The Layer47 Evolve data-centre discovery service is designed to help organisations reduce the risks associated with data-centre initiatives, such as application migration, consolidation and virtualisation.

The Evolve service aims to discover all of the applications and application services running through your data-centre(s), and to map-out the usage and behavioural patterns of those application services across the enterprise, together with the dependencies of users, applications, servers and the network.

This information provides a complete end-to-end understanding of how applications are used across the enterprise. Without this understanding, implementing changes to application and server architectures will carry substantial risk factors that may lead to reduced application service-levels for all users and/or customers.

The Layer47 Evolve service is the only way to ensure that your organisation maintains high-levels of application services availability and performance throughout the life-cycle of changes to your applications.

Deliverables

The Layer47 Evolve service delivers the following value to any application Migration, Consolidation or Virtualisation project:

Cost Savings – Accelerate the Move.

Reduce timetables by automatically:

• Identifying assets and applications
• Understanding user-to-service dependencies
• Understanding server-to-server dependencies

Cost Avoidance – Understand/Reduce Impact.

Minimise implementation disruption
Proactively identify post-change problems

• Identifying assets and applications
• Understanding user-to-service dependencies
• Understanding server-to-server dependencies

The Evolve service utilises network-attached application discovery tools designed to passively collect all data necessary to provide all data and information required, and with no disruption to application services.

Costs & Timescales

The cost of the Layer47 Evolve service is based on a number of qualifying factors, including:

• Number of data-centres or locations of application services to be discovered
• Number of applications supported at each data-centre
• Geographical scale and complexity of the enterprise network
• The scope of the business-level issue(s) to be answered by the service.