Many IT operations are not completely consolidated resulting in inefficient high cost assets. Even those who have implement a SAN frequently have multiple SAN’s and islands of products with stove-piped applications, low utilization and a complex environment that complicates the management of IT resources.
In order to standardize and simplify your IT infrastructure, you need to consider the following questions:
Typical Concerns:
- Am I getting everything I expected from my SAN?
- How can I reduce my Operational Expense (opEx)?
- How can I reduce my maintenance costs?
- Is it possible to increase my utilization rates?
- Can I reduce the number of hardware assets?
- Servers
- Storage devices
- Connections/ports
- What is the best way to reduce complexity in my environment?
- How can I rapidly respond to business requirements and needs?
- How can I make IT strategically relevant?
- Can I leverage corporate information for business advantage?
- What do I do about IT Infrastructures that have reached maximum capacity?
- What are the costs related to facilities and data center sprawl and the overall data center total cost of ownership (TCO)?
- What is the impact of insufficient in-house resources necessary to manage ”as usual,” non-business activities such as data center migration?
- What is the best way to reduce the hardware infrastructure and energy footprint?
- How do I develop a strategy to build an architecture that meets the business needs?