Dynamic Data Center
Agencies of all sizes have come to realize that a data center can very easily become a liability and quickly turn into a cost sink that creates a constant source of frustration and issues for their leadership and IT managers alike. Data center operations can be significantly impaired by a variety of factors, including legacy hardware and software systems, varying management platforms, and piecemeal implementations that include the latest technologies. This can cause agencies to spend time and resources on solving operational issues as opposed to focusing on achieving their critical mission. When combined with the typical growth of a data center and the expanded need for space, energy supply, and cooling capacity, the simple existence of a data center can leave an agency’s leadership with the sense that it is a black hole of increasing costs that consumes ever-increasing amounts of an agency’s resources.
The dynamic data center is the realization of a service oriented infrastructure (SOI) where technology and capability are merged into an agile IT environment capable of meeting the ever-changing needs and mission of the agency in a cost-effective manner. The dynamic data center will provide agencies with the foundation necessary to support netcentric services in a cloud computing environment and improve their overall reliability and scalability through the realization of delivering infrastructure and software as a service (SaaS). This will not only allow agencies to deploy new capabilities faster, more easily, and cheaply with improved security and data protection, it will also provide the framework for agencies to add new and future technologies such as application aware storage to quickly adapt to meet changing mission requirements.
Benefits agencies can achieve from a dynamic data center include:
- Reduced costs
- Consolidation
- Enhanced security
- Business agility
- Improved DR/COOP
Merlin International® has been a thought leader in the federal data center environment and has established our dynamic data center offering based on our deep understanding of civilian, DoD, and intelligence agency requirements combined with our broad expertise in technology and operations. We have worked with federal agencies on incorporating solutions that can be tailored to meet an agency’s critical requirements from health IT to defense.
Merlin provides our government customers with a one-stop-shop for their entire dynamic data center solution. We partner with the best-in-class vendors that have provided federal solutions that are proven and can be relied upon.
Our dynamic data center solution:
- Provides constant availability for critical business data
- Incorporates new applications and capabilities in a modular fashion
- Centralizes control of IT resources
- Employs an integrated architecture
- Consolidates infrastructure onto a standardized environment
- Leverages industry standards and best practices
- Utilizes operationally proven processes and procedures
- Virtualizes resources to scale out without diminishing performance
- Is based upon cloud-computing services coupled with a service oriented architecture
- Utilizes automation and self-service that reduces activation times
- Provides for a massively scalable solution
- Manages rapid data growth without the need for extra staff
- Delivers operational and management efficiencies
- Provides immediate savings
EXAMPLES: Merlin Provides Dynamic Data Center Solutions to Clients