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IT Infrastructure

 

The most demanding businesses are faced with challenges to create and maintain agile and resilient IT infrastructures that are straightforward and cost–effective, while also delivering seamless services to enhance business performance.

At TCS, our IT infrastructure consulting team delivers comprehensive and robust solutions to help you streamline end-to-end infrastructure management from cost reduction, optimization and transformation opportunities to the design and implementation of new solutions with measurable long-term benefits.

Client Challenges

  • High Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the IT infrastructure portfolio
  • Disparate IT systems, operating in silos and on multiple technology platforms
  • Inefficient or obsolete IT systems, affecting profitability and long-term growth

What TCS Provides  

TCS’ solutions will improve your IT infrastructure performance, reliability and productivity by transforming it into a best-in-class target state infrastructure, aligned to your business needs. We leverage our collective technology capabilities, solution accelerators and deep industry insights to devise custom IT strategies for our customers worldwide.

Our key services include the following:

  • Cost Reduction

    • TCO Assessment: Assessing individual cost categories with an ROI analysis to provide recommendations for cost tracking and optimization
    • Data Center Consolidation Assessment: Analyzing data center requirements to build a scalable, manageable, reliable, fault-tolerant and secure data center and recommend a strategic roadmap to reduce costs through data center consolidation
    • Asset Rationalization Assessment: Assessing your infrastructure assets to define a roadmap for optimization and cost reduction
    • Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS) Optimization: Optimizing the MIPS usage in mainframes, across all applications, to reduce the TCO of the enterprise IT infrastructure

  • Risk Management

    • Technology Refresh: Analyzing obsolete technology applications to define a target platform and architecture roadmap

  • Service Level Management

    • High Availability Assessment: Understanding your requirements to define strategies and models for high availability of applications and systems
    • Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Assessment: Understanding your BCP requirements to define a roadmap to realize them

  • Value Creation

    • SOI Assessment: Assessing the service orientation of your IT infrastructure to provide recommendations for improvement
    • Virtualization Strategy Assessment: Assessing your infrastructure for virtualization
    • Archival Process Architecture: Recommending strategies to archive historical data to improve storage usage and system performance
    • Storage Optimization: Establishing a balance between the demand of database needs and supply of storage infrastructure to develop a policy to handle larger data volumes, sustain environment stability and plan “Forward Consolidation”
    • Green IT: Assessing your existing IT infrastructure portfolio to recommend opportunities to reduce your carbon footprint

  • Change Management

    • Capacity / Resource Utilization Assessment: Assessing current application and system workload, and profiling business requirements to estimate the capacity required for future business growth
    • Network Infrastructure Design Assessment: Assessing network requirements to provide a comprehensive network strategy

Business value

Our integrated approach combined with an infrastructure assessment framework will address the optimization and transformation opportunities across your entire infrastructure ecosystem to deliver a holistic solution with the following:

  • Enhanced Business-IT alignment
  • Improved IT performance
  • Optimal cost savings to release funds for strategic investments 

White Papers

Microsoft SharePoint Upgrade Knowhow – Do it right the first time

In this white paper, we provide IT consultants with an overview of the collaboration software and its critical features.

White Papers

Disaster Recovery Planning - A dime to prepare versus a dollar for repair

In this white paper, we discuss the key justification for IT organizations to have a proactive disaster recovery plan in the first place and the need for disaster recovery preparedness.

White Papers

Mainframe MIPS Optimization – The Art of Doing More with Less

In this white paper, we talk in detail about the typical life cycle phases in a MIPS Optimization program and the recommended approach to be followed, the risks / challenges involved and the corresponding mitigation measures.

White Papers

Mainframe Capacity Usage: Chargeback Model

In this white paper, we focus on a solution to identify the cost of the mainframe used by various business activities and facilitate an understanding of the mainframe’s TCO.