Many small and mid-sized organizations deploy technology solutions directly into a production environment then suffer the consequences of their actions. The most common reason is that they lack the resources and infrastructure to replicate production systems and applications into a laboratory environment. This prevents them from utilizing "best practice" methodologies to integrate new solutions and gain insight from an impact study on the production environment. Unfortunately, many organizations and managers do not realize the true business cost of such deployment practices. The downtime, lost opportunities, and negative user experience with technology deployments can be avoided!

WSN maintains a technology lab which contains an infrastructure found in many production environments. Our lab resources include:

	Local and Wide Area Network Connectivity
	Network Infrastructure
	Operating System Infrastructure
	Server and Application Infrastructure
	Virtualization
	Client Application Infrastructure
	IP Telephony Infrastructure
	Unified Communications Infrastructure
	Security Infrastructure

Through our strategic partnerships, WSN participates in programs that provide access to thousands of software and hardware solutions for the purpose of evaluation and proof of concept. This allows us to replicate many environments in our lab to study the impact on your production environment. The insight gained in our lab keeps our clients running with five nines of reliability and uptime (99.999%). Period.

The advantages to this approach are:

	Eliminate deployment costs overruns
	Significantly improved project deployment scheduling
	Eliminate deployment risks
	Increased user acceptance
	Positive user perception of IT initiatives
	Utilize IT "Best Practices"
	Eliminate production downtime