Technology Planning: IT Modernization

Get a clear picture of your current vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks.

• Start by gaining executive buy-in and line-of-business participation.

• Identify the specific goals of your modernization effort.

• Assess your IT environment to identify the systems, processes and threats that require modernization and integration.

• Inventory hardware, application and data assets, and conduct application dependency mapping.

• Seek assistance from a trusted partner who can offer expertise and an alternative, holistic viewpoint throughout the modernization process.

Develop a comprehensive strategy for updating your infrastructure to reduce risk and boost agility.

• Minimize your discrete variables and standardize multiple operating systems.

• Ensure availability and resiliency with backup and recovery planning designed specifically to align with your goals.

• Eliminate siloes between app development, security, server optimization and IT operations.

• Automate as many operations as possible to help reduce risk and pay down technical debt.a

• Balance on-premises and cloud resources by matching them to workload requirements that drive a seamless, centrally managed and integrated system.

Optimize your modernized infrastructure across the IT lifecycle.

• Augment your IT staff with custom support services that can quickly assist with complex technology investments.

• Deploy upgraded storage, networking and servers, including configuration and data migration at scale.

• Establish and monitor IT metrics to determine whether you’re meeting performance goals.

• Ensure agility by constantly monitoring and adjusting for continuous improvement while understanding and adapting to evolving conditions.

• Smooth the transition by building in ample staff training time.

• Integrate scalability and future-proofing for your network.

• Leverage IT asset disposition services to identify near end-of-life devices and ensure hardware is entirely wiped and decommissioned.