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The Business Challenge
Enterprises are finding it harder to ensure a data center meets the needs and obligations to the user community. Over time, new applications and services tax the data center, eventually stretching the effectiveness of core resources and putting service delivery, maintenance, and operations at risk.
The AT&T Solution
Whether you are operating your own data center, creating new, consolidating, or considering outsourcing, AT&T Consulting Solutions can provide best practices, workable solutions, and piece of mind. Our Capability Assessment service determines how effectively the data center addresses current as well as anticipated business requirements. The centers under study can be within your enterprise, or operated by a current or proposed third party hosting, outsourcing, disaster recovery, or other provider.
Our consultants gather information via interviews with key department management personnel, existing documentation, and site surveys as appropriate. During a typical engagement we review and assess:
- Business drivers
- Operational Processes and practices
- IT Services (current and planned), and
- Infrastructure analysis in three key categories:
- Power
- Physical plant & environmental, including security, fire suppression, power, HVAC, location and construction considerations, and
- Network & server infrastructure
Optionally, we can provide assistance with a build-vs.-buy analysis of your data center environment. The project deliverable identifies the risks and gaps in the environment, readiness for new services, and the level of assurance that the center can support the business requirements.
Solution Benefits
- Improves uptime and availability of production services
- Reduces and mitigate risks prior to new applications deployment
- Validates requirements, needs and delivery
- Helps you gain piece of mind by understanding where your data center stands in supporting the business
- Ensures proper maintenance, and operations of your team or 3rd party hosting services
Services Summary
- Data Center Capabilities Assessment
