We live in a ROI-centric world. Unified Thinking is about bringing together business insight and technology prowess to improve your organization. We help our clients achieve increased productivity, reduced expense and enable organizational growth and responsiveness. With the Unified Data Center, we have tremendous expertise. If you are interested in creating a data center that can be easily managed, is extremely resource efficient, is highly productive, and is fully agile, we are here to help.
Below are a few examples which highlight the power of technology / business collaboration:
SUPPORTING CORPORATE GROWTH
Business Issue
A global manufacturer, headquartered in St. Louis, was experiencing several critical IT issues as a result of an aggressive corporate growth strategy focused on competitor acquisition. Issues included: supporting technologies from multiple manufacturers, an escalating number of servers, significant data growth, limited physical space, insufficient IT staffing, inability to afford an executable disaster recovery plan.
Solution
From a management perspective, we developed a strategic IT plan, a supporting tactical plan, revised procedures, standards and key performance indicators. Technological solutions included: a fully virtualized, centralized data center with a unified fabric to support virtualized desktops and consolidated storage.
Results
Proactive management of the IT function to support corporate goals. The ability for IT staff to handle the consistently growing responsibilities for more users and more data. Reduced IT spend on hardware, software, maintenance, space and energy. The company went from eleven racks to three!
AUDIT REQUIRES DISASTER RECOVERY
Business Issue
A private company headquartered in St. Louis, maintains a diverse portfolio of several highly regulated companies with dozens of locations throughout Missouri and Illinois. Auditors required many of the companies to have multiple data centers, pushing the IT hardware and software costs to continually escalate. Concurrently, the limited IT staff had the ongoing challenge of supporting the workload of the multiple, disparate data centers.
Solution
Utilizing the principles of Multi-Tenancy and Orchestration, the companies were able to satisfy the audit requirements for disaster recovery while centralizing the data center infrastructure.
The centralized infrastructure greatly reduced the cost and complexity, and the software allowed reduced spend in IT personnel allowing existing resources to be redeployed for more strategic tasks.
Results
The number of physical data centers was reduced from eight to two. Companies maintained the effect of stand-alone data centers. IT hardware and software costs were greatly reduced. IT staff are now operating under a reasonable workload and are able to support key performance indicators.