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Data Center Consolidation and Optimization

Over time data centers have reached unacceptable and unnecessary levels of complexity and high costs.  An optimized data center environment enables the faster deployment and management of services at a  reduced cost.   Crescent Enterprise Solutions Data Center Consolidation and Optimization services intelligently and effectively migrate a data center to state-of-the-art, higher performance, and lower cost environment.

Program Benefits

• Reduce cost & complexity: Service optimized data center architectures are flexible, increasing utilization of existing investments.
• Improve data center efficiency and service levels: Service optimized data center architectures are highly responsive, enabling a virtual and dynamic "real-time" processing environment.
• Speed time to market of new services: Service Optimized Data Centers are automated, providing tools to automate IT processes.

Elements to Data Center Optimization

• Reduce Complexity by minimizing Operating Environment
• Consolidate onto fewer platforms
• Deploy Service Oriented Architectures
• Transform Operational Capabilities and Management Processes
• Automate provisioning and IT Processes
• Transition to New Business Models, Subscription Services, Utilities
• IT and Architectural Governance Processes

How do we address Data Center Consolidation and Optimization?

Servers and Infrastructure
An optimized data center helps you to deliver higher levels of service at lower costs. CES offers Infrastructure Solutions for Enterprise Consolidation for companies who want to reduce IT costs, improve service levels, and improve IT manageability. CES has the experience, technologies, proven methodology, and a successful track record in helping customers consolidate to a scalable platform with a common architecture.  

Storage
Business executives in today's IT environments face the challenge of managing exponential storage growth with reduced IT budgets. If you're facing this issue in your data center, let CES show you how you can manage more data with fewer, more powerful resources by consolidating your storage onto a world class storage solution. You can achieve higher levels of storage utilization, improve the availability and scalability of your storage environment, and enhance the management of your storage infrastructure. You'll also simplify your business continuity requirements and lower the costs associated with protecting critical data assets.  

Enterprise Migration
Thinking about a change? At CES, we've helped many businesses migrate from legacy IT platforms to modern implementations. To help drive cost and complexity out of moving to a Sun platform, we've created specific programs that address common business and technology issues, drawing from many years of UNIX migration experience. Our goal is to supply you with the products, services, and expertise you need to meet your business' IT needs--today, tomorrow, and for years to come.  

Grid Computing
Whatever your business, it makes good economic sense to use the IT infrastructure you've already got to raise productivity, maintain availability, and minimize downtime. Grid Computing lets you bring together all your heterogeneous resources and allocate them efficiently to applications within the enterprise and beyond. Once you are utilizing all your current IT assets, you will find it easy to add more resources to your Grid. The new resources provide seamless expansion of IT infrastructure. Users will only notice the improvement in service.  

Mainframe Rehosting
All businesses must drive down operational costs to sustain long-term competitive advantage in the market. For IT organizations with large investments in mainframes, this is an increasing challenge. With no real competitors left in the mainframe server business, the cost of the associated hardware and software licenses continue their rapid rate of increase. The challenge for mainframe-based businesses today is how to keep the value of proven CICS and batch applications, while dramatically reducing the costs associated with mainframes.
CES offers products, tools, and services that help enable you to interoperate with, rehost or replace mainframe applications on more cost-efficient, open platforms - often at equal or greater levels of performance, flexibility and scalability. Our team brings the technology and proven services methodologies to work to help you meet your migration needs, including high reliability, cost-effectiveness, operational optimization, business agility, and innovation adoption.  

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Services Oriented Architectures (SOA) offer (1) the ability to meet higher level quality-of-service requirements such as availability, security, scalability, and reliability; and (2) flexibility and adaptability (extensibility) to integrate new services and data without overhauling the architecture. The latter is a key result of SOA's openness, which enables the integration of existing services and the rapid development of new web services. SOA also provides application development and deployment facilities that allow for existing applications (i.e., legacy systems) to be integrated and deployed as services and data within the portal, with only limited changes to those existing applications and data stores. 

Enterprise Architecture Design Services
For today s businesses, IT strategy must begin with an architectural vision that provides reconfigurable, modularized components which can be reorganized, reconfigured, and extended to provide unprecedented freedom in adapting network-based infrastructures to changing business conditions. Such a foundation can be created by applying an architectural framework that is based on open standards, common interfaces, and portable technology.  

Business Continuity
CES Business Continuity solution focuses on challenges companies face when business operations, processes, and/or IT infrastructure services are interrupted. In planning for business continuity and overcoming limitations in disaster recovery plans, companies need to analyze their potential risk, business impact, and disaster recovery capabilities. CES experts leverage their expertise, partnerships, and products to provide you with an end-to-end Business Continuity solution that addresses these limitations and includes Data Continuity, Operational Resilience, and Disaster Recovery offerings.  

Application Readiness Services
When facing tight timetables to launch new applications, you want to minimize risk of technical problems and identify system, storage, and security parameters that can impact availability and service level objectives. CES offers services to smoothly design, configure, implement and test your servers to the point of application loading.