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Technology Planning: Software-Defined Everything (Sdx)

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The Process of Streamlining Your Infrastructure

Infrastructure automation, simplification and standardization improve deployment consistency and support shared service models. SDx helps organizations address improvements but requires a comprehensive approach to enterprisewide implementation to ensure streamlined outcomes and more efficient, productive utilization.

A Guide to Working with CDW on Your SDx Solution

PHASE 1

The Process

Bottom-up infrastructure-centric:

  • Individuals and departments writing scripts to automate technology-specific tasks.
  • Turning to technology-specific infrastructure automation tools/engines including network, SAN, and system and virtual machine deployment and configuration.

Top-down application/service-centric:

  • Cloud management platforms.
  • A focus on service delivery and service lifecycle.
  • Automated CI/CD.
  • Application modeling for multicloud deployments.
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PHASE 2

The Journey

  • Advise: Advisory workshop to determine problem.
  • Assess: Adoption assessment to align with goals and determine how to get started.
  • Implement: JumpStart implementation to assist in navigating path and reaching goals.
  • Adopt: Customization and optimization to identify additional success opportunities.
  • Manage: Remote managed services to assist with solution upkeep and maintenance.
PHASE 3

The Services

  • Advisory Workshop: Half-day intro workshop with roadmap.
  • Adoption Assessment: Advanced user stories planning workshop with toolchain analysis and recommendations.
  • JumpStart: Automation and orchestration platform rapid implementation focused on delivering a production-ready system using real use cases.
  • Customization and optimization: Functionality extension, customization of an existing solution and implementation of additional use cases and user stories, post-JumpStart.
  • Managed services: For ongoing post-implementation break/fix support of platforms.
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