Consolidation
Vertigo / Group has been helping clients virtualize and consolidate their servers and IT assets and helping them reduce
IT asset management costs by increasing asset utilization, improving manageability, and increasing corporate agility around new services.
The first important step to realizing the full benefits of virtualization is an effective way to reduce both the number and type of
assets and efforts required to deliver value to the enterprise. Server consolidation will reduce cost and complexity within an
organization, and can lay the groundwork for more effective IT governance and IT process maturity.
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Reduce costs, both immediate and long-term
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Improve operational efficiency in multiple areas
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Improve collaboration/information sharing across platforms and business units
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Enable standardization
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Improve processes and manageability
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Overcome resource restraints
Consolidation Targets
Server consolidation is more than just virtualizing a number of physical assets. To truly reap the benefits of a strategic
IT consolidation initiative, due consideration for people, process, and environment will be integrated into the overall objective.
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Server Consolidation
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Storage Consolidation
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Database
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E-mail
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Backup
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Management/Monitoring Environment
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Staff
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Support Contracts
Benefits of Virtualization
Minimize Your Total Cost of Infrastructure Ownership
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Increase hardware utilization and reduce hardware requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding ten virtual
machines per physical processor.
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Reduce required datacenter square footage, rack space, power, cooling, cabling, storage and network components by reducing the sheer
number of physical machines.
Streamline IT Infrastructure Management
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Streamline the execution of IT management processes such as provisioning, capacity management, availability management, continuity management
and service level management.
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Eliminate cumbersome software installations and configurations with virtual appliances.
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Decrease IT labor costs and refocus IT teams on value added, strategic tasks.
Provide Mainframe Class Availability and Reliability
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Improve application availability and business continuity independent of hardware and operating systems.
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Eliminate planned downtime for server and storage maintenance with live migration of virtual machines across physical servers and storage arrays.
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Improve Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective in case of an entire site outage.
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