Growing Out of Control

Space is at a premium. Power costs are climbing. Budgets are shrinking. Redundant infrastructure is piling up. Average server utilization rates are abominable. The pressure to be ‘green’ is more than a shiny trend, it’s now a mandate with real fiscal benefits.

What’s more, in most large enterprises, data center servers run at an average utilization of 10-15% – and around 5% of servers perform no useful function! Consolidating and virtualizing data center resources can deliver significant savings in hardware, maintenance, licensing, rack space, cooling and power, but unfortunately, identifying these savings isn’t so straightforward.

Believe it or not, most organizations can’t get an accurate server count, let alone understand the software running on those servers or the relationship to business applications. Manual audits are inaccurate and expensive, making it difficult to find opportunities for cost savings – and too risky to implement them. It’s no wonder data centers have become so bloated.

Put Your Data Center on a Diet

What if you could get daily reports highlighting where optimization opportunities existed? Where out-of-date and supposedly decommissioned servers still lurked, or where servers and software were ripe for consolidation? How your virtualization initiative was really doing at replacing physical hardware and what applications were prime targets for it?

Well now you can with Tideway Foundation™. Foundation uncovers one-off savings fast – providing you a clear, easy to read baseline of all of your hardware and software. This allows you to automatically audit configurations and discover useful data for grouping and transformation opportunities. And it clearly shows business application dependencies so you can make changes with minimal risk and less complexity. Foundation is like a diet for the data center, helping keep IT operations lean and efficient.

See the Surprises First – Reduce Risk, Eliminate Wasted Costs

• Automatically captures an accurate server inventory – every day
• Maps power consumption and rack space
• Identifies application footprints and dependencies
• Plan DC initiatives from a service view – not just boxes
• Map virtualized environments to business applications and physical infrastructure
• Identify the best targets for virtualization

Consolidation Benefits

Task	Before	After	Improvement
Initial infrastructure audit (hardware and software)	125-250 person-days	5 person-days	96%
Subsequent audit (hardware and software)	125-250 person-days	24 mins	99%
Data quality	70%	97%+	38%
Hardware Reduction	1000	950	5%

1000 server environment

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