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We provide end-to-end solutions, from assessments to implementation, for approaching every corner of technology transformations.
Sterling’s Advisory Services provide transformative partnerships designed to elevate your organization’s IT horizons. We offer comprehensive expertise and a collaborative approach to deliver tailored IT solutions that ensure seamless integration, resilience, and innovation across your infrastructure. Our expert guidance span the entire IT lifecycle, including insightful assessments, forward-thinking designs, skillful implementations, and even committed residency options for long-term support. By partnering with Sterling, clients gain strategic insights and end-to-end solutions, leveraging our proven track record with government agencies and private enterprises to drive business forward.
Sterling carefully approaches every client problem with extreme care and understanding from first contact to deployment and beyond. We’re dedicated to strengthening technology partnerships, cultivating knowledge, and producing positive outcomes. Every step in our approach is a milestone to your mission success.
Sterling begins with an informal discussion followed by a series of in-depth assessments to identify vulnerabilities, inefficiencies, and opportunities for growth.
Sterling's experts develop forward-thinking strategies based on our findings. We create the blueprints towards innovative solutions.
Sterling ensures a seamless integration of our solutions, verifying everything is running correctly at optimal performance.
Throughout the entire process, Sterling provides strategic insights and expert advice. We emphasize a collaborative approach.
Sterling assesses your data, infrastructure, and workforce to identify gaps and opportunities towards your AI transformation. We align your AI strategy with measurable business outcomes, provide a detailed AI journey assessment, a high-level roadmap, and estimated costs. Our strategic approach empowers clients to confidently embrace AI capabilities, transforming initiatives into actionable steps towards long-term success.
Gain expert guidance towards fortifying your digital defenses. Our certified engineers conduct in-depth assessments of your network, infrastructure, and security protocols to identify vulnerabilities and risks. We then draft customized strategies aligned with industry frameworks like NIST and Zero Trust, covering next-gen firewalls, MFA, endpoint, and cloud security. Get strategic security planning, robust implementation, and ongoing optimization to ensure compliance and resilience against evolving threats.
Transform your IT backbone for future success with Sterling. We conduct all-encompassing assessments that enable us to carefully design and implement tailored solutions. Experience true performance, enhanced security, and heightened efficiency with our direction. Learn how Sterling can professionally align technology with your business goals to drive efficiency and maximize ROI.
Sterling’s provides insightful assessments of your current cloud landscape that enable our Cloud Architects to design tailored solutions addressing costs, efficiencies, vulnerabilities, and scalability. Our team offers guidance into cloud services, configurations, and optimizations that leverage partnerships with leading providers. We focus on reducing risks and aligning solutions with your unique goals, propelling your organization forward with confidence.
Sterling empowers organizations to thrive in today’s dynamic digital landscape. We assess your current environments to optimize digital workspaces, boosting productivity and fostering seamless collaboration. Our experts design and implement solutions that enable unified endpoint management, secure data access, and streamlined application delivery throughout the network. We focus on enhancing efficiency, reducing IT complexities, and enabling a flexible workforce that’s future ready.
Sterling conducts thorough networking assessments that discover current infrastructure, performance bottlenecks, and security gaps. Our experts then design tailored, scalable, and secure network solutions, leveraging leading technology partner integrations and our advanced networking competencies. We provide strategic guidance for implementing these designs, including precise deployment and configuration. Gain a robust, resilient network infrastructure for long-term success.
Our Modern Infrastructure services help in pinpointing where organizations need help in upgrading, optimizing, or securing their current infrastructure. We also provide services that help in producing the pillars of your data center through secure, compliant practices and allow for problem-free implementation.
Our VMware experts seamlessly transition and enhance performance for virtualized environments. We conduct comprehensive assessments that identify inefficiencies and strategize migrations to cloud platforms or modern VDI solutions like Horizon Cloud. Our experts optimize existing VMware deployments, such as vSphere and VMware Horizon, through health checks, system updates, and performance tuning. We also manage complex migrations, such as VMware NSX-T Data Centers, while ensuring minimal disruptions. The goal is to streamline operations, improve stability, reduce costs, and align your VMware infrastructure with evolving business goals for maximum value.
Experience robust VMware security and compliance frameworks that leverage our team’s extensive backgrounds and certifications. Our broad project background across all VCF components enables comprehensive security implementation from compute to storage. Through our powerful advanced networking and security expertise, we will fortify your VMware environment, protect data, mitigate risks, and ensure adherence to stringent regulatory standards across your entire virtualized infrastructure.
