Resources
Whitepapers
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Avoid the Hidden Cost of Bias and Preference in IT
What vendors, VARs (and even some employees) don't want you to know.
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Network Design Best Practices for 24/7 Internet Businesses
Customers and internal users alike expect quick, dependable access to both online sites and internal applications, and network issues can negatively impact customer satisfaction, brand reputation, and revenue. When the systems are essential to your business, and the number of visitors is in the thousands or millions, you need to be sure that your network can scale to meet performance and availability requirements.
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Five Steps to a Successful Data Center Relocation
Most data center relocations become necessary because existing data centers are unable to support the space, power or cooling requirements of high density IT equipment. This white paper explains industry best practices and how to avoid common mistakes made during a data center relocation.
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Data Center Optimization: Beware of the Power Density Paradox
This white paper describes the power density paradox, and how to avoid its consequences by balancing facilities capabilities with core IT needs.
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5 Steps to Achieve Business Value from Your Next ERP Platform
An agile, business aligned approach for successful ERP deployments that are on-time, on-budget, and will be embraced by the users.
There is no doubt that a well implemented ERP project will improve operational efficiency and deliver long term value to an organization. Unfortunately, the optimum implementation approach is not as certain. In reality, most implementations encounter project delays, cost overruns and limited acceptance by the employees who need to interact with the system on a daily basis.
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Is Your ERP Creating a Legacy of Frustration?
Mid-sized companies are increasingly recognizing that their legacy ERP systems impose an unacceptable burden in terms of cost, wasted time, and lost business opportunities.
This white paper discusses the nature of the ERP dilemma facing many mid-sized companies, illustrating the problem with a number of common real world experiences and business challenges.
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Increasing Business Performance with Agile ERP
How small and medium enterprises can leverage agile business process automation to achieve business success
Datasheets
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Data Center Migrations: Dependency Analysis
The interdependencies between applications, servers (virtual and physical), storage servers, and network and other devices are complex and critical to post move performance and availability. When planning a data center migration it is essential to completely understand these interdependencies to minimize the risk of unplanned downtime and ensure project success.
Download the datasheet here.
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Data Center Migrations: TDS TransitionaManager
It’s 11:30PM on Friday night. The move team is un-racking hundreds of devices, loading them on a truck and moving from one data center to another. Fans are blowing, CRAC units are running at full-tilt, and groggy eyes are trying to sort out dozens of identical devices with 15 character long host names. And then it happens – the wrong server gets pulled from the rack and placed on the truck! Sound like a possibility?
Not if the team is using TDS TransitionManagerTM.
Download the datasheet here.
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Data Center Migrations: Colocation Site Selection Services
Choosing a new colocation facility can be a daunting task for even the most well-informed buyer. For years, Transitional Data Services has helped clients across North America, Europe and Asia select optimal facilities, and confirm the facility’s use of industry best practices.
Download the datasheet here.
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Data Center Efficiency
TDS has an experience proven approach to optimizing Data Center Efficiency
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TDS Data Center Optimization
Download the overview to Data Center Optimization, one of TDS's Critical Infrastructure Consulting Services
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Data Center Migrations: Strategy, Planning & Execution
An industry-wide increase in both “virtual” and physical data center migrations is being driven by the ever increasing infrastructure demands of high-density, high capacity servers and other IT devices.
Download the datasheet here.
Success Stories
- Data Center Consulting and Relocation Services
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On-line Retailer Modernizes IT Infrastructure and Production Platforms with TDS
The Challenge
One of the nation’s largest on-line jewelry retailers was outgrowing its current leased data center environment and required holistic support from a company in the data center professional services industry. The existing co-location facility had burdened the customer with a non-scalable cost model filled with diverse production, development and staging platforms as well as sparse documentation related to their infrastructure, software environment installation procedures and release engineering processes. They needed help in more than one area and needed it quickly.
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More isn't Always Better
Vendor qualification is an important step in the selection process and can save weeks of wasted effort and project delays. Data Centers come in many flavors…small or large, downtown or remote, Fortune 500 or individually owned. Some focus on add-on services while others market themselves as simply “ping, power and pipe”. -
Maximizing Stakeholder Input
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Data Center Site Selection: 3 Tips to Remember
Here are a few tips from a company who engages in site selection exercises on a monthly basis.
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Integrated Media and Commerce Company Undergoes Platform Transformation with TDS
The Challenge
A leading integrated media and commerce company, based in Massachusetts, was running its business on older Linux operating systems and legacy Solaris equipment with outdated, unsupported hardware and OS versions. Hardware failure rates were escalating, security breaches were all too possible and the increasing costs and technology trade-offs associated with maintaining an older operating platform were too high to avoid the inevitable - an entire platform transformation. The risk was just too high to continue operating “as is”.
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John Coble, CTO at SAIC Discusses Openbravo Implementation
Learn how TDS helped a $1.1 billion division of U.S. defense contractor SAIC deploy Openbravo to provide logistics management services to the U.S. military. This interview, with SAIC CTO John Coble, is a "must see" for IT Executives assessing ERP solutions for their organizations.
Videos
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TDS Data Center Services Overview
Running out of power, cooling or space in your data center? Learn how TDS's Principal Consultants can help you figure out the best solution for your situation.
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TDS Relocation Practice
If its time for your company to relocate its data center, it is critical to work with a company who can get the job done, and whose advice you can trust. Since we are not a VAR or Reseller, our recommendations are built solely on YOUR needs. Learn how TDS can help.
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TDS Site Selection Process
Choosing a colocation facility to host your data center is a big decision -- one that will affect your company for years to come. To get the industry's best experts working on your project, call TDS today
Tools & Planners
Newsletters
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Webinars
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Webinar: How Good Moves Go Bad: Avoiding Common Pitfalls During Data Center Relocation
This Webinar was presented on January 24, 2012.
Even organizations that manage world-class data centers sometimes lack the specific expertise required for data center relocation and consolidation projects. Most companies relocate their IT equipment once or twice a decade, at most, and moving a production data center is a complex, mission-critical project. Errors made during a move can bring business to a standstill, so minimizing risk and maximizing pre-planning is essential.
Podcasts
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Interview with Tim Schutt, Principal, Data Center Relocation Practice
Recently, Steve Gunderson, TDS Principal, and VP of Sales, interviewed Tim Schutt, also a TDS Principal, and the leader of our Data Center Relocation practice. During their converstation Tim explored many of the questions he often hears from prospective relocation clients. Some of the questions addressed included: