Data Centre Operational & Migration Services
The IT and OT equipment associated with assets at mine sites are critical and therefore it is important that they are properly maintained.
Assessment Overview
There is often a lack of reliable information as to the quantity, reliability and supportability of IT/OT assets across many functional locations. Failure to manage and maintain these assets creates financial, operational and safety risks.
An OT Technical Roadmap and Service Maintenance Strategy will address the following objectives:
- Identify a network support template
- Ensure that the Clients site network support is compliant with technology standards & existing network management tools
- To have a clear and prioritised transition plan to the desired network support target state
- Ensure any inflight projects and network support template are in alignment and compliant with each other
- Ensure consideration of impacts to hosting and control systems for any roadmap recommendations
- Identify any additional audit and/or discovery tasks that may be required to achieve the desired network support target state
- Identify a five year refresh/upgrade schedule for End of Life equipment
- Five-year cost estimate (+/-15%) with yearly breakdown
- Identify risk to Client if not investing in identified roadmap items
- To have findings to be communicated / documented in a way that would be readily understood by the business
Our Approach
Following an Agile, outcome-based approach, the four stages are delivered in an approximate 45-day duration.
Initiation & Planning
This stage involves the review and analysis of existing documentation, standards, and architecture information to determine a baseline for what information and standards exist and establish areas in which relevant information is not available.
We start with in-depth consultations with all relevant stakeholders to gather and understand their requirements, ensuring alignment with organisational goals from the outset.
Workshops & Discovery
The Workshops & Discovery stage involves co-ordination of workshops at Client’s nominated sites to discuss and work through the OT Technical Roadmap and Service Maintenance Strategy items. This will include personnel and teams who are responsible for the systems and the remediation projects.
This stage will include:
- Preparation and pre-distribution of workshop agendas and an initial set of discussion questions
- Summarisation of workshop findings
- Requests for further details and/or clarification
- Host workshops
- Gap analysis on supplied materials and workshop outcomes
- Where required, follow-up meetings and discussions
Analysis
After the workshops with the teams and personnel are completed, Denver Technology will document and analyse the information gathered during the preceding stage.
This will include:
- Requirements for network management/monitoring
- Requirements for network access and authentication for network management / monitoring
- Recommendations for network support target state
- Inflight project network remediation project design compliancy review
- Transition plan for migration to the network support target state
- Five-year network refresh/upgrade schedule based on the end state of the current inflight remediation projects
- Additional audit and/or discovery tasks required to achieve target state
- Five-year cost estimate (+/-15%):
- Transition/setup costs
- Additional audit and/or discovery
- Recurring network management/monitoring/ ongoing maintenance costs
- Breakdown of costs by year
Report & Present
The final stage involves the collation and final analysis of the information collected as part of the OT Technical Roadmap.
The assessment will produce the following final deliverables:
Draft Report | A draft report will be delivered to an identified key stakeholder to be reviewed. This will allow the Client to provide feedback to Denver and request any clarifications.
Final Report | OT Technical Roadmap Final Report containing the findings, analysis, recommendations, and action items gathered during the preceding stages of the assessment.
Report Presentation | Presentation of a summarised slide deck to management on the findings, analysis, recommendations, and action items determined during the health assessment and opportunity to ask and clarify any of the recommendations made as part of the assessment.