Data Center Modernization Services: Executive Overview
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Mergers and acquisitions. Expansion. Restructuring. Data center space constraints. Server redundancy. Application redundancy. Inefficiency.
Your company has grown and expanded, but so, too, has the number and complexity of your applications and servers. This growth has thrown information technology (IT) activity out of alignment with corporate strategy. Your IT environment has become harder to manage through a lack of governance and a number of duplicated functions, systems and supports. And underneath all the legacy systems is a grossly underused infrastructure.
Maintaining this environment can drive incremental IT costs to unacceptable levels. Because updates and fixes are done manually, you run the risk of errors, security problems and infrastructure downtime. Time to market and customer satisfaction levels suffer, causing you to lose your competitive edge.
Modernizing your data center will make it simpler, less costly to manage and more responsive to changing market conditions, creating business value for your organization. Several modernization strategies can help:
Data Center Modernization Services Packaging
EDS Data Center Modernization Services offers transition services, mainframe transition services and other transformational activities required to fully implement infrastructure rationalization plans. EDS Data Center Modernization Services packages are designed to support your existing infrastructure and prepare you for future modernization activities.
- Consolidating servers, storage systems, network devices, processors, applications, databases and sites to make your data center become agile, allowing you to increase IT usage while saving costs
- Automating your infrastructure to save you time and money on management processes
- Virtualizing infrastructure assets to help you share resources across multiple applications and departments, maximizing use and ROI
EDS can assess your current IT situation and help chart a future direction. We'll provide a modernization plan customized for your business that creates a standardized and highly automated hosting environment to support your business goals. By realigning your IT with your business goals, you can reduce resource complexity; increase information security; improve IT usage, availability and responsiveness; and reduce total IT cost of ownership by up to 40 percent.
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
American Airlines
EDS is behind the continued success of American Airlines. Our Data Center Modernization Services helped the carrier migrate, consolidate, automate and virtualize infrastructure assets so it could respond faster to changing market conditions.