Overview
The goal
Reduce cost and complexity and improve asset utilisation
In today's financial climate, cost efficiency is the top priority for the vast majority of organisations - and they are not just looking to drive down overall costs, but to use their available dollars more effectively. Examining IT infrastructure often reveals systems that are not performing up to expectations. Symptoms may be poor response times during peak periods, late orders, late delivery of applications and poor service. A dynamic infrastructure based on virtualisation capabilities can help lower costs by reducing complexity, improving utilisation and easing management through a common management platform and efficient tooling.
The advantage
Flexibility and agility
Virtualising an infrastructure can help enable the flexible and dynamic delivery of shared IT resources as services. IBM virtualisation and consolidation solutions can help organisations in doing more with fewer physical assets, reducing the energy demands of infrastructure while expanding capacity and enabling greater flexibility. Highly virtualised systems increase utilisation of IT resources as well as improving service delivery speed, TCO, resiliency and flexibility. While cost is always important, virtualisation also has the advantage of preparing the foundation for a truly dynamic infrastructure. IBM offers a variety of virtualisation solutions from server, storage, network and application virtualisation to workstations virtualisation and no other vendor has the breadth of offerings from services to software and systems.
The benefits
Utilisation and efficiency - a powerful combination
Virtualisation offers a strategy for designing and evolving dynamic infrastructure that enables organisations to move beyond simply addressing the utilisation challenges. Like any major paradigm shift in business, virtualisation and consolidation have become a success because they deliver core practical benefits that drive business value by:
- Decreasing IT costs and business risks
- Increasing operational efficiency and flexibility
- Simplifying deployment and management
- Enhancing overall business resilience
- Enabling new forms of innovation.
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