Convergent Computing provides a multitude of Consulting design, planning, and hands-on implementation services. They include:

Windows 2008 Active Directory Planning,  Design, and Implementation	CCO was one of a handful of organizations on the Windows 2008 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) that helped organizations migrate from Windows 2000 and 2003 to Windows 2008. By the launch event in February 2008, CCO migrated hundreds of servers (in production environments) to Windows Server 2008. CCO's Consultants Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Ross Mistry, and Chris Amaris wrote and published (though Sams Publishing) the #1 selling book in the world on Windows 2008 (1432-pages) titled "Windows Server 2008 Unleashed" that released 2-weeks before the Windows 2008 product launch based on over 3-1/2 years of early adopter experience with Windows 2008. CCO's helps organizations understand what's new in Windows Server 2008 to either migrate a single server, or an entire Active Directory to the new operating system.
Exchange 2007 Migration Design, Planning, and Implementation	CCO was on the early adopter program for Exchange 2007 and had over 2-1/2 yrs of experience with Exchange 2007 before it's Jan/2007 launch. CCO's President, Rand Morimoto, along with 4 of CCOs consultants wrote what is now the #1 selling book in the world on Exchange 2007 titled "Exchange 2007 Unleashed" based on their years of experience. CCO's consultants are finding that organizations are not only having them design and plan a straight migration to Exchange 2007, but also implement the latest high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) technologies in Exchange that includes Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) on top of Windows 2008 stretch clusters where cluster nodes reside in multiple locations for the ultimate in HA and DR. Additionally, CCO finds itself helping organizations migrate from other messaging platforms to Exchange 2007 such as from Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise, and UnixMail. With expertise in other platforms other than Exchange, CCO understands the other messaging systems and easily helps organizations with cross-platform integration and migration assistance.
SharePoint 2007 Planning, Design, and Implementation	CCO has been working with SharePoint since the beta release of SharePoint 2001, years ago. Since that time, CCO has designed and implemented SharePoint solutions for many clients, ranging from non-profits to government agencies to world-wide enterprises. CCO consultants wrote an 850 page book, “SharePoint 2007 Unleashed” that covers in-depth configuration, implementation, and use of Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. CCO works with organizations to understand their business requirements and technology considerations, and then collaboratively designs and plans a SharePoint solution to meet their needs. CCO's SharePoint consulting services span not only SharePoint development (Web page and template designs and customization) but also SharePoint security, database replication, high availability, remote access, and mobile connectivity.  CCO provides SharePoint services end to end for an organization all the way from the executive office to the end user desktop.
System Center Configuration Mgr 2007 Architecture and Implementation	CCO assists organizations with the architecture planning, implementation, customization, and support of their System Center Configuration Mgr 2007 environments (SCCM/2007) CCO also assists with the planning and migration from SMS/2003 to SCCM/2007 to properly migrate an organization to the latest version of the systems management environment
System Center Operations Mgr 2007 Architecture and Implementation	CCO assists organizations with the architecture planning, implementation, customization, and support of their System Center Operations Mgr 2007 environments (SCOM/2007) CCO also assists with the planning and migration from MOM/2005 to SCOM/2007 to properly migrate an organization to the latest version of the enterprise monitoring environment
IP Scheme and DNS Redesign and Implementation	CCO not only provides operating system and application design planning assistance, but also infrastructure design assistance in the areas of IP Scheme and DNS redesigns. For security purposes, because of an ISP change, or to setup a more robust meshed network design, many organizations are redesigning their IP Scheme. Not only does this require the design of segment addressing, but also a method of migrating from the old scheme to the new scheme without drastic interruption to the operation of the business. CCO has helped dozens of organizations plan this redesign and staged implementation including DNS restructuring with minimal (if almost no) interruption of networking services to the organization. CCO provides best practice tips, tricks, and knowledge transfer based on successful previous implementations.
Security Audits and Reviews	With recent world events as well as State and Federal regulations (SOX for public companies, HIPAA for healthcare & GLBA for financial services), organizations are seriously evaluating their security systems to ensure they are protecting valuable organizational data assets. CCO consultants, Chris Amaris Andrew Abbate, and Rand Morimoto wrote the Pearson Education book "Network Security for Corporate Executives" that addresses security from desktops to servers to physical security and gateways to virus protection and wireless security. CCO performs network penetration tests, security reviews, and security audits, and has the ability to not only recommend best practices at improving an organization's security, but can roll its sleeves up and help an organization tune and optimize their systems to be secure, and can implement security appliances and tools for ongoing monitoring and security management.
LDAP / Active Directory Integration Design and Implementation	Many organizations have a mix of UNIX and Windows systems in their environment, and those with a multi-platform environment are constantly looking for ways to integrate the disparate directories each platform has. CCO, being a provider of services for both Microsoft Windows networking technologies as well as UNIX environments (SUN, Linux, HP/UX, AIX) provides assistance to organizations looking to plan and implement LDAP in their environment.
