The pace of information technology is rapidly accelerating. IT managers are caught between addressing today's challenges and transforming spending to put more dollars to work solving new problems. Fortunately, there are four proven – yet simple – ways to design and manage data center infrastructures so they can provide greater flexibility in responding to change and do so more cost-effectively. These four ways help you implement a smarter data center:
Extend the life of the existing data center infrastructure
Double IT capacity or reduce operational expenses by 50 percent*
Rationalize the data center infrastructure across the company
Improve operational efficiencies while reducing operational expenses by 50 percent*
Flexible design to be responsive to change
Pay as you gro by defering 40-50 percent of capital and operational costs*
Integrated management of IT and data center operations
Lower operational costs up to 20 percent*
Working together, these hallmarks of a smarter data center can help transform the impact of data center investments and unlock new value for the enterprise.
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First, recognize that you have a series of data center assets today—servers, storage, networks and data centers—that are running your current IT operations. And these assets may already be paid for, so anything you can do to extend their life -- including consolidation and virtualization -- enables you to defer the need to make significant capital expenditures on new IT technology or additional data center capacity. In our experience, extending the life of a data center can double IT capacity or reduce operational expenses by 50 percent.
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- Integrated communications services
Integrated communications services help you design, implement and manage integrated communications and networking environments to drive collaboration, business flexibility and growth.
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- IP telephony
- Network infrastructure optimization - Improve the performance of your networking infrastructure while enhancing your ability to control costs.
- Network integration - campus and local area networks - Comprehensive architecture, design, integration and deployment services designed to enhance the effectiveness of your campus and local area networking infrastructure.
- Network integration and deployment services - Design, integrate and deploy network infrastructures that are both efficient and adaptable.
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- Server Management Services
IBM server management services help you build and manage a dynamic and optimized infrastructure that supports business, operational and product innovation using our portfolio of server services.
Choose from the following service offerings:- Implementation and migration services - Rapidly and efficiently implement IBM servers and associated software while minimizing potential disruptions and risks to ongoing operations.
- Server consolidation efficiency study - Justify a server consolidation project and take a first step toward building a simplified and optimized server infrastructure environment - potentially at a fraction of the cost and effort it would typically take.
- Server technology assessment for System p health check - Helps you proactively detect configuration abnormalities that may be keeping your IBM System p server environment from performing optimally.
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- Site and Facilities Services
IBM site and facilities services help you plan, design and build flexible, cost-effective and energy efficient data centers and facilities.
Choose from the following service offerings:- Data center energy efficiency assessment - Get a comprehensive energy analysis that prioritizes tactical plans across your data center to help improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Thermal analysis for high density computing - Thermal analysis for high density computing provides data-center analysis, design and construction consultation and services to help optimize facility heating and cooling, and server performance.
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- Storage Management Services
IBM storage management services can help you implement a reliable, cost-effective infrastructure for all of your business-critical data.
Choose from the following service offerings:- Data migration services - Data migration services and tools that can enable nondisruptive, online migrations to reduce costs, optimize infrastructures and increase productivity.
- Simplified storage request management - Promote more efficient storage allocation and governance by establishing standards that can be used to optimize provisioning, backup, replication and archiving.
- IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud - Helps reduce costs and improve performance with a scalable storage-virtualization solution.
- Implementation and migration services - Facilitating a smoother storage solution to enable you to more quickly realize the benefits of your investment.
- Storage consolidation - Achieve improved utilization of storage and sharing of data across servers and clients while helping to lower the risks.
- Storage virtualization - Leverage the technical expertise and experience of IBM to design and build an integrated, virtualized storage solution that can help increase storage utilization rates, simplify storage management and support changing workload conditions with greater flexibility.
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Our experience is that over 50 percent of clients have more than three data centers, including backup sites, remote locations, wiring closets and server rooms. After you've made the decision to consolidate a data center, you realize that a move is more complex than simply physically relocating a few servers from one location to the next. You have to think about the risks to the availability of data and applications during the move. Through consolidation, there is a significant opportunity to improve operational efficiencies while reducing operational expenses—perhaps by as much as 50 percent.
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- Infrastructure strategy and planning for data center - Develop a comprehensive data center strategy using unique forecasting tools to help you identify and plan for your current and future business needs.
- Data center relocation and consolidation - Implement cost-effective application, data, IT and infrastructure equipment migrations and avoid unplanned outages.
- Data migration services - Data migration services and tools that can enable nondisruptive, online migrations to reduce costs, optimize infrastructures and increase productivity.
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As demand for IT services increases, so does the need to increase the data center capacity to house the IT equipment. A modular approach can allow you to pay as you grow and buy only what you need, when you need it, to defer capital and operational cost by perhaps 40 percent to 50 percent.
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- Scalable modular data center - Cost-effectively design and more rapidly deploy a high-quality, scalable modular data center in virtually any working environment.
- Portable modular data center - Delivering rapid deployment of a complete modular data center --in virtually any location-- to support your unique business objectives
- High density zone - Quickly deploy high density equipment in existing data centers in less time and at lower cost than traditional data center retrofits
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Availability is at the heart of what any data center must provide, with increasing application availability requirements and decreasing tolerance for downtime. Businesses are taking advantage of a variety of options to address their management needs, such as moderating the level of support from staff augmentation or "flexible labor," hosting and managing the infrastructure, and transferring personnel and assets to the provider. In our experience, integrating the management of your IT and facilities operations can lower your operational costs by up to 20 percent.
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- Tivoli Live - monitoring services - Enable application and availability monitoring while controlling IT costs
- Remote managed infrastructure services
- Managed security services - Protect your information assets 24x7 at a fraction of the cost of in-house security.
- IBM Smart Cloud - Deploy cloud environments, access critical applications and capabilities, help ensure the resilience and manage security of your systems more easily, effectively and efficiently than ever before.
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