Lower Costs, Improve Performance, and Transform Operations through Data Center Consolidation

Data Center Consolidation in the Public Sector

IT organizations often spend more than 70 percent of their annual budgets on existing projects and maintenance. Freeing up dollars for strategic projects demands a new way of thinking about the way limited resources are used.

Data center consolidation offers the opportunity for enormous productivity gains by leveraging the latest technology developments, such as cloud computing models. Key data center consolidation success factors identified by Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) Task Force include the ability to:

• Consolidate and retire applications
• Optimize applications and data
• Evaluate data archiving and storage alternatives
• Maximize the value of big data
• Leverage cloud services

To meet these FDCCI goals requires innovative technology to implement a data center consolidation strategy with lean principles in mind. Doing so can create sustainable business processes that power cost-effective IT operations and ultimately improve mission-critical service delivery.

The Informatica Solution for DoD Data Center Consolidation

Based on a lean integration methodology, the Informatica solution for DoD data center consolidation assists organizations by putting in place the processes, standards, technology, and resources to maximize IT operational efficiencies. Informatica provides the tools needed to ensure continuous improvements in the management of data and applications.

Using this solution, organizations can:

• Retire legacy applications and identify inactive data, archive production sources, maintain data access, and ensure compliance with data retention policies
• Consolidate applications and data to maximize performance and value
• Optimize system performance using advanced tools in mapping and migration
• Establish a lean portfolio of sustainable management practices
• Achieve productivity gains by leveraging cloud computing models as part of a broader DCC strategy

Key Capabilities of the Informatica Solution for DoD Data Center Consolidation

The Informatica solution for DoD data center consolidation provides government agencies with a clear, comprehensive view of how their current applications and data support existing operations. Reducing operational complexity and cost by identifying and optimizing redundant applications and data and removing redundant hardware capacity, enables organizations to invest in modernization, innovation, and other mission-critical activities.

The Informatica solution for DoD data center consolidation is part of a comprehensive data center consolidation initiative. Unlike other solutions that focus on traditional “bricks and mortar” consolidation, Informatica focuses on the applications, data, and supporting platforms that result in meaningful reductions in operations and maintenance budgets.

This solution is based on the Informatica Platform and features the following capabilities:

• Eliminate the costs of redundant legacy applications and ensure compliance with retention regulations by improving application performance
• Dramatically reduce the time, effort, and disk space needed to support nonproduction systems by efficiently and safely archiving data and creating secure subsets of production data from large, complex databases
• Reduce costs of maintaining infrequently used data by optimizing data warehouse design and infrastructure, enabling you to monitor how and when data is used
• Increase productivity by empowering business users, application owners, and IT to access and integrate data in the cloud, among cloud-based applications, and between cloud and on-premise applications
• Lower risk by enhancing overall security posture