Storage Optimization and Integration Services – transformation strategy

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Inefficiencies in storage and backup management, increased demand for storage and backups, and high hardware, software and personnel costs can directly impact your company's productivity. Powered by IBM's Management Complexity Factor, IBM Storage Optimization and Integration Services – transformation strategy full assessment and IBM Storage Optimization and Integration Services – transformation strategy rapid assessment, are asset-based services that provide a remediation roadmap to help you identify the roots of your complexity and cost, recommend opportunities for capital and operational improvements across your complex IT environment, and help improve service levels with your available staff, at reduced costs.

Highlights

• Helps address issues surrounding the ongoing management of complex storage or backup environments
• Helps assess capital and operational costs, and staffing issues associated with IT infrastructure
• Identifies inefficiencies and develops an actionable remediation roadmap to minimize complexity and cost

Measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of your IT environment

It can be challenging to determine the impact of a complex and difficult-to-manage storage or backup environment on your core business without a clear understanding of your business service priorities, how your business services are configured, and how your underlying storage or backup infrastructure enables your business. Plus, you also need to know which portions of your storage or backup environment are most inefficient and needlessly costing you money.

Powered by IBM's Management Complexity Factor (MCF), IBM Storage Optimization and Integration Services – transformation strategy uses eight key metrics to help measure the efficiency and effectiveness of your IT environment. It is designed with two service delivery models:

• A transformation strategy—full assessment engagement rates overall inefficiency and develops a detailed strategic 3 year remediation roadmap with related cost savings. Additionally, the full assessment offers follow on evaluations where IBM experts provide progress reports, strategy updates and refined remedial action plans;
• A transformation Strategy—rapid assessment engagement rates overall inefficiency and develops a mixed tactical/strategic 18 month remediation roadmap with related cost savings.

IBM's expertise and extensive knowledge in storage and backup optimization and integration allows them to offer:

• Leadership in storage and backup assessment, planning, and design through proven methodology and tools
• Issue-based professional services engagements and delivery of skills on multivendor environments
• A standardized and repeatable approach for assessing storage and backup environments