DATA CENTER OPTIMIZATION

get the best from your data

AND YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE

Many organizations have a data center that’s evolved over a number of years. It’s not unusual for incremental IT changes and additions to have resulted in a patchwork infrastructure — a hodge-podge of hardware and software that may not fully mesh together, it may be hard to manage, and could include legacy applications that can’t be upgraded to run on modern platforms.

IT departments on the bleeding edge have moved beyond a reactive crisis handling mode and into a proactive solution-oriented model. These organizations can quickly correct existing issues and address current challenges in order to thoughtfully plan for the future, answering questions such as:

• Does the organization’s strategy involve launching a new online sales or payment channel?

• Are customer databases being integrated with contact center systems to drive up customer service?

• Are we adopting advanced business intelligence and analytics solutions to power the business, and working with more unstructured, rapidly changing or external data?

To ensure your data center can support current and future business challenges, it may require an upgrade. If the data center is already approaching its capability or scalability limits, a major business change / requirement could

compromise the stability of the entire infrastructure and hamper — rather than enhance — business performance. And planning an upgrade amidst strained IT budgets and the constant pressure to do more with less can be challenging.

PLANNING FOR THE LONG TERMWith any data center development project, it’s vital to look beyond the current constraints to effectively reap the benefits of increased agility and responsiveness required to stay competitive. That means ensuring that the organization gets the most out of its data; managing, protecting, and processing it efficiently — regardless of volume, variety, and velocity — and delivering it to people and applications when needed.

Embracing new technologies such as virtualisation, data de-duplication and self provisioning enable clients to maximise physical space, power, cost and time to enable an agile responsive business.

So what’s the best way of ensuring that data center capacity and performance will enable your

organization to meet its objectives? What are the most critical considerations around the security and accessibility of data and applications? And how do you make the most effective use of your budget, while building a foundation for the future?

HOW CSC CAN HELPWith a global bank of experts and a constantly evolving range of managed and cloud-based services, CSC is ideally positioned to help you optimize your data center and its ability to support data utilization.

CSC routinely transforms and manages complex data centers for enterprises, and we’re ready to apply the knowledge and experience gained to your project. Our insight into technology trends is matched by our understanding of developments in every market sector and what it will take to shine against your competitors.

Regardless of your organization’s current stage in the optimization lifecycle , we recommend a consultative engagement as the

Organizations run on data: Creating, collecting, using, and analyzing it are fundamental to business processes.

Data volumes and types are increasing exponentially and all must be securely stored — yet readily accessible.

If you don’t have the right infrastructure underpinning your data and applications, how can you manage,

analyze, and deliver data efficiently to meet business needs?

get the best from your data AND YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE

DATA CENTER OPTIMIZATION

CSC DATA CENTER CREDENTIALS

• 62 Data Centres, totalling over 700,000Sq Ft• 7 cloud-enabled data centres globally• 57PB of primary storage under management• 54,000 virtual servers under management• 14% reduction in annual Data Center electricity consumption • and 82 metric ton reduction in CO2 emissions

starting point to assess your data center, storage setup, and readiness for quicker and easier adoption. Our consultants will work with you to understand your business needs and processes and examine your data center’s current capabilities. We’ll identify the gaps between where your IT department is today on the reactive-proactive scale, and its desired state, and help your team to prioritize its migration and transformation projects to support your data center vision.

THE RIGHT FOUNDATION FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION’S DATAOur consultants will help maximize the value of your existing estate and implement new or complementary services to raise the data center’s performance, availability, and efficiency to underpin your organization’s use of data. As CSC is vendor agnostic we are able to develop and offer services that utilise best in market products, and provide an integrated solution; reducing risk and time to deploy.

We’ll ensure seamless integration of these new environments with your existing infrastructure to make IT transformation as painless as possible. We can help your organization take advantage of private and public cloud computing offerings that make it easy to

ramp up capacity in line with changing business needs and growing data volumes, and include pay-as-you-go charging models that eliminate capital investment.

As required, our experienced CSC team can assume complete operation of your data center and IT estate — either at its current physical location, or via CSC’s world-class data center facilities — to deliver an end-to-end enterprise managed service with a commercial framework that best meets your needs.

MAXIMIZING THE BUSINESS VALUE OF DATAData is at the heart of everyone’s business. But to maximise the value, clients need to take a journey of both technical and business process change. CSC guides clients every step of this journey: from setting strategy and defining the roadmap, to executing the business and technical transformation and operating the services. Organisations begin their journey from different start points: be it optimizing their data centre or reviewing their protection of data; to enabling their work force by facilitating mobility and collaboration and putting knowledge at the heart of the business operation with business analytics and intelligence that enable insightful business decisions.

FIND OUT MORE Contact us to learn more about how CSC Big Data can help your business. We’d be happy to discuss your situation in more detail.

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DATA CENTER ASSESSMENT: An expert, independent view of an organization’s data center facility and the improvements needed to maximize efficiency and support future business needs.

DYNAMIC STORAGE ASSESSMENT: Examines the storage environment and maps out a future-state roadmap that aligns capability and delivery directly with business needs.

CLOUD ADOPTION ASSESSMENT: Helps an organization achieve the full benefits of cloud-based delivery, mitigate the potential risks, and prioritize cloud migration and transformation projects.

SMART START: A hands-on Proof of Concept (PoC) program that enables an IT team test-drive the cloud, for minimized risk, and capital investment avoidance.

BIZCLOUD™ combines the privacy, security, and control of a private cloud with the commercial model, elasticity, and convenience of a public cloud.

CLOUDCOMPUTE: Secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) designed to support any application and any cloud deployment model.

DATA CENTER TRANSFORMATION: A suite of services that enables clients to transform their infrastructure delivery model to run an IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) model.

MANAGED DATA CENTER SERVICES: CSC is a recognized industry leader in managed data center services that reduce cost while improving service levels.

MANAGED HOSTING: Reliable, efficient, secure hosting solutions for web services and business applications.

MANAGED MAINFRAME: Expert management of business-critical mainframe systems in resilient environments with round-the-clock support.

MANAGED STORAGE: A range of managed storage options to meet all IT needs, from high-transaction databases and applications to backups and storage of non-production data.

MANAGED SERVER (MIDRANGE): Cost-effective outsourcing solutions for Wintel, Unix, and other server environments that improve infrastructure flexibility.

CSC DATA CENTER OPTIMIZATION SOLUTIONS

WORLDWIDE CSC HEADQUARTERS

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About CSCThe mission of CSC is to be a global leader in providing technology enabled business solutions and services.

With the broadest range of capabilities, CSC offers clients the solutions they need to manage complexity, focus on core businesses, collaborate with partners and clients, and improve operations.

CSC makes a special point of understanding its clients and provides experts with real-world experience to work with them. CSC is vendor-independent, delivering solutions that best meet each client’s unique requirements.

For more than 50 years, clients in industries and governments worldwide have trusted CSC with their business process and information systems outsourcing, systems integration and consulting needs.

The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CSC.”

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