL. Data Networks provided a SQL server migration to migrate the District’s data and preserve their applications from […]
  • Microsoft Active Directory Migration

    eDirectory to Microsoft AD Migration Planning and Consulting Services for Washington State School District

    Q2 2021
    A Washington State Public School District has foundational services integrated into their Identity and Access Management systems, based upon Novell/MicroFocus’ NetIQ eDirectory platform. In addition to all access control policies managed through eDirectory LDAP services, the District also leverages the full complement of bundled services included with the NetIQ Identity and Access Management suite. As […]
  • Microsoft 365 Subscription Upgrade

    Aggregated and Organized Microsoft 365 Licensing Model for Clene Nanomedicine

    Q1 2021
    Due to ad hoc purchasing of individual Microsoft licenses rather than bundling, Clene was facing an expensive challenge managing their Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Looking to adopt a better licensing model with as little interruption in services as possible, Clene utilized Data Networks’ Microsoft expertise to build a more organized and aggregated subscription package that controlled […]
  • Foundational Security with Azure AD

    New Identification and Access Management Solution for a Maryland College

    Q1 2021
    This small college has struggled to maintain their existing identity and access management solution, resulting in many siloed solutions and an overwhelmed IT administration. Leveraging the MEEC agreement, they invested in Microsoft’s Academic A5 licensing to resolve device and user management across the campus. But due to the nature of their existing environment, deploying a […]
  • Microsoft Identity Manager Solution

    Replace MicroFocus NetIQ with Microsoft MIM for a Maryland University

    Q1 2021
    With operating costs for their existing MicroFocus NetIQ identity manager solution rising, and MicroFocus platform expertise dwindling, the University’s Center for Information Technology determined the need to replace their identity manager solution, as well as build in-house administration and management expertise for the new solution. Data Networks recommended and deployed the Microsoft Identity Manager solution […]
  • Server Refresh and Veeam DRaaS

    IT Infrastructure Security Update for Local Prep School

    Q1 2021
    A recent IT security audit revealed that this local prep school needed to maintain compliance with supported versions of their operating systems, hardware, and software to better secure and protect school data. They also determined the need to improve their disaster recovery capabilities – without deploying any physical infrastructure – by leveraging a more geographically […]
  • DR Site VxRail Capacity Expansion

    DR Expansion for University Health Center

    Q4 2020
    Due to COVID-driven increase in demand on their production Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure, Data Networks determined this University Health Center’s DR site required more capacity to support the desired service levels for their infrastructure and to prevent capacity contention if production workloads needed to fail over to the DR site. To increase the capacity […]
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Deployment

    Hyper-V Cluster Deployment for Orange Water and Sewer Authority

    Q4 2020
    OWASA’s configuration at their Waste Water Treatment Plant consisted of Microsoft’s Hyper-V clustered on an HPe StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). The software-defined hyper-converged solution was recently announced to be reaching its end-of-support lifecycle in HPe’s portfolio. Additionally, OWASA’s data capacity needs were growing beyond the expandable capabilities of the VSA, and local networking capabilities […]