Strategic Sourcing Data Center Management

Strategic Sourcing for Data Center Management

Source One’s data center management strategic sourcing experts help you keep your business and IT infrastructure running around the clock.

As a company’s IT portfolio changes, so too do the skills and experience necessary to manage the data within it. The best companies manage data as an asset, just like facilities, capital, and staff. Whether your data centers are on-site or remote, you need security, redundancy, and flexibility. More importantly, you need to trust that your service providers have the right qualifications to manage the critical security, maintenance, hardware support, and monitoring to keep your business running. Source One is well-versed in the data center management provider search, and has a proven history of analyzing service levels, maintenance agreements, and market conditions to support the stability and operational status of your data center infrastructure.

Source One will help you identify and qualify the key capabilities for your data center management service providers:

• Flexibility to meet requirements
• Continuity of operations (COOP) and disaster recovery
• Sustainable total cost of ownership and lifecycle data management
• Virtualization and hardware consolidation and optimization

With over 20 years of experience helping companies manage their spend, Source One is able to take a deep look into contract terms and fee formats to eliminate excess and select new suppliers that have the right experience providing site infrastructure support services.

Let Source One help you find the best providers and prices for essential services such as server consolidation and virtualization, systems storage and applications migration, network storage solutions, and preventive maintenance and sanitation of storage hardware. Source One can support all aspects of data center management including outsourced staffing and maintenance.

Gain visibility into this essential vehicle for your business’ successful operations. Let Source One help you realize hidden savings from your data center management agreements. Contact us today.