The Challenge
Why Ageing Data Centers Become a Problem
Servers and storage near end of life cost more to run, fail more often and limit what the business can do next.
Is This Relevant?
Is This Use Case Relevant to Your Organization?
The people, moments and signals that usually bring this need to the surface.
Relevant Teams
- IT and infrastructure leaders
- Data center managers
- Finance teams planning capital spend
Common Triggers
- Hardware end of support
- Data center consolidation or move
- New workloads needing more capacity
Warning Signs
- Frequent hardware faults
- Support contracts getting more expensive
- Little free capacity for growth
Typical Environments
- On-premises and co-located data centers
- Virtualized and physical servers
Benefits
What Better Looks Like
Intended benefits. Actual results depend on your environment and starting point.
Our Approach
A Practical Approach
Planned around your operations, with no surprises. Each stage is tailored to your environment.
Assess
Review servers, workloads, utilization, power and support status.
Prioritize
Rank what you find by business impact, effort and risk, and agree where to start.
Design
Agree the target platform, sizing and migration plan.
Implement
Install platforms and migrate workloads in planned windows.
Validate and Optimize
Test performance and resilience after migration.
Solutions
Solutions That Can Help
The solutions that address this use case, starting with the primary one.
Services
How Signisys Can Support You
The services that deliver the approach, from the first assessment to ongoing improvement.
Technology
Technology Options
Where technology fits in the approach. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed for each engagement.
Before You Start
What to Consider Before Getting Started
A little preparation makes the first assessment faster and its findings more reliable.
- Workloads that must stay on-premises
- Power, cooling and space limits
- Licensing tied to hardware or cores
- Secure disposal of old equipment and data
- Who will own the work and act on recommendations
- Engagement model and ongoing support
Measuring Success
How to Measure Success
Illustrative measures. Agree a baseline first, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Hardware Incidents
Failures and support calls on data center equipment.
Utilization
How much compute and storage capacity is used.
Power and Space
Power and rack space used.
Workload Performance
Response times for key workloads.
Our Approach
How We Deliver Results
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this use case.
How do we know our data center needs modernizing?
End-of-support dates, rising maintenance costs, frequent faults and limited capacity for growth are the usual signs. An assessment of equipment and workloads shows the priorities.
Should we modernize on-premises or move to the cloud?
It depends on each workload. Some suit the cloud, others are better on modern on-premises platforms; the assessment compares the options.
What information is needed to get started?
An inventory of servers and storage, support end dates, utilization data, power and space limits, and the workloads that depend on them.
Which environments does this apply to?
On-premises and co-located data centers, with virtualized and physical servers.
How is progress measured?
Agree a baseline for measures such as hardware incidents, utilization, power and space and workload performance, then track them over time.
Related Content
Related Outcomes, Use Cases and Guides
Where to go next: the outcome this use case supports, nearby scenarios, technology partners and practical guides.
Business Outcome
Modernize IT Infrastructure and Applications
Technology Partner
HPE Solutions and Services
Technology Partner
Dell Solutions and Services
Problem Explainer
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