thinkASG delivers business transformation solutions for world class brands. We help companies evaluate, design, build and maintain highly reliable and scalable enterprise IT platforms to meet business requirements and to foster agility and innovation.
2. We deliver business transformation solutions for world class
brands. We help companies evaluate, design, build and
maintain highly reliable and scalable enterprise IT platforms to
meet business requirements and to foster agility and innovation.
DRIVING TRANSFORMATION
THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
3. CAPABILITIES 5
WHO WE ARE 4
DATACENTER OPTIMIZATION 6
CLOUD 7
NETWORKING 8
BUSINESS CONTINUITY 9
COLLABORATION 10
ASSET/CONTRACT MGMT 11
MANAGED SUPPORT 12
4. YOUR IT OPERATIONS PARTNER, DRIVING
TRANSFORMATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
WE PARTNER WITH YOU TO TRANSFORM
IT INTO A SCALABLE SUSTAINABLE SERVICE
Founded in 1994, thinkASG is an enterprise IT
operations partner delivering business
transformation solutions for world class brands.
We help companies evaluate, design, build and
maintain highly reliable and scalable enterprise IT
platforms to meet business requirements and to
foster agility and innovation.
thinkASG has strategic partnerships with major
technology brands including IBM, Cisco, Amazon
Web Services, Microsoft, NetApp, VMware, and
other key partners to deliver scalable business
transformation solutions for our clients.
thinkASG is a privately owned company with
headquarters in Irvine, CA. We partner with
several hundred companies across multiple
industries. Through the delivering of targeted
solutions, we help companies meet business
growth, sustain continuous operations and help
transform the IT organization into a scalable
sustainable service contributing to company
growth.
WHO WE ARE
Our expertise in Enterprise IT operations is our
ability to provide the knowledge, experience and
agility required to architect, deploy and manage
business critical solutions. Our successful
deployments and high customer satisfaction
ratings hinge on our people, methodologies and
tools, including:
• Detailed project run-books
• Web Based asset and project tracking tools
• Strict deployment methodology standards
• Dedicated project management and technical
resources
We become a strategic partner of your company,
a trusted extension of your IT team, through our
dedicated and dependable expert teams. We
are your IT and business partner for growth and
transformation.
We help some of the biggest brands think holisti-
cally about their business critical IT operations by
evaluating the economics of leveraging the cloud
and focusing on business results first.
We are hyper-focused on sustaining long-standing
relationships with our clients, which starts with
providing the best customer experience possible.
ABOUT thinkASG
WHY US?
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5. THINKASG CAPABILITIES
INTRODUCTION
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Our expertise in Enterprise IT operations is our
ability to provide the knowledge, experience and
agility required to architect, deploy and manage
scalable business critical solutions.
Enterprise architecture is the lifeblood of thinkASG
and has been since the day we opened our doors
in 1994. What makes thinkASG unique is that we
are not just another technology centric company
enamored by the latest products and trends. We
are hyper focused on the business goals and
requirements of the enterprises we work with
and look for ways using technology and services
to help enterprises execute their strategies for
growth.
Our team of seasoned veterans apply time-tested
processes and principles to consult and guide
enterprises through the technology changes nec-
essary to achieve their business goals. Our holistic
approach enables us to leverage advancements
like cloud computing and virtualization to further
align IT and business goals.
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE FOCUS
The thinkASG dedicated and experienced teams
have a unique ability to deliver optimal solutions
focused on business transformation and IT
operations. Our 20 years of documented best
practices and industry experience unify our
people, our processes, our principles and
technology solutions. Our teams consist of
business practice specialists across multiple
technology disciplines.
Clients experience a tightly integrated and
intimately knowledgeable extension to their IT
teams upon engagement with thinkASG.
The thinkASG project delivery methodology:
Diagnose, Develop, Deploy, Document, Manage
thinkASG primary business practices:
• Datacenter Optimization
• Cloud
• Business Continuity
• Networking
• Collaboration
• Contract and Asset Management
• Managed Support
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AT THE CORE
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION AS THE RESULT
6. THINKASG CAPABILITIES
GET THE MOST BENEFIT FROM YOUR
EXISTING TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT
Enterprises have made a significant investment
into their datacenter operations to meet their
business objectives. For the past two decades,
thinkASG has helped these companies get the
most benefit from their existing investment by
optimizing their current IT environment and lever-
aging the cloud and virtualization for continued
growth, agility and efficiency.
