IBM Consulting Data Center (DC) Exit Services

Enterprises today face increasing pressure to reduce infrastructure costs, exit aging or costly platforms (viz. VMware), improve compliance, and become more agile. IBM Consulting, in partnership with Microsoft Azure, offers an end-to-end Data Center Exit migration and Modernization service—purpose-built to help you migrate, modernize, and scale faster, while staying business-continuity focused and AI-ready from day one.

Why Choose IBM

Business-First Approach: We align transformation to your strategic goals—cost reduction, digital innovation, or divestiture.

Deep IBM + Azure Synergy: Decades of collaboration across cloud, software, and security.

Automation & GenAI-Powered Execution: Hyper-automated delivery via IBM Consulting Advantage and Agentic AI.

Security & Compliance Embedded: Industry-leading IBM security practices are integrated at every step.

Outcome-Oriented Model: Delivered using IBM Garage™ for co-creation and rapid value realization.

Our acquisition ecosystem (viz. Neudesic, Nordcloud, boxboat, Bluetab, Octa, Hashi corp, Dialexa, Apptio, Taos, Modern Systems, SXIQ etc.) differentiates our strength of unparallel expertise, experience and support services that we bring to our clients in their IT transformation journey.

Scope of IBM DC Exit Services

#	Phases	Activities
1	Rapid Assessment	Stakeholder workshops, automated discovery, TCO modeling, risk mapping, hybrid roadmap aligned to your business priorities
2	Proof of Value (PoV)	Cloud foundation validation, pilot migrations of selected workloads, Azure landing zone readiness assessment
3	Migration & Modernization	Execution of workload migration (rehost, replatform, refactor), containerization (AKS/OpenShift), modernization to cloud-native or PaaS models
4	Post-Migration Support	Cutover support, hypercare, optimization using Turbonomic, ongoing platform enablement

Key Deliverables

Target Disposition Analysis

Migration Roadmap and Cloud Fitment Evaluation

TCO and Risk Assessment

Business Case with benefits estimate

PoV Implementation Report

Landing Zone Blueprint and Build

Tools & Accelerators Used

IBM Consulting Advantage (ICA for CT) – GenAI-powered automation

Turbonomic – Optimization of cloud workloads

PRISM – IBM-Azure Landing Zone deployment framework

Ansible Automation Platform – Infrastructure as Code delivery

Agentic AI – Modernization insights, low-code transformation

Client Benefits

30–50% faster migration timelines

Up to 40% cost optimization

Reduced technical debt, AI-native infrastructure

Streamlined compliance & security

Business-aligned execution across cloud platforms