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Building Vs Outsourcing Your Data Center
Category: Computers and TechnologyThis white paper presents a description of best practices for you to consider in developing your data center strategic plan.
It includes:
- surveys of your peers on data center issues
- information about how to manage growth, business continuity and costs
- tactics for determining your core competencies
- strategies for leveraging outsourcing to maximize your return on investment
Summary:
A majority of IT organizations are faced with the fast pace growth of their businesses and keeping up by providing “state of the art” applications and technology within the data center is a full time job.
Unfortunately data centers are sometimes limited in capacity, and building out new capacity can be cost-prohibitive for many companies.
Outsourcing all or portions of the data center is emerging as a very important strategic lever available to today’s COOs to address growth. It can genuinely help overcome many of the cost pressures faced in these tough times as well as help implement critical IT initiatives cost effectively despite IT budget freezes.
What are the world-class data centers doing to operate more efficiently and cost-effectively than their peers? This white paper will present a description of best practices for you to consider in developing your strategic plan. As an example, understanding the business problem is the first step in developing the strategy. Included are surveys of your peers on data center issues and topics on how to manage growth, business continuity as well as managing costs and determining core competencies.
Soon it will not be justifiable for businesses to manage their own data center because the price of outsourced services will be too attractive to ignore. You need to consider letting data center outsourcing experts incorporate best practices and processes that can achieve true economies of scale.
This report was written by leading CIO, Fred Mapp, and is sponsored by i/o Data Centers. To download a free copy of this data center outsourcing report, please visit: http://www.iodatacenters.com/build-vs-outsource-whitepaper.htm?cpao=115&s_cid=AS102
Fred Mapp served as CIO at various Fortune 100 companies and is presently a consultant and motivational speaker with more than 40 years of experience in IT. He has held key positions at IBM, InfoSpan Corporation, American Express, Honeywell, AMD and the World Congress on Information Technology. His book, Mapping Information Technology to Your Business, was published by Groundbreaking Press.
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