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IT Managers today have become accustomed to dedicating a physical server to each of their applications to ensure there are no application conflicts and to leave suitable room for future growth.
With today's servers coming off the shelf with high specifications as standard, the single application per server approach leads to extremely low utilisation rates where we see only 5-20% of the CPU, memory and drive space in each server being accessed.
Hardware is only a small part of the total cost of server ownership and this is why consolidation is being looked at by many of our clients. Power consumption, server maintenance and management costs alone are frequently on the increase and with the demand for improved service levels we are seeing a consistent pressure on finance and manpower within the organisation.
Virtual DTS’s online demonstration will show you how reducing the costs of physical servers using a virtualised solution will reduce hardware acquisitions and how these can be seen by the business in the short term.
We can demonstrate:
- Increased Utilisation of existing hardware from 5-20% up to 80%
- Accelerated Provisioning time from days to minutes
- Single Point management of all virtual servers
- Reduction in costs around power consumption, server maintenance and management
- Live back-up and restore of virtual servers
- Storage utilisation across the whole environment
- Significant return on investment
Most organisations have large numbers of servers spread across multiple locations and departments, each typically running a single application. This results in expensive duplication of resources, inefficiency, management complexity and unnecessary IT hardware and software spend. The true cost of delivering a server infrastructure represents a substantial part of the IT budget. This is an area where savings can be realised and the return on investment (ROI) can be significant. Server virtualisation dramatically reduces the number of physical servers in an organisation by enabling multiple ‘virtual servers’ to be run on a single or reduced number of shared machines. These are typically located in a centralised data centre facility, where the management, control and security of the server infrastructure can be more easily managed and supported. Systems can be consolidated, operational costs and capital expenditure reduced. This can be measured in many ways, for example:
- Savings in the number of servers deployed
- Fewer server purchases in the future, simplifying management of the system infrastructure
- Reduction in office and data centre floor space, saving in premises’ costs
- Lower power and cooling costs, resulting in energy savings
- A potential reduction in software license charges
- Reduces operational costs and capital expenditure
- Enables devices to be consolidated
- Releases space in the data centre
The resulting benefit for IT Managers is that they can deliver a more reliable, resilient and trusted service while addressing the need to contain or reduce IT expenditure.