Challenge
Multiple servers in many locations working inefficiently and resulting in increased overhead to manage and maintain your system.
Overview
For many companies, the concept of server consolidation translates into projects that replace numerous smaller servers with powerful, expensive workhorses. Many organizations have adapted this approach and realized significant cost savings and improved efficiency. Continued Further Down
Technical Features and Advantages
Consolidation requires a plan that addresses business and technology, current opportunity, and future requirements. One of the greatest risks organizations face when considering consolidation is underestimating future hardware, software, and application requirements; therefore, careful assessment and continuing review are critical. Read More...
Business Benefits
Consolidation allows companies to improve overall business processing through three primary IT objectives:
1. Achieving Higher Levels of Service: Providing
high levels of service is on every IT manager's mind as the
user base expands beyond internal users to customers, suppliers,
students, patients, other government agencies, and business
partners. Everyone expects high levels of application and information
availability and consistent response times. Consolidation provides
a consistent management framework, which can lead to a more
predictable and consistent level of service. Read
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Overview
For many companies, the concept of server consolidation translates
into projects that replace numerous smaller servers with powerful,
expensive workhorses. Many organizations have adapted this approach
and realized significant cost savings and improved efficiency.
Achieving the benefits of server consolidation, however, does not necessarily require a large-scale, expensive effort. Many organizations consolidate as part of the natural refresh cycle of their technology infrastructures. These efforts are more iterative processes, rather than one-time projects, that focus on reducing the number of servers as the technology infrastructure is updated and augmented. The results are still significant. By consolidating, organizations are able to boost efficiency and improve their service capabilities while maintaining an infrastructure that is robust, highly available, and adaptive to changing business requirements.
Some companies report that server consolidation has reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by millions of dollars a year, but each type of consolidation offers different levels of potential cost savings. The amount of savings can vary dramatically according to the environment and degree of consolidation accomplished.
Flavor Technology can reduce the number of servers by combining different types of applications through a process of co-location of multiple servers at fewer locations. The most important part of a server consolidation initiative is the planning and analysis of end-user requirements, application requirements, and the server environment.
Flavor Technology server consolidation solutions combine robust, cross-platform system management capabilities for increased server utilization and lower TCO.
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