Third Party Maintenance
Companies are facing difficult decisions as they try to reduce their
Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditure
(OPEX) by consolidate their data centers, reducing data structures
and infrastructure cost. Many IT Departments are being mandated
to reduce costs, sometimes 30 - 50%, without sacrificing on service
levels.
EFN Enterprises (EFN) is a proven technical computing provider
with 30 years of experience in solving complex business problems.
EFN Enterprises Management works with Senior Executives to
understand their current and future requirements within their
organization.
Our support partners are strategically located nationwide; we focus
on centralized and de-centralized heterogeneous data centers
infrastructure. EFN can assist your organization in cost reduction
by offer them a single source, multi vendor service level plan when
it comes to IT Maintenance. Our nationwide coverage can help
enterprises customers with multiple sites consolidate under one
contract for comprehensive single source contract which can
reduce their OPEX cost. In addition, this nationwide coverage
helps ensure that a spare replacement part is close by.
Our partners have an average of 10 years of industry experience.
Our Support Engineers receive continuous training on the latest
hardware and software enhancements. Additionally, nearly 50% of
EFN’s Partners delivery personnel with United States (US)
Government security clearances which may be a requirement to
support customers in the US or other foreign government and or
military. Getting security clearance is sometimes a long and
arduous process, but you no longer have to delay accessing these
accounts because chances are EFN’s Partners are already there
to assist you.
EFN’s Multi Vendor Service Levels on Wide Variety of Supported
Operating Systems and Hardware:
Partial list equipment and operating systems that can be covered
under our maintenance plans include:
- Servers:
IBM AS/400 iSeries
NetFinity xSeries
Compaq
Integrity HP 9000
Sun Fire
UltraSPARC Systems
Dell
RS/6000 pSeries
HP
DEC AlphaServer
Sun Netra
Sun Enterprise
SGI
- Storage:
Compaq
Qualstar
EMC
HP
Overland Data
Quantum
Dell
Sun
NetApps
StorageTek
IBM
- Networking:
Juniper
QLogic
Emulex
Extreme Networks
Cisco
Brocade
McData
3COM
Force10
Nortel
- Operating Systems:
Red Hat® Linux
VMware ESX®
NetWare
IRIX
Novell® SUSE® Linux
HP-UX
Solaris
Microsoft® Windows®
EFN’s Multi Vendor Service Levels:
- Mission Critical - This service is for customers that demand
maximum availability. This level of support works around the
clock to provide you with rapid recovery in the event of a system
failure.
- Help desk support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- On-site hours of coverage are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year » on-site response within 4 hours of part arriving on site.
- Dedicated technical support account manager, real-time access to call activity.
- Business Critical - This service is for customers who need high
availability for key business systems.
- Help desk support available 24 hours a day,5 days/week
- On-site hours of coverage are 8am to 8pm site's local
time, Monday - Friday on-site response within 4 hours of
part arriving on site.
- Dedicated technical support account manager, real-time
access to call activity
- Basic System Support - Next Business Day (NBD) On-site
Service.
- This service is for customers who want to take advantage
of certified technical skills as well as quick turnaround on
parts with an economical price tag. EFN will provide help
desk support and "like" equipment replacement by the
next business day.
- Help desk support available 8am to 8pm ESTMonday -
Friday.
- On-site hours of coverage are 8arn to 5pm site's local
time, Monday - Friday
- On-site response by the next business day
- Dedicated technical support account manager, real-time
access to call activity
- Parts Logistics for Self-Service - Next business day advanced
parts replacement with detailed instruction shipped with and/or
offered via e-mail regarding replacement of the part. With these
instructions accompanied by help desk:
- Support availability during normal hours, the customer
removes the faulty part and replaces it with the new part.
This service is designed for customers who need high
availability of parts for systems, but have technical
personnel at their site.
- Help desk support available 8am to 5pm est., Monday -
Friday.
- Dedicated technical support account manager and call
center/support center.
- Site activity reports by different criteria available by request.
We welcome the opportunity to follow-up with you to check your
availability for a meeting so that we can discuss in details how EFN
can assist your organization in providing a quote on Multi-Year
Service Maintenance Contracts for your company.