With more than 1,000 users spread across 100 retail stores and in offices worldwide, Steve Madden wanted to better leverage its infrastructure investment while introducing next-generation technologies.
Align had been providing support to Steve Madden for more than five years. When its business plan required a significant IT investment to support international growth, Steve Madden turned to its trusted advisor, Align, to develop a holistic solution to help the company address:
- End-of-life network and systems equipment
- Data center space constraints
- DR and BCP challenges
- New application integration
- Antiquated WAN technologies
Align’s technology engineers met this challenge by developing and deploying a scalable and highly available architecture for the production systems. One of the key requirements was cross training and educating Steve Madden’s support staff to be able to handle day-to-day operations. Working closely with Madden engineers, Align designed, engineered, deployed and thoroughly documented the solutions to deliver knowledge transfer and training that ensured a smooth transition.
With Align’s expertise in network, IP telephony, Microsoft technologies and advanced virtualization deployments, Align delivered on time and on budget with 100 percent uptime. We continue to work with Steve Madden on numerous projects and are currently helping the company transition to a Windows 7 and Exchange 2010 environment that utilizes a VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) globally.