Over the years many IT organizations looked to save money by turning to low-cost servers to perform their workloads. In many, if not most of these cases, the strategy backfired. What happened?
What these organizations discovered were the enormous hidden costs of server sprawl. The cost to license, maintain, manage, power, and cool far outweighed the benefit of cheaper servers. Studies have shown that the cost of managing the servers is some 8 times the cost of the initial cost of the server itself. What is the answer?
You know the answer. Most organizations now have turned to server consolidation and virtualization to increase the utilization of their assets and reduce their operational costs. The benefits of server consolidation and virtualization have turned out to have a much greater impact than simply higher asset utilization and the reduction of space, power, and cooling. Some of the additional benefits include:
- reducing the cost of deploying new applications
- reducing the time to deploy new applications
- businesses are positioned to adapt to challenges more quickly
- a more efficient infrastructure for testing and development
- an easier to infrastructure to replicate off site
Xtend can help you consolidate more than just your Windows/ Intel environment.
Xtend has the skill sets to not only consolidate and virtualize your WINTEL environment with VMware and Red Hat; we also have the subject matter experts (SMEs) to virtualize your IBM AIX, System I, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris environments.
Our (SMEs) are certified to use a number of discovery and analysis tools to deliver a comprehensive assessment of your environment, and our SMEs use a proven methodology to architect and implement the solution. After we are done, we also provide a skills transfer so that your IT professionals are trained on the best practices that we have learned through working with many of the best run IT organization in the US.