Businesses are challenged with fluctuations in demand, regulatory compliance issues and data-intensive operations, all of which create an increasingly complex computing environment and growing storage environment. IT departments need to ensure quality performance, improve data archiving and retrieval, protect business-critical data and mitigate risks. Many businesses are opting to consolidate and virtualize servers with corresponding storage solutions to address these challenges.

CSC's solutions provide customers with business-focused technical transformation and predictable pricing for your infrastructure environment. Through our services, you are able to exploit new technology and align IT with business goals.

CSC's Platform Computing framework offers a range of services to support our clients' computing environment from the most centralized to the most distributed topologies, including grid. We harness our expertise in business consulting, systems integration, global end-to-end service management, and security, to create business value. We make computing resources faster, better, and cheaper for our clients through managed services and utility-based pricing.

Whatever the computing platform, we will help you avoid wasting money on excess capacity, and free internal resources to concentrate on high-value tasks. You'll reduce TCO and be able to respond to user demands more readily.

Our Managed Platform Computing framework comprises the following services:

Assessments
Through our Managed Platform Services assessments, we gather information about your business plans, computing environments, data storage, remote offices, data profiles and security. Based on this data, we make recommendations on the necessary computing infrastructure, storage management and data protection — designed to optimize IT and enable your businesses.

• Optimized Assessment and Systems Integration Study (OASIS)
• Remote Office Simplification Solution (ROSS) Assessment

Implementation Projects
Utilizing our computing projects, you can establish short-term and long-term IT strategies to solve business problems; realize the benefits of data center economies of scale; deploy world-class remote infrastructure tools and remote management; control server sprawl; upgrade to a more robust and virtualized environment; and improve performance by centralizing shared resources.

• Virtualization
• Migration/Transformation Services
• Architectural Roadmap
• ROSS Implementation
• Data Migration Services
• Storage Capacity Planning Services
• Remote Data Protection Implementation

Midrange
Improve infrastructure flexibility and scalability with cost-effective outsourcing solutions for Wintel, Unix, and other server environments. Our midrange solutions improve performance through server farms and utility computing; combat server sprawl through virtualization; maximize efficiency through automation; and adapt quickly to changes in demand (see our Dynamic Server offering).

Mainframe
Reduce costs by consolidating the client's server needs onto a single mainframe platform within a standard, vendor independent operating environment.

Grid and high-performance computing (HPC)
Grid computing: specifically designed for intensive scientific and commercial workloads such as computational work, modeling, simulations, and graphic rendering
Managed supercomputing services: delivering the power of supercomputers for intensive workloads

Disaster recovery services
Ensure business continuity across all technology domains with managed disaster recovery services that are regularly tested, and governed by recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) agreements.

For more information

To learn more about CSC's configurable Managed Platform Computing Services, please contact us.