Automate and orchestrate VMware security and operational tasks to enhance efficiency and consistency with our VMware Automation Services. We leverage tools like VMware vRealize Automation and NSX to streamline deployments, manage configurations, and enforce security policies programmatically. This includes automating patching, compliance checks, incident response workflows, and resource provisioning. By orchestrating these tasks, we reduce manual effort, minimize human error, and accelerate response times for both security events and routine operations, ensuring a more resilient, compliant, and agile VMware environment.
Our comprehensive VMware Support Services ensures optimal performance and value across your virtualized infrastructure. Our experts offer in-depth troubleshooting for complex environments like VMware Horizon, identifying root causes and resolving issues efficiently. We also focus on continued optimization for vSphere, vCenter, and VDI solutions through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and implementing best practices. This ensures your VMware investments are continuously enhanced for efficiency, scalability, and reliability, freeing your team from day-to-day management burdens.
Sterling provides comprehensive VMware training and knowledge transfer to empower customer teams for self-sufficiency. Our experts deliver tailored sessions covering the design, deployment, and operational procedures of VMware solutions like vSphere, Horizon, and vRealize. This includes hands-on guidance, best practices, and detailed documentation. We ensure your team gains the practical skills and understanding necessary to confidently manage, troubleshoot, and optimize your VMware environment, maximizing your investment and fostering long-term operational independence.
Sterling’s VMware Advisory Services provide strategic guidance and architectural leadership, helping clients define their long-term vision for virtualization, cloud, and digital workspace. We develop strategic roadmaps, design complex VMware ecosystems, and advise on cost optimization, licensing, governance, and compliance. Our expertise ensures VMware solutions align with broader digital transformation goals, driving agility, scalability, and enhanced user experience for mission success.
Sterling’s Modern Data Center Assessment reduces TCO of aging infrastructure, automates lifecycle management, optimizes performance with analytics, and plans for storage growth, leveraging cloud-ready innovations.
Provides comprehensive visibility of backup infrastructure, remediates slow/failing backups, and identifies deduplication storage to boost efficiency and reduce network bandwidth.
Offers comprehensive visibility of network infrastructure, identifies actionable security risks, and provides best practice compliance checking to optimize network performance.
Reviews cloud and on-premises environments comprehensively for disaster recovery, security, compliance, and sustainability, identifying improvement opportunities.
Handle storage efficiently with a Storage Assessment. Our experts evaluate storage infrastructure health, performance, and capacity growth needs. Identify any misconfigurations and find consolidation opportunities to reduce TCO and optimize responsiveness.
Assesses virtual desktop environments (VDI) to identify inefficiencies, improve performance, analyze login times, and optimize resource allocations based on best practices.
Utilizes Ekahau tools for onsite/remote wireless surveys, assessing WLAN performance, reliability, and identifying issues. Creates predictive heatmaps for optimal access point placement.
Evaluates current disaster recovery strategies and capabilities, assessing readiness, identifying vulnerabilities, and recommending solutions for business continuity and long-term data retention.
A quick self-assessment tool providing a snapshot of an organization’s cybersecurity defense readiness, identifying vulnerabilities and guiding efforts to fortify defenses.
Expert evaluations identify vulnerabilities, provide actionable insights, and recommend customized security solutions to strengthen defenses and safeguard digital assets.
Remotely optimizes FortiGate environments by reviewing performance, configurations, security, VPN, and compliance, providing best practice recommendations and knowledge transfer.
Remotely assesses Carbon Black Protection system health, agent status, policy effectiveness, execution controls, security events, integration, compliance, and backup/DR processes.
Evaluates Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) health, configuration, and security. Identifies vulnerabilities in certificate management, authentication, and authorization processes for improved trust.
Assesses SCCM and Intune environments, performs gap analysis, provides recommendations, and develops a roadmap for optimized endpoint and application management.
Remotely assesses device readiness for Windows 11 migration, focusing on Intune best practices for usability, governance, security, and administration training.
Assesses an organization’s cybersecurity program and architecture against frameworks like CIS CSC, providing gap analysis, remediation recommendations, and a strategic roadmap.
Simulates cyberattacks to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in networks and applications, validating security controls and providing detailed remediation reports.
Continuously measures an organization’s external risk posture, benchmarks security performance, and provides monthly mitigation strategies to reduce attack vectors.
Evaluates existing Splunk environments for health, configuration, and performance, identifying areas for optimization and best practice alignment.
Assesses readiness for migrating Splunk to the cloud, evaluating current configurations, data, and integrations to plan a smooth transition.
Conducts a SWOT analysis of a Microsoft Teams environment, evaluating strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to optimize collaboration and security.
Forward-thinking strategies for data center modernization, migration planning, and cybersecurity, tailored to an organization’s unique objectives. This also includes optimizing data sharing platforms.
Expert execution of solutions for data center refreshes, automation, orchestration, multi-cloud environments, and cybersecurity.
