At Horizon Systems, we pride ourselves on being true solution providers, not just a reseller of products. We work closely with our customers to provide the best and most cost-effective technology solutions to address the business problems facing your organization. We measure our success by your satisfaction.
Our focus is on enabling technologies supporting IT alignment with your company's business. All of the systems you are running today require care and attention on a regular basis. We start with education of options and the effects they bring to your environment. We train staff on how to maximize the utilization of these systems and how to be even more self reliant. We also provide the hardware, software, and supporting services which are scalable in a predictive manner. This is the formula we deliver to our customers which allows your users and management to be more effective at what they do.
If you're a C-level executive, we understand you need your information systems to be a competitive weapon in the marketplace in a cost effective manner. You also need real-time intelligence and access to information which is necessary to help your company succeed. Horizon Systems can help guide your decisions based upon your goals and needs.
If you're in IT management or operations, Horizon Systems can help you get the best results from everything between application development and production operations. We work with you to resolve problems with manufacturers, reach and maintain service level objectives, and reduce operating costs. We'll help you design and implement systems which are cost-effective, easy to manage, and based upon industry standard architectures. A responsive IT department which is supportive to the rest of the company is viewed corporately as an asset, we help you get and stay there as your company grows.
Here are some of our areas of expertise:
- Servers - We represent a full line of servers from Sun Microsystems for companies running Windows, Linux, Virtual Servers and UNIX operating systems. Sun servers are winners of multiple industry awards, and have the best price/performance numbers in the industry. Sun's line of AMD Opteron and Intel based servers offers outstanding performance at a price point competitive with mass-market vendors. Find out why commodity servers which are simply assembled can't compete with systems that have been actually designed with operations in mind.
- Storage and Data Management - Data is the lifeblood of your IT organization. Horizon Systems offers disk and tape storage systems from Sun StorageTek, Hitachi Data Systems, Symantec Veritas and more. We know primary storage and archival storage have completely different characteristics and price points. Having an ability to replicate data effectively within a Disaster Recovery environment is important too. We believe in tiered storage environments and practicing information life cycle management. We help roll all of the elements together to ensure your company's information is protected, managed and is most importantly available when you need it.
- Network Security - We provide solutions that protect your organization from the 3 major points of entry. Email Communications, Web technologies, and application aware Firewall protection. In a Web 2.0 environment, there are more vulnerabilities than ever before. Even if your company does not provide a Web 2.0 enabled site you are still at risk by simply visiting one. Any user of your network which may visit a new social networking site for business or pleasure can invite malware or viruses that can attack your servers and desktops very quickly, a zero day attacks. We provide solutions from Secure Computing, that prevent problems from ever being introduced by a user accidentally. Reputation based technologies and management reporting are key components which allow us to provide you with network based security systems which work effectively together.
- Authentication and Digital Identities - Horizon Systems understands that you must enable remote information workers and provide multiple layers of authentication. We provide solutions for securing digital identities and information. Today, most companies rely on directory services such as Active Directory or LDAP to maintain a centralized data store of user identities and group membership. We provide solutions such as multi-factor authentication, One Time Passwords, and Key based systems that are cost effective and reduce help desk interaction to support your remote workforce. Horizon Systems and Entrust (www.entrust.com) have partnered to provide you solutions to protect and authenticate digital identities for over 5 years now.
- Server Virtualization - This is a very interesting and hot topic for many of our customers. Embraced as a technology that is the right thing to do in many circumstances. Horizon Systems provide solutions from VMWare, Citrix Xen Server, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. We specialize in Virtual Desktop environments and Thin Client Computing which couple tightly with virtualization. Some operating systems have virtualization built into them already. We work with our customers to explore what is right for them, which systems are candidates for virtualization and how to manage server sprawl because of this powerful and enabling technology.
- End Point Protection - Often referred to as Anti-virus and Malware protection. Horizon Systems provides solutions for detecting and preventing computers from being "infected" with viral laden software focused on disrupting your daily operations instead of core business concerns. We provide solutions that are easily managed from central consoles, deployed to multiple regional offices and at-home workforce employees. Providing solutions from McAfee and Symantec at a corporate or business level which can protect your systems from being infected and causing corporate outages.
- Database and Application Technologies - Horizon Systems can provide you with products and services to enable your application development and production database software systems. We provide database technologies from Oracle and Sun Microsystems's MySQL product lines. For high capacity and performance systems Oracle's RDBMS has been and continues to be the defacto standard in database technologies. For systems that want to start out small and grow to extremely large deployments there is no better solution. Oracle's Clustering technology allows for multiple servers to act as a single database and provide highly available data services in a native fashion with Real Application Clusters. For installations where Open Source solutions are the roots of an application and MySQL was the base, we provide licensing and support for the database that got you there.
Horizon Systems works hard to bring you industry standard solutions which allow for staff mobility, effective operations, overall reduced costs, and simplification of complex problems. We promote technologies which are proven to us in the field, and share methods of success we have learned though the 30+ years we've served in this industry.