Single Sign-on / Identity Management Planning and Implementation Assistance	For years, organizations have had the dream of minimizing the number of times a user has to logon (logging on to the desktop, logging on to the mainframe, logging on to the accounting application, logging on to email, etc). The technology now exists that provides a method of creating a truly single sign-on directory environment by synchronizing directories between disparate systems. Because CCO is certified across multiple platforms (Windows, Netware, Unix, Lotus Notes, Exchange, Sendmail, Oracle, SQL, etc), the consultants at CCO provide assistance to organizations in the creation of a single sign-on and identity management environment.
Security Lockdown Assistance	Surveys have found that over 93% of CEOs want very high levels of security in their IT environments, however very few organizations have actually initiated the proper steps to lockdown the security of their networks. CCO helps organizations identify the holes in their networks (whether it be physical access holes, operating system holes, Internet holes, remote access holes, or the like) and provides hands-on assistance to plug-up the holes. Unlike many security consulting firms that only provide reports that security problems exist in an environment, CCO actually rolls up its sleeves and helps organizations implement the security that they want and need.
1-yr, 3-yr, 5-yr Technology Roadmap and Budget Planning	Every year organizations go through budget cycles to have funds allocated for the ongoing maintenance of their network as well as new technology implementations. CCO assists organizations by providing a vision of the next 1-5 years of the future of technologies that ultimately lead to a documented technology roadmap and IT budget plan CCO has a qualified vision into the future of technologies because of its role on the beta and development cycle of products 3-5 years before the technology releases.  CCO President, Rand Morimoto, keynotes conventions around the world on a very popular topic "IT Technology Trends: A Sneak Peek into the Future".
Clustering / Fault Tolerance / Disaster Recovery Planning, Design, and Implementation	More critical to organizations than keeping abreast with new technologies is the ability to provide business continuity of their existing technologies in the event of a system failure or disaster. CCO provides disaster recovery planning assistance that involves designs built around clustering technologies, fault tolerance failover technologies, offsite data centers, network attached mirroring technologies.
Netware eDirectory-NDS / Windows Server Migration support, and  Integration and Co-existence Planning	CCO is a Novell Gold authorized integrator and as a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, CCO has expertise in both networking environments. This allows clients to receive expert assistance at integrating or migrating from Novell eDirectory / NDS to a Microsoft Windows Active Directory environment, or to fully integrate the two directories together. CCO helps organizations plan, prepare, and integrate directories and operating systems to provide cross-platform services.
Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Co-Existence Gateway & Migration Planning, Design, and Implementation	In many enterprise environments, organizations frequently have both Lotus Notes as well as Microsoft Exchange messaging systems with the need to communicate between the two environments. CCO is a Lotus Notes Business Partner as well as Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with expertise in both platforms. CCO is extremely familiar with gateway products that allow both messaging systems to co-exist, as well as for organizations looking to migrate from Lotus Notes to Exchange, CCO is very familiar with tools available to migrate mailboxes as well as address books between environments.
Active Directory Group Policy Review, Planning, Design, and Implementation	One of the most valuable technologies built in to Microsoft Windows Active Directory is Group Policies. Group Policies allows the administrators of a network to centrally manage user and desktop configurations such as allowing users to drop to a CMD prompt or load software, the ability to modify system parameters, or the ability to push software and updates to systems. However to successfully design and implement an effective Group Policy structure is an art that someone with prior experience with Group Policies can provide significant value to anyone working with Group Policies for the first time. CCO has found best practices on what works and how the most common structure can be designed and implemented.
Desktop Imaging and Software Update Design, Planning, and Implementation	Organizations with a lot of desktop and laptop systems have found ways to image systems and provide software updates through a series of add-on products like Ghost and SMS. However there are several new technologies that have recently become available that further simplify the desktop imaging and software update process. Some of these new technologies include Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Remote Installation Service (RIS), Automatic System Recovery (ASR), Image-X, Windows Software Update Services (WSUS), and the like. CCO helps organizations understand new methods of leveraging built-in and new add-in technologies to simplify the desktop management process in an organization.
Document Management and Data Management Design, Planning, and Implementation	While disk storage has gotten cheap where an organization can easily put in hundreds of gigabytes of storage on the network, most of the information being stored (and backed up on a regular basis) is obsolete or duplicated information. With so much information, users have a hard time finding the information they want. New document management and data management technologies now provide organizations the ability to more easily store, look-up, and manage their information. CCO's consultants have written books on technologies like SharePoint Portal Server as well as Microsoft Index Service technologies that are just some of the tools available to assist organizations "get control" of their information.
Server Consolidation and System "Rightsizing" Planning and Implementation	Over the years many organizations have repeatedly added more servers to their network to serve the needs of specific departments, or to satisfy the performance demands of the growing organization.  However as server technology has improved that allows a single server to host a significantly larger base of users, plus organizations consolidating information access requirements with organizational servers instead of departmental servers, the ability to consolidate or "rightsize" server allocation can drastically lower the overall cost of operations for an organization. CCO authored the 100+ page "rightsizing" guide for Microsoft that helps organizations understand methods of minimizing the number of servers used in a file/print or messaging environment utilizing technologies like Distributed File System (DFS), Network Load Balancing (NLB), and by adding multiple databases to a system.