Operational Excellence Through Data Center Maturity
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The ever-increasing pace of change in the business environment makes the role of an organization’s information technology infrastructure more critical than ever. A world-class data center can provide the agility your business needs to respond quickly to business opportunities, decrease time to market, and generate breakthrough ideas. HP offers guidance for defining and assessing your data center capabilities to better manage change from technology and business perspectives.
According to a recent A.T. Kearney study, between 75% and 90% of IT budgets are allocated to the ongoing operations of the infrastructure. However, one of the top areas of focus for the CEO is breakthrough, innovative ideas that open up new markets. This implies that the breakthrough thinking must be funded by the remaining 10% to 25% of the IT budget.
The ability to provide this type of funding comes from operational excellence resulting from deployment of world-class tools, processes, and procedures. One of the key areas of focus is the data center, which plays an ever-increasing role in rapidly implementing and exploiting business functions that can increase your ability to take advantage of market opportunities.
