Consolidation Solutions
In today's enterprise environments customers are
faced with increased demands for serviceability,
reliability and availability of mission critical
systems. This demand in conjunction with the number
of servers and storage has significantly increased
the cost of support, while reduced IT budgets and
the need to reduce this complexity have created
the perfect environment for consolidation.
Consolidation is the process of consolidating servers,
applications, data, and workloads into fewer sites
and space, with the objective of centralizing and
simplifying the administration of these systems.
Server and Storage Consolidation is more than replacing
a set of smaller servers or storage devices with
fewer, larger ones. Consolidation enables organizations
to simplify and optimize their systems infrastructure
through a defined process.
Server Consolidations
Server consolidation has long been perceived as
a “box reduction” initiative. Minntek
views server consolidation as more than a cost takeout
exercise that only addresses the physical infrastructure,
but as a strategic initiative that enables the processes,
organization and technologies to deliver an optimized
and resilient infrastructure
Server consolidation is the first step toward designing
and implementing a more rational, efficient and
flexible IT environment that can support your strategic
business objectives.
Server consolidation simplifies IT services by
creating centralized applications, data management,
security, and overall workloads. That simplification,
in turn, delivers improved service.
Storage Consolidation
While the cost of storage is decreasing, the amount
of data that businesses need to have available and
the cost of managing that data are increasing. Companies
demand the ability to fully utilize and expand their
storage assets to meet future needs and leverage
their current technology. To resolve this problem
companies are looking to storage consolidation to
increase efficiency, save valuable resources and
provide data on-demand.
Storage consolidation brings together data from
difference sources and is combined into a centralized
or format for reduced redundancy. It increases efficiency,
centralizes management and creates greater control.
Summary
Consolidation provides the streamlined framework
needed to properly assess and transform an IT infrastructure
for added business value delivery. A consolidated
and optimized infrastructure environment can better
enable IT to deliver on its promise to help drive
new business and new revenue opportunities by allowing
companies to be more responsive and more resilient.
Consolidation can:
- Reduce overall complexity
- Standardize policies, procedures and
operations
- Simplify systems management
- Enhance resources utilization and optimize
scalability
- Optimize performance, improve availability
- Increase recoverability and operational
resiliency
- Reduce hardware, software and systems
management costs
- Dramatically improve total cost of ownership
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Our consultants have the in-depth knowledge and
skill to assist our customers with solutions to
consolidate server and storage platforms. We will
perform a comprehensive audit of your current environment
and work together with you to fully understand your
vision of a new simplified infrastructure. Then
will take your organization from concept, to planning
and design, to implementation.
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