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www.ToddCarterCISSP.com
Senior Technical Solutions Architect
Application Availability, Security & Compliance Subject Matter Expert

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Clearly understanding your business goals and objectives is a critical first step in defining the requirements a business IT system must meet.

As an Enterprise IT Architect, I am often involved with both the business side and the IT side of a company or organization.

Having owned and operated my own businesses and having consulted for and worked with fortune 500 and fortune 1000 companies for the past twenty years has provided me business and IT experience that can help you leverage your Information Technology Systems as the strategic assets they can be for the management, growth and continued profitability of your business.

Enterprise Architects are critical to the success of your business.  They are experienced in gathering the insights and data of the business; its sales strategies, its operational requirements, its growth initiatives and marketing strategies and by drilling into each of these areas, they create operational efficiencies for the company through the implementation of new technologies, they lower costs through standardization and improve time to market through automation.  An Enterprise Architect looks at the business as a whole.  They know how a business operates and they know how technology can support it.  An Enterprise Architect assists in protecting the business through proper planning for continuance of operations regardless of the event that could cause interruption to the business.

-         Application Availability Assessments

-         Compliance and Risk Assessments

-         Server and Application Virtualization and Consolidation Studies

-         Application Dependency Mapping

-         Business Continuity Planning

-         Disaster Recovery Planning

Enterprise Architects work with business and IT teams to define the technology and IT standards to support the business goals and objectives. By clearly understanding the business needs through such planning and analysis, Enterprise Architects define and prioritize IT projects that will have the greatest impact on your business and determine the best technologies to support these projects.

Which technology will your project embrace?

Best regards,

-Todd Carter, CISSP, SSP, CCSP
www.ToddCarterCISSP.com
toddcartercissp@gmail.com

 

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 Topics I research and post -

  • Access Control
  • Application Security
  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Cryptography
  • Information Security and Risk Management
  • Legal, Regulations, Compliance and Investigations
  • Operations Security
  • Physical (Environmental) Security
  • Security Architecture and Design
  • Telecommunications and Network Security
  • Application & Server Consolidation / Virtualization
  • XenServer, XenApp = 40+% better performance than VMWare

  • Virtualization Management

  • Server and Application Provisioning

  • Policy based load management

  • Data Center, Server Management

  • Provisioning tools

  • Bare metal recovery

  • Application Availability

  • Fault Tolerance

  • Shared Storage

  • Traditional Backup, Replication and Failover

  • Application Delivery

  • Security

  • Compliance

Enterprise software supporting virtualization (XenServer/Hyper-V), cloud computing tools that integrate on premise applications and data with cloud resources for scale out and peak load management, server consolidation tools that provide application dependency mapping, data center management and centralized management database (CMDB) capabilities and similar tools/technology capable of optimizing IT for today's enterprise business.
Service Capability Maturity Modeling processes, ISO 27002 standards, SDLC* methodologies and ITIL* best practices to identify and resolve diverse IT issues and improve operational efficiencies
Service Capability Maturity Modeling processes, ISO 27002 standards, SDLC* methodologies and ITIL* best practices to identify and resolve diverse IT issues and improve operational efficiencies

 

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