The Data Center in Your Future
Companies that confront their data center issues instead of avoiding them are fi nding signifi cant opportunities to rationalize, consolidate and optimize data centers that better serve their needs.
Advances in cooling technologies save you money and drastically reduce energy consumption.
Rationalized IT systems make it easier to respond to changing demands.
Reclaimed fl oor space and lower energy bills let you realize the full benefi ts of IT consolidation efforts.
Reduced complexity facilitates maintenance and allows you to be more fl exible.
Energy-effi cient, performance-optimized data centers prepare your organization for the data require-ments of tomorrow.
The Data Center Solution Path
We understand data centers—not just how to design and build them, but what goes into them, what it takes to equip them, cool and power them, operate them, pay for them and generally ensure that your new data center exceeds your expectations now and in the future.
Logicalis takes a holistic approach to data center development that spans three key phases along the data center solution path:
1. Assessment and Planning— Logicalis helps assess exactly what you have, what it is costing you and what your total requirements are today and map this to a future solution.
2. Design and Build—Logicalis certifi ed specialists can help you design and build your new data center infrastructure, including power and cooling as well as cabling and rack placement. 3. Relocation—When it’s time to
move into your new data center, Logicalis packs peace of mind into every step.
4. Data Center as a Service— DCaaS strategic hosting solutions for next generation data centers where and when you need them.
Th
e Logicalis Data Center
Practice—We help you bridge
the gap between the data center
you have today and the data
center strategy you will need
tomorrow.
Our Approach
CONSULT
Defi ning IT and business strategies
BUILD
Implementing IT and business strategies
OPERATE
Leveraging existing and emerging technologies as a service
MANAGE
Managing and supporting your infrastructure for results
Complementary Offerings
Logicalis offers services that complement all of our offerings, including:
IT to Business Alignment
Strategic Assessments
Technology Health Checks
Remote Infrastructure Management
MyMaintenance — IT Asset ManagementHow It Is Done
1. Perform a strategic analysis of all internal data center assets, strategy and DR programs/sites
2. Perform site surveys through interviews and collect data covering your mechanical,
electrical, structural, life safety and communications infrastructure as well as review your PUE
3. Review the data center operational procedures based on ITIL industry best practices
4. Review the operational support and readiness of your data center support teams
5. Prepare a clear view of where your overall energy spends are, what your growth potentials are and how to achieve them
6. Perform a detailed fi nancial analysis comparing overall data center spending and potential savings 7. Compute overall fi nancial metrics
and a strategic vision for a three- to fi ve-year path
What It Delivers
The Data Center Strategic Assessment includes a comprehensive report on your data center status, including network, server/virtualization, storage, application and security considerations. Deliverables include:
C-level reporting structure, including an on-site presentation of fi ndings
High-level budget costing for proposed improvements
Detailed inventory report on all computing infrastructure components including load calculations and overall component-level details
Project reference materials, including detailed fi ndings, facts gathered, and internal or external reference materials
Cap ex fi rst-round budget metrics for any planned upgrades or migration projects
Complementary Services
Logicalis also offers stand alone data center assessments that you can use to focus attention on specifi c requirements:
They include:
Physical data center evaluation
Physical to virtual roadmap
In-depth network assessment
Server consolidation study
Storage evaluation
Application dependency mapping (ADM)
VMware Healthcheck and consolida-tion study
In-depth asset discovery and data base creation
Cloud recommendations
Logicalis Data Center
Assessment
—Our
Consultants help you
evaluate all your choices
and provide a detailed
roadmap to the IT
environment in your
future.
Have you inherited multiple data centers through corporate acquisition or organic growth? Do you know what your actual IT energy spending is? Are you looking at various data center options, such as expanding, building, renting or outsourcing?
If the pressures on your data center have surpassed your current strategy, Logicalis can help. The Logicalis Data Center Strategic Assessment reviews your current situation and creates a roadmap to ensure that you can maintain mission-critical operations at a responsible spend. Data Center Data Center Strategic Assessment Infrastructure Refresh, Consolidation and Virtualization Healthcheck On-Premise IT Environment Design Off-Premise IT Environment Design Customer Cloud Design
Migrations - Data Center Relo/Refresh/Consolidation
Public/Hybrid/Private Cloud Implementation
Data Center as a Service (DCaaS)
ITSM Implementation
ASSESSMENT DESIGN BUILD/OPERATE
DC Virtualization Optimization Workshop WORKSHOP Cloud Readiness Cloud Readiness Workshop
All workshops are conducted at no cost to the customer. Assessment, design, build and operate services are priced based on a defined scope for the project.
ITSM & Operational Maturity Data Center Design On-prem/Off-prem ITSM Strategy Data Center Workshop Power 8 Workshop
Logicalis Data
Center Design
Solutions
help you
build a new
data center
infrastructure
or redesign
existing facilities
to meet your
needs now
and into the
future.
“At this point, Logicalis has earned our respect
as a trusted advisor. Th
e level of expertise has
been phenomenal and the decisions they have
helped us arrive at have been wonderful.”
Turnkey Data Center Solutions
Our experienced, skilled consultants guide your decisions every step of the way.
