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Dell Technologies ServicesData Centers in theMulti-Cloud EraHow Important are Your Data Centers?Getting the Right Data Center MixPlanning Considerations for your Modern Data CentersWhat’s the Best Combination?Making Your Data Center Strategy RealAccelerating Your Data Center ConsolidationMaking Operations Faster and More ReliableEconomic Impact of Data Center ServicesWhat’s Next?EXPLORE

How can your data centers deliver cloud outcomes?Data centers play a vital role in your hybrid cloudstrategy, but they need to change.With the rise of public and hybrid clouds, as well as the rapid adoption of new technologies, such as containers, someindustry commentators believethe days of traditional datacenters are numbered. Not sofast. The amount of data hasbeen continually building overmultiple decades. It’s beinggenerated by scores of newapps residing on an ever-increasing number of new platforms.How Important are Your Data Centers?Getting the Right Data Center MixWhat’s the Best Combination?Making Your Data Center Strategy RealAccelerating Your Data Center ConsolidationMaking Operations Faster and More ReliableEconomic Impact of Data Center ServicesWhat’s Next?EXPLOREIn addition, the amounts of information being generated bymore and newer devices continues to grow. All this information must physically residesomewhere, and enterprisesare realizing that even publiccloud can’t handle all of it. Infact, enterprises are continuing to invest in their data centers, even increasing them insome cases. What does thismean? Enterprise data centerswill continue, but their purpose will change. Instead ofbeing viewed only as a facilityor static depository of transaction data, your data centersmust deliver cloud solutions inthe form of easy to consumeand easy to operate servicesfor your evolving digital business requirements.Data and LOUD-NATIVECONTACT ANEXPERT NOW

What is the best combination of private and public clouds,edge and colocation for you?In the digital business era, aligning the services your data centers deliver with your business andtechnology objectives is more important now than ever. However, many data centers struggle toachieve cloud services because of aging facilities or overburdened infrastructure.One way that IT organizations are achieving more cloud-like consumption is to use colocation service providers. This allows them to not directly own or manage the facilities, power, cooling andnetworking services as an operating expense. Many businesses find this a convenient way to gainsome of the advantages of cloud while still maintaining control of systems and applications.What stands in the way of businesses achieving full cloud benefits? Some IT organizations arestruggling to integrate IT infrastructure and data centers from a merger or acquisition, while others have been preoccupied with day-to-day operational concerns, and haven't recently evaluatedtheir data center strategy. Others are trying to figure out how to address emerging requirementssuch as edge computing for Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios or containers-as-a-service.Many IT organizations find that turning to an experienced partner accelerates the development ofa data center strategy that addresses their cloud, co-location and edge computing requirements.How Important are Your Data Centers?PRIVATEGetting the Right Data Center MixWhat’s the Best Combination?PUBLICMaking Your Data Center Strategy RealAccelerating Your Data Center ConsolidationMaking Operations Faster and More ReliableEconomic Impact of Data Center ServicesWhat’s Next?EXPLOREEDGECOLOCATIONCONTACT ANEXPERT NOW

Getting a strategy to optimize your data centersCONTACT ANEXPERT NOWEngaging your business stakeholders in evaluating strategic data center alternativesWith so many data centeroptions available, how do younarrow the possibilities downto meaningful alternatives onwhich your key business stakeholders can agree? With ourData Center Strategy service,you can jumpstart your datacenter transformation initiativesand more quickly realize costand agility benefits. With ourproven approach, you can realize a robust data center strategy that is aligned to your business objectives and cloud goals:1. First, we work with you to identify and engage key IT and business stakeholders in order to develop a holistic view on thestrategic and financial objectives of the business.2. Next, we analyze your environment, assessing your current state IT infrastructure, facilities and financial metrics.3. We evaluate alternatives using your information, to identify gaps to craft your individual future state. We develop a shortlist of alternatives, often including a mix of your data centers with appropriate colocation partners.4. Finally, we develop a roadmap for the preferred alternative, identifying the investments and activities required to achieveyour recommended future state.Dell Technologies data center strategy approachAS-ISCurrent stateITinfrastructureHow Important are Your Data Centers?Getting the Right Data Center MixWhat’s the Best Combination?FacilitiesEXPLOREMaking Operations Faster and More ReliableEconomic Impact of Data Center ServicesWhat’s Next?Future stateEngagestakeholdersIdentify and engagekey participants toreview approach,framework andcollect input.AnalyzedataAssess currentenvironment, including infrastructure(compute, storage,network), facilities,financials: Understand capabilities, impacts ofstrategic initiatives,risks utilizationMaking Your Data Center Strategy RealAccelerating Your Data Center entify gaps todesired state anddevelop alternativesto the current state: Number, size, type,and purpose of datacentersDeveloproadmapDevelop recommendations and roadmapbased on review ofalternatives, ROMcomparison modeland client’s businessobjectives.ITinfrastructureFacilities Colocation suitability and agreements Pro-con analysisFinancials

