Data Center: Services Overview

Accenture employs market-leading technologies and processes to help clients design, implement and manage data center solutions that align to business priorities, improve IT service management and enable high performance.

The ongoing Accenture High Performance Business research initiative has revealed that top companies increasingly position IT as a strategic asset. These leaders opt to manage their IT operations like an integrated, service-oriented business. In this paradigm, keeping costs low is an imperative. So is aligning IT investments with overarching business imperatives.

The shift from IT delivery to IT service management has significant consequences for data centers, which are at the heart of any IT capability. With the transition to service management comes the need for greater IT flexibility, server and storage utilization, and cost variability. Maturing technologies in virtualization, service provisioning and automation help address these new requirements and enable the development of data centers that are more agile than ever before. New sourcing models, as well as the emergence of cloud computing as a viable and secure platform for IT service delivery, promise even faster, more responsive and more cost-effective data center capabilities.

However, many organizations lack the necessary data center skills or resources to untangle and replace their complex and costly legacy infrastructures. They understand the value of optimizing their data centers, but often do not know where or how to begin. Accenture can help.

Contact us to find out how Accenture can help optimize your data centers and enable high performance.

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Accenture is uniquely positioned to help clients achieve high performance with data center services. We offer: 

• Extensive knowledge and experience. We have delivered data center services to more than 1,000 client organizations around the world helping clients make the best decisions and mitigate the risks related to data center virtualization and optimization.

• Global reach. We have more than 3,000 consulting professionals around the world dedicated to delivering data center solutions and services, supported by the Accenture Global Delivery Network.

• Industry know-how. We understand our clients’ businesses, markets and industries. In data center services, we offer tailored solutions for organizations in the communications, media and technology, financial services, products, health and public service and resources sectors.
  
  
• Vendor independence. We have strong relationships with a number of technology providers who work with us to bring market-leading data center solutions to the marketplace.
  
  
• A holistic approach. We focus on delivering the infrastructure technologies, as well as the supporting operational processes and tools, needed to enable high performance.
  
  
• A business focus. We are committed to delivering service-oriented solutions that generate measurable business results.
  
  
• A robust set of delivery assets. We offer field-tested tools, methodologies and practices, as well as a host of custom and pre-built solutions.
  
  
• Fast results. Usually within just six to nine months, Accenture can help clients significantly reduce the cost and complexity of their data center infrastructures—without compromising service quality and performance.
  
  
• Scalable sourcing models. We can recommend—and then deploy—diverse sourcing models to scale the data center infrastructure to keep up with business growth and the ever-increasing demand for IT services.

Accenture’s comprehensive range of data center services helps clients reduce their IT complexity, improve scalability and achieve significant gains in data center performance—aligned to defined business priorities.

• Data center optimization. Accenture helps clients reduce their data center footprints and improve operational efficiency by consolidating distributed facilities and assets into centralized locations. Clients can achieve savings of up to 35 percent of total cost of ownership. Importantly, the consolidation of data center environments also reduces power usage, which helps companies achieve their “green IT” objectives.
  
  
• Server optimization. Accenture standardizes and consolidates servers into highly efficient pools of virtualized computing resources that can be partitioned and assembled to maximize utilization. By taking advantage of Accenture’s server optimization services, clients typically can achieve a 30 to 50 percent reduction in total cost of server ownership, increase their servers’ reliability and availability, and reduce capital expenditures.
  
  
• Storage transformation. Accenture not only standardizes and consolidates storage into pools of virtualized capacity, but also deploys capabilities that allow clients to manage the information lifecycle across storage devices. Large organizations can save tens of millions of dollars during the first year of the transition and ultimately reduce their total cost of ownership by 30 to 55 percent.
  
  
• Database optimization. Accenture not only standardizes clients’ database landscape, but also configures databases for optimal performance and reliability.
  
  
• Data center automation. Accenture uses automated technologies to help clients provision, modify, operate and retire their data center services in a precise and dynamic manner. The result is an end-to-end data center capability that can reduce delivery costs by up to 15 percent and delivery times from days to minutes.
  
  
• Data center outsourcing. Accenture is a leader in data center outsourcing, with a field-tested delivery model, a global network of highly skilled professionals and an unmatched ability to provide either integrated capacity-based services or fully managed data center hosting services.