Data Center Modernization Services Business Case

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Statistically, nearly 70 percent of business systems are legacy systems residing on underutilized information technology (IT) infrastructure. Mergers and acquisitions, expansion and restructuring have resulted in decades of software and hardware purchases made across most enterprises.

Most likely you are using only 15 to 20 percent of your available server and storage capacity. Supporting this complex, disparate, duplicative and inefficient environment can cost up to 90 percent of your IT budget. Combine that with numerous manual updates and fixes and you have errors, security problems and infrastructure downtime. The bottom line: your time to market and customer satisfaction levels suffer.

To regain your competitive edge, you need to increase the agility and adaptability of your data center. Modernizing the infrastructure will make it simpler, less costly to manage, enhance availability and make it more responsive to changing market conditions.

The Strategy For Modernizing Your Data Center

Create business value and reduce your IT infrastructure's complexity through our proven transformation strategies:

Consolidation: Increase usage, savings and manageability by reducing the number of:

• Servers
• Storage systems
• Network devices
• Processors
• Applications
• Databases
• Sites

Automation: Save time and money on infrastructure management processes such as:

• Asset tracking
• Application and patch provisioning
• Code deployment and rollback
• System monitoring and automatic switching to redundant systems in the event of a failure
• Resources for computing assigned

Virtualization: Maximize use and return on investment (ROI) by:

• Creating server, storage and network pools
• Sharing resources across multiple applications and departments

Align Business and Technology

Data center modernization represents a giant step toward alignment of your business and technology. It enables you to base your strategic and tactical decisions on business drivers, not technology constraints. By modernizing your data center, you can:

• Simplify your data center technology and services portfolio
• Reduce the amount you spend managing your IT portfolio
• Redirect IT expenditures from maintenance work to high-value initiatives
• Increase your IT portfolio's performance, efficiency and use
• Build a framework for ongoing data center lifecycle management

Become More Agile

Modernize your data center so your company can:

• Improve visibility and become more flexible
• Increase velocity, quality and efficiency
• Optimize your current assets and leverage their capacity across a range of business needs
• Improve the scalability, service, quality and productivity of your IT enterprise
• Consolidate disparate servers, storage and support structures across your IT enterprise
• Quantify the savings you can achieve by moving to offshore support
• Reduce your IT environment's total cost of ownership (TCO)

HP Can Help You Achieve Productivity, Security and Savings

First, we assess your current IT situation. Then we develop a road map and modernization plan to create a standardized and highly automated hosting environment that supports your business goals. As you reduce resource complexity, you'll increase information security and service delivery efficiency, ultimately reducing total cost of ownership.

Because our road map aligns your business needs with your IT, you are able to:

• Address issues relevant to your business units and their related ROI
• Build a business case for modernization
• Realize true savings in resources, time and money

Data Center Modernization Improves Efficiency, Uptime and Success Rates

HP works with you to transform and modernize your data center infrastructure so you achieve greater productivity and success. With our help, you can:

• Increase your server usage by 60 to 80 percent and get higher returns on your assets
• Reduce your TCO by up to 40 percent, reusing existing technology where possible
• Realize cost savings of up to 20 percent through site, processor and storage consolidation
• Improve your operational consistency and speed time to market with automation, policy-driven management and standardization
• Reduce human error and system downtime
• Improve success rates for application and patch rollouts
• Provision new servers and applications in seconds, not days
• Respond to change requests in minutes
• Pay for and access resources as you need them

For more information about what HP Enterprise Services can do for you, submit a business inquiry.