Sun's team of professional services IT experts help you assess, architect, implement and manage your datacenter infrastructure strategy. Whether you want to consolidate and virtualize your existing environment or whether you are planning a greenfield datacenter project - we can find the right services experts to meet your business and IT needs.
Datacenter Consulting Services
Consulting Services*
Description
IT Business Strategy Consulting
IT consulting, planning, and ROI development for strategic IT projects that align with corporate business goals
Consultative planning and development of a corporate-wide Eco/Green strategy. Includes policies, governance and development of measurements and tracking.
OpenWork consulting on workspace design, organizational practices and technology infrastructure to support access to IT resources.
Long term planning and rationalization of your corporate datacenter and IT strategy including geographical decisions, disaster recovery plans, physical security, number of datacenters and other considerations measured against long term business goals.
Development of a data center design that will incorporate both IT policies and operational strategies into the physical design of the datacenter.
Review datacenter design considerations that best address your needs. Includes all components of physical layout as well as floor plan configurations, modular design options and overall footprint.
Development of a comprehensive operating model for the project that will help reduce risks, pin-point costs and provide on-going management and metrics throughout the design and build portion of the project.
Datacenter Modernization
Application Modernization includes analysis and recommendations on operating system enhancements, provisioning strategies and application rationalization. May include code modification/enhancement for optimal performance with newer operating system versions, multi-threaded systems and virtualization technologies.
Infrastructure Modernization includes analysis and recommendations on critical infrastructure components including, but not limited to, certain non-IT systems (UPS upgrades, transformers, PDU & UE buses, etc.) May include upgrading existing components, retiring old equipment and other technical refreshes.
Datacenter Optimization
Eco Consulting & Assessments: Consultation on how to develop the right Eco strategy for your organization. Assessment services are designed to establish a baseline for existing environmental conditions, identify areas of improvement and provide plans for optimizing energy usage, cooling and the environment overall.
Virtualization & Consolidation: Consultation on specific areas where you wish to reduce costs and optimize resources. Get recommendations on the appropriate mix of virtualization technology and IT processes to achieve your goals. May include estimation of the TCO and ROI benefits that your project will achieve and advisement on how you create business value through IT.
Migration: Consultants can migrate your legacy hardware and applications to a new IT infrastructure. Migration experts scope the project by understanding current architecture, development environment, resources and constraints, 3rd party and in-house components. Activities may include:
Select the best migration strategy
Obtain order of magnitude estimates for overall project complexity and size
Articulate a business case for transformation
Datacenter Operations
Managed and Remote Operations: Includes heterogeneous, remote monitoring and management for all components of a customer's IT infrastructure, including systems at the OS level, third-party, and custom applications, databases, networks, security, storage, and the web. Dedicated on-site support provides customized dedicated resources to ensure the success of your mission-critical environment before, during or after your solution implementation.
*All projects are considered turn-key solutions in which Sun oversees entire project management of the solution including vendor and partner management, deployment schedule, leveraging proven best practices, quality assurance and delivering business results to budget.
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