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Server Consolidation

Industry analysts report that servers in many companies typically run at 15-20% of their capacity. This means that companies are wasting millions of dollars each year on underutilized equipment. Optimus’ server consolidation services help improve the return on your IT investment by consolidating server workload while simultaneously increasing server performance and reducing operating costs. The goal of server consolidation is to optimize and simplify your existing IT environment—not just the servers, but the entire infrastructure. By engaging Optimus in your server consolidation, we can help you achieve improved operational efficiencies and significant overall cost reductions in your server environment.

CDAT (Consolidation Discovery and Analysis Tool)
LPAR (Logical Partitioning)
VMware
 

Benefits of Server Consolidation:

• Saves money by reducing number of servers
• Reduces server maintenance costs
• Reduces administration costs
• Reduces energy and floor space costs
• Reduces administration complexity
• Fewer enterprise level systems can replace many commodity-class servers
• Improves disaster recovery
• Better accommodates future growth
• Improves physical and network security
• Lower total cost of ownership.

Achieved by reducing the following:
- Hw and sw maintenance costs
- Energy and floor space requirements
- Administrative overhead

• Simplifies disaster recovery options
• Improves overall network securityy

Fact: Of 518 respondents in a Gartner Group research study, six percent had conducted a server consolidation project, 61% were currently conducting one, and 28% were planning to do so in the immediate future.