We are experts at consulting enterprises who
have inherited new datacenters, cloud work-
load and IT operations as a result of a merger or
acquisition. These enterprises are growing and
innovating at an outstanding pace and the IT
resources available to support and integrate the
additional technology is often not inline with the
overall growth.
thinkASG partners with the enterprise IT special-
ists to provide datacenter integration consulting
and strategies. We are here to help shoulder the
additional burden placed on IT as a result of the
ever changing business landscape.
Our Datacenter Optimization solution includes:
• Consolidation
• Virtualization
• Hybrid Cloud
• Storage Tiering
• Acceleration
• Network
DATACENTER OPTIMIZATION
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Cloud
Performance
Monitoring
Managed Backup
Servers + Storage
Network
purposes
7. THINKASG CAPABILITIES
LEVERAGE THE CLOUD FOR BUSINESS
AGILITY AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
thinkASG helps some of the biggest brands think
holistically about their business critical IT opera-
tions by evaluating the economics of leveraging
the cloud and focusing on business results over
technical solutions. We help companies focus
on projects and applications that help differenti-
ate their business and not the underlying infra-
structure. Although IT infrastructure is critically
important, it rarely differentiates a company from
their competitors. We view cloud computing as a
method to help shift resources away from future
on-premise investments and operations and move
those resources to innovative new projects.
From an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) per-
spective, we look at ways enterprises can take full
advantage of their existing, mature on-premise
investment and leverage the cloud to create a
secure, hybrid solution for sustained growth and
innovation.
Security in the cloud is a critically important factor
that our experienced team at thinkASG ensures
is paramount with all solutions architected and
deployed. Security is much more than intrusion
detection and ensuring proper firewalls are in
place. Identity Management is a key focal point
managing who has access to what systems and
applications and at what level.
The cloud is so much more than just infrastruc-
ture. It’s a platform which enables businesses
to be creative, innovative and agile. The team at
thinkASG works with companies to help them
see the potential and evaluate the cloud from an
infrastructure, platform, application and service
standpoint.
Key benefits of cloud adoption:
• Extend On-Premise environment for
scalability
• Quick rollout of Dev/Test environments
• Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Enable staff to focus more on business
projects and less on traditional IT
• Provide secure access to company data
anytime, anywhere and from any device
• Reduce capital expenditure on infrastructure
and licensing
• Smoother mergers and acquisitions
CLOUD
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BACKUP & RESTORE
DISASTER RECOVERY
HIGH AVAILABILITY
COLLABORATION
SCALE ON-DEMAND
APPS NOT OPS
RESOURCE SHIFT
CLOUD
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DELIVERING SIMPLICITY TO THE
ENTERPRISE NETWORK
The “Internet of Connected Things” and the al-
ways connected consumer are creating demands
on Enterprise IT to provide anytime, anywhere,
on any device access that is also secure and fast.
The continual growth of enterprise applications
creates a need for a more scalable, agile network
delivery infrastructure.
The team at thinkASG partners with enterprises to
evaluate their network infrastructure and architect
a solution that helps them reach their business
goals. The solutions may include an increase
in connectivity from 10Gbps to 40Gbps in the
datacenter for layer 2 and layer 3 infrastructure re-
quirements or it could include leveraging the latest
developments in Cloud Networking to create an
infrastructure that can be extended when needed.
Networking isn’t just about the infrastructure, it
also requires consideration around security and
compliance, application networking now through
layer 7, cloud managed networking and monitor-
ing and support.
Key benefits:
• Provide anytime access for any device from
any location
• Support BYOD initiatives
• Expand footprint without expanding staff
• Centralize global network management
• Improve performance for wireless users
NETWORKING
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Modern cloud managed network
9. THINKASG CAPABILITIES
A FAILURE SHOULDN’T PREVENT YOUR
BUSINESS FROM GETTING BACK TO BUSINESS
What is the cost to the enterprise for downtime or
loss of data? Are there SLAs in place that require
high nines of availability? In many cases, an
enterprise will have an application that not only is
business critical to them but may also be mission
critical to one or more of their customers. It may
sound a bit like a cliché but being prepared should
be the new normal.
Our Enterprise Architecture view enables the team
at thinkASG to consider the business require-
ments and work closely with both IT and business
groups to build, execute and maintain a tailored
Disaster Recovery plan. We specialize in Back-
up and Recovery, Data Lifecycle Management
and High Availability solutions to meet enterprise
requirements.
Our Business Continuity solution includes:
• Backup and Restore
• Disaster Recovery
• High Availability
• Data Lifecycle Management
• Archiving
• eDiscovery
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY
BACKUP & RESTORE
DISASTER RE
HIGH AV
DATA LIFECYCLE
MANAGEMENT
ARCHIVING
COMPLIANCE
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CONNECT PEOPLE AND DATA ANYTIME,
ANYWHERE FROM ANY DEVICE
Collaboration is all about people and connecting
them with their business data. In today’s business
environment this often means providing secure
access to important data anytime, anywhere and
from any device. Employees are used to their
personal mobile devices and the on-demand de-
livery of content and services. As a result, they are
expecting the same from their companies which
puts a burden on IT to rapidly deliver services
which help connect users and data together in
real-time.