Comprehensive suite of Data Center and BC/ DR assessment offerings
Strategic planning and fi nancial modeling
Power, capacity, and lifecycle planning
Vendor-neutral consulting
Data center design consulting
AutoCAD-designed plans and specs
A full range of telecommunications designs
Network and SAN architecture design, implementation of complex data center environments
Knowledge-based RFP bid writing
Uptime Institute TIER consulting
Certifi ed Technical Project Management Consulting
Our Data Center Consulting Team
The challenge in developing a data center strategy is not just having access to all the specialists, but making sure they communicate their needs to each other at appropriate times. Members of the Logicalis Data Center Solution Consulting team include:
UpTime Institute certifi ed designers
Registered Communication Distribution Designers (RCDDs)
Cisco Certifi ed Internetworking Experts (CCIEs)
Certifi ed Information Systems Security Professional (CISSPs)
Certifi ed Business Continuity Planners
Certifi ed ITIL professionals, and
Certifi ed Project Management Professionals (PMPs).
And that’s just on our team. We will add strategic value in representing our Customers during construction projects including
Contractor and building designers to represent the Data Center infrastructure needs and design intent.
We have the skills to do it all.
Alan Monaghan
Logicalis Data Center As A Service (DCaaS) Solutions
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A secure home away from home for your high-performance,
Data Center 2.0 needs
Whether you are planning to use our data center facility as your primary data center, a disaster recovery/failover site or for a variety of cloud-enabled services, the overall quality of the data center itself is critical to ensure the availability and security of your data. We provide a total solution:
Capacity — All Logicalis hosting sites are state-of-the-art data centers architected to host hyper-virtualized and high-performance environments. They provide extremely high levels of resilience and offer density, ready rack space, plus resilient high-density power allocation.
Tier-III Standards — Our green, dynamic and fl exible hosting facilities were constructed in strict compliance with The Uptime Institute Tier-III standards. To date our data center facilities have accomplished an uptime SLA of 100 percent and have experienced zero facility outages since being built.
Multiple Locations — Logicalis domestic data centers facilities are strategically located across the United States to provide optimal coverage for our clients, including geographical dispersion SLA’s.
Managed Services & Remote Smart Hands — In addition to our national locations, the Logicalis 24x7 Managed Services and Logicalis Enterprise Cloud Operational Facility in Cincinnati complements the robust data center presence and East/Central/West coverage models.
Solutions Offerings — We offer a broad range of solutions that you can mix and match to meet your specifi c needs.
Co-Location or Data Center as a Service (DCaaS)
Remote Hands / Smart Hands Services
Disaster Recovery Services (DRaaS)
Data Protection Services (LEC to LEC failover)
Managed Services
Hosted Private Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service via the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud (LEC)
Enterprise Dedicated On-Demand
Experience — Beyond the underlying technical capabilities of our hosting facilities, our experience and consultative approach distinguishes Logicalis from our competitors. Logicalis has more than a dozen years of experience providing managed services our clients data centers and holds the highest certifi cations from Cisco, IBM, HP, EMC, VMware, Microsoft and others.
Relocation Solutions
We have the experience to know what can go wrong and have painstakingly designed our methodology to make sure everything goes right…every step of the way. Services include:
Fact-fi nding to determine the most effi cient and cost-effective use of resources to complete the relocation and/or migration
Assessment of the requirements of the move/ migration
Automated intelligent software tools to provide an active data base inventory and fl oor planner of all your assets.
Comprehensive mapping of your physical inventory including pre-cabling and pre-staging for your new environment
Development of a detailed plan in tandem with your team to ensure that every detail is attended to and every eventuality is considered
Application dependency mapping (ADM) to show determine how to required connections in the data center
Storage migration planning to determine the safe way to relocate your critical data
Design of a project timeline, budget, and determination of technology requirements
Implementation and execution of the agreed-upon plan. Development of the Methods of procedure (MOP)
Confi rmation after the implementation that all aspects of the move/migration have been addressed
Ongoing support for the environment to maintain and manage the solution
Use of quality static-sensitive packaging materials for moves
Fully insured and bonded transportation service available across North America and beyond
Profi cient “racking and stacking” of devices
Labeling, un-cabling, and re-cabling when moving devices or entire rack enclosures
Expedited deliveries (including after-hours and weekends)
Strategic Relocation Services
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When it’s time to move into your new
environment, we pack peace of mind into every step whether your data
center move is virtual, physical or both.
“We’re always looking for people who
know where we are going and understand
what our goals are, and are confi dent
enough to be able to tell us, ‘we don’t think
you’re going in the right direction. Have
you considered this or that?’ Logicalis is a
great example of that kind of partner.”
Bill DemskyChief Architect, Valassis
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Logicalis Facts
$1.5 billion in revenue
Operations in Europe, North
America, South America and
Asia Pacifi c
6,000 corporate and public
sector customers
4,000 employees worldwide
10 cloud data centers/
operation centers worldwide
Learn more about Logicalis
by visiting our website at
www.us.logicalis.com.
Real Partnerships with the World’s Most Respected
Technology Solutions and Services Vendors
Business-focused Solutions that Result in Clear
Returns on Investment
Others sell. We solve.
Others talk. We listen.
Others replicate. We tailor.
Business and
technology
working as one.
For everything that goes into your data center—from mission-critical servers and complex wired and wireless networks to high-end storage and operating systems —Logicalis maintains the highest certifi cations with industry-leading business partners such as HP, IBM, Cisco, EMC, Microsoft and VMware.
For your data center infrastructure—including power, heating and cooling, Logicalis partners with APC by Schneider Electric, IO Data Centers and Liebert, Emerson Network Power.
What can we do for your organization?
Contact Logicalis to learn how we can help.
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