Server Management Services: Business Case
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Your servers are the backbone of your business. But, are you getting real value from them? Over time, you've accumulated a number of applications on a variety of server platforms resulting in a chaotic, complicated infrastructure. It's likely your server environment is customized with rigid applications, making it difficult and costly to manage. Complex support processes only add to your costs. Your server environment features a number of unsupported products resulting in questionable service and recoverability. Frequent breakdowns, downtime and security breaches threaten your business productivity. And, if all that isn't enough, your server environment is underutilized by 80 percent or more. You need to do something to alleviate the situation, but what?
You need to transform your server environment by consolidating and standardizing it. Simplifying the infrastructure and reducing the number of servers is the first step to increasing reliability, availability and efficiency. Then you also have to secure your data and prevent downtime. And you have to increase your server environment's agility so you're able to adapt quickly to unpredictable market and regulatory changes.
By transitioning your server management to EDS, your business applications and databases can run reliably, securely and cost efficiently. We can plan, configure, host and provide the ongoing support you need to manage your server environment either from our global data centers or in your own facilities. Standardization, automation and better insight into your server operations means you no longer have to worry about server downtime and security breaches.
We also align your technology with your business needs to optimize the value of your information technology (IT) assets and boost your competitive advantage. By transforming your server environment, you'll:
- Reduce your total cost of ownership
- Decrease complexity
- Improve your responsiveness and productivity
- Achieve higher levels of system availability and greater efficiency
- Increase speed to market
- Enhance security
Optimize Your Server Operations
When you move your IT workload to an EDS facility, your company will benefit from our flexible, shared infrastructure that uses global resources and facilities, as well as economies of scale, standardized processes and efficiencies. Once you make the shift, we can help optimize your server operations and reduce your total cost of ownership over time. We can also manage your servers at your own facility.
Improve Your Server Reliability
Downtime is costly to your business. Our server management solution increases the integrity and stability of your IT environment, minimizing disruptive downtime so your data is always available when you need it.
Enhance Your Application and Data Security
Threats to your critical business data jeopardize your company's success. Vital data must always be available, but only to those authorized to access it. By reducing risk and increasing protection levels, you can ensure critical information is always secure and within the reach of the right people. Our security management, disaster recovery services and hardened data centers secure your data and maintain business continuity.
Increase Your Productivity
To remain competitive in a demanding marketplace, you need to provide more for your customers at a lower cost. That means you have to be more efficient and productive. EDS Server Management Services automates and streamlines your processes. The result: improved systems that maximize performance and productivity.
Reduce Costs
We can reduce your operational costs with technologies such as server virtualization. We'll examine your current model to determine which servers can be consolidated or how many of them can be eliminated, reducing your operational costs.
Adapt Quickly to Changes
Your ability to respond quickly to fluctuating market conditions and regulatory changes can determine your future success or failure. EDS helps increase your agility by providing flexible server capacity, as well as standardized and scalable solutions that support your growth. We align your technology needs to your specific business requirements so you have the right infrastructure to adapt quickly to changing business conditions and demands.
Server Management Services Packaging
EDS clients receive system management and monitoring services to support high levels of security and system availability. Our world-class talent and facilities provide you with the peace of mind that your IT infrastructure will enable your business to support your clients.
A Unique Solution Matched to Your Unique Needs
Our modular service structure allows you to select various features that best meet your unique server needs. We can also help you establish your own long-term technology road map to take advantage of the latest in server technologies, such as server virtualization.
Base Services
- Server Deployment
- Hardware Asset Tracking
- Facilities Management
- Remote Server Support
- Operating System Management
- Server Security
- Request Management
- Problem Management
- Change Management
- Client Support
Optional Services
- Middleware Management
- Database Monitoring & Management
- Database Performance Management
- Cluster Management
- Batch Monitoring & Management
- Image Performance Management
- Capacity Planning
- Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization
- Planning
- Consolidating
- Host Image Support
- Guest Image Support
Choose EDS
We will work with you to:
- Reduce your long-term operating and capital costs
- Improve your server stability, reliability and availability
- Protect your customer data and maintain business continuity
- Simplify your server environment
- Mitigate your transition risk
- Continue to evolve your server environment
Leveraging our dependable service and technological innovation - from transition to transformation with secure, stable and scalable data centers and standard tools for server monitoring and management, we help you remain competitive.
The value you get in transitioning your data center management to EDS translates to:
- Increased server utilization and lower total cost of ownership through site and server consolidation, automation, standardization and virtualization
- Faster provisioning of new servers
- Improved scalability of your server resources
- Increased efficiencies and global reach
- Reduced operating and support costs
- Enhanced security
- Download the Server Management Services At-A-Glance PDF, 105K
- Download the Server Virtualization Fact Sheet PDF, 73K
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
Financial Services Industry
EDS is behind the continued success of financial services companies. Our Server Management Services consolidates your server environment, reduces its complexity, while improving its reliability, availability and protection for your vital data.