Data Center Modernization Services: Technical Summary
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Your company is probably only using 15 to 20 percent of its available server and storage capacity and 70 percent of the systems are legacy, residing on underutilized infrastructure. The cost of supporting this highly complex, fragmented and inefficient environment is consuming up to 90 percent of your annual information technology (IT) budget. The manual updates and fixes made over the years have made your environment vulnerable to errors, security problems and downtime.
You need to modernize your data center infrastructure to make it simpler, less costly to manage and more responsive to your business needs.
EDS can help you modernize your data center environment. Employing global resources and expertise, we'll work with you to develop a plan that meets your needs – one that reduces resource complexity, increases information security and improves service delivery efficiency. Our plan will deliver a highly automated hosting environment residing in one or more of our data centers or at a location of your choice.
We'll help migrate, consolidate, automate and virtualize your infrastructure assets. We'll also standardize your underlying business processes, architectural frameworks and support tools. And so you can be sure we're delivering the service levels and performance metrics agreed on, we'll do periodic reassessments and perform additional transformation activities.
Data Center Modernization Framework
Modernizing your data center involves the following steps:
- Assess: Conduct an infrastructure rationalization assessment and develop a modernization road map
- Transform: Modernize your portfolio through:
- Consolidation
- Automation
- Virtualization
- Manage: Execute on ongoing benchmarks and metrics for reducing return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) in the management of your:
- Servers
- Mainframes
- Storage
- Network
Assessing Your Infrastructure
By aligning your business and technology goals, we help identify:
- Inefficient data center support models
- Redundant or obsolete infrastructure
- Transformation strategies to leverage and optimize the right data center components
The Four Step Process To Developing Your Modernization Road Map and Case For Change:
Step #1: Define Current State
- Identify data requirements and confirm availability
- Customize data gathering tools and templates
- Identify resources
- Establish teams, committees and schedules
- Suggest areas that need improvement
- Define scope and approach
Step #2: Outline Future State
- Collect and analyze key application and infrastructure data
- Review existing processes and/or functional area business requirements
- Assess and validate improvement opportunities
- Identify potential implementation options
Step #3: Conduct Gap Analysis
- Assess application and infrastructure portfolio, and current projects
- Identify overlaps and targets
- Analyze application and infrastructure complexity
- Define new technical architecture
- Develop solution approaches based on modernization strategies
- Conduct high-level cost/benefit analysis
- Make recommendations
Step #4: Plan
- Prioritize opportunities and develop a decommissioning plan
- Develop transition strategy and approach
- Assess risks and mitigation plans
- Define demand and portfolio management plan
- Plan high-level execution of the modernization road map
- Define/finalize your business case for change
Transforming Your Infrastructure
The transformation path consists of:
Consolidation: Reduces the number of servers, storage systems, network devices, processors, applications, databases and sites to increase usage, cost savings and manageability
Automation: Saves time and money on infrastructure managements processes such as asset tracking, application and patch provisioning, code deployment, rollback, monitoring and failover, and assigning computing resources
Virtualization: Creates server, storage and network pools to share resources across multiple applications and departments to maximize utilization and ROI at minimum cost.
Managing Your Infrastructure
We employ a Transformation Lifecycle concept to manage your enterprise over a number of years through its transformation process. Transformation Lifecycle consists of careful strategizing, planning and executing key process milestones to get your enterprise transformed into an agile enterprise that is highly automated, standardized and self-managed.
We Adapt Our Process Based On What's Important To Your Business So You Can
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.
- Reduce costs
- Retire applications
- Improve efficiency
- Improve the allocation and composition of your IT staff
- Better meet end-user expectations
- Increase your company's return on investment
- Grow your company's revenue
- Gain a better handle on assessing risk
- Increase time to market of products/services
The Right Partner To Modernize Your Data Center Infrastructure
You want to improve your IT infrastructure's efficiency, uptime and success rates. We can help. When you choose EDS, you can dramatically increase each server's capacity usage to between 60 to 80 percent. By taking advantage of our experience in managing and improving IT portfolios, you'll reduce total cost of ownership by up to 40 percent. You'll also gain the ability to provision new servers and applications in seconds, not days. And your ability to respond to change requests will take just minutes. Human error and system downtime will decrease, while your success rates for application and patch rollouts will improve.
With almost half a century of experience facilitating enterprise-level IT transformations for clients in every industry on most operating systems, hardware platforms and legacy mainframe environments, EDS can improve your IT data center infrastructure. Our proven strategy ensures a successful transformation of your IT environment. From project definition and startup, to design and construction, to post-implementation, we'll develop and carry out the right plan to increase productivity and help achieve your goals.
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.