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The Business Challenge
Very few IT activities strain the enterprise as much as a data center move or consolidation effort. These projects touch every key application serving internal and production service delivery. Often driven by mandates for cost savings, business growth, or Business Continuity, data center projects usually have aggressive timelines with little to no margin for error. In addition to these challenges, today's enterprises have to contend with a shortage of in-house resources, or may lack the relevant project experiences of similar scope and scale.
The AT&T Solution
AT&T Consulting Solutions is uniquely qualified to provide Data Center Consolidation and Relocation services. In addition to the AT&T heritage of delivering hosting solutions from world class facilities, our credentials include the relocation of some of the most respected names in the financial, government, health care, and other industries. Our mission is to meet customer goals for cost savings and/or increased resiliency by executing projects on-time, on-budget, and with no adverse impact to production services.
Our key services are Program Planning and Program Management, which provide the overall planning and coordination for the key aspects of a relocation or optimization program. This activity also helps reveals potential gaps in current process, technology design, or operations—before they impact program schedules. Thorough planning also helps reveal unforeseen positive outcomes, such as cost-saving opportunities in network and telecommunications optimization, and Server or Storage Consolidation and Virtualization. Our best practices from prior moves and consolidation projects has resulted in millions of dollars of customer savings, and greatly simplifies the data center environment, facilitating the move process, and reducing costs and risks.
Our Planning projects typically involve the following activities:
- Discovery of the current environment
- Documentation of key services, end-to-end
- Data and technology migration plans, and changes expected in the services before and after
- Review of interdependencies and impacts, such as the impact on traffic caused by the consolidation of servers from branch sites into the data center
- Analysis of Operations Management needs, such as control of services during the move to ensure all management can be completed once turn up is complete
Our deliverables include a report outlining the overall scope of the move, a complete project plan for the move, and a report of all associated risks that require mitigation prior to the move.
Data Center Relocation and Consolidation Management services are the actual execution of the plan. We focus on project and program management throughout the relocation and optimization project, providing seasoned professionals who direct all or part of the move effort as requested. We work collaboratively with the full range of players such as general contractors, vendors, consultants and customer teams, becoming a virtual member of your build team and your advocate from start to finish.
Solution Benefits
- Reduces risks by leveraging experience and best practices developed over dozens of large scale, enterprise-wide migrations
- Improves uptime and availability of production services
Services Summary
- Data Center Consolidation and Relocation Program Development
- Data Center Consolidation and Relocation Program Management
