Are Hidden Costs Plaguing Your IT Operations? A View from the Trenches
One global investment bank is convinced that there’s a lot of waste and redundancy that can be eliminated fairly easily. Using Tideway’s mapping product Foundation, for example, it created “a map of all of our data center assets and the relationships between them. The idea here was to be able to be predictive about our data center relocation – ‘what happens if we unplug this server?’ When we did an initial scan of 3,000 servers, we found another 90 machines that should have been retired.” On those servers, they found a lot of ghost services that created some maintenance issues.
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