Data Center: Services Overview

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 utilisation, and cost variability. Maturing technologies in virtualisation, 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.

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.

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 optimisation. Accenture helps clients reduce their data center footprints and improve operational efficiency by consolidating distributed facilities and assets into centralised 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 optimisation. Accenture standardises and consolidates servers into highly efficient pools of virtualised computing resources that can be partitioned and assembled to maximise utilisation. By taking advantage of Accenture’s server optimisation 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 standardises and consolidates storage into pools of virtualised capacity, but also deploys capabilities that allow clients to manage the information lifecycle across storage devices. Large organisations 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 optimisation. Accenture not only standardises 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.