Consolidation

Lumen21 Consolidation services are a great way to identify where your server, storage and network environment might benefit from a server (heterogeneous or shared) or storage consolidation. In many environments, consolidation can bring significant cost savings and increased operational efficiencies– but the challenge is determining whether consolidation is the right approach for your needs without a large investment in up-front analysis. Lumen21 services are designed to provide you with expert technical and cost benefit analysis services early on in your consolidation effort to determine where consolidation can benefit your organization within a very short timeframe.

Lumen21 Consultants have extensive experience in enterprise scale consolidation. Our consultant’s deep experience in consolidation along with third party specific tools and Lumen21’s Clear Vision Methodology helps them to deliver the detailed, analytical data on your environment that is essential to making the right consolidation choices.

Key benefits that result from Lumen21 Consolidation services include:

• Up-front assessment opportunities for consolidation.
• Objective, analytical results delivered through tools and Clear Vision Methodology.
• Flexible approach to determine the best solution for your needs --- leverages your existing hardware investment or “scale-up” to enterprise-class servers.
• Identification of potential risks and pitfalls based on our consolidation expertise.
• Last but not the least a detailed cost saving assessment for your consolidation project.

Lumen21 offers Consolidation solutions to address a wide range of challenges, including:

• Heterogeneous Windows server and application consolidation (physical / logical).
• Database (SQL and Oracle) consolidation (physical / logical / data).
• Messaging consolidation (physical / logical).
• Storage consolidation (physical / logical / data).
• Network consolidation (physical).

The Lumen21 approach to consolidation is based on a joint Lumen21 and client led project effort. Our consultants are subject matter experts in business requirements gathering, technical analysis, infrastructure subject knowledge, and project management skills. Lumen21 service for consolidation is approached through a discussion session with your personnel and a scan of your enterprise environment to gather technical, business constrains and financial data. This process is comprised of a subject matter expert along with couple of senior consultants on site.

This session includes presentations, demonstrations, and white board discussions covering areas of focus such as:

• Identify and document consolidation goals and requirements
• Identify consolidation opportunities
• Estimate consolidated environment sizing
• Identify potential consolidation challenges / risks

Consolidation Benefits

• • Reduce demand for support and maintenance
• • Lower software licensing, distribution and maintenance costs achieve facilities savings
• • Reduce downtime
• • Improve control and security of data
• • Simplify disaster recovery
• • Reduce administration workload
• • Improve performance

Lumen21 consultants will present a formal report of our findings and recommendations. The report will include:

• Recommended focus areas for consolidation effort
• High-level design of consolidated environment
• Detailed data on server/storage/network utilization and characteristics collected during system scans