IT Financial Management for Server, Storage, and Desktop Virtualization and Consolidation

While the cost of hardware had decreased significantly, servers, storage, and desktop computers still remain very large budget items for corporate IT. The total cost of ownership is impacted by a complicated set of underlying drivers: electricity, facilities, support, security, administration and much more. Complete and ongoing cost visibility into these complex cost drivers is vital for virtualization and consolidation strategies designed to save money while aligning with business goals.

Get the Highest Value from Virtualization and Consolidation

Virtualization and consolidation can save money in many areas — hardware, administration, energy, support, and more. But where do you start? And how do you continuously optimize cost? The potential for virtualization can benefit servers, storage, and desktops. Our financial management solution can answer key questions:

• Which servers are the best candidates for virtualization or consolidation?
• Where should we start with virtualization to give the biggest cost benefit?
• Where can we consolidate without impacting the business?
• Did we get the desired benefit? If not how can we improve?

IT Financial Management for Servers, Storage, and Desktops Delivers Tangible Savings

For the teams responsible for purchasing and administering servers, storage, and desktops, visibility into costs delivers immediate savings. The ability to compare utilization, capacity, and service levels with total cost and underlying cost drivers as well as benchmarks and key effectiveness metrics is a great enabler for continuous cost optimization including:

• Prioritize Server Consolidation — By delivering visibility into server utilization and cost, our IT Financial Management solution can immediately identify the servers that are the best candidates to deliver significant costs savings through consolidation.
• Identify Candidates for Storage Tiering — Our IT Financial Management solution can immediately identify storage that has both low utilization and high costs. This will identify the types of storage that are most likely to deliver significant cost savings without impacting business results if storage tiering is used.
• Report on Desktop Virtualization Savings — Our IT Financial Management solution delivers full transparency into the total cost of physical and virtual desktops to both corporate IT and the business units that must pay for them. With detailed cost benefit information, teams can continuously optimize desktop virtualization and cost.

Out-of-the-Box IT Financial Management

Our deep understanding of the underlying cost structure of servers, storage, and desktops is packaged into a powerful product that automates visibility and key business processes. Only our IT Financial Management Solution:

• Identifies the best candidates for virtualization by reporting on under-utilized and high cost servers, storage, and desktops
• Analyzes "what-if" scenarios to estimate potential savings from virtualization or consolidation
• Delivers pre-built costs models to give visibility into the total cost of servers, storage, and desktops before and after virtualization
• Captures the total and unit costs of servers, storage and desktops with cost reports
• Breaks unit costs into their underlying cost drivers
• Reports on utilization of any type of server, storage, or desktop computer
• Reports on fixed vs. variable, and Opex vs. Capex for any account type
• Includes built-in comparisons with industry benchmarking data
• Provides efficiency reports for key metrics such as cost/UNIX server, cost/GB, cost/CPU, support FTE/Wintel servers and more
• Reports on consolidation candidates by identifying servers with high cost/CPU and close end of life, servers with low cost/CPU and low CPU/RAM/IO utilization, and much more