Do You Know What’s in Your Data Center?

In most large enterprises, data center servers run at an average utilization of 10-15% – and around 5% of servers perform no useful function! Optimizing data center resources can deliver significant savings in hardware, maintenance, licensing, rack space, cooling and power. 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. On average, it can take around sixty man-days to conduct a single-pass audit of one thousand servers – and that’s with an inadequate level of accuracy. This makes it too expensive to find opportunities for cost savings (and risky to implement them). It’s no wonder data centers have become so bloated.

The Lean Data Center

What if you could get daily reports on your desk showing where those 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 Where out-of-date and supposedly decommissioned servers still lurked, or where servers and software were ripe for consolidation?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? That’s what you get with Tideway Foundation™ visualizations and reports. Foundation allows one-off savings to be uncovered quickly – but also prevents the fat from creeping back. Because dependencies to business applications are known, these changes can implemented with minimal risk. Foundation is like a diet for the data center, helping keep IT operations lean and efficient.

Continuous Optimization Benefits

• Cut the costs of manually auditing and maintaining the view of the data center by up to 80%
• Improve audit data quality from 75% to over 95%, ensuring information is actionable
• Find decommissioned and unused resources for removal
• Identify opportunities for consolidation and virtualization
• Spot opportunities to refresh obsolete equipment

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