The thinkASG Collaboration solution enables
companies to spend less time managing their IT
infrastructure to support business critical services
such as email, calendaring, shared documents
and voice services. We have strategic partner-
ships in place which allow us to offer the best
collaboration and data sharing solutions to enable
companies to bridge the gap between their em-
ployees and secure access to business data. By
implementing new processes and modern tools,
we foster business transformation by creating an
environment of agility and increased productivity
ultimately driving business growth.
Key benefits of a modern collaboration solution:
• Anytime, anywhere, from any device access
• Increase workflow effeciency, not complexity
• Quickly expand global reach without new
infrastructure investments
• Securely connect people with their business
data
• Bring your customers into the conversation
earlier and more often
• Shift IT resources to innovative projects
driving business competitiveness
• Ensure data integrity for compliance
requirements
COLLABORATION
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Consumerization of
IT in the Workplace
38% of companies
expect to stop providing
devices to their
workforce by 2016 Customers are
using personal
devices for business
purposes
11. THINKASG CAPABILITIES
KNOW WHAT ASSETS YOU HAVE, WHERE
THEY ARE AND HOW THEY ARE USED
Enterprises should understand where their assets
are located, how they are used, what they cost
and how they are maintained. thinkASG has
developed a system which tracks the financial,
contractual and configuration details of hardware,
software, service subscriptions and virtual and
cloud infrastructure through their entire lifecycle.
Our cloud based portal enables enterprises to fully
manage all of their assets in their datacenter and
other locations including servers, storage devices,
network, virtualized and cloud instances, soft-
ware, warranty and subscription details. Through
the streamlined asset management system,
alerts are sent notifying IT of expiring warranty or
software and service subscriptions providing an
opportunity to make better informed decisions.
thinkASG’s dedicated asset and contract man-
agement team streamlines the contract renewal
process and relieves clients of the burden of
managing this labor-intensive task. Through our
detailed analysis and forward budgeting, clients
experience better visibility into contractual obliga-
tions and cost saving recommendations around
bundling and multi-year contract options.
Through strategic alliances with software sub-
scription affiliates and cloud service providers,
thinkASG’s breadth for IT asset and contract man-
agement extends far beyond our primary solution
offerings, providing our clients a single stop for
managing most IT software, cloud consumption
and hardware service requirements.
Key benefits:
• Track all hardware, software, licenses,
warranties and subscriptions in a single
location
• Receive notifications for renewal and
expirations dates
• Enhance governance and visibility of usage
• Reduce costs through asset analytics
• Consolidate vendors
• Mitigate risks by tracking software license
compliance and usage
CONTRACT & ASSET MANAGEMENT
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GROW YOUR IT STAFF, SKILLSET AND
REACH WITHOUT GROWING YOUR IT STAFF
As the demand on Enterprise IT continues to
grow at a rapid pace, companies are looking for a
way to augment their current staff, increase their
skillset and meet the business requirements of the
company. thinkASG Managed Support exists as a
method to partner with enterprise IT and become
their extra set of eyes and hands.
For Cloud services and infrastructure, we have
multiple offerings to best meet the needs of the
enterprise and their current IT resources. Just by
using cloud technologies doesn’t suggest IT is
now going to be “outsourced”. We can be used
as a partner to fully manage the entire enterprise
cloud IT environment or we can partner with exist-
ing IT to help train them on the cloud services for
their enterprise and turn over the keys to them to
fully manage.
thinkASG Managed Services helps companies
better manage their IT operations to meet busi-
ness requirements. Our solution is specifically
tailored to help companies manage backup and
recovery, disaster recovery, performance mon-
itoring, tuning and upgrades of mission critical
systems and cloud environments.
Key benefits:
• Extend your IT operations immediately
• Receive training on the latest technologies
• Focus on tasks which provide more value to
your business
MANAGED SUPPORT
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Cloud
Performance
Monitoring
Managed Backup
Servers + Storage
Network
purposes
13. Founded in 1994, thinkASG is an
enterprise IT operations partner
delivering business transformation
solutions through technology for
world class brands. We help
companies evaluate, design, build
and maintain highly reliable and
scalable enterprise IT platforms to
meet business requirements and to
foster agility and innovation.
THINKASG.COM
15265 ALTON PARKWAY, STE 300
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA 92618
949.777.0400