The Right Consolidation Solution
Competition has become fiercer, cost pressure is increasing, and economic conditions and globalization require greater flexibility and productivity. All of these factors place special demands on IT. Through growth, mergers and organizational changes, heterogeneous and complex IT architectures have developed. On top of this, the use of diverse technologies, new securities and retention standards have increased complexity. These storage environments are being maintained at great cost and eat up the IT budget. As a result, less and less money is available for long-term investments.

To improve cost transparency and add more value, savvy IT decision makers are reaping advantages and cost savings from storage consolidation and regaining control over spiraling information and infrastructure growth as well as under-utilized storage and server assets.

Added Value Through a Partner Based on Trust
A successful consolidation of complex storage environments depend on thorough awareness of each customer’s individual goals, objectives and success criteria as well as a comprehensive understanding of the infrastructure, applications and databases to be consolidated. With CDI’s Consolidation Assessment Services, you reduce your cost permanently and increase the productivity of you IT environment. As one of your leading IT service providers, we target our customers’ specific needs and quickly identify where opportunities for improvement exist as well as the degree to which the infrastructure supports current business objectives

CDI Assessment Methodology
To provide the full lifecycle of services required to assess the proposed consolidation environment CDI uses a 3-phase approach – Discovery, Analysis and Recommendations.

Discovery: Develop a detailed understanding of your infrastructure, applications and business processes.
Analysis:Evaluate the information and requirements defined in the Discovery phase and begin to formulate recommendations.
Recommendations:Use data and requirements compiled or generated in the Analysis phase to develop recommendations for a robust, optimized and supported consolidation environment.

CDI will also provide proposed implementation guidelines for deploying our recommendations. A Consolidation Methodology will identify consolidation opportunities to include:
• A cost/benefit analysis
• A risk assessment
• A detailed consolidation plan
• A comprehensive consolidation test plan

Added Value For Your Company
The greatest value that companies gain from storage consolidation is an improved ability to adapt to new infrastructure technologies, and respond to new business requirements with a consistent process. It spends less time moving data and transforming it into a usable form and can respond more quickly to demands for data availability once the IT center has completed the data consolidation process and achieved the desired environment. Users can expect more rapid deployment of new applications and features, leading to improved flexibility to respond to the demands for the business.

CDI is an infrastructure services firm that lends knowledge, experience and credibility to helping companies facilitate communications and collaboration between employees, partners and customers around the world.

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