Data Center Rationalization Services

Accenture's data center rationalization solution helps streamline complexity, reduce cost and optimize IT infrastructure to support high performance business.

Data centers have become increasingly complex and costly to run. This is a result of mergers and acquisitions, decentralization, investment in legacy systems and increased departmental autonomy. Accenture's data center rationalization solution reduces cost and complexity while creating infrastrucuture able to support business-critical processes and applications required for high-performance business.

Accenture takes a holistic approach to data center rationalization. We look at all aspects of an organization's data center footprint and its infrastructure to ensure that greater productivity, business growth and agility can be achieved. The resulting solution focuses on cost reduction, improved efficiency, increased security and the enablement of new business capabilities.

Accenture understands the data center-related issues that keep CIOs up at night. We have the right skills, tools and experience to unravel data center complexity as well as the technical knowledge and resources to create data centers for high-performing business.

Data center issues include cost-reduction; improved operational efficiency; improved application performance; reduced complexity; improved IT system availability; data center security; and mitigating the risks associated with data center relocation and rationalization. Accenture's data center rationalization solution combines the ability to reduce data center complexity with the technical skills and resources required to reassemble data centers in a way that makes sense for our clients' businesses.

The solution provides a holistic and fresh approach to optimizing and consolidating technologies in a data center operation. It addresses consolidation as well as the potential wholesale migration of existing facilities. Accenture has successfully implemented data center rationalization solutions for a number of clients. We focus on server consolidation, operating system migration, storage rationalization, database optimization and data center relocation.

A three-phased approach to data center rationalization gives clients an unequivocal diagnosis of their situation, which includes a total cost of ownership model and a corresponding business case that illustrates where it makes sense to rationalize. This occurs in the Discovery & Strategy phase, followed by a Planning & Design phase which lays out the long-term implementation plan. The Implementation & Operations phase moves clients into the business end of the project, where consolidation and migration plans are executed and the status quo is advanced to the desired state.

Data center rationalization can also help prepare a business for the onset of a utility-style computing model. By rationalizing its data center and reducing costs, an organization can start thinking about funding virtualization software that can optimize the usage of an organization's server, storage and database operations.

A data center rationalization program can form part of a wider more comprehensive infrastructure transformation project which looks at all aspects of infrastructure from networks and security to end-user computing.

• Accenture Data Center Migration Services: We assess the existing IT environment, evaluate relocation options, plan for migration if necessary and strive towards achieving the set objectives.
• Accenture Server Rationalization and Virtualization Solutions: We offer server rationalization and virtualization solutions that help clients replace most of their distributed servers with a smaller number of centralized servers.
• Accenture Storage Transformation Solutions: Our enterprise storage transformation solutions help clients transition to networked storage, which connects multiple storage devices to a single network.
• Accenture Test & Development Environment Transformation: We can transform our client’s test and development environment into a much more flexible and agile state, allowing for new business applications and opportunities.