Providing dedicated professionals to work alongside a client’s team, offering on-site expertise for seamless and efficient integration of IT solutions, with flexible, long-term options.
Sterling has strived for excellence in everything we do regardless of company size or level of government. We’ve been a trusted resource for federal agencies, state and local governments, entire school districts, commercial industries, healthcare institutions, AI leaders, and so much more. Explore some of our client verticals and get the right solution for your specific industry.
Sterling's advisory services provide federal customers with strategic insights and expert guidance. Our cleared solutions architects offer in-depth assessments, visionary design, and masterful implementation, helping agencies navigate complex IT, optimize budgets, and achieve mission-critical goals with security and compliance, including FedRAMP ATO assistance
Read MoreSterling's consulting services empower SLED customers with tailored IT strategies. Our experts provide insightful assessments, visionary design, and masterful implementation to navigate budget constraints and complex demands. We optimize IT infrastructure, enhance security, and drive efficiency, ensuring solutions align with evolving educational and governmental needs.
Read MoreSterling's consulting services provide commercial customers with tailored IT strategies and expert guidance. We offer insightful assessments, visionary design, and masterful implementation to align with business goals, drive efficiency, and foster innovation. Our support ensures IT security, compliance, and digital transformation across diverse sectors like healthcare, finance, and retail.
Read MoreSterling partnered with Dell to produce an advanced AI Factory for Leidos, a leading innovation company specializing in national defense technology. This significant project involved deploying high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers, PowerScale storage, and NVIDIA networking, optimized with Red Hat OpenShift for large-scale AI/ML workloads. Sterling’s certified engineers provided crucial onsite hardware configuration, virtualization strategy, and a comprehensive three-day training program covering hardware, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, and OpenShift. This end-to-end solution, including system testing and knowledge transfer, showcases Sterling’s deep expertise in delivering complex, secure, and scalable AI infrastructure alongside NVIDIA product enhancements.
Sterling, alongside Dell and NVIDIA, was named a 2025 Corporate Partner of the Year by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Foundation. This recognition highlights their leadership in deploying advanced simulation and AI ecosystems. Specifically, Sterling and Dell delivered the essential hardware, storage infrastructure, and systems integration to implement NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform at NPS. This included the physical setup of Dell PowerEdge R760XA servers and core NVIDIA software deployment. This collaborative effort fuels AI-enabled research, modeling, and simulation, establishing a first-of-its-kind capability within the Department of the Navy to accelerate AI adoption and innovation.
Sterling worked with NVIDIA and Dell to deploy HGX systems for a federal agency to enable secure generative AI experimentation. Sterling played a pivotal role in bridging the partnership between Dell and NVIDIA to operationalize the unique system configurations, overcoming conflicts between the two entities’ frameworks. Our expert engineers deployed Dell XE9680 servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and Mellanox networking, alongside PowerScale storage and full infrastructure for the customer, leading to the successful deployment of the HGX system. Sterling’s integration and engineering expertise were crucial for delivering this advanced AI solution.
Sterling’s Advisory Services, part of our comprehensive Consulting offerings, provide expert guidance to elevate your IT strategy. We begin with Insightful Assessments of your current environment (security, network, cloud, applications) to identify opportunities. Next, our team delivers Visionary Design & Architecture, crafting tailored strategies for modernization, migration, and cybersecurity. We then ensure Masterful Implementation of these solutions. For ongoing, hands-on support, our Committed Residency places dedicated professionals with your team. This collaborative approach ensures customized, resilient IT solutions, empowering your organization with strategic insights and seamless integration to drive business growth.
You can trust Sterling’s guidance due to our nearly three decades of industry experience and a proven track record as a transformational partner. We are recognized leaders, holding numerous prestigious and top-tier certifications. Our highly skilled and certified engineering staff and consultants possess deep technical expertise across diverse IT landscapes, from client to cloud. We combine this with a consultative, ethical approach and a secure supply chain, ensuring tailored, compliant, and impactful solutions that consistently exceed customer expectations.
Advisory Service durations vary significantly based on the project’s scope and complexity. Shorter engagements can range from 16 to 80 hours, often completed within one to four weeks. More comprehensive consulting projects, such as FedRAMP authorization assistance or complex infrastructure designs, might span two to several months. For ongoing, hands-on support, our Residency Services offer flexible long-term options, ranging from one month to over three years. We tailor the timeline to your specific needs, ensuring efficient and effective delivery.
Understand your current system limitations and identify vulnerabilities while gaining invaluable knowledge on where to go next. Sterling brings you industry talent and guidance that enables your organization to benefit from the latest technologies and efficient services. Learn what you should do next and gain a competitive edge through secure, scalable technology directions with Sterling.