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Data-Center Consolidation and Cloud Establishment

This nation-wide wireless CSP due to several mergers and acquisitions over a five-year period, grew rapidly to 14 data centers with thousands of servers to manage.

Excelacom needed to implement an efficient process of rapid facility upgrading and infrastructure optimization to boost capacity growth and correspond to the demand.

Modern Data-center architecture simplification that included application cloud migration should enable future risk-free scalability as well as better program cost management.

Client Challenges

    Without disrupting day-to-day operations, our client needed to:

  • Consolidate data centers
  • Grow the capacity to meet demand
  • Cloud environment establishment
  • Manage the total program cost

Client Challenges

  • PMO (Program Management Office) to manage $450M Data Center consolidation
  • Data Center consolidation road-map
  • Identification and improvement of key operational processes

Business Value

  • Excelacom successfully conducted data centers' consolidation plan, which led to an immediate cost reduction and efficient use of available IT resources.
  • The server's virtualization helped centralize data distribution and reporting, leading to better program cost management control and effective resource distribution.

Excelacom’s Approach

Excelacom provided resources to lead the Program Management Office (PMO) project. The team managed a five-year, $450 million data center consolidation/virtualization program.

Built a consolidation road-map to meet business requirements and financial constraints.

Identified and optimized key operational processes required to support the overall data center execution and corresponding run functions.

Project Description

Excelacom developed and executed the facility upgrades process and technology refreshed infrastructure optimization companywide.

Data center consolidation was performed to reduce IT assets by using more efficient technologies. Server virtualization created and abstracted multiple virtual instances on a single server, which helped in centralizing the data processing.

Simplified data center architecture enabled scalability and increased program cost management control.

Project Outcomes

  • Accelerate the increase of available data center capacity - through facility upgrades and technology refresh infrastructure optimization
  • Reduce operating and capital expenditures - through data center consolidation and server virtualization
  • Increased control for IT - with a simplified data center architecture

Project Advantages 

  • Well defined operational processes, procedures and work instructions
  • Governance model focused on operators’ business needs
  • Established cloud environment for application migration and future cloud services offering
  • Tools and automation
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