VMS Server Consolidation and IT optimization
Server consolidation and IT optimization are often used interchangeably. Server consolidation focuses on lowering cost by reducing the number of platforms, which is relatively easy to quantify and justify on the basis of a “speeds-and-feeds” configuration and can be calculated purely “by the numbers” of CPU/disk/memory requirements.
IT optimization, on the other hand, typically includes server consolidation as an aspect but does so in a richer context, resulting in a more tempered and balanced solutions design that combines business process and goals, standards, systems and asset management, security and backup/disaster recovery, as well as server and applications consolidation.
Organizations can greatly reduce IT cost and simplify the IT environment through server consolidation or IT optimization.
However, server consolidation and IT optimization is complex and often confused by vendors that insist they have the answer to all of your server consolidation needs. Most of them know what “the answer” is before they even take the time to understand your business requirements.
You don’t have to convince an organization that it is cheaper, easier, or simpler to run an application with two servers rather than ten. That’s patently obvious. What you are wrestling with is probably much deeper than that.
To learn more about the complexities and methodology of Sector7’s approach, see our whitepaper.