Five Ways Virtualization Can Lower Your TCO
Posted on July 5th, 2010 by admin |
IT directors and CIOs are always looking at the total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprise-wide technology. The goal, of course, is to keep TCO as low as possible while maximizing the services and capabilities delivered to the business areas. Virtualization provides a variety of cost-containment advantages, making it possible to manage IT expenses without degrading service to end users.
Here are five ways that virtualization can help you lower your infrastructure TCO:
1. Equipment consolidation: reduce equipment investments by making computing and storage resource portable among platforms. The ability to use existing resources makes it possible to defer spending.
2. Streamline operations: make better use of existing IT staff through a more efficient datacenter management operation. The ability to share resources through virtualization reduces operational complexity and alleviates pressure for additional headcount.
3. Power and cooling: a smaller equipment footprint results in lower energy expenses. By reducing the need for servers and storage in your datacenter, virtualization results in less energy consumption – and cost.
4. Capacity planning: this becomes a more straightforward affair, as the datacenter can be viewed holistically, rather than on a platform-by-platform basis. Planning becomes both faster and more accurate.
5. Available capital: through the reduction of infrastructure TCO, more financial resources can be made available for investment in other initiatives … which can have further TCO benefits.
Tags: infrastructure, power, Server Virtualization, storage, storage virtualization
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Tags: Tags: infrastructure, power, Server Virtualization, storage, storage virtualization
