Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing

Making Your Business More Efficient and Competitive

In today’s IT environments, everyone is being asked to do more with less. You are likely looking for ways to cut costs, optimize existing assets, improve service levels and satisfy ever-stricter compliance requirements. You’re trying to make smarter investments, automate processes, and adjust your IT infrastructure to better keep pace with the business.

A key challenge is lack of resources. Consider that 90 percent of IT budgets are required simply to maintain the status quo. Companies have to find ways to redirect that expense into innovation with projects and sourcing options that will cut costs, reduce server real estate, energy use, and risk, and achieve optimal quality.

The Paradox for Organizations Today: How To Do More With Less

The old paradigm of adding more hardware, more storage, more redundancy, and more people has hit an evolutionary dead end.

That’s the “transformation” in Data Center Transformation—actually changing the way we think of the data center and the way that things are done. Unisys is in the transformation business and our customers have learned to count on us to provide the following:

• Discovery, assessment, and implementation services that can identify the inefficiencies and enable reduced budgets to return better results
• Consolidation and standardization of your data center(s) and IT process management means less complexity and greater cost savings from reduced maintenance, staff and technology
• Virtualization of existing servers means less energy usage and cost, and greater business continuity
• Automation of the data center to allow your staff to focus less on tactical maintenance and more on innovation projects
• Right sourcing the data center, helping you select the best options, including In-house, Outsourcing, and Cloud Services, to allow you to spend less on running the data center and more on strategic business investments

That’s what Unisys does, we help you transform your data centers and make the right IT sourcing decisions by leveraging our transformational services and outsourcing capabilities to achieve maximum return. We help you strategically prioritize and deliver modernization initiatives that make your operations more agile, secure and efficient while lowering your overall costs.

Our Portfolio

Unisys helps you transform your data centers and make the right IT sourcing decisions by leveraging our transformational services and outsourcing capabilities to achieve maximum return. We help you strategically prioritize and deliver modernization initiatives that make your operations more agile, secure, and efficient while lowering your overall costs.

Our Products

Our Insights and Trends section provides a venue for current articles, podcasts, analyst reports, and Thought Leaders to help your organization stay ahead of the trends and issues that affect operations.

Articles

• Where the Cloud Meets the Ground

  Microsoft's new data centre in Northlake, a suburb of Chicago, is one of the world's most modern, biggest and most expensive. These containers solve many of the problems that tend to crop up when putting up huge data centers: packaging and transporting servers cheaply, limiting their appetite for energy and installing them only when they are needed.

Podcasts

• Opportunities for Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing

  Consolidation, virtualization and automation are causing the biggest data center changes customers have faced in the past 25 years. Listen to Rich Marcello, president, Systems and Technology, discuss how the market views the opportunities for Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing, and how its definition aligns with Unisys strengths in this area.

• Trends in Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing

  Rich Marcello, president, Systems and Technology, talks about some of the economic trends, client decision making trends, and market driving forces that affect client interest in Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing. Listen as Rich discusses what Unisys is doing today to build a strong portfolio of offerings and a unique go-to-market approach to compete aggressively in this space.

Videos

• Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing Credential Video

  Throughout the world, Unisys has helped transform and streamline data centers. Clients in a variety of industries have reported benefits such as consolidation, availability uptime, and reduced recovery time.

• Cloud TV - Episode 5: The Alignment Assignment - Part 2

  In our last episode Jason started to discuss the Business Value Chain, and how this methodology can be used to drive a top-down approach to managing IT. In this installment of the show, Jason draws the direct correlation to how this applies to cloud computing.

• Unisys Automates VM Provisioning

  Unisys uses its own powerful Virtual Orchestration solution for run book automation that streamlines and automates the provisioning of virtual server resources while minimizing operational costs. It allows us to quickly fulfill engineering equipment needs while enabling amore efficient and lower cost approach via a common pool of shared server resources.

• Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing Overview

  A fast cycle organization will go through an IT transformation, with a focus on standardization of people, process, and technology. The result is that IT will be much simpler and if done right, more secure. Unisys has a vision for helping clients get there, including standardization, consolidation, and virtualization, all the way to Unisys Secure Cloud computing.

Thought Leaders

• Brian Ott

  Brian Ott is vice president of Global Service Lines in the Systems & Technology organization of Unisys. He is responsible for leading and ensuring consistent and successful worldwide implementation of five new service lines - IT Management Advisory Services, Microsoft Services, Infrastructure Optimization Services, Storage Services, and ClearPath Services.

• Colin Lacey

  Colin Lacey is vice president of Systems and Storage at Unisys Corporation. He leads product marketing and partner management for enterprise computing platforms, ClearPath mainframes, storage offerings, and Microsoft solutions.

• Jason Noel

  Jason Noel is the leader of the Unisys IT Management Advisory Services Global Service Line practice.

• Richard Marcello

  Rich Marcello is a senior vice president of the corporation and serves as president of Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions (TCIS). As president of TCIS, Rich is responsible for TCIS full breadth of both products and technology-enabled solutions and services. He was elected an officer by the Board of Directors in July 2007.

• Sam Gross

  Sam Gross is Vice President of Global IT Outsourcing Solutions at Unisys Corporation, where he leads the vision, strategy, technology development and implementation for Unisys innovative global IT outsourcing solutions.