Infrastructure Optimisation

The ability to improve an organisation’s IT infrastructure to better address business current and strategic requirements relies on an in-depth and quantitative understanding of the current status of the infrastructure.

Computacenter is bringing to market an industry-leading IT infrastructure maturity model to help organisations understand their maturity level.

This Infrastructure Optimisation model, based on industry analyst benchmarks by IDC, demonstrates key steps that organisations can take to move forward to realise cost savings and deliver increased business value.

The model helps customers realise cost savings for their IT infrastructure by moving from an unmanaged “Basic” environment towards a “Dynamic” environment. For example, security improves from highly vulnerable in a basic infrastructure to dynamically proactive in a more mature infrastructure and IT infrastructure management changes from manual and reactive to highly automated and proactive.

The “basic” stage of Infrastructure Optimisation is where the infrastructure generally is considered a “cost centre”. By moving towards a “dynamic” infrastructure, the business value is increasingly understood and viewed as a business growth enabler and strategic business asset.

The results of the Infrastructure Optimisation assessment provide critical input to an organisation’s IT strategy and an overview of future investments by:

• Benchmarking the current environment against proven industry analyst models
• Comparing the environment against industry peers
• Identifying initiatives to optimise the infrastructure which will reduce cost, improve end user service and reduce risks
• Preparing models and approaches to realise the benefits
• Allowing future optimisation of the infrastructure to be measured