Data Center Strategy and Cost Reduction Service

You’re outgrowing your data center and/or it’s not capable of adequately supporting your business anymore.

Tougher SLA’s are driving you to higher availability configurations, data vaulting/synchronization and potentially alternate sites, or you simply need to do more with less money…

Do you build, buy, rent, co-lo, use internal, and what about the cost of these options? What are others in my industry doing?

Getting approval for any data center improvement is a costly and very visible project.  Guessing is not an option.  The SMS Data Center Strategy service uses financial, operational efficiency, and business case, models to evaluate your company’s data center alternatives.  SMS incorporates your company’s specific influencing factors such as location characteristics, core competencies, IT organizational maturity, recovery time and point objectives, and budgets into our model.

This SMS service has helped customers make the right moves when contemplating their future or just in looking at ways to stem cost increases.  Your data center strategy must be scalable, flexible, comprehensive, and actionable.  SMS’s experience helps you take realistic steps towards your vision by providing lower cost alternatives and tactical approaches towards the ultimate goals.

The SMS service includes:

  • Financial and Business Case Matrix -- The financial and business case matrix uses information gathered at your company about its current environment, risk, mitigation, growth projections, technology architecture, and organizational maturity to review alternatives.  These include building a new data center, buying existing, sharing, collocations, ASP’s, hot site providers, internal options, etc.  Many times cost alone can reduce the number of options considered.
  • Alternatives Review -- Getting down to the “short list” of options is crucial.  Cost and location considerations help, but risks and threats play a major role.  Does your company require a Tier IV or a Tier III data center?  What type of network do you require?  Do you have tax nexus concerns with your .com presence?  These and many more questions surround the review of alternatives and this is precisely where SMS can help you to the short list.
  • Final Recommendation -- Unlike others, SMS is committed to exploring, and vetting out, the hard questions associated these decisions.  We have been doing this for a long time, and will recommend a strategy and then develop a roadmap for you to achieve your goals.