Maximizing the potential of your AI initiatives demands an infrastructure capable of handling current and future workloads efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively. During this half-day workshop, we’ll explore: 

• Your specific needs and objectives around AI, including desired end-state
• Infrastructure gaps and capabilities and where public cloud fits in your journey
• Security and governance practices and capabilities
• Industry trends and relevance to your business
• Cost predictability and ROI

Outcome: You’ll receive a high-level roadmap with recommendations around next steps, actions, and services to address your challenges and achieve your AI infrastructure goals.

Best for: Medium-to-large enterprises looking to implement or scale AI operations.

Cyberthreats remain a top business stressor, and a cyber-resilient infrastructure is vital to mitigating risk. During this half-day workshop, we’ll explore:

• Your specific cyber resilience challenges
• Short-term and long-term goals, including desired end-state
• Current-state data protection and ransomware readiness, including security and compliance gaps and capabilities
• Industry trends and relevance to your business
• Cost predictability and ROI

Outcome: You’ll receive a high-level roadmap with recommendations around actionable next steps to strengthen your cyber resilience.

Best for: Medium-to-large enterprises wanting to increase cyber resilience, safeguard data, tackle technical debt, and power future scalability.

Are you looking to transform your data center into a modern powerhouse of efficiency, scalability, and security--but don’t know where to start? Begin with our half-day Data Center Modernization Workshop. Together we’ll explore:

• Your specific needs and challenges in your modernization journey
• Short-term and long-term goals, including desired end-state
• Current-state infrastructure capabilities, including server and storage, networking, power and cooling, and physical security
• Opportunities to optimize performance, improve efficiency, increase scalability, and mitigate risk
• Industry trends and relevance to your business
• Cost predictability and ROI

Outcome: You’ll receive a high-level roadmap with recommendations for the next actionable steps to kick-start your data center modernization efforts.

Best for: Medium-to-large enterprises with complex IT environments, including a mix of legacy and modern infrastructure; companies requiring increased scalability or expanded capabilities; companies in highly regulated industries; companies looking to control cloud costs.

The success of a merger, acquisition, or divestiture depends upon your ability to identify and address potential challenges and risks to ensure a seamless transition. GDT experts are well-versed in M&A activities. During this half-day workshop, we’ll explore:

• Your specific needs and challenges related to M&A activities
• Short-term and long-term goals, including desired end-state
• Current-state IT environments, including infrastructure, applications, data security, governance, and human resources
• IT-related risks and exposures
• Opportunities to streamline operations and ensure future scalability
• Opportunities to maximize value and ensure seamless integration post-transition

Outcome: You’ll receive a high-level roadmap with recommendations around actionable next steps to streamline integration, mitigate risk, and ensure a seamless transition.

Best for: Medium-to-large enterprises engaged in or anticipating M&A activities; organizations seeking to understand and mitigate security and compliance risks, remedy capability gaps, and improve integration and efficiency following a merger, acquisition, or divestiture.

Whether you’re looking to optimize your VMware investments or modernize and migrate to a new solution, our Virtualization Roadmap Workshop can help crystalize the optimal path forward. During this half-day workshop, we’ll explore:

• Your specific needs and challenges, including your desired end state
• An overview of your current virtualization environment, including products and usage
• An overview of existing virtualization licensing agreements
• Alternative virtualization solutions
• Opportunities to optimize usage, streamline operations, and improve ROI

Outcome: You’ll receive a high-level roadmap with recommendations around actionable next steps to maximize your virtualization investments and achieve your objectives.

Best for: Medium-to-large enterprises with existing VMware investments; organizations facing licensing and cost challenges with Broadcom’s pricing model or are looking to streamline and optimize licensing agreements or fully utilize their VMware stack.

Faced with operational, budget, and resource constraints, many organizations are turning to XaaS to streamline operations, contend with aging infrastructure, and meet business requirements. But it can be difficult to know where to begin. Our XaaS Workshop can help. During this half-day workshop, we’ll explore:

• Your specific needs, challenges, and priorities, including your desired end state
• An overview of your current environment, including capabilities and limitations
• IT-related risks and exposures
• Opportunities to streamline operations and resolve hardware lifecycle challenges
• Cost predictability and ROI

Outcome: You’ll receive a high-level roadmap with recommendations around actionable next steps to leverage XaaS as a strategic enabler that helps you achieve your goals.

Best for: Medium-to-large enterprises looking to scale operations quickly and cost effectively; streamline operational complexity; improve agility, performance, and uptime; support global operations; and/or improve security and compliance.

Take a holistic, end-to-end approach to fueling digital transformation, modernization, and ultimately, business outcomes. During this half- or full-day workshop with your technology, line of business, executive, and security leaders, we’ll explore:

• Your vision, strategies, and business roadmap.
• Your specific needs, challenges, gaps, and capabilities across the hybrid data center.
• Industry insights into what’s happening today and what the future holds within the context of your business goals.

Outcome: You’ll receive a high-level roadmap to get you from where you are today to where you want to be. The roadmap will include recommendations around next steps, actions, and services to address your challenges and achieve your transformation goals.

Best for: Medium-to-large enterprises embarking on digital transformation or modernization initiatives.