Your Future in Growth Modeling
The mission-critical facility is constantly evolving. For most organizations, simply keeping pace with today's needs while accommodating legacy systems is challenging enough. In this environment, predicting future requirements can seem nearly impossible. And while there is no crystal ball, utilizing Total Site Solutions' proven growth modeling methodologies can help accurately and realistically project future needs.
Without growth modeling, there are typically two outcomes: future requirements are underestimated and the useful life of the facility becomes limited. Or, the facility is “super-sized,” providing excess redundancy, capacity and expandability. Overbuilding causes unnecessary initial construction and equipment costs, excess energy consumption and ongoing operating expenditures. The solution is growth modeling.
Forest and Trees
Growth modeling goes beyond capacity planning. The mission-critical facility is an interconnected chain of IT and facilities systems. A change under the data center's raised floor can affect the mechanical systems and how it cools the room. A change at the utility service can impact facility operation and efficiency. From space to power to cooling, too much capacity is costly; too little can be disastrous. The key is right-sizing for efficient operation today and intelligent expansion for tomorrow.
The Total Site Solutions' growth model not only anticipates technological advances, it integrates business drivers, including organizational changes, new product launches, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory requirements and a host of other internal and external factors that impact the facility. It evaluates past, current and future IT business requirements, such as projected growth, network architecture and business continuity planning. It then applies those findings to establish facility and support system requirements for the IT business model, including reliability requirements, initial build-out, flexibility and expansion capability.
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Date to Grow By
Those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. We analyze the data to discover patterns, such as the organization's past approach to expansion, upgrades and adoption of cutting-edge technologies.
In addition, industry, technology and market patterns, trends and forecasts are applied. Beyond IT and facility- specific requirements, business and operational factors provide big-picture vision. Expanded business offerings, acquisitions and mergers, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats all play a crucial role in accurate IT/facilities growth modeling. A sampling of data collected by the TSS growth modeling team includes:
- Historic and current IT inventory
- Assessment of existing data center capability
- Typical equipment life cycles (network routers/ switches, servers, blades, mainframes, storage systems)
- Disaster recovery strategies by platforms/applications
- High-density/virtualization implementation rates
- Listing of “critical” and “non-critical” applications
- Data and voice network planning assumptions
- Forecast for new products, services and applications
- Description of business units and projected growth
- Growth projections by applications/platforms
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Business growth (accounts, transactions, membership, enrollment, subscribers, etc.)
The timeframe to develop a growth model varies based on client requirements, but it generally takes 4 to 8 weeks. When completed, Total Site Solutions provides a customized facility infrastructure Growth Plan that sets the parameters for a clear basis of design specific to the client's business needs. The growth plan provides for a scalable and modular approach that supports the ultimate projected future needs. What's more, our growth modeling provides immediate and long-term ROI by reducing initial capital investment, improving energy efficiency, providing long-term maintenance savings and enabling more accurate budget planning.
Smart Growth. Experienced Team.
Total Site Solutions has an in-house team of professionals specializing in growth modeling. Total Site Solutions is ideally suited to determine your future IT vision based on nearly 30 years of industry experience combined with state-of-the-art expertise in IT and facilities planning. Our clients include some of the world's most demanding mission-critical organizations, including Fortune 500 firms and US government agencies.
Total Site Solutions provides a single source that seamlessly integrates advanced IT systems with the facility's electrical, mechanical and security infrastructure and building envelope. And Total Site Solutions is vendor-neutral, ensuring the best value solution, regardless of manufacturer.
Find out how Total Site Solutions' Growth Modeling can help you achieve unprecedented levels of uptime and cost-effective operations.
Utilizing Total Site Solutions' proven growth modeling methodologies, the future can be accurately and realistically projected.
Total Site Solutions' growth modeling provides immediate and long-term ROI.
