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| In the current economic slowdown, most companies are facing drastic cuts in IT budgets, and IT departments are expected to do “more with less.” Under these constraints, how do you get more out of the infrastructure you already have in your data center? |
Let Sirius help you determine the best optimization strategy for your data center needs.
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Sirius recommends a strategic investment in IT optimization solutions and services to help you achieve the following results:
• Reduce enterprise costs (acquisition and operations)
• Improve IT productivity and performance
• Make business services those are more agile and efficient
• Enhance availability and recovery capability of IT services and applications
Our IT optimization offerings use a combination of strategy, process, methodology and technology. They are driven by business policies and service level agreements (SLAs) for enhancing the efficiency of IT infrastructure, improving availability and reducing costs while increasing agility and quality of service.
By analyzing and prioritizing IT challenges, and performing a comprehensive analysis of the applications infrastructure, we can recommend IT optimization strategies that precisely meet the strategic business goals of customers. As a result, you can expect a significant reduction in the costs, risks and complexity of the IT infrastructure; improved application availability and recovery capabilities to help improve SLAs; and improved manageability of the underlying IT infrastructure which also leads to enhanced agility and flexibility.
Aligned with ITIL best practices and disciplines, these offerings can help with developing and deploying framework for IT Complexity Management (and monitoring) while providing periodic health checks for Capacity Management, Availability Management, and IT Service Continuity Management.
IT Infrastructure optimization includes all the elements of infrastructure – Servers, Storage, Data Recovery, Disaster recovery, Green IT etc. but we can focus on individual areas based on your specific needs.
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We have a clear vision to help you with these optimization efforts. Our vision is driven by the best practices and processes that are proven by repeatable methodology. Our optimization services improve IT productivity and efficiency so you save costs, manage risks, improve applications availability and increase IT agility.
• Strategic Optimization Analysis
• Cloud Enablement Solutions
• Server Infrastructure Optimization
• Storage and Backup/Recovery Infrastructure Optimization
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions
• Data Center Energy Efficiency and Green IT Solutions |
This technology strategic analysis identifies key IT projects to help with the business initiatives, and prioritize these in the order of biggest to lowest values. Our biggest strength in conducting such analysis is our methodology based on industry best practices which is competitive with the ones developed by big consulting companies. The key features of the methodology are our ability to work within the constructs of any process tools.
We have simplified processes that are ready for deployment. We have standardized templates, checklists and procedures along with a comprehensive approach making the best use of available time and resources from customers.
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| Storage, network, and computing systems have all increased in performance consistent with Moore’s Law (doubling every two years). Solutions are now available to tie all these components together into a blended compute and storage infrastructure of “Cloud computing”.
Our Cloud Enablement Solutions help organizations fully realize the benefits of internal cloud development and deployments by providing a comprehensive approach to the deployment, management, maintenance and eventual disposition of cloud environments. Automating the orchestration of these activities, in addition to automating the activities themselves, reduces the effort required to deliver the efficiency and velocity that the cloud can deliver.
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Most IT environments develop organically over time, with servers, operating systems, applications, middleware, storage and networking added on an as-needed basis. The result might adequately address the needs of the enterprise, but it inevitably leads to inefficiencies, unnecessary complexity, difficult management, and reduced reliability.
Unfortunately, the demands on your IT team are intense, and there is little time to assess the opportunities for IT optimization and cost savings. These services build a very strong business case for Optimization backed by ROI TCO analysis. In the case of Server Infrastructure Optimization, most customers have seen less than 6 months of payback period for the investments with positive cash flow and substantial cost savings from that point onwards.
Many organizations have implemented virtualization tools to improve utilization and efficiency, but they are now faced with an infrastructure that is much more complex with performance, availability or capacity issues. We can help bring these under control with our optimization solutions for the entire enterprise with UNIX, Windows and Linux server infrastructure.
Our standard offerings for Server Infrastructure Optimization are:
• Consolidation, Virtualization and Containment Analysis
• Applications Infrastructure Optimization Analysis
• Optimization Solution Planning and Design
• Optimization Solution Implementation and Migration
• Server Infrastructure Health Checks and Upgrades
• Virtual Server Infrastructure enhancement for performance, availability and productivity
• Desktop Virtualization/Client Consolidation |
Most organizations have experienced unprecedented storage capacity growth which has resulted in complexity and manageability problems along with reduced reliability with high operational costs. There are also increasing pressures to achieve compliance, security and disaster recoverability, which have caused a costly, inefficient mix of storage assets that are not optimally utilized.
In today’s challenging economic environment, the worst possible solution to growing storage demands is simply throwing more hardware at it. Instead, a strategic investment in storage optimization can lead to greater efficiencies, lower costs, and simplified management.
Our Storage Optimization services are focused on simplifying the Storage and Backup/Recovery infrastructure, improving availability and recover capability, improving SLAs, improving utilization, improving agility and optimizing the existing storage resources. All of these with focus on reducing the costs of running, maintaining and growing IT services. Our analysis will assist in creating a business directed plan for storage and align storage infrastructure with overall business service level agreements. In the case of Storage Optimization, most customers have seen less than 12 months of payback period for the investments with positive cash flow and substantial cost savings from that point onwards.
Our standard offerings for Storage Infrastructure Optimization are:
• Rapid Storage Optimization Analysis
• Storage Performance and Utilization Analysis
• Data Classification and Lifecycle Analysis
• Backup & Recovery Infrastructure Optimization Analysis
• Storage Infrastructure Enhancement for performance, availability and recoverability
• Upgrades and Migrations from existing infrastructure to new or replacement solution
• Storage and Backup Recovery - Health Checks & Updates |
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Most organizations are required to have key capabilities readily deployed to handle any emergency situations that might affect Business Services provided through IT infrastructure and applications. Business Continuity planning must ensure that, in the event of a serious incident, there is a smooth continuation of not just your IT infrastructure, but also your end-to-end business functions.
Growth and viability of an organization is the result of well-developed business strategies. Effective business strategy requires an effective solution to handle business disruption. Business continuity planners know how quickly things can change. In an instant, a disruption, interruption or eruption can bring the entire business to halt. We do not know what tomorrow will bring but we must always be prepared and have a plan.
Our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning services use the following process to ensure that your Business Continuity plans minimize impact and are aligned with your business recovery needs.
1. Business Requirements Analysis, Business Impact Analysis, Gap Analysis and Strategic Planning
2. Information Assessment, Analysis, Business Continuity Planning and Solution Design
3. Business Continuity Solution Implementation, Integration and DR Exercises
4. Business Continuity Plan Management and Control Recommendations
No two organizations are the same; each has unique objectives, challenges and opportunities and thus needs solutions that fit these needs exactly. When we look at Business Continuity – we focus on recovery of Business Services and Applications as a whole by understanding all dependencies and interfaces. Just having data and servers is not adequate for recovery of business services and hence such solutions inadequately fulfill the DR needs of customers.
Our standard offerings for Business Continuity solutions are:
• Comprehensive Business Continuity and Resiliency Planning
• IT Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Planning & Design
• Disaster Recovery Plan Preparation
• Risk Analysis, Business Impact Analysis and Gap Analysis
• Business Resiliency Consulting
• Business Continuity Management
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Many organizations are required to be more energy efficient and demonstrate Green IT initiatives to meet the needs of corporate strategy as well as save costs. We have solutions to help you readily assess the gaps and develop/deploy the solutions and strategies to meet these requirements.
Standard offerings for Energy Efficiency solutions are:
• Energy Efficiency/Green IT Analysis
• Energy Efficiency Fast Starts
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