Transform your data centers to address on-premises, colocation, cloud and edge strategies

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Are your data centers hard pressed to accommodate today’s converged and high-density infrastructures? HPE Services can help you create a modular, flexible, energy-efficient framework that’s in tune with your business goals.

By Ashok Kumar, Worldwide Strategy and Advisory Services Leader, HPE Sustainable Data Center Modernization practice

The next wave of digital transformation is about re-imagining and improving your business by leveraging emerging trends, models, and technologies, and gaining competitive edge in the marketplace. These latest trends make a difference between high-performing and struggling businesses. Indeed, data centers built even a few years ago are considered outmoded because they are ill-equipped to accommodate today’s converged and high-density infrastructures.

Aging data centers also translate to higher power and cooling costs, forcing you to budget more for energy than is necessary. Considering the economic compulsions, you may need to make your data centers more sustainable, modular, flexible, and future-ready. Yet data center transformation, consolidation, and migration projects often stretch your IT operations teams. Most of the time, the teams’ skillsets and procedures cannot cope with the amount and nature of the changes in the physical environment.

The enterprise’s IT transformation road map should provide insights to validate the future-state IT requirements that will lay the foundation for the data center strategy and meet today’s and future business objectives.

HPE’s Sustainable Data Center Modernization (SDCM) practice opens the road to innovation, supporting your strategy from edge to cloud. We bring value with innovative technologies or ways of designing, implementing, and running your data centers to support new business needs and help you become more competitive in your market. This is in our DNA – HPE helps you deliver business outcomes.

To enhance data center performance, improve agility, and allow business flexibility, HPE brings an end-to-end data center infrastructure portfolio that takes care of every aspect of your data center throughout the program lifecycle. This comprehensive approach creates a customized, modular, flexible, energy-efficient, and sustainable data center framework that is in tune with your business strategic goals.

The HPE end-to-end approach creates a hybrid infrastructure fully inclusive of the data center. Our consultants and engineers help you break through traditional, rigid IT silos, specifically designing an infrastructure engineered to invoke much higher levels of predictability and cost containment.

Using this hybrid cloud approach, we help you set the foundation for a more agile and flexible service delivery model – a  model that integrates server, storage, networking, and management resources to deliver the data center and distributed IT environment of the future.

Key tenets of our unique approach:

• A comprehensive design for implementing edge-to-cloud services in all industry use cases
• High-level modularity for scalability and flexibility
• Tight correlation between IT and data center facilities within an operational framework
• Quick solution for problems associated with the differing objectives of internal stakeholders
• An operational intelligence lifecycle model with a step-by-step path to follow.

Is your data center working for you?

Fast and agile IT teams are focusing on faster turnaround times, higher customer satisfaction, and rapid fulfilment of customer needs. While your IT organization is most likely doing everything possible to meet and exceed these requirements, there are three questions about your data centers that you should ask yourself:

1. Are your data centers able to keep up with the demands of your business?
2. Are your IT and data centers working together to make your business thrive?
3. Are you delivering a differentiated experience to your stakeholders, partners, and customers?

If the answer to these questions is anything other than a resounding yes, then read on.

HPE SDCM Advisory and Strategy services can help you align IT and data centers with your business needs and get them to work together for higher returns. In my next blog, I’ll explore our approach and the benefits of a data center strategy.

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Ashok Kumar leads worldwide strategy and advisory services under HPE’s SDCM (Sustainable Data Center Modernisation) practice, with an additional focus on Data Center as a Service across regions. With 20 years of experience in IT and data centers, Ashok has more than 12 years of providing consulting expertise through HPE Services to support customer experiences in areas such as data center roadmaps, digital transformation strategy, and data center consolidation strategy.

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