ePlus Data Center Practice Highlights
1. Practice expertise across enterprise storage, systems, virtualization, data protection, and automation -Aligned to cloud practice -> Data center as a cloud platform in customer’s multi-cloud strategy -200+ data center focused engineers 2. Consulting-led approach mapping customer challenges to best-of-breed solutions -Portfolio of assessments -Hybrid cloud, container, and automation engagement capabilities 3. Cross-practice solution development with cloud, networking, security, AI/analytics, and collaboration 4. Growing portfolio of managed services in data center and hybrid cloud 5. Growth training focus in Hybrid Cloud solutions (ie; VMware VCF), automation tools, container/Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud solution design
ePlus Modern Data Center Reference Architecture
Data Center Modernization Maturity Model
REACTIVE
- Organic infrastructure sprawl
- Operational challenges
- Slower time to provision and triage issues
- Shadow IT cloud services due to lack of agility
INTEGRATED
- Infrastructure consolidation
- Reducing integration points and risk
- Planned growth based on well-defined business goals
- Simplifying operations
- Adopting software-defined data center approach
OPTIMIZED & AUTOMATED
- Self-service provisioning and operational agility with service lifecycle management
- Cloud management platforms for hybrid cloud mobility and cost planning
- Operational cost savings via automated resource management
- Managed Services of non-core operations (such as backup, DR, and support services)
CLOUD-ENABLED ENTERPRISE
- Mature multi-cloud Automation & Orchestration
- Intelligent workload placement End-to-end Visibility of Application
- Performance and Availability across Multi-cloud
- Managed Services of infrastructure operations
- Consumption and subscription-based cost models for core IT infrastructure
Global Education Provider Turns to ePlus for Data Center Modernization and Consolidation
Faced with a sprawling complex legacy infrastructure that was attributing to availability issues and operational challenges compounded by running a lean IT operations staff, the organization relied on ePlus’ technical trust to design, deploy, and migrate to a multi-vendor, integrated solution. The education provider successfully collapsed two data centers into one, reducing its server infrastructure by 81% with greater operational simplicity while implementing a modern data protection solution with an efficient use of cloud storage.
Capabilities
Trainings/ Workshops
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- AWS
- Azure
- AI/ML
- Multi-Cloud
- Cloud Connectivity
Assessment
- Multi-Cloud Feasibility Assessment
- Multi-Cloud Readiness and Migration Assessment
- Public Cloud Cost Optimization
- Public Cloud Security
Container
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ansible/Terraform
- Containerizing Apps
- Pipeline Integration
DevOps
- IaC
- AIOPS
- DevSecOps
- CI/CD Integration
- Tooling Review and Selection
- App Monitoring (Dynatrace, AppD)
- App Modernization
Public Cloud Design/Build
- AWS
- Azure
- Migrations
- HealthChecks + Optimizations
- Multi-Cloud Connectivity
- Cost Optimization
- Security Posture