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

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: