Datacenters

Build or outsource

The datacenter facility has emerged as a criticalinfrastructure for housing computer systems and associatedcomponents, such as telecommunications and storagesystems, generally including backup power, redundant datacommunications connections, environmental controls andsecurity devices. HVAC and fire protection systems becomecritical to system maintenance and recovery.

Any build versus outsource decision could be viewedthrough the prism of core competence - increasingperformance and organizational delivery through a focus onits core value activities. Unfortunately, in the past, multipleextraneous factors muddied the perspective. The keydifference is that when an activity is core and businesscritical it will receive top-level attention and focus. An ITteam's time should be dedicated to the activities thatprovide strategic advantage to the enterprise and allowresources to be focused only on those key areas. Thedecision to outsource a datacenter requires carefulexamination of options at a strategic level from a business

vision perspective and a thorough tactical evaluation on anoperating plane involving asset inventories, facilityrequirement estimations, and budgetary considerations.

Advantages of outsourcing your datacenter

Many organizations whether small, medium and largecompanies across various industry verticals, have realizedthat outsourcing their datacenters is the best way to align ITand business in the most cost-effective manner. There aremany important business benefits associated withoutsourcing - organizations can gain higher operational andfinancial efficiencies, enjoy proactive monitoring andmanagement of their hosted IT infrastructure, and increasecustomer satisfaction, while businesses can stay focused ontheir core business areas.

Benefits not only include protection of IT infrastructure fromtechnology obsolescence but also allow maximum freedomand flexibility in daily IT operations, while simultaneously

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lowering their financial and operational overheads. Benefitsinclude:

� Align to changing business needs� Compliance with corporate governance� Cost advantage� Customized solutions� Scalable IT operations to meet growing business

demand� Access to latest technology� Business continuity� Accountability through SLAs� Access to skilled expertise� Energy efficient datacenters� High Availability and reliability� Leverage the true potential of IT; not just managing costs

What is getting outsourced?

Typical areas delegated to managed and outsourceddatacenter providers include:

� Trouble ticketing and help desk� End-user support and infrastructure operations� Hardware maintenance and network operations� Monitoring and management (server, systems, etc.)

� Security� HVAC� Disaster recovery, storage management and backup

(power, data)� Full functionality and support of all elements within their

datacenters

The TCO Advantage

Predicting and measuring Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) forthe physical infrastructure for network rooms anddatacenters is required for Return-on-investment (ROI)analysis and other business decision processes. In addition,an understanding of the cost drivers of TCO provides insightinto opportunities to control costs.

Organizations, today will need to assess the benefits of abuild or buy decision based on the impact IT enablement,business continuity, process excellence, privacy andcompliance requirements - in line with Board vision and costcompulsions. And as businesses look further afield atoutsourcing or out locating their datacenters, they need tocarefully evaluate the providers in various geographies. Thespectrum of decision factors will range from managementmandates to energy efficiency.

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Outsourcing Vs Building a Datacenter

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About Netmagic Solutions (An NTT Communications Company)

Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, is India’s leading Managed Hosting and Cloud Service Provider, with 8 carrier-neutral, state-of-the-art datacenters across the country. Established in 1998, Netmagic has been a pioneer in the Indian IT Infrastructure services space as it was the first to launch services such as cloud computing, managed security, Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service and software-defined storage. An IT Infrastructure Partner to more than 1400 enterprises globally, Netmagic, also delivers Remote Infrastructure Management services to NTT Communications’ customers across Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific region. Netmagic is the recipient of several industry accolades and was recently chosen by India’s CIO community as the best service provider of Datacenter Managed Services and Cloud services, at the CIO Choice 2015 Awards.NTT Communications has subsidiaries and offices in 43 countries / regions, with over 21,600 employees worldwide. It had total operating revenues of 1230bilion JPY for year ending March 31, 2014 and has infrastructure worldwide, including leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure datacenters.

NTT Communications is a part of NTT Corporation, Japan – one of world’s largest telecommunications companies and ranked 53 on Fortune Global 500 list (2014).

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About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including leading global tier-1 IP network, Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and over 150 secure data centers. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA