This blueprint reviews the characteristics, pros, and cons of cloud services, helping readers understand when to employ software-, platform-, and...
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Including both current and future facility requirements helps to align costs and capacity with enterprise needs. Calculate power, cooling, and standby power requirements...
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A co-location Service Level Agreement (SLA) provides a definition of performance for the negotiated service. SLAs ensure accountability on the part of the service...
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Vendor co-location site visits can validate decisions or uncover vendor inadequacies and biases. Conduct site visits to shortlisted data center co-location vendors to add...
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When building or refreshing the data center, IT must have a high level understanding of requirements and potential budget. Facility requirements for power, cooling,...
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Use the prefilled examples in this RFP Vendor Proposal Scoring Tool to assess which vendor proposal can best meet your infrastructure outsourcing services requirements in...
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This tool, part of the blueprint, Own the Cloud: Strategy and Action Plan, will help you identify the which service models align with your workloads, conduct a cloud...
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Use the prefilled examples in this RFP template to procure a variety of infrastructure outsourcing services.
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This phase of the blueprint, Effectively Acquire Infrastructure Services, will help you review your SLAs and develop a plan to transition the service and manage the vendor.
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Use this Service Acquisition Planning and Tracking Tool to plan your acquisition activities and track progress.
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