Infrastructure strategy and planning

• Helps transform IT infrastructures to enable flexibility and enhance business responsiveness
• Analyzes business value and provides business case development for optimization projects as well as new delivery environments such as cloud computing
• Can prioritize sources of energy savings across the distributed environment and the data center
• Quickly incorporates emerging technologies into the existing infrastructure
• Enhances IT service delivery quality
• Lowers costs through infrastructure optimization
• Facilitates the reinvestment of cost savings into IT-enabled innovation

For IT executives today, budgets are tight, responsibilities are vast and demands are seemingly endless. Business lines within the larger enterprise require high-quality service delivery while accepting environmental responsibility. Existing technology assets need to be leveraged to their fullest capacity. Investments in new technology have to be in sync with business priorities and, overall, IT infrastructures must be able to respond quickly to rapidly changing marketplace demands.

Combining IBM's experience, resources and technical depth, this service can help you reevaluate and reconstruct your IT environment to enhance flexibility and responsiveness. A primary goal is to help create a dynamic IT infrastructure that is easier and less expensive to manage, upgrade and run. Offering a full spectrum of services and expertise that is virtually unparalleled, IBM can help you methodically align your IT investments and infrastructure design with the business goals of the enterprise.

Services can include:

• Developing an IT transformation and optimization roadmap and technical architecture
• Prioritization of optimization projects based on their projected ROI
• Delivering workshops that help develop a strategy and plan for the most effective return on investment for cloud computing
• Determining how ready you are to effectively execute your strategic plan
• Determining infrastructure maturity levels
• Recommending the projects with the greatest potential energy savings across the distributed environment and data center
• Recommending appropriate capabilities, tools and sequencing of projects for greatest business value
• Providing the necessary skills to help successfully execute the transformation roadmap