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Infrastructure Optimization
Today's dynamic business environment places increasing pressures on organizations to maximize return on IT infrastructure investments. The evolution of sprawling heterogeneous server, storage and network infrastructures has led to higher operational and capital expenditures, poor risk management and low service quality, thereby restricting IT's ability to effectively support changing business needs or enable new opportunities.
At GT, we offer best-in-class Infrastructure Optimization services that will help you create a simplified and centrally managed infrastructure, aligned to your business needs.
Client Challenges
IT organizations continue to struggle with increasing IT maintenance and support costs. Transitioning to an optimized infrastructure environment presents a number of challenges, including the following:
1. Understanding and incorporating industry best practices
2. Selecting the best-fit technology solutions to achieve an optimal target state environment
3. Developing a comprehensive and pragmatic transformation roadmap
4. Ensuring business continuity and high service levels during the transition
What GT Offers
We focus on the optimization and transformation of the enterprise IT infrastructure through objective analytics, best practices, tested processes and tools to significantly reduce costs, complexity and risks.
Our offerings incorporate the following:
1. Proven methods: OptimizeIT Framework and SURe Methodology
2. Our proprietary tools: iTransform, IT Spend Analysis and IT Health Check
3. Our strong alliances with industry leaders: IBM, HP, EMC, VMWare, Amazon and Terremark
We provide infrastructure consulting in the following domains:
Server Consolidation:
1. Server virtualization, provisioning and automation
2. Dynamic resource management
3. Continuous availability, fault-tolerance and mobility
4. Server tech refresh strategy
5. Workload consolidation
6. Disaster recovery strategy
Storage Transformation:
1. Storage/SAN migration and consolidation planning
2. Storage virtualization and thin provisioning
3. Storage multi-tiering and ILM/HSM
4. Backup, recovery and de-duplication
5. Data retention and utilization planning
6. Centralized storage management and security
Cloud Computing:
1. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS models
2. Cloud-based server and storage provisioning, optimization and automation
3. Cloud migration planning and strategy
4. Cloud management and security
5. Dynamic and on-demand resource management
Workspace Optimization:
1. Virtual desktop infrastructure
2. Thick, thin and rich media clients
3. Desktop mobility, provisioning, automation and management
4. Secure desktop session and application access
Network Optimization:
1. Network infrastructure consolidation and virtualization
2. Network management
3. Unified networking, storage and interconnect consolidation
4. Emerging technologies (IPv6, 10GbE, Infiniband, FCoE, iSCSI, etc.)
Data Center Optimization:
1. Data center migration and consolidation
2. Power and cooling optimization
3. Cabinet and cabling optimization
4. On-demand power and cooling management
5. Infrastructure PODs and containers
6. Next-generation data center designs
Next Step
Achieve an end-to-end strategy to your business needs by GT with world class experience and expertise that you need. Contact a consultant today.
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