Does your organization need to reduce cost, improve data center efficiency, and
develop a smarter method for allocating network IT resources?
Once upon a time, organizations could solve IT problems simply by adding new servers
to handle additional workloads. Today, the legacy left by this strategy haunts enterprises
everywhere. Server proliferation has become a serious challenge. However, virtualization
is more than just a concept—it is a concrete business strategy that can provide
tangible value for companies in virtually any industry.
The high cost of inefficient data centers
In today’s environment, the top concerns of managing IT systems have turned from
the simple calculation of hardware procurement, systems administration, and programmers
to the modern day data center concerns of energy efficiencies—power and cooling
requirements and costs, rising real-estate costs, business continuance policies
to meet regulatory governance, and increasing server hardware sprawl.
IDC recently provided facts around operational costs that are shackling many organizations
with managing and funding of IT infrastructures*:
- $8 is spent maintaining legacy IT for every $1 invested in new IT infrastructure;
this severely limits business innovation
- 50¢ is spent to power and cool servers for every $1 in server spending today; this
may increase to 70¢ by 2010
- Constructing a new data center costs approximately $1,000 per square foot; this
is $40,000 per rack or $2,400 for a typical server
As operational costs for IT infrastructure and data centers continue to increase,
organizations around the world are turning to virtual infrastructures as an answer
to mitigating costs, driving optimization, and gaining efficiencies from their IT
environments. IDC reports that “virtualization impacts more than servers—storage,
networks, clients, management, security, etc.” and “server virtualization is now
considered a mainstream technology among IT buyers.”
Virtualization: A smarter way to allocate resources
Adding even more servers to already overbuilt, underutilized networks is not the
answer for organizations trying to focus on strategic IT projects. Instead, organizations
need consolidated IT environments that require less maintenance and fewer power
and cooling resources. By making resources available when and where they are needed,
virtualization eliminates unused headroom, allowing companies to handle their workloads
using fewer servers. And fewer servers mean less maintenance, power, and cooling,
which translates into significant reductions in costs and resources.
Is your organization currently considering a Virtualization Project?
If you have already implemented a virtualization project, or if you have already
implemented a virtualization project, were your objectives:
- To reduce costs thru server consolidation?
- To provided enhanced data availability and disaster recovery capabilities?
Has it met your original objectives, or do you feel you could benefit from an independent
assessment?
Although server consolidation is the primary area of focus for most organizations,
Desktop and Application Virtualization are two additional areas that IntraSource’s
Virtualization Practice can help your organization address. Each have substantial
benefits to provide recurring cost savings as well as enhanced productivity for
your staff.
We are confident that we can help your company move to another level and invite you
to complete and submit the contact form to setup an introductory discussion. We
look forward to hearing from you.