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Armed with an
effective strategy, and robust knowledge of current industry trends
and technology futures, organizations are empowered to make
information management and storage decisions which position
themselves for sustained high performance and competitive advantage.
The benefits include:
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO): Organizations save money in several ways, reducing
strains on IT budgets, freeing up resources for other requirements,
and greatly improving the ROI of existing and new
investments:
- Lower systems & storage
administration costs
Minimized
staffing requirements
Lower annual support
(maintenance &
service) costs
Lower staff & end-user training
costs
Reduced computing space
requirements
Reduced environmental
requirements
Purchasing economies of
scale
Improved Asset
Utilization: Organizations can rationalize existing server
and storage resources, leading to additional cost savings, improved
availability, and dramatic improvements in utilization.
- Improved server & storage
efficiency and capacity utilization (reduce
under-utilization)
- Eliminate server & storage
“redundancy” and “over-buying” of resources
- Eliminate
unnecessary duplication of information
- Facilitate seamless, scalable growth
of capacity as business demands dictate
- Allow “pooling” of server (compute)
& storage resources with flexible provisioning
Improved Service
Levels: Application service levels see dramatic
improvements by simplifying the management of fewer resources at
lower costs.
- Standardized server
& storage platforms and management frameworks
- Standardized
server & storage management policies
- Improved reliability, availability,
& serviceability (RAS)
- Implement high-availability
clustering/failover solutions
- Enable dynamic
replication/re-allocation of resources
- Reduce or eliminate “moving
parts”
- Reduce chance of “human errors” by
minimizing manual intervention
- Simplify management of fewer
resources
- Achieve better leverage of industry
and operational best practices
Improved
Information Security: Centralized and more controlled
server and storage environments enable administrators to set and
enforce more stringent data security policies and
standards.
- Centralize data backup, recovery,
& restore
- Bullet-proof
recovery from server & storage failures
- Centralize
control & security management
- Improve physical
security (controlled data centers)
- Leverage more
secure operating environments
- Increase
disaster recovery & business continuity
options
Improved Flexibility:
The infrastructure allows IT organizations to react more quickly to
customer demands or changes in the business that require application
modifications, new application deployment, or access across multiple
data sources.
- Separate server, storage, &
application lifecycles
- Improved access to enterprise data
& applications
- Reduced complexity of overall IT
infrastructure
- Speed
application testing and rollout
- Rapid adoption of new, breakthrough
technologies
- Improved project coordination across
company initiatives
- Faster reaction to changes in
business requirements
- Improved customer
satisfaction
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