Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing - Cloud and IT Automation Solutions

Lowering the Costs of IT Operations for Your Applications

IT organizations are struggling to reduce their operational costs—often as high as 90 percent of their IT budget—and at the same time deliver predictable service levels to the business. Does it take your organization too long to add new applications? Do you have too many underutilized servers? Are your service levels not up to par? Do you know if you are meeting your compliance requirements?

Unisys offers Cloud Solutions and IT Automation Solutions, which are two complementary ways to improve both the quality and the economics of your IT.

With Unisys Cloud solutions, you can leverage the power and flexibility of a real-time computing environment to quickly provision software applications, infrastructure, and platforms on an as-needed basis. Unisys Secure Cloud Solution is available with subscription-based pricing, and Unisys Secure Private Cloud is a ready-to-go solution for internal cloud deployments. Unisys Cloud solutions are ideal for running the applications that tend to be cyclical in use or perhaps have a lower priority for your IT staff than your core applications and don’t warrant the investment in dedicated capital and in-house staff to run. To optimize performance and costs, the Unisys Cloud solutions utilize the Unisys IT automation solutions, which automate tasks such as server provisioning, configuration and compliance management, and disaster recovery.

These same IT Automation Solutions can be used for your internal IT applications and infrastructures. We can provide a combination of consulting services and solutions to help you accelerate your IT process improvement and automation initiatives, resulting in significant reductions in operational and capital expenses. We achieve rapid results through our ISO/IEC 20000-certified Global Process Standards. The result is a real-time infrastructure and reduced IT costs and business risks, greater service agility, and improved service quality.

Our Portfolio

Unisys delivers the services and solutions you need to accelerate implementation of infrastructure and process automation initiatives.

Unisys Cloud Solutions

Unisys Cloud solutions enable you to leverage the power and flexibility of a real-time computing environment to provision software applications, infrastructure, and platforms on an as-needed basis and is available in both public and private (internal) cloud offerings. The Unisys Secure Cloud Solution is a secure public cloud, and the Unisys Secure Private Cloud is a ready-to-go and highly automated internal cloud. They both are built using the same pre-integrated and automated "cloudware" stack. One is packaged as a hosted public cloud offering, and the other is packaged for enterprises to easily and quickly set up their own internal private clouds

• Unisys Secure Cloud Solution

  Unisys Secure Cloud Solution is a service which supports your conventional requirements today with a speed to provisioning, elastic capacity, and bullet-proof security for data "in motion".

  Unisys Secure Cloud enables you to leverage the power and flexibility of cloud computing to provision software applications, infrastructure and platforms on an as-needed basis with subscription-based pricing options. Unlike other cloud offerings, Unisys Secure Cloud is built upon a patent-pending security technology foundation that breaks new ground in data protection. This allows Unisys Secure Cloud customers to run much more of their business application workloads than typical commodity cloud offerings. For example, until now development and test and web services have been popular workloads for traditional cloud offerings, because security is less of an issue. However, with the built-in security of the Unisys Secure Cloud Solution, many additional workloads that include sensitive data can be securely accommodated, from business applications like analytics, end-of-month processing, and reporting, to complex IT processes such as disaster recovery. In summary, your company can replace up-front capital costs with monthly subscriptions for many more of your workloads. Secure Cloud offers a versatile portfolio including:

  • Secure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Provisioning virtual and physical servers, scale-up or scale-out
  • Secure Platform as a Service  (PaaS) - One click selection of platform, web, application, and database servers
  • Secure Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) - Comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery on a subscription basis
  • My Secure Application as a Service - Provisioning and de-provisioning of customer’s unique, multi-tiered application on our Secure PaaS platform
  • Secure Software as a Service (SaaS):
    • Secure Virtual Office as a Service (VOaaS) - Hosted desktop via Secure Cloud with centralized control and management
    • Secure Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) - Cloud-based email, SharePoint and Office Communication Services
    • Secure Document Delivery Service (SDDS) - Secured documents for electronic delivery directly into clients’ email inbox
• Unisys Secure Private Cloud

  Secure Private Cloud is a pre-integrated, internal, private cloud solution that enables organizations to transform their data center operations into an agile, efficient and highly automated infrastructure. Through the use of extreme automation and a user-friendly, self-service portal that virtually eliminates manual processing, Secure Private Cloud delivers “near zero-touch” IT infrastructure to dramatically reduce operating expenses while delivering new levels of capability to your internal customers.

