Storage optimization and integration services - transformation strategy

Few IT managers today manage an IT environment with a single vendor's server and storage solutions, if you are like most, you struggle with the complexity of your heterogeneous IT environment and its effect on your service levels and operational costs. Many IT Managers are also facing unprecedented, exponential storage and data growth from collabouration and e-mail tools, ERP solutions, Data Warehouse programs, and other exploding content sources with fixed budgets.

An IBM GTS Storage Optimisation and Integration Services - transformation strategy assessment, powered by the IBM Novus™ Management Complexity Factor (MCF) solution, quickly and efficiently analyzes your interconnected IT and storage environments, determines cost inefficiencies, dependencies and opportunities for improvement - both short term and long range. More than an assessment of the current state, the solution helps you develop an effective IT storage growth and optimisation plan and provides tactical, short-term activities that can lead to strategic, long-range improvement, replacing watered-down metrics like Terabyte/ Full-time employees ratios with critical metrics such as: