Labenne Business Advisors

Labenne Services

We offer the following business solutions and IT services:

  • IT as a Service (ITaaS)

    We are an ITaaS company. We strive to provide you with the best scaled IT services to meet your business needs. We'll provide your enterprise with exactly the right, and the right amount, of IT services. You'll enjoy regular, predictable expenses while we provide continuous monitoring of services, expert technical support, regular software patches and upgrades, and the flexibility to grow as your business grows.

  • Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

    Disaster is bound to happen. Water pipes burst, electrical lines get damaged, and wind, hail, rain, and other fierce storms can wreak havoc on physical buildings, along with all the electronics housed inside. Not only do businesses have to contend with the elements, but there are hackers, crackers, hacktivists, disgruntled employees, and other bad actors that threaten the life of their systems and precious assets. It is not a question of if, but rather, when some type of disaster will strike. Will you be ready? We can help you create a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DR/BC) plan and assist you through the Business Continuity Life Cycle by creating your Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment/Gap Analysis, Plan Development/Update, Plan Testing, and Continuous Improvement.

  • Data Protection

    Data Protection is how you safeguard your information from loss or being corrupted. You want to protect your intellectual property as well as other potentially sensitive information concerning your customers or employees. Protecting your data is a two-part function. First you write policy, then you apply the logical restraints. The Data Life Cycle Management (DLM) framework helps create policy that manages your data flow from conception to deletion. This would include creating your DR/BC plan, storage backup and destruction plans, policy-based access controls, retention, auditing, data classification, and your encryption policies as well as how data at rest is stored. If information is shared, not just within the company, but with external vendors and contractors, policy needs to establish how to maintain control of that data and how to generate accounts for external vendors to avoid spillage or unauthorized escalation of privileges. Once proper policy is written, it makes implementing the technical controls easier. We can help ensure you have a sound policy in place and aid in getting the logical controls in place and testing their efficiency.

  • IT Logistics and Asset Management

    The moment you receive your shipment of equipment, whether it is a server, laptop, or thumb drive, it is vulnerable to theft or loss. It is important that before you open the packaging you already have an asset management system in place so you can place the appropriate barcode or other tagging system on the equipment. There are manual ways to do asset management, as well as automated ones. Software options related to logistics and inventory have increased over the years. Logistics and asset management are ongoing activities. We can help you create your strategy as well as continue the inventory process. It is important to do periodic checks of your assets to ensure that what you believe you have in inventory is still in inventory.

  • Data Center Solutions

    Optimal enterprise solutions are pivotal to the functionality of many organizations. Creating a data center can be a huge cost and an astronomical task, and also very time consuming depending on the architecture type. It is important to tailor your data center to the needs of your organization. You want to ensure you are not only creating a data center that makes sense for the current state of your organization, but one that will grow with your business. It is not only important to create an efficient data center, but equally important is having the proper access controls in place to detect external bad actors, or to detect an insider threat.

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  • Cloud Services

    Cloud computing is how IT is done now. According to recent studies, cloud computing is the number one concern of enterprise CIOs, and is noted as a top expense. The cloud is not a one size fits all solution. Labenne Business Advisors can work with you to best determine your cloud computing needs. Having a centralized cloud to help with automation can streamline many of your process and storage needs. Do you need your cloud to integrate with your Configuration Management services or facilitate the deployment of your software updates? We can help.

  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

    VDI is when a user runs their desktop inside of a virtual machine instead of having local storage at their desk. This can save cost and streamline asset and process management. It also provides users the freedom to access their desk from anywhere instead of being tied to a single location.

  • Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI)

    In order to run a VDI you need to have a VSI. Planning for and designing a good VSI takes time and lots of thoughtful consideration, but the potential benefits make it worth the time and effort. Labenne Business Advisors will perform an IT environment assessment to better understand which servers you should virtualize, or if you will need to upgrade your current architecture. Labenne will go through your current architecture to better understand all the applications you have running and what they need to perform. There are many ways to decide which platform to use and we will guide you to the right one. Our team has years of expertise and experience in test driving platforms, and with lessons learned, we are able to provide you with sound guidance when making these types of decisions. We will walk you through the feature sets of each, the associated costs versus benefit ratios, and the potential changes to your storage needs that come with running a virtualized environment.

  • Backup and Recovery

    Part of preparing for a potential data breach or disaster is your backup and recovery plan. Every business with IT assets and important data needs to back up that data to ensure that if there is a disaster they will be able to recover. There are two ways to back up data: physically or logically. A physical backup is creating tapes or CDs/DVDs of important files – data files, control files, system files, and logs, or creating a backup image of the entire enterprise structure. A logical backup is exporting database tables and objects to a dump file. Labenne Business Advisors can help you understand the size and structure of your enterprise to determine which combination works best and at what intervals (hourly, daily, weekly, etc.) backups should be performed. Having a proper backup schedule is also important to your DR/BC plans. Knowing what data you can risk to lose, or you absolutely can not lose, along with your resources and the associated costs of performing backups, we will help you to create a good plan and provide the best way to recover from a disaster.

  • Computer Storage

    What is the best way to retain your digital data? How much storage does your company need? How often will you perform system backups and where and how long will you need to store these backups? These are questions we can help you answer and prepare for. Doing an IT assessment is a great way to truly understand the structure of your company and to begin preparing for future needs as well. As your company grows, so will your storage needs.

  • Network Security

    You can't talk IT without talking security. Unfortunately we live in a world where bad actors are hacking medical devices, vehicles, and of course the precious networks of small and large businesses alike. Protecting your network and IT assets is essential to business continuity. The adversary is preying on any vulnerability they can find. As a business you need to understand how much you can spend on your security needs and the best way to maximize the return on your investment. Every available security device or software application does not fit everyone's particular needs. Security needs to be tailored to your specific needs, and we will help you. No matter your business size, firewalls, router and firewall rules, access controls, access policies, passwords and password policies, scanning procedures, and an IPS are all essential tools, but what next? Do you need to implement VPN usage? Create whitelists? Use VLANs? Or is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) necessary? We can help answer these questions. We will help you with your security policies, which includes inputs into the DR/BC plan. We can also help you implement these tools and processes to help secure your network and train your users on good security practices.

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