Over a period of years, as an organization grows and evolves to adapt to the ever changing competitive landscape, the organization’s Information Infrastructure also grows and evolves.

Unfortunately, Infrastructure growth and evolution tend to be driven by immediate needs and wants. As existing IT staff leave and new staff replace them, knowledge of existing and legacy systems are steadily diluted.

Rarely are the resources allocated or available to perform a proper requirements analysis, an impact study of the proposed addition or change to the Infrastructure, and a structured design and implementation process.

More often an Information Infrastructure steadily degrades into a poorly integrated, unwieldy, and unstable mess as more and more components are added to the overall infrastructure. The end result is very rarely intentional, but is rather born out of necessity, immense pressure on the IT department to deliver, and overburdened resources.

As the infrastructure degrades, the burden on the IT team increases. The focus shifts increasingly to keeping the infrastructure operational, and away from the ever-essential support of the organization’s employees. This in turn results in lost productivity, lost revenue, and under-utilized resources

dataLogistics can work with your organization to redesign and consolidate your Information Infrastructure for the following reasons:

• Assist your IT team in shifting from a reactive to a proactive mode and to move their focus away from the Infrastructure and more towards their clients, your organization’s employees.
• Help improve productivity.
• Through proper integration improve the level of utilization of existing Infrastructure components.
• Realize tangible savings by utilizing more current and effective products and solutions, and by consolidating redundant resources.
• Lower overall cost of ownership.

When performing an Infrastructure Redesign and Consolidation, we utilize the following approach:

1. Clearly identify business requirements and future growth projections.
2. Analyze and document the existing Information Infrastructure and the products and solutions used as components in detail.
3. With budgets, deadlines, and cost-benefits in mind, design a target solution based on “best-of-breed” products and solutions.
4. Establish and document standards, operating procedures, and strict change management.
5. With the target design in mind, map out the steps to migrate the existing infrastructure to the planned infrastructure with the absolute minimum impact on availability, stability, and reliability.
6. Implement the new infrastructure and migrate information over from the old infrastructure.