Upgrading your data centre isn’t just about adopting the newest technology. It’s about determining your business and workload needs to streamline operations and provide the best customer service possible.
64%
of polled IT professionals from
large companies see their outdated technology and
legacy IT infrastructure as a barrier to IT transformation.
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Your critical IT infrastructure needs to enable your business, not stifle your ability to innovate.
A Data Centre Modernisation Checklist
Strategising and committing to comprehensive change within the business can be difficult. Evaluate your applications, data storage and dependencies to help you decide which workloads should go where. A comprehensive analysis of your existing infrastructure can provide an overview of your systems end to end, giving you clear direction for the project ahead.
Best practices to help you strategise a successful modernisation:
Get all executives and staff on board.
If your colleagues aren’t interested in change, nothing will happen. Explain to your business leaders that IT transformation will enable systems to run faster, boosting productivity across the organisation. But be transparent about the process. Together, you’ll navigate the challenges. And, in the end, the transition will be rewarding.
It’s important to work together and ensure everyone is on the same page with regard to the outcomes you
want to achieve through this effort.
We’ll help you make the right IT decisions to drive innovation and improve infrastructure performance.
Planning your transformation is a
team effort.
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Data Centre Modernisation
1. IT in Transition: How IT Leaders Are Faring
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You don’t necessarily want to change everything at once, even if you’re tempted to. Try focusing on what’s manageable first. Find aspects of the project that are simple to start, have a low cost and bring immediate value. Start there and follow up with the tougher tasks.
Start simple.
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Transforming the business means doing new things - and your IT department may have to retrain to be able to support the upgraded platform. Your teams can then hit the ground running as soon as the new system is operational.
Be ready to invest in training.
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The comprehensive philosophy of DevOps incorporates product management, development, quality assurance, operations and security as a single approach to every technology process within the business — from development to management and support. Standardising how your IT department runs your infrastructure through DevOps’ holistic and team-oriented approach will give your business the agility it needs.
Embrace DevOps.
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Your organisation relies on your applications on a daily basis. It can be a struggle to determine how you should proceed in this realm, but planning around your workloads fosters success. Create an IT infrastructure strategy that aligns applications with platforms and solutions that improve performance. Don’t fixate on sticking to one system. Stay flexible with the platforms you choose.
Focus on the workloads.
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