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Data Center Strategic Telecom Expense Management

Data Center Telecom Expense Management Strategic Planning


Data Center Telecom Expense ManagementAs a business evolves, so does its IT domain and associated need to continuously refresh and change its computing facilities. Corporations also evolve inorganically, through mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. In many cases, these corporations end up with a plethora of data centers and an unbalanced capital and operational cost structure. With an increased emphasis on cost reduction and simplification of the IT operating model, companies are looking to downsize, consolidate, and optimize their data center assets.




Key program activities include:
  • Validation of corporate vision and strategy.
  • Determination of key sourcing strategies.
  • Establishment of target state requirements and architecture.
  • Analysis of migration strategies.
  • Development of customized consolidation recommendations.
  • Relocation plans for data center transformation.

Data Center Facility Assessment

The Data Center is comprised of both IT infrastructure and facility infrastructure (cooling, power, physical). A synergistic equilibrium between the two must be maintained to ensure continuity of critical services. The business demands of adding more and more equipment to the data center floor not only impacts the physical space occupied, but can also overburden MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) systems. This is manifested by maxed out power distribution and poor heat exchange, or “hot spots”. Thought should be given to the evaluation of the current data center facility and existing IT infrastructure from an IT and MEP impact analysis perspective, collection of IT asset and MEP configurations, modeling of current and projected CFD, and the development of facility recommendations with cost benefit analysis for improvement and optimization.

Data Center Network Architecture and Engineering Solutions

The Data Center network architecture is a key component of the Service Oriented Infrastructure. How the network infrastructure is designed and implemented plays a key role in what level of service availability and survivability the IT resources can offer. In many cases, the network is grown organically with little consideration for future growth or physical/logical separation requirements. As the application services infrastructure expands, it becomes more of a challenge to maintain and purposefully plan for performance and availability of the network. It is paramount to understand not only the data center WAN and LAN infrastructure, but also the remote site WAN infrastructure in order to match expected application performance and availability characteristics on an end-to-end basis. Design areas should focus on LAN Architectures (IP Routing Architecture, Layer 2 Switching), WAN Architectures (MPLS VPN, IPSEC VPN, and traditional VPN), WLAN Architectures, Optical Architectures (DWDM, SONET), Content Delivery Architectures, IPv6 and QoS Architectures.

Data Center Optimization

The corporate Data Center can be viewed as one of the most complex and costly within IT environments. It houses the collective intelligence and competitive differentiation of the company and may be its most prized asset. How well the data center provides critical IT services is the measure of its ability to adapt to the new in terms of technologies and operating practices. Those ever expanding technologies and new operating practices represent a real challenge as many organizations struggle with diminishing floor space, cooling and power; at the same time attempting to expand the number of new IT services just to keep pace with business demands.
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