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Applications Delivery

Overview

Enterprise applications are critical for day-to-day operations and thus Nile.Com will help you minimize application-specific risks by providing solutions that enables the right levels of application availability and scalability.

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Setting up a branch office with adequate bandwidth become a challenge not only due increasing communication costs but also type of application that may require real-time, latency sensitive and other characteristics that may be difficult to meet, and it becomes even more difficult in places as off-shore sites, industrial areas, WAN Optimization technologies enable you to accelerate the applications and services delivery to distributed users across the extended enterprise making the best out of communications and bandwidth costs.

Nile.Com offer solutions that protect applications against local failures using High Availability and Fault Tolerance. We also implement reliable, automated disaster recovery plans and allocate resources dynamically to any individual application to ensure service levels, even under unpredictable loads.

Products used:

• F5 BIG IP LTM;
• KEMP Load Balancers;
• Citrix NetScaler ADC;
• Bluecoat packet shaping.

Disaster Recovery and Site Resilience

Overview

Disaster recovery is becoming an increasingly important aspect of enterprise computing. As devices, systems, and networks become ever more complex, there are simply more things that can go wrong. As a consequence, recovery plans have also become more complex.

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A Disaster Recovery Plan is designed to ensure the continuation of vital business processes in the event that a disaster occurs.

Nile.Com offers the following solutions and services for Disaster Recovery:

• Critical Application Assessment;
• Back-Up & Recovery Planning and Designing;
• Implementation Procedures;
• Validation Procedures.

Products used:

• Microsoft Azure Site Recovery;
• Microsoft Azure Backup;
• Microsoft StorSimple;
• VEEAM Backup and Replication for Hyper-v;
• VEEAM Backup and Replication for VMware¬¬;
• Double Take High Availability for Windows and Hyper-v;
• Double Take High Availability for VMware.

Backup and Recovery

Overview

Information drives businesses!
Information is the core of any business, and thus organizations need solutions that can maintain the safety and availability of this information, all while providing the administrator with a simple management platform.

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Everything about a company – product development, sales, relationship management, marketing, competitive analysis, investor relations, finance, human resources, and so on – is managed through the information unique to that business.

The success and viability of that information hinge on an administrator’s ability to protect its integrity while keeping it available throughout the enterprise at all times.

Today’s solutions must offer best-of-breed data protection and system recovery. An essential part of such a solution is granular data protection: Businesses cannot afford to waste valuable time and resources restoring a complete data volume or database when all a user needs is a single file or e-Mail message.

Nile.Com provides its customers with the latest technology in backup and recovery tools to help them maintain the highest productivity and integrity of their data and Operating System.

Products used:

• System Center Data Protection Manager;
• VERITAS Backup Exec;
• Microsoft Azure Backup;
• Microsoft StorSimple;
• VEEAM Backup and Replication for Hyper-v;
• VEEAM Backup and Replication for VMware.

Network Availability

Overview

Nile.Com provides its customers with cutting-edge Network Availability solutions that have the capability to optimally balance traffic between sites based on the global capacity to serve a request.

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Network Availability solutions provide two key requirements of critical enterprise networking components; enhanced reliability and increased performance which will:

• Effectively load balance and failover multiple Internet connection for outbound and inbound Internet access;
• Smoothly support site to site IPSEC VPN redundant tunnels;
• Successfully monitor the performance of the Internet, the network and the servers relative to each user accessing the site.

Nile.Com offers related solutions that provide:

• Global traffic management;
• Timely application state sharing (i.e. database replication) between data centers and LAN like performance over the WAN.
• Redirection of traffic away from unavailable resources;
• Transparently distributing traffic to available resources, based on real-time system status.

Products used:

• F5 Global Traffic Manager;
• F5 Local Traffic Manager;
• Citrix NetScaler ADC;
• KEMP Server Load Balancers
• FORTINET ADC.

Servers’ Availability

Overview

In today’s information technology world, high availability is more and more important in business critical systems where demands on these systems include not only ensuring the availability of important data, but also efficient resource sharing of the relatively expensive components.

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Nile.Com Server High Availability offerings include:

• Server Cluster: Server Cluster provides failover support for applications and services that require high availability, scalability and reliability. With clustering, organizations can make applications and data available on multiple servers linked together in a cluster configuration.
• Network Load Balancing: Network Load Balancing provides failover support for IP-based applications and services that require high scalability and availability.

Products used:

• Microsoft Windows Server Family;
• F5 Technology;
• FORTINET ADC;
• KEMP Server Load Balancers.

Cloud Management

Overview

As the applications and data that add value to an organization continue to move between private, customer owned infrastructure and public cloud platforms, organizations must have unified and centralized management tool to give them insights across the different locations of their resources.

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Nile.Com offers solutions that will enable organizations to manage any platform anywhere, have a 360 view of all their resources, spot problems fast and quickly and efficiently troubleshoot issues.

Products used:

• Microsoft System Center;
• Microsoft Intune;
• Microsoft Operations Management Suite;
• VMWare vSphere, vCloud, vRealize;
• Openstack Cloud Software.

Cloud Identity

Overview

An important part of the identity story is providing the users with a seamless experience when accessing the different corporate resources independent of their location, which can only be achieved by providing them with a single yet manageable and secured identity.

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With the increasing number of SaaS applications and the dispersion of resources across the private and public cloud environments, managing and ensuring simple and fast access to these resources and data has become a necessity

Nile.Com offers solutions that will help organizations achieve an efficient identity management experience in terms of simple and fast access to resources and data, with continuous services and various connected devices.

Products used:

• Azure Active Directory Premium;
• Microsoft Azure MFA.

Public Cloud

Private Cloud

Overview

Private cloud introduces a new concept for enterprises IT services delivery methodology, bringing the power of public cloud to your owned datacenter, self-service, automated provisioning and resources dynamic allocation on demand and utilization basis, this kind of agility, flexibility and elasticity wasn’t available before the Private Cloud.

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IT as a service, is the methodology that meets today’s dynamic business and applications owners’ requirements, building Test & Dev. Environment is dramatically easier and efficient.

Nile.Com provides a solid private cloud solution offering, staring with metal with IBM, Dell, Nutanix, and Lenovo servers and storage systems, operating systems and virtualization layers extended to management, automation and self-service features.

The private cloud features a layered architecture in which virtualization abstracts operating systems, data, applications, and user state from the underlying hardware. This virtualization layer enables the wide range of automation and management capabilities that differentiate a cloud infrastructure from a highly virtualized environment.

Nile.Com solution leverage Microsoft System center configurations manager, Operations manager, Orchestrator and self-service portal, and equivalent solutions for VMWare as cloud director, CITRIX cloud gateway and Cloud Bridge, our solutions also covers high availability, load balancing and backup requirements.

Products used:

• Microsoft Windows Server;
• Microsoft System Center Suite;
• VMWare vSphere, vCloud, vRealize;
• Openstack Cloud Software;
• Hyper converged infrastructure (IBM, VMware, Nutanix).

Business Intelligence

Overview

With the increasing numbers of data sources and management tools within the organization, a need for a centralized location for the all the significant data has risen that enables managing of this data and producing the corporate required reports and dashboards.

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Nile.Com offers solutions that will help organizations provide a 360-degree view for business users with their most important metrics in one place, updated in real time, and available on all of their devices.

Products used:

• Microsoft Power BI;
• Microsoft SharePoint;
• SQL Reporting Service;
• SQL Analysis Service;
• Microsoft Excel, PowerPivot;
• Microsoft Performance Point.