Service detail
Highlights
 |  | | Provides a blueprint to help enable growth through enhanced infrastructure adaptability |
| | | Offers a strategy to help increase application availability and mitigate risk |
| | | Facilitates cost-effective decisions to help optimise datacentre investments and improve operational efficiency. |
Providing a comprehensive data centre strategy and plan to help support your business needs and goals
Dynamic market pressures put stress on your data centre environment and drive a need to re-evaluate your datacentre strategy. Your business faces an increasing need to adapt in order to meet rapidly changing business needs and respond to market pressures. Does your data centre environment enable or impede your ability to meet your business objectives? Data centre strategy and plan helps your organisation rationalise your data centre portfolio to address the business requirements of availability, adaptability and efficiency. We help you to meet application availability goals, improve operational efficiency, evolve your existing data centres to better meet dynamic business requirements, reduce the timeframe for new technology deployment and support you in managing regulatory mandates.
Helping to increase infrastructure adaptability, facilitating business growth
We help enable concise business decisions by addressing complex issues through the use of a comprehensive set of integrated evaluation tools. Two key tools help you to increase your infrastructure availability:
Technical model scorecard helps you to objectively assess potential data centre configuration alternatives. By mapping your business and technical objectives to established data centre configurations, we help you quickly eliminate non-compliant strategy alternatives and establish sound justification for potential strategy alternatives Physical infrastructure threshold analysis helps you identify when you need capacity to meet projected growth. This provides recommendations to help reduce the cost of upgrade options, establish along-term capital budget and support flexible technology adoption.
Helping you balance application availability with the costs of infrastructure resiliency
We can deliver a data centre strategy and plan that can help you reduce outages, facilitate disaster recovery and extend the life of your existing datacentres. To help balance your specific availability requirements and risk tolerance with the costs to provide the infrastructure, we can deliver:
- A risk-discounted business value tool which provides an objective evaluation that applies risks and probabilities based on industry metrics
- A comparison of the cost of infrastructure resiliency (such as redundant systems, security and making your data centre facilities resistant to natural and man-made disasters) to the business value that it protects, providing a financial rationalisation for risk avoidance
- Help in determining which risks you are willing to accept by understanding the requirements to protect against them
- An analysis designed to quickly eliminate data centre strategy alternatives that cost more to implement than the business value they protect.
Providing alternatives to help simplify datacentre complexity, enhance efficiency and reduce costs
We can help you develop a data centre strategy that takes into account your multivendor, heterogeneous environment and addresses your specific business priorities. We leverage several tools to help you do a thorough analysis of your costs . today and into the future, such as:
- Tactical projections: Four key areas impacting your data centre strategy are completed, including relocation, leasing, retro-fit or build and site selection. Each tactical projection is defined to quickly access the financial, operational, process and business requirements implications of your implementation
- Alternative cash flow: We combine tactical projections with our alternative cash flow model, which leverages our technology insight to help provide comprehensive, accurate cost models. It provides a financial comparison that delineates the recurring and nonrecurring expenses, year after year, of each alternative datacentre strategy. Our model accounts for the hidden costs of implementation and upgrades and combines the implementation considerations associated with each alternative to help provide a comprehensive financial picture.
Communicating your data centre strategy and rationale to your executive stakeholders
We provide a comprehensive set of deliverables to help you communicate your data centre strategy to executive stakeholders and to all other levels and areas of your organisation. We document your:
- Business environment and decision criteria, which lists your guiding principles, business and technical requirements and decision criteria and capabilities
- Business case analysis, which includes the financial optimisation, availability and capacity implications of alternative data centre configurations
- Executive roadmap, which schedules the funding allocations, business constraints, risk mitigation and management metrics of your strategy implementation
- Key decision factors, future goals and financial objectives of your data centre strategy in aboard-level presentation.
Why IBM?
With more than ten years of experience helping organisations develop their datacentre strategies, we've developed a robust methodology that can help you make concise, well-informed and cost- and benefit-justified decisions about your current and future datacentre environment. IBM Site and Facilities services offers a wide array of services and solutions to help meet virtually all of your data centre needs, including planning your data centre strategy, design and construction and consolidation and relocation services.