Cloud Transformation Services

Do you wonder what it takes to start using Cloud Services? Unisys can help speed you to your transformation to utilizing Cloud Services.

• Unisys Cloud Advisory Services

  Cloud Advisory Services combine workshops and in-depth analysis by a team of experienced IT executives to provide your IT organization with strategic and financial guidance to best optimize the IT infrastructure, utilizing private (internal) or public (third-party provided) cloud capabilities.

• Unisys Cloud Assessment Service

  The Unisys Cloud Assessment Service provides an in-depth analysis of each candidate application being considered for the cloud to determine if it will provide the intended business value on several dimensions, including functional, technical, operational, and financial.

• Unisys Cloud Planning and Design Services

  The Unisys Cloud Planning and Design Services develop the associated designs and plans required to migrate an application into the cloud. The designs review areas such as required bandwidth and security. The migrations plan considers what will be required to move the application and more importantly its associated data.

• Unisys Cloud Implementation Services

  The Unisys Cloud Implementation Service focuses on moving applications and associated data from their existing platforms to their new cloud home, with minimal disruption to application availability and with appropriate adjustments to operational procedures.

• Unisys Cloud Migration Services

  These services migrate and consolidate applications on cloud infrastructure and transform existing infrastructure into a cloud infrastructure.

IT Service Management Consulting Services

Are you concerned about escalating IT operations expense and continuing budget cuts? Unisys collaborates with you to accelerate the design and implementation of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes and capabilities to reduce your operational expenses and increase efficiency. Our services are based on ISO/IEC 20000-certified Global Process Standards.

• ITSM Strategy Workshop

  Are you in a firefight mode? Unisys offers a workshop around ITSM principles and ITIL best practices to develop a sound strategy that you can confidently implement. We introduce the method used to transform your service management processes, assess operational maturity against ITIL best practices, and develop a strategy for process improvement projects.

• IT Operational Assessment

  Are your IT Operations based on best practices? Are changes to your IT infrastructure causing more problems? Unisys offers a comprehensive assessment of your IT operational processes to identify detailed gaps in terms of people, process, and technology against ITIL best practices. We provide you with a report detailing the process improvements required and a prioritized roadmap.

• ITSM Process Design and IT Automation Product Selection

  Are you realizing the benefits of automation in your IT processes? Are your IT processes designed for the most efficient operations? Do you have effective process automation tools? Unisys provides development of ITIL-based ITSM process designs and service management plans to address identified gaps. Our service includes design of process auditing and management procedures as well as analysis and selection of underpinning service management and IT automation products.

• ITSM Process and IT Automation Products Implementation and Transition

  Are your IT processes running efficiently? Are your IT automation products helping you to reduce costs? Unisys offers implementation of ITSM process designs based on gaps identified, and projects selected and planned in previous transformation phases. These projects can include implementation of appropriate ITSM and IT automation products. In addition, we support process transition to an operational state.

Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite Solutions

Want to reduce your IT operational and capital costs by automating and optimizing many key processes? Unisys offers a comprehensive suite of services and technologies addressing many complex IT processes.

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

  Do you know if your Disaster Recovery Plans will work? Can you test with the push of a button, or does a test take several man weeks of effort? This Unisys solution reduces business downtime, staff time, and recovery failures by as much as 90 percent with an anticipated payback of less than 12 months. We automate the entire failover and failback process, eliminate human error in a time of crisis and enable frequent testing of an otherwise prohibitively onerous procedure. This solution is applicable for a wide variety of applications, for example SAP.

