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To help this situation, the 
Cisco team suggested 
a Cisco

®

 Domain Ten

®

 

workshop. The Domain 
Ten holistic framework 
is uniquely designed 
by Cisco to enable  
customers to focus on 
their business priorities 
and IT issues.

Established baseline and root problems uncovered  

The Cisco Domain Ten framework helps remove complexity and achieve 
maximum potential from IT activities. “It was from Domain Ten that we 
realised we had not just a technology problem but also a process problem,” 
Miskell explains.

Customised roadmap to IT transformation

The Domain Ten workshop helped Skipton document its aspirations and 
identify the biggest gaps in achieving its goal of moving to a private cloud.

“We wanted to move to a private cloud, but getting there seemed like a 
Herculean task,” Miskell says. “Domain Ten showed us where to start.”

Modernisation and standardisation with the right  

server platform 

Skipton chose Cisco Unified Computing System

™

 (Cisco UCS

®

) B-Series 

Blade Servers as the most effective platform to replace its aging technology.

“To get to the standardisation we needed around a private cloud, we had to 
adopt the right server platform,” Miskell says. “UCS is a proven product that 
will integrate well with our infrastructure.”

Accelerated server provisioning through virtualisation 

and automation 

Server provisioning used to be a manual, error-
prone process that could take four weeks. 
Skipton expects to reduce that to less than a day.

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•  Assessment of IT processes and aspirations
•  Prioritised plan for optimising IT responsiveness
•  Updated server platform to drive a private cloud

Solutions

Cisco Domain Ten Framework Transforms IT Processes 

to Unlock Business Potential