Data Center Transformation
W&G Data Center Transformation practice engagements build on I&O Modernization with services designed to assist customers with data center moves, migrations, and consolidations of one or more sites. We employ our unique approach that will enable growth, reduce cost, and increase speed and agility while minimizing risk.
Transformation = New approaches in the data center
At the heart of our practice are several supporting areas that are transformative in nature, including:
- Standardization
- Consolidation/Rationalization
- Virtualization
- Automation
- Data Center Management and Operations
We integrate all of these supporting concepts into each engagement, applying them across your people, processes, and technologies. We approach transformation at every touch point: the business, operations, applications, infrastructure, and facilities.
- Value-Driven Goals
value-driven goals
Some of the common goals of W&G Data Center Transformation engagements are to:
- Save OPEX with IT consolidation and rationalization
- Reduce costs further with energy and space savings
- Standardize data center management and operations processes
- Ability to scale and respond to new business initiatives
- Establish flexible disaster recovery that meets business needs and customer expectations
- Protect your reputation
- Major Risks
major risks to value
Data center transformation efforts often fall short of expectations because they failed to plan for associated risks. Among those risks are:
- Excessive complexity driving up costs
- Incompatible or non-complementary technologies deployed, but their value never attained
- Poor planning and management integration
- Multiple vendors requiring maintenance of multiple relationships
- Complex mix of technology choices often resulting in segment and compartmentalized data center infrastructure
- Lack of agility to adapt to your market
- Issues Addressed
issues addressed
Our Data Center Transformation practice ensures that the common issues are addressed, such as:
- Misalignment of IT to business strategy
- Data center economics; the cost of physical space, power and cooling
- Point solutions instead of holistic solutions
- Silos rather than shared environments
- Aging data centers and facilities
- Delivery
delivery and activities
Some of the deliverables and activities of a Data Center Transformation engagement may include:
- Site assessments
- Reference and solution architectures
- Migration planning and benchmarking
- New IT workflows and process maps
- Technical engineering implementation
- Delivery and enablement planning