Data Center Analysis and Planning

Ensuring Strategic Growth and Development

Data centers change constantly. Their size and complexity have increased dramatically over the past decade because of new technologies, the explosion of data, and heightened security concerns. Change events now require ongoing disciplines involving the close marriage of corporate facility expertise, IT, and the business owners they support.

Today’s organizations need a better way to navigate through frequent and infrequent — but still mission-critical — changes. Collective Technologies offers Data Center LifeCycle Management (DCLM), a strategic, process-oriented approach for successful change management. DCLM takes a holistic view of the data center change events and ecosystem to simplify the management of complex IT environments and enable companies to expand, operate and evolve their data centers in a cost-effective manner.

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Precise Baselines for Proper Management

DCLM solutions start with Data Center Analysis and Planning, a proven-effective way to establish a facility-wide baseline analysis for existing and future data center environments. This baseline is the necessary foundation for technology purchasing, expansion, consolidation, migration, or relocation decisions. The lack of an analysis and planning foundation can lead to over-building — which is cost prohibitive — or building only to meet immediate needs — which doesn’t account for future growth. Data Center Analysis and Planning takes advantage of Collective's extensive IT infrastructure expertise to create a set of proven, process-oriented services that help companies navigate through mission-critical changes in their data center environments.

Detailed Inventory and Mapping

With Data Center Analysis and Planning, customers receive a detailed analysis of their data center needs that includes:

• An accurate inventory of the computing and network infrastructure
• Application mapping
• A roadmap of projected future computing needs

This information is then compared to the current physical infrastructure and the customer’s budget, goals and objectives to determine the recommended course of action, whether it be retrofitting of current facilities, building new ones or relocating to a third-party facility.

The Benefits of a Strategic Approach from Collective

Data Center Analysis and Planning:

• Supports DCLM, a holistic, comprehensive, strategic view of the data center
• Integrates the requirements of IT, facilities and the businesses they support
• Provides solutions that can scale and adapt to meet the ever-evolving challenges of business
• Incorporates the appropriate Data Center LifeCycle Management partner to meet each customer’s unique and point-in-time needs
• Ensures change-event plans that work effectively and efficiently within the current and planned data center facilities, IT infrastructure and related business organizations