The benefits of consolidation
Among the constant challenges faced by IT directors today, cost control reigns supreme. And while the capital cost of server and network infrastructure hardware has become cheaper, the cost of ownership has typically risen.
Most corporate infrastructures include many small servers running at utility and storage levels under 10% - while data volumes are quadrupling every year. Demand for support in the desktop estate is ballooning, especially as companies strive to achieve mobility, user- neutral terminals and connection independent sessions.
The solution to this is to reduce the overheads associated with infrastructure through consolidation in each of these areas – in other words, making your existing assets work harder. Desktop consolidation is now well established through thin client approaches, delivered through Server-based models from Microsoft. SAN technology offers significant management and resource efficiency savings for stored data. Finally, server virtualisation is enabling the reduction of physical presence, running costs and flexibility challenges on Intel server estate.
Every business knows that its people and its data are two of the most valuable assets that a company has. The access infrastructure connects the people to the data by making data available to servers that can process it and send it intelligibly to the users – wherever they are. When one part of this infrastructure is consolidated, it has a knock-on effect on other parts of the infrastructure.
An example: If your business has a large workforce over multiple locations, the implementation of a SAN effectively means that all data is consolidated centrally. This poses two questions:
The solution to this is to reduce the overheads associated with infrastructure through consolidation in each of these areas – in other words, making your existing assets work harder. Desktop consolidation is now well established through thin client approaches, delivered through Server-based models from Microsoft. SAN technology offers significant management and resource efficiency savings for stored data. Finally, server virtualisation is enabling the reduction of physical presence, running costs and flexibility challenges on Intel server estate.
Every business knows that its people and its data are two of the most valuable assets that a company has. The access infrastructure connects the people to the data by making data available to servers that can process it and send it intelligibly to the users – wherever they are. When one part of this infrastructure is consolidated, it has a knock-on effect on other parts of the infrastructure.
An example: If your business has a large workforce over multiple locations, the implementation of a SAN effectively means that all data is consolidated centrally. This poses two questions:
How do we make sure the data gets to the servers quickly enough to be useful?
And how do we get the information that the servers create to the users?
The answer is to bring the servers to the data and the user applications to the data too – centralising everything. The basic principle is that the three elements, data, servers and user applications need to meet up, and with the experts at Loughtec to guide you every step of the way – consolidating your data to benefit your business becomes a reality.
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