Data Center Transformation: 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.

Top companies increasingly position IT as a strategic asset and 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.

With the transition to IT 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 agile data centers. 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. 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 clients around the world.

• Global reach. We have more than 3,000 data center consulting professionals, supported by the Accenture Global Delivery Network.

• Industry know-how. We offer tailored solutions for the communications, media and technology, financial services, products, health and public service and resources sectors.

• Vendor independence. We have strong relationships with technology providers who work with us to deliver market-leading data center solutions.

• 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, and 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 deploy diverse sourcing models to scale the data center infrastructure as needed.

   

With our comprehensive range of data center services, we can help you reduce IT complexity, improve scalability and achieve significant gains in data center performance—in line with your defined business priorities.

Data center optimization. We can help deliver data center services to business users more efficiently and cost-effectively, while improving service availability.

Optimization involves:

• Developing a data center capability that can scale server availability as needed
• Greatly improving storage capabilities
• Providing the business case to secure funding
• Executing the data center migration.

Benefits include a 30-50 percent reduction in costs across facilities, real estate, IT support, maintenance and resources.

Data center automation. We can help automate the typically manual tasks associated with the provisioning, patching and support of data center services.

We can also help your organization:

• Analyze business requirements and goals

• Identify and automate commonly known problems associated with the provisioning and management of data center services

• Construct a supporting business case

• Develop migration plans

• Execute part or all of the operational migrations

• Standardize and consolidate underlying infrastructure technologies

Benefits include:

• 50-100 percent reduction in manual labor

• Reduced production support and maintenance costs

• Automated and enhanced reporting of compliance and configuration

• Faster delivery and improved quality of data center services to end users

Private Cloud Implementation. We can help you build Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing solutions aligned to a service catalog with optional service assurance definitions, metering and billing.

The IaaS:

• Is ready to host both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) private cloud offerings

• Can integrate with the Accenture Cloud Platform to provide a hybrid cloud

Benefits include up to a 30 percent reduction in server and storage footprint, faster delivery of services, and improved user empowerment through self-service.

Data center outsourcing. We are leaders 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.