Posted on June 14th, 2010
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The problem with “best of breed” platform selections is that you wind up with a heterogeneous infrastructure that can be difficult and costly to manage. When it’s time to add to a particular platform’s footprint, you need to write another check, even if there are under-utilized solutions elsewhere in your environment. Unless you have commensurate equipment available, there’s no choice but to invest more. With server and storage virtualization technologies, you can break out of this rut, and extract more value from investments you’ve already made.
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Tags: Tags: capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, IT infrastructure, performance, ROI, Server Virtualization, storage virtualization
Posted on May 26th, 2010
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Have you ever had to deviate from your capacity plan to add equipment? When this happens, you have to do more than dip into your budget and get the requisite approvals. You also need to divert resources from your infrastructure team to plan, execute, test and monitor the change to your server environment, which can cause other projects to fall behind. Expenses increase not only for your datacenter team but for all the IT and business areas affected. Your budget assumes a certain amount of predictability, but real life doesn’t always cooperate.
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Posted in Managed Services |
Tags: Tags: Aware 360 v2, capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, managed infrastructure
Posted on May 12th, 2010
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How much of your datacenter is dark? At any given time, you have systems that aren’t being used. Oddly, this is often intentional. Your capacity planning exercises are designed to show how much you need under a variety of circumstances, and the need to handle peak usage means there will be occasions when servers and storage are under-utilized. In fact, this will generally be the case – you’ll have dormant systems more often than you have heavily utilized systems. This translates to lost potential. Unlock the potential of under-utilized systems, and you can defer IT investments, gain more value from existing equipment and streamline your IT operation.
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Tags: Tags: capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT operations, processor, Server Virtualization, storage, storage virtualization, utilization, workload
Posted on April 19th, 2010
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The decision to outsource key IT functions is rarely an easy one. All things being equal, the typical instinct cites the importance of maintaining complete control. Yet, the rush to keep everything in house can lead to lost opportunities for cost savings … not to mention the opportunity to use recovered budget on IT initiatives that can move your company forward. There are cases where outsourcing simply makes sense. If your IT department has one of the situations below, it’s time to consider a managed services solution.
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Tags: Tags: capacity planning, disaster recovery, infrastructure management, IT outsourcing, managed infrastructure, outsourcing, risk management
Posted on March 31st, 2010
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Your datacenter is full of waste. You have unused storage, unused processor power and unused bandwidth. Yet, platform constraints force you to continue to make costly equipment investments. While diligent capacity planning and management can help take the sting out of future purchases, you still may be overspending. Rather than buy systems when much of your infrastructure is idle, it may be time to virtualize.
Server, storage and desktop virtualization can unlock more of your IT infrastructure’s capacity, delivering a rapid cost savings and ROI boost based on investments you have made already. Using virtualization, you can knock down the walls that block platforms: computing power becomes computing power, regardless of the system that provides it. This delivers unparalleled flexibility.
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: bandwidth, capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure management, investment, power, ROI, Virtualization
