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Management Simplification

By automating and simplifying datacentre management, Computacenter will help your organisation reduce costs, free up resources and increase agility.

Business Challenge

With organisations increasingly reliant on IT for core business processes, the cost and complexity of day-today datacentre management has risen dramatically. Industry figures suggest that management and support costs account for up to 80 per cent of datacentre budgets.

As well as impacting an organisation’s bottom line, labour-intensive datacentre management processes can also hamper operational efficiency and prevent a timely response to business demands. A disparate and manual approach to server, change and application management also heightens the risks around security and regulatory compliance.

As the growing number of applications increases the complexity of IT infrastructure, it also has a direct impact on management requirements and IT departments – who are under pressure to deliver more with the same or fewer resources.

Computacenter Solution

Computacenter focuses on simplifying IT operations and enabling ongoing transformation. We provide services across the infrastructure management lifecycle:

Infrastructure Discovery & Analysis: By discovering and analysing how an organisation’s infrastructure assets link to core business services and each other provides simplified change management and fosters greater innovation.

Infrastructure Operations & Control: Through proven processes we consolidate infrastructure management, and standardise software. In addition we can standardise and automate software patch levels and procedures.

Automation & Orchestration: By automating tedious and labour intensive tasks such as user management and capacity monitoring, Computacenter can enable IT resources to be freed up for more innovative projects within an organisation. In addition, minimizing human intervention in systems management processes enhances business agility through faster, more predictable provisioning of IT services.

Database Optimisation: Using innovative approaches coupled with industry best practice we increase the efficiencies of databases by optimising enterprise database deployments; ensure correct sizing, tuning and placement of data; reducing storage volume requirements and controlling the use of test data.

Key Benefit

Computacenter’s Management Simplification services bring consistency and control to the datacentre. This will result in:

Cost reduction: By taking advantage of automation, IT departments can achieve more with same resources. Processes that used to take days or weeks can be completed in a matter of hours, which ensures a rapid return on investment. Better change and patch management controls also minimise the risk of costly downtime.

Business agility: Computacenter’s Management Simplification services will enable your organisation to respond more effectively to change. With increased automation, you will be able to quickly re-purpose systems based on business demand, driving higher utilisation of assets.

Risk avoidance: With standardised processes and improved governance, organisations will be better placed to achieve compliance with regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and meet security standards, including those set by the Payment Card Industry.

Why Computacenter?

Computacenter will make your business sharper by removing cost, complexity and barriers to change. We have an open, pragmatic approach, and always provide independent advice, working with IT departments, not around them.

Computacenter serves its clients from offices and facilities across the UK, Germany, France, the Benelux countries and Spain. We also have a support centre in South Africa and a network of global partners.

With 25 years of practical IT ‘know how’, we will change the way you think about technology. Computacenter’s services and solutions are based on the same strong values:

Repeatable best practice: Computacenter’s Shared Services Factory captures the key elements of our most successful projects, which helps to reduce the complexity and cost of future customer implementations.

Breadth and scale: We have extensive expertise of delivering network, datacentre and desktop transformation projects that help organisations optimise their people, processes and technologies. We have the largest independent engineering force in the UK, and our staff hold more than 200 vendor and industry accreditations, including SUN, IBM, HP, Microsoft, VMware, Symantec, Tideway, Opalis, Cisco and Citrix certifications.

Innovation: Our unique multi-vendor Solutions Centre enables customers to prototype, test and prove new technology investments at no risk to production systems.