• Orchestrated Resource Provisioning

  When you get a request to provision a new system, does it take longer than a few minutes to complete? Unisys automates provisioning of both virtual and physical machines, reducing administration by more than 75 percent. This reduces cycle time from days to minutes, and 95 percent of requests can be completed with no administration needed, resulting in savings of approximately $3M in operational costs over three years.

• Automated Repurposing

  Are you frustrated with the money you’ve spent on servers sitting idle and the constant need for adding new servers? Unisys reduces IT capital up to 50 percent and operational costs up to 60 percent, by better utilizing existing infrastructure. Our solution automatically repurposes servers for development and testing, disaster recovery and varying production workloads.

• Automated Configuration and Compliance Management

  Do you have downtime or compliance issues caused by poor configuration management? Unisys reduces administration time spent on configuration and compliance management by approximately 97 percent. We eliminate repetitive manual steps, by automating processes and providing a standard approach across all operating systems and both physical and virtual servers, decreasing IT operating expenses by at least $1M - $2M per year.

Contact Us

For more information about this Solution, please contact us or call 800-874-8647 or +1 585-742-6780.

Our Products

Unisys delivers the products you need to automate complex IT operations, provide business continuity and disaster recovery, and support your virtualization initiatives, resulting in reduced costs, improved utilization of IT assets, increased efficiency, and lower risk.

Unisys Secure Private Cloud

Unisys Secure Private Cloud delivers "near zero touch" internal cloud computing through our unique set of extreme automation capabilities that make it easy to deploy, easy to operate, easy to use, and virtually eliminates the manual effort required to provision, virtualize, manage and integrate cloud-enabled servers, storage and network resources. Easy to deploy, Unisys Secure Private Cloud works with both virtualized and non-virtualized servers and applications, and delivers scalable and efficient cloud computing capabilities in VMware. Easy to operate, for VMware users, Secure Private Cloud enables you to massively scale a VMware-based internal cloud without the need to add IT staff. Easy to use, Secure Private Cloud has a self-service portal, which allows users to request services which can be automatically provisioned in minutes.

Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite Software

Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite software helps you implement a data center that can expand and contract based on business needs, operate with high availability and flexibility, run with peak efficiency and high utilization, and reduce capital and operational expenses. This is a family of products designed to automate complex IT operations, which can work together, independently, or in conjunction with what you already have. The Suite forms the basis of many Unisys services management solutions.

• Unisys uAdapt™ Software

  uAdapt manages a heterogeneous environment of IT resources as a single fabric, automatically provisioning and repurposing servers, including their network and storage connectivity, to meet demand, eliminating the risks and errors associated with manual configuration. It repurposes servers in seconds across various workloads, including: development and testing, disaster recovery, production, QA, and virtual and physical systems.

• Unisys uChargeback™ Software

  This product creates visibility and insight into the IT costs associated with business processes across physical and virtualized heterogeneous server environments, allowing you to distribute your costs to your various user communities.

• Unisys uOrchestrate™ Software

  uOrchestrate automates IT processes across all IT infrastructure components, providing the ability to define, build, orchestrate, manage, and report on IT workflows, enabling real-time, policy-based control. These run books are used in automating complex IT processes such as disaster recovery, development and testing, automated system provisioning, workload management, and more.

• Unisys uProvision™ Software

  This product automates critical operations related to server and application configuration, compliance, change, and virtualization management.

SafeGuard

• SafeGuard 30M for Enterprise Servers

  SafeGuard 30M provides replication with the ability to automate failover from primary to backup site in a clustered Microsoft Windows server environment, enabling 30-minute or less recovery time over long distances.

• SafeGuard Duplex for Enterprise Servers

  The faster you recover your critical data, the faster your business recovers. Unisys SafeGuard Duplex solutions enable long-distance disaster recovery for multiple operating and storage system environments.

