Enterprise Computing

Consolidation & Virtualization

Increase Control and Reduce Administration through Consolidation and Virtualization
Server and storage consolidation and virtualization can provide huge savings in maintenance, power and cooling, allowing you to take advantage of under-utilized hardware. Logicalis’ specialists can help you with a plan that can save you money and provide “green benefits” to the environment as well.

A study Logicalis completed for a large enterprise in the financial industry showed that 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 that it was able to reduce the three-year cost of its infrastructure from $740,000 to $595,000, a vital saving for a small firm!

Complexity of the overall IT infrastructure is the most common problem tackled via consolidation. In our experience, virtualization of servers allows organizations like yours to reduce the number of physical servers you need by an average ratio of 12:1 with a potential of more than 20:1.

Issues driving the need to consolidate:

• IT infrastructure growth over the past decades has been based on getting an application into production as rapidly as possible.
• The relatively low cost of Wintel based servers enabled a major change in producing new applications. Wintel IT was justified on the basis of one application/one server. That approach was then extended to UNIX, Linux, and other platforms.
• The one application/one server model eliminated the due diligence required for sharing resources. Applications that ran on their own server no longer had to work together.
• Low utilization of resources has been the inevitable result. The average utilization of a Windows server during normal business hours is under 10 percent and the average utilization during peak hours is under 15 percent.
• Managing, maintaining and supporting the proliferation of servers and storage devices, in turn, has become increasingly expensive and complex—and asset management, from a both technical and a financial standpoint, has become increasingly difficult.

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