Data Center IT Optimization & Transformation
The enterprise business’s ability to be agile, dynamic and competitive is in large part determined by the responsiveness and efficiency of its IT data centers. The IT data centers are at the heart of the business of the enterprise. Optimizing and transforming your data center are essential to attain greater business agility critical to sustainable growth and profitability.
Many of today data centers house largely under-utilized, rigid, isolated infrastructure silos that were deployed in a great haste to satisfy the demands of the rapid economic growth of the last two decades. As a result, large part (more than 70 percent) of IT budgets is allocated to sustain these inefficient environments. This has greatly constrained IT budgets and left little funds to finance strategic business-oriented initiatives. Data center optimization & transformation solutions can be deployed to aid the enterprise to maximize operational efficiency and resource utilization and to free up budget and resource to engage more vital strategic initiatives that could accelerate the growth of the business.
We help clients to carefully analyze and assess their IT environments in order to develop a road map to set them on their journey to optimize and transform their data centers to better support a high performing business. We offer consulting services to assist clients to incrementally stage an effective data center optimization and transformation project to implement and support a dynamic business-centric, highly available, scalable, cost-efficient, reliable and secure data center.
Data center optimization and transformation solutions:
- Tightly aligning the IT infrastructure and function with overall business goals, models and strategies. This is critical for pushing the business forward by adapting the IT infrastructure to support business performance.
- Attaining greater IT flexibility and innovation to gain business agility in order to quickly respond to rapidly changing market and business dynamics. Such agility is essential for supporting sustainable business growth and profitability.
- Correctly plat forming the data center to deliver the required QoS (quality of service) by choosing the optimum platform for each business application and workload. The correct platform
- must deliver the business services at the required levels of performance, availability, reliability, security and cost efficiency.
- must have abundant scalability and capacity to meet expected future growth requirements.
- must be adaptable and integral element of the enterprise's distributed IT environment.
- Increasing overall operational efficiency and maximizing resource utilization of the data center. This contains costs and in-turn release funds and resources that can be reallocated to engage more strategic initiatives. Clients can save money in their operating budget to fund projects critical to optimizing and transforming their IT. This ensures the affordability of the project and ROI right from the onset.
- Optimizing the management of the data center by shifting to a horizontal, business-centric management approach and transitioning from a siloed platform-based and IT-centric approach. This is a crucial element to attain effective business service management and to derive utmost business value from your IT infrastructures.
- Pushing the IT environment to a top efficiency:
- maximizing resource utilization.
- deploying virtualization technology and consolidating workloads to save big on costs to operate, manage, software-license, power, cool and house the data center.
- lowering maintenance and overall operation costs.
- simplifying overall IT management and cutting its cost.
- improving the end user’s ability to interface with the applications.
- establishing effective capacity planning disciplines.
- planning change control and supplying release management and testing tools and automation.
- early-on monitoring and solving of IT problems.
- advancing disaster recovery capabilities.