Infrastructure - Systems

Consulting Infrastructure Technology and Service Management

"In IT infrastructure - diversity is not always a virtue" Lots of companies and organisations spend too much money on their infrastructure. Additionally infrastructures can be so complex that they are often difficult to navigate. Servers, storage and operating systems are the fundamental platform for all applications a company is dependent on day to day. There has and continues to be a focus on business continuity, and therefore plans and processes are usually in place. But the price has often been high, due to a reactive approach where investments are made to avoid individual incidents reoccurring . as no one dares oppose the requirement for additional investment in order to ensure a higher degree of business continuity, "we can not live with systems which are not available - can you?". In our experience many organisations and companies have an infrastructure that, over time, has grown to be far too complex and confusing to handle. Devoteam has identified during previous analysis that often the same basic functionality is being achieved with several different suppliers' products. Often the same systems run in differing versions - from the latest to versions which have reached "end-of-support "from the supplier. The consequences are typically: A lack of oversight, which make the right decisions difficult Difficult and expensive operation with lots of inherent risks Difficult to provide visibility of the value of investments in IT Platform An organisation in silos - based on technologies Devoteam can help: Establish an overview through a mapping of the infrastructure (the state) Develop domain strategies for each technology and recommend technology Plan a consolidation of the infrastructure incl. a plan for migration to a new infrastructure concept Organizing and planning the relocation of major IT installations

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