Consolidation & Virtualization
If you are the typical IT executive, 80 percent of your IT budget is probably spent supporting legacy applications and infrastructure. What if you could free up an additional 10 percent? What if you could free up an additional 20 percent? What would it mean to you, your staff and your company?IT managers and executives who can look up from the short-term crisis in front of them to the long-term changes that are being put in place through virtualization and server and storage consolidation are in a position to have a game-changing impact on their organizations.
A study Logicalis completed for a large enterprise in the financial industry, for example, showed that server and storage consolidation could reduce the total cost of ownership of its IT environment from $12.8 million over five years to $5.2 million.
On a smaller scale, another Logicalis customer found through virtualization that it was able to reduce the three-year cost of its infrastructure from $740,000 to $595,000, a savings that might be even more vital to a small company than the millions that can be saved in a Fortune 500 company.
Every enterprise consolidation effort is unique, but what they all have, or should have, in common is a measured approach that is derived from a detailed analysis of the current IT infrastructure and designed to serve the future needs of the organization.
Here’s a look at our Consolidation and Virtualization assessment goals and the methodology we use to accomplish them:
Assessment Goals
- Detail the capacity, performance and utilization of the current infrastructure
- Understand the current total cost of ownership of the existing environment
- Select target servers for server consolidation and virtualization
- Identify servers to be retired
- Create a plan to aggregate workloads into an alternative, consolidated and virtual environment
- Optimize performance and utilization while allowing for growth and application isolation
- Project the total cost of ownership of an alternative, consolidated and virtual environment
- Compare the existing environment with the alternative and forecast return on investment, net present value and payback of the server consolidation project
Assessment Methodology
- Identify, document and understand the customer’s detailed IT and related business requirements
- Validate and gain agreement on the customer’s needs, goals, resources and objectives
- Identify, document and understand the customer’s detailed cost structures, spending levels and financial policies
- Monitor and document existing capacity, utilization and performance of existing IT assets and resources on a systemwide macro level and on an individual server or server-subsystem basis
- Identify and monitor peak-hour, prime-time and business-hour system and component utilization
- Build and validate an architectural vision that represents the customer's stated and validated goals and objectives
- Financially and architecturally model the most likely scenarios that will ensure compliance with the customer's agreed and validated architectural vision
- Generate a detailed financial justification for each scenario
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