Making your data center strategy realIt all starts with your applicationsTo implement your cloud-aligned data center strategy, you may find it necessary to either consolidate or migrate data and applications from existing data centers into a new consolidated datacenter, which may include private or public clouds.When consolidating your data centers, the first thought of many IT teams is to start migratingworkloads. But this blanket approach without research may mean that you’re migrating applicationsthat no longer matter to the business. Or you may run the risk of migrating to the wrong place ifthe business wants to take a public cloud approach for an application. And you may miss some lowcost opportunities for upgrading applications and their enviro along the way. Before you start migrating, we suggest that you analyze your application portfolio to determine which applications aremost suitable for private or public clouds and which should be retired because they are no longerimportant to the business.Continued Dell Technologies methodology for application portfolio analysisHow Important are Your Data Centers?Getting the Right Data Center MixWhat’s the Best Combination?Making Your Data Center Strategy RealAccelerating Your Data Center ConsolidationMaking Operations Faster and More ReliableEconomic Impact of Data Center ServicesWhat’s Next?EXPLORECONTACT ANEXPERT NOW

Minimizing risk for data center migrationsTake an application-focused approachWith a clear picture of the applications that will be migratedto the new data center, what isthe best way to move them andthe infrastructure?ers and storage devices movepackages. This same approachalso allows you to recover morequickly should something gowrong during a migration.To minimize downtime, we migrate inter-dependent applications and the infrastructuretogether. This assures that youcan quickly return your applications to production oncethey’re migrated, because theyhave all the infrastructure anddatabase resources at handthat they need. We call thesegroupings of inter-dependentapplications, databases, serv-Another important migrationquestion concerns the schedule. Most businesses haveregularly-scheduled downtimewindows for application or infrastructure updates and maintenance. Businesses will oftenchoose to dedicate a series ofthese downtime windows formigration purposes. Grouping move packages into moveevents is the principal task ofmigration planning. Groupingand scheduling of move packages is called a migration event.How Important are Your Data Centers?Getting the Right Data Center MixDell Technologies approach to forming moveevents from groups of move packagesMove eventsMove package #1What’s the Best Combination?Making Your Data Center Strategy RealAccelerating Your Data Center ConsolidationMaking Operations Faster and More ReliableEconomic Impact of Data Center ServicesWhat’s Next?EXPLOREDell Technologies pioneeredthis approach to data centerconsolidation and migration;check out this white paper formore details on how this approach works.CONTACT ANEXPERT NOWMove package #2#1#2#3#4#5#6

Accelerating your migration programMaximize automation to gain speed and reduce errorsWe’ve learned through hundreds of data center migrations that specialized tools make a big difference in speeding execution and reducing the risk of failures and unplanned outages. We’ve developed a dedicated toolset for data center migrations, called Dell Technologies DTM Assist, thatautomates many migration tasks while providing you with a range of capabilities to more effectively manage and monitor your migration program.CONTACT ANEXPERT NOWAutomatically generated move packages with Dell TechnologiesDTM Assist toolsetDTM Assist simplifies migration planning by mapping out the relationships of your applications andsupporting infrastructure, leveraging sources such as your configuration management database(CMDB) or specialized IT discovery tools. These tools provide a good portion of the dependencyinformation, which we typically supplement with interviews and additional listings of application orinfrastructure stakeholders.Migration managers can quickly group your inter-dependent applications and infrastructure intomove packages by leveraging the powerful capabilities of DTM Assist to automatically generatemove packages and assist with the packaging process for large or highly interdependent applications and infrastructure. DTM Assist even automates one of the most challenging tasks by recommending ways to break down large or highly-dependent applications and infrastructure with“Smart Split” capability.Continued How Important are Your Data Centers?Getting the Right Data Center MixWhat’s the Best Combination?Making Your Data Center Strategy RealAccelerating Your Data Center ConsolidationMaking Operations Faster and More ReliableEconomic Impact of Data Center ServicesWhat’s Next?EXPLOREDTM Assist “Smart Split” automated suggestions for breakingdown an oversized move package