2012’s unstable economy, globalization, and Cloud adoption are putting unprecedented pressure on IT organizations to redefine strategies based on cost-saving technologies. Such strategies include massive Data Center Consolidation, Application Cloud Migration, and energy-saving programs. If each of these initiatives requires specific expertise and technology, they do share common ground in preparing for massive change: Infrastructure Transformation.
Infrastructure Transformation’s goal is to offer the ability to scale while providing IT cost efficiency and operational effectiveness. More importantly, Infrastructure Transformation is essential in avoiding the following common pitfalls:
• Poor Planning by underestimating the complexity of the migration or consolidation;
• Redesigning the architecture ‘on-the-go’ which can lead to delays and additional costs;
• Failure to establish the infrastructure inventory and understand all relations and
dependencies;
• Underestimating or overestimating requirements that can results in lost capacity or wasted
resources;
• Insufficient expertise that not only affects the project but other ongoing ones.
As most IT initiatives, Infrastructure transformation involves technology, people and process. N(i)2 provides cutting-edge technology for Infrastructure Transformation that assists service providers and systems integrators in:
1. Collecting all infrastructure, application and services data and making sense of all
dependencies and relations through informative, graphical views; 2. Assessing how the infrastructure is being deployed, how much the current state is costing,
and the level of complexity to transform/migrating it. It helps reach a consensus on what is
prime for transformation; 3. Designing, modeling and assessing the future state/post transformation in order to project
the cost and impact of the migration project; 4. Deploying the migration with a detailed roll-out plan to orchestrate resources and avoid
deployment mishaps.
N(i)2 service providers and systems integrators in ensuring flexibility and agility to reap the benefits of the coming economical changes.
