Why Choose EDS For Data Center Modernization?
10 May 2007
Rationalizing, Consolidating, Standardizing, Automating and Virtualizing to Create an Agile Infrastructure
Nearly 70 percent of businesses are running on legacy systems that reside on underutilized infrastructure – the result of decades of economic growth and the accumulation of more servers and processing power than companies ultimately need. On average, companies only use 15 to 20 percent of their available server and storage capacity, letting the rest go to waste. More than 90 percent of most companies' IT budgets are being spent just to keep the lights on, leaving only 10 percent for innovation and growth. Updates and fixes get done manually, leading to errors, security problems and infrastructure downtime. Even worse, time-to-market and customer satisfaction suffers as well.
EDS' Data Center Modernization Services focus on helping you rationalize, consolidate, standardize, automate and virtualize your infrastructure assets – to get you to the most optimized environment possible. We've been helping companies transition and consolidate since 1962 when we first pioneered the outsourcing space. We employ a well-defined, patent-pending Infrastructure Rationalization Blueprint approach that has been evolving and improving for more than 45 years. Our Blueprint methodology encompasses rationalization processes for transforming complex server, storage and network environments into a much more simplified and optimized infrastructure. This reliable, standardized, agile compute environment helps enterprises significantly boost their productivity and squeeze out the highest possible return on their IT investment. So look to EDS for a successful, consistent approach to enterprise infrastructure transformation and consolidation. We know it works because we've successfully applied this methodology with many of our clients.
Here are eight reasons to choose EDS' Data Center Modernization Services:
- Client-tailored Assessment – The first step is to get to know you. Through focused rationalization planning, we determine the full infrastructure potential for emerging technology to provide you flexibility at a lower total cost of ownership. Our experts work with your company to better understand your business processes, IT infrastructure and application portfolio. We identify inefficiencies in your current compute infrastructure and recommend the best and most efficient road map to take you from legacy to modernization. What can be automated? What can be standardized? It's at this level that we'll share our insights and past experiences with you. Chances are, we've already been there a few times before so why reinvent the wheel. We want to help you get there successfully and pain free.
- Execution Excellence – Technology is advancing every year. In the 90s, “reengineering” was the hottest buzz word. Today it's “modernization transformation.” And while both have similar meanings, they also mean different things to different people. At EDS, we're focused on the technologies that enable the business processes and the cost savings that will help you become more agile. How do you keep up with the changing technology unless you have a modernization strategy? And how do you know which technology fits your business. That's where the expertise of an experienced services provider will keep you pointed in the right direction. EDS is that leader. In fact we've earned the distinction as the “best implementation services provider” by Forrester Research. Our experience combined with our Infrastructure Rationalization Blueprint methodology will help you create comprehensive solutions and then deploy, migrate and manage a standardized, consolidated environment that supports a fast-to-market implementation of IT.
- Full Suite of IT Modernization Services – With EDS Applications Modernization Services, our applications, infrastructure and IT governance and strategy, we can quickly and efficiently move legacy applications to modern platforms and optimized architectures while preserving the value in the applications. A scalable and flexible platform allow for future growth so your organization is better able to respond quickly to market changes. You minimize the business risks of costly and unmanageable legacy systems while reducing the total cost of ownership. What's more, enhanced business services based on modern technology help improve your competitive position.
- Maximum IT ROI – Thanks to server sprawl and complex infrastructures, your company might be facing an inefficient, underutilized environment of dozens or even hundreds of servers spread across one or more global regions. Enterprises that support server sprawl internally know the challenges. It stretches floor space, IT management staff and budgets to the limit. With Data Center Modernization Services Packaging, your applications and data can be transformed onto fewer, more reliable servers. This standardized, agile compute environment helps enterprises significantly boost their productivity and squeeze out the highest possible return on their IT investment.
- Industry & Technology Expertise – EDS has delivered transformation and consolidation services to clients in all industries and to governments around the world for more than 45 years. EDS' Infrastructure Rationalization Blueprint is the perfect way for you to streamline consolidation, improve IT efficiencies, minimize risks, reduce asset expenditures – and gain an upper hand in today's tough competitive climate. The Blueprint consists of one to seven steps that match your enterprise's requirements and project scope.
- Risk Mitigation – Your goal: making your legacy environment more agile. As EDS plans the transition to this modern agile state, we'll carefully manage the business transformation as the modernized applications are deployed to the operations, mitigating any business risk to business continuity.
- Improved Enterprise Infrastructure – Data Center Modernization can increase your server utilization between 60 and 80 percent for dramatically higher return on assets; reduce your total cost of ownership by 15 to 40 percent; save 15 to 20 percent through site processor and storage consolidation; and improve operational consistency and speed to market with automation, policy-driven management and standardization. EDS offers a complete Data Center Modernization Services package to cover you every step of the way.
- Security, Privacy & Compliance – As with everything EDS does, security is a standard, “built-in” component. You are protected by multiple safeguards to ensure your environment is safe. And with today's increasingly complex regulatory environment, we also will help ensure your business is compliant.
Adopting the technology that will yield the most benefits for your business is key. Choosing that technology and then implementing it into your system is critical for your company's continued growth as well as for managing your IT costs. EDS' Blueprint guides the successful, consistent delivery of your transformed and consolidated server environment – from project definition and startup, to design and construction, to post-implementation. Contact us today; we're eager to create your roadmap.