• SafeGuard Duplex for ClearPath Libra Servers

  Unisys SafeGuard Duplex solutions for ClearPath provide services and technology for secure business operations, significantly reducing the financial risks associated with unexpected downtime.

Storage Virtualization Products

Storage Virtualization successfully reduces costs, improves utilization of IT assets, achieves more consistent service levels, and increases efficiency.

Contact Us

For more information about this Product, please contact us or call 800-874-8647 or +1 585-742-6780.

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

• Born free: Open source software in the recession

  Open source is so widely accepted that traditional software firms are beginning to dabble in it, while some open-source firms are starting to sell proprietary add-ons to open-source programs instead of charging to provide support to firms using open-source software. If current trends hold, traditional software firms and their open-source rivals will soon be hard to tell apart.

• Cloud Computing

  Cloud computing aims to become a legitimate delivery mechanism for enterprise IT, serving up everything from processing power to storage to mission-critical applications. In fact, already 99% of businesses are at least considering implementing cloud computing. Unisys thought leaders Rich Marcello and Sam Gross were interviewed about their experience in cloud computing.

• On the periphery

  In the days of the mainframe, when computers and their peripherals filled entire rooms, people communicated with these machines first via punch cards and then via green-glowing monitors, which were simply dumb terminals. Only with the rise of personal computers did the user interface become more intelligent, responsive and graphical.

Point Of View Papers

• A New Era in IT: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage

  The Unisys approach is not to simply share resources and provide generic commodity services and capabilities, but to tailor secure solutions so businesses can move more data and applications to the cloud – and move them confidently.

Videos

• Secure Cloud

  Unisys Secure Cloud provides tailored secure solutions so businesses can confidently move more data and applications to the cloud.

• 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.

• Cloud TV - Episode 6: Powering the Cloud

  In this episode, Jason starts to dig into some of the "wiz-bang” technologies that power the cloud.

• Cloud TV - Episode 2: Pixie Dust and Magic

  This episode discusses the Unisys Performance Zone. The Performance Zone is the ideal blend of Business Effectiveness and IT Efficiency, resulting in the best possible Quality of Experience for users of cloud-based services.

• Cloud TV - Episode 3: The Achilles Heel of the Cloud

  This episode discusses the Achilles Heel of Cloud Computing - security. Jason disputes the notion that you have to trade-off security for cloud functionality and offers up some good advice for anyone looking to move to cloud computing.

• Top 9 Reasons Why the Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing

  This interactive flash animation takes you through nine myths and truths of the top reasons why the time is right for enterprise cloud computing.

• Cloud TV - Episode 1: Introduction

  This video discusses key topics surrounding the skyrocketing concept of cloud computing and where Unisys believes things are and should be headed.

• Cloud TV - Episode 4: The Alignment Assignment

  In this episode Jason starts to discuss how to begin the shift toward a top-down approach to IT management; defining the business drivers, then getting IT directly in line with those priorities.

What's Hot

• Unisys Announces New Secure Private Cloud Solution

  Unisys has announced the latest in a series of secure cloud computing solutions available to enterprise CIOs - Unisys Secure Private Cloud. Unisys also announced significant enhancements – including a disaster recovery service – to the Unisys Secure Cloud Solution, the company's managed public cloud offering.

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.

• Jody Little

  Jody Little is vice president of Data Center Solutions and Services in the Systems and Technology Portfolio Management and Marketing group at Unisys.

• Larry Guevel

  Larry Guevel is vice president, Strategic Business Planning at Unisys. He is responsible for strategic business planning, portfolio development, balanced scorecard, and strategic partner accounts for Global Infrastructure and Outsourcing Services.

• Mark Feverston

  Mark Feverston is vice president of Microsoft Solutions in the Systems and Technology group at Unisys. His responsibilities include the identification of IT market trends and issues that can be addressed economically with Microsoft assets and Unisys innovation.

• 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.