HCL believes that every Datacenter Consolidation project should have well thought objectives after studying the client Infrastructure and requirements. HCL focuses on the following consolidation objectives:

Datacenter Consolidation Objectives:

• Improve service levels and/or lower costs
• Make strategic moves to or away from certain platform types
• Reduce staff levels or avoid further hiring
• Align systems with the enterprise's organization (segmenting)
• Relieve business managers of the responsibility for server management, so they can focus on business/other engineering/architecture issues
• Support systems added in a merger or acquisition (Datacenter Rationalization)

Datacenter Consolidation Methodology

HCL's Datacenter methodology is based upon the simple concepts of Assess, Architect, Implement, and Manage. In addition to these four phases, also included is a short, business-oriented assessment at the front end. This additional piece acts as a feasibility study which helps us to assess whether a Datacenter Consolidation is feasible or not. The following table shows the specific areas which HCL addresses during each of these phases: