IT Consultants from CenturyLink leverage their proven methodologies and experience to help modernize, optimize and standardize your IT ecosystem for efficiently and securely supporting the needs of your business.​ CenturyLink® IT Consulting experts provides a set of practices to help you address your emerging needs as well as those that plague your existing performance. IT Consultants from CenturyLink will leverage their proven methodologies and experience to help modernize, optimize, standardize your IT ecosystem for efficiently and securely supporting the needs of your business.​ • Network Discovery and Assessment – This offering discovers and assesses the enterprise IP Network and provides future state recommendations based on stated business objectives and tool based data collection and analysis. The focus is on strategic design improvements that could allow the system to more reliably achieve organizational goals. ​ • Network Modernization and Optimization – The offering looks to provide a consolidations of network elements and technology (vendor’s). Focus on standardizing network configurations and processes, providing bandwidth and capacity where needed and in-line with growth and existing programs.​ ​• Disaster Recovery Planning – The process centric offering looks to provide classic Disaster Recovery planning with the development of strategies based on company requirements, tactical implementation of well defined processes, and testing considerations from Table Top to Mock DR drills. ​ • Cloud Readiness Assessment – Assist with the alignment of business goals and the development of a Cloud strategy. Analysis, recommendations, roadmaps, risk and reward are all part of the focus with the Journey to the Cloud which also considers the merging of Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery considerations.​ • Datacenter Baseline Assessment – This work package is phase 1 discovery and assessment needed for all data center consulting engagements. Inventory and Life cycle reporting, dependency mappings, risk, issues and gap analysis all lead to the delivery of a solid baseline from which multiple opportunities can launch. ​ • Datacenter Optimization – This work package is designed to identify optimal benefits that can be realized with the least amount of effort. Process specific action plans for stabilization of chronic issues, guidelines for monitoring, correlation and surveillance are key. The focus on optimization with right size the environment introduce controls, processes and next steps on the maturity life cycle. ​