The most important (and usually most difficult aspect) of any new infrastructure implementation is maintaining access to data at all times during the migration period. Cardium have a tried and tested methodology that ensures that no matter where you are in the migration process you will always have access to company data be that either shared date or users personal data (home directory). The process also takes into account options to rollback to the previous solution which ensures that should issues occur during the migration the live systems can be pointed back at the previous data and refreshed if required.

It is important that applications are installed on a system that has been configured correctly. For example a server that is built for an email solution will be inherently different from a server that is built to host a SQL server database, both in terms of the hardware requirements and the Windows 2003 operating system configuration.

It is not sufficient to install the operating system defaults and expect everything to work satisfactorily. Other considerations around network protocols, network speeds, LAN and WAN connectivity have to be considered before even attempting to install an application. More importantly, with the arrival of directory services (Active Directory), the whole server infrastructure design can now be based around your organisations current and future requirements. 
With Microsoft's Active Directory Service complete dependence on DNS, the ability to understand (in-depth) the nuances of DNS are a must. With Microsoft servers, Cardium's ability to understand the "bigger picture" ensure that a server design will allow your computer systems to scale with your company as and when required.

Cardium Solutions have many years of experience in configuring and installing Windows NT server, having used the very early release of NT 3.1 through Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 and beta releases of Windows 2008
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