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IT Senior Management
Data Center Consolidation:
“I have multiple data centers located throughout the country and abroad. Whenever there is an operational issue we have a host of folks on the phone attempting to troubleshoot the issue. It seems like these issues are reoccurring and the team is not making any significant forward progress. Lately, our business has been growing rapidly and I am concerned that we are not making enough progress toward improving our services. What can we do?”
Service areas involved:
Process Management
Architecture
Financial Management
IT ManagementSee Key Issue:
A Data Center Relocation or Consolidation project is a very complex initiative that encompasses every aspect of IT and the business. A complete assessment of the environment must be performed to determine the interrelationships between the IT services and the business operations. By successfully completing a relocation or consolidation, IT will improve its support levels, reduce costs, increase standardization, centralize the management function, and reduce duplication of hardware, software, or services.
At Ingenuity, we offer significant operational experience to manage your data center relocation / consolidation; for an example please see our Move to a Bigger Data Center success story.
Server Consolidation:
“We have dozens of servers in our server room, in wiring closets - even under desks! The things multiply exponentially and most of them aren't very heavily utilized. How do we get some control over this and actually use what we're paying for?”
Service areas involved:
Process Management
Architecture
Financial Management
IT ManagementSee Key Issue:
There has traditionally been conflict between the desire to get the most out of the organization's servers, and the need to ensure that applications don't conflict with each other; it only takes one meltdown to end up with the "only one application per server" approach, which is much more expensive to establish and maintain. Then there's the problem of needing to establish and maintain separate development / QA and production environments. Virtualization technologies open the door to allow consolidation to a manageable number of systems, but the migration effort and ongoing management procedures can lead to major change in the operational support of the systems.
Ingenuity can help you think all the way through the problem - both the initial project and the operational processes.