Cornerstone Consulting LLC
Services
A compass establishes the desired direction for your heading and keeps you on that direction during your journey. In business, and in the services Cornerstone Consulting, we give you the compass to help you navigate all your future IT decisions. That has been our experience, however many times our services are employed after a company has built an IT infrastructure with a lack of direction. Our objective is to assess and define strategically what should be the right IT direction for your company.
Our goal is to gain clarification of the company's business objectives, measure the current IT design infrastructure, establish a viable strategy, and execute a plan to build a solid foundation for the business long term.
On select services we provide, Cornerstone Consulting partners with industry leaders to provide maximum value added services. We look forward to discussing your specific business objectives, and illustrating how Cornerstone Consulting can solve your business critical needs.
Interim CIO, VP or Director
If you have a requirement to fulfill an interim position while you're in search of a direct hire or a startup with a senior leadership need we can step in and shore up that position for you. We have a long history of making an immediate positive impact to companies in an interim basis.
Data Center
We are experts in data center build outs, design, building moves or consolidations. If you require the above or just need Project Management and oversight to bring your Data Center project to a successful completion. We will come alongside your team, build their experience and oversee the complexities assuring your company's transition to the Data Center.
Network
Service offerings: Network Core Infrastructure, Campus, Metropolitan and Wide Area Network design. An assessment completed as part of the envisioning phase to understand all aspects of your network infrastructure (connectivity, resiliency, disaster recovery, business continuance, internal and external resource requirements.
Server / Virtualization
Service offerings: Server infrastructure, analyze the virtualization, then plan and document current and future standards for hardware, operating systems, storage, backup and high-level active directory structure.
Security and Compliance
Assessments of both external and internal security designs, including application and databases focused on industry design best practices. Audit the SOX and PCI compliance control requirements and policies and procedures to support both.
Establishing what is SCOPE and should be audited, access controls, separation of duty, etc. A common industry trend is that SOX 404 control and processes are being adopted by non-public companies as their auditing and compliance standards and improving the IT processes.
Technical writing
Our experience has shown technical staff are not keen on the writing aspects of their job responsibilities, such as design documentation, network diagrams, etc. Cornerstone can assist in this area, establishing policies and procedures standards supporting SOX and PCI or other regulatory requirements. Once policies and procedures are established, the documents are now living and need to stay up to date.
Telecommunications
Telecom budget management and auditing is one of the most neglected areas in IT. The average savings found through the audit process is 32% which goes directly to the bottom line. The telecom budget is in most cases, one of the largest IT OPEX costs that require knowledgeable management. Most individuals that manage Telecom have not been adequately trained to perform their duties.
Working with Telecom companies is a difficult area to manage for companies. There are multiple facets to managing Telecom companies and the budget requires a solid understanding of the services your company is receiving. That is the reason most companies pay an invoice within ten percent of the previous month. The majority of Telecom companies follow through on timely orders and disconnects is poor and need tight scrutiny to only pay for services received.
Let us help drive a savings for your company.