Infrastructure optimization is a multilayered approach to effectively maximize an organization's technology resources and objectives. By designing a comprehensive networking, server and storage environment as well as an effective power and cooling system for your data center, you can achieve your current goals while being flexible enough to manage for future growth. Components of this approach include the following:
- Data Storage
- Server Consolidation
- Server Virtualization
- Power and Cooling
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- Trend Advisory: Desktop Management and Security
Hailed by top analysts as a need-to-know technology and the future of enterprise computing, virtualization's benefits can be summed up in four words: do more with less.
- White Paper: Find Balance in Your Data Center
Companies are discovering that virtualization can solve problems across the IT environment, from dwindling floor space and soaring energy consumption to inflexibility and downtime.
- Case Study: Server Virtualization Solution
Wiplfi, a large U.S. accounting firm, was looking to optimize its IT environment and improve IT response time.
- CDW Industry Insider: Virtual Servers, Real Savings
Virtualization can have a very real and immediate impact on your organization. But to take full advantage of the benefits, you need the right roadmap.
- White Paper: Virtualization: Evolution to Revolution
As IT budgets slim, IT resources shrink and security becomes salient, virtualization can greatly enhance a firm's agility.
- White Paper: Common Pitfalls in Server Virtualization
Everybody’s talking about virtualization and server consolidation these days, and many companies are taking some kind of action, with large enterprises in the lead.
- White Paper: Desktop Demystified
Client virtualization borrows from the thin-client model, but offers IT the ability to host and centrally manage Virtual Machines (VMs) while providing end users a full-desktop experience.
- White Paper: Do More with Less: Virtualizing the Desktop
When it comes to virtualizing the desktop, there are two approaches -- local or hosted. Depending on your business needs, your organization may warrant a combination of both.
- Case Study: Consultation, Design and Implementation of Global IT Solutions
GFT processes millions of transactions a year. They needed to optimize their IT environment for improved security, reliability, scalability, and communication.
- White Paper: The Case for Data Center Optimization
Considering that consolidation and virtualization can result in vastly higher utilization of computing capacity, the business case for optimization is easy.
- White Paper: P2V benefits
Virtualization gives businesses flexibility within the infrastructure, particularly for business users who think IT is inflexible.
- White Paper: Perfect Marriage: Coupling Blade Servers with a