The Goal:
A holistic data center strategy, road-map and detailed financial ROI
The Challenge:
Many of our clients have been confronted by the realities of rising power, cooling and space costs. These constraints make it difficult for them to keep up with business growth, take advantage of high density computing or implement green, money saving, technologies. Data center operations managers are being asked to do more with less. Through our Data Center Strategic Assessment engagement, Metagyre will assist you in developing a holistic data center strategy, build the road map for achieving your goals and provide the ROI financial justification for implementation.
Discovery Sessions:
Business is dependent on technology infrastructure as the foundation for all of its IT business services. During the technical discovery sessions we will inventory technology components, gather utilization data and interview stake holders to understand the business elements of your enterprise and how they relate to your current technology constraints, legal contracts, business drivers, planned growth and budgetary realities.
- Data center facilities
- Network, storage and server infrastructure
- Disaster recovery/replication
- Power consumption and cooling
- Processes relating to equipment life-cycle management
- Policies, regulatory and security considerations
- Contracts for facilities, Internet connectivity, infrastructure maintenance
- Financial environment: budget cycle, lease versus buy
The Deliverable:
Metagyre provides you with a comprehensive strategy tying technology and business drivers together along with the financial ROI to provide business justification.
- Long term data center vision and optimization strategy
- Current infrastructure and equipment inventory
- Power utilization report
- Gap Analysis of your organization’s current data center environment and operation
- High level data center tactical implementation road-map
- ITIL best practice recommendation
- Preliminary data center / collocation facility comparison
- Consolidated ROI analysis and business case justification
Engagement & Time-line:
Metagyre’s Strategic Assessment is lead by a senior data center consultant and supported by subject matter experts in the infrastructure, network, server and storage disciplines. This is a relatively short engagement and typically requires 4 to 7 days on site at the customer premises, follow-up email and conference calls, and 4 to 7 days of write-up off site. The total engagement duration starting with the kickoff meeting through to the client review of deliverables is typically 2 to 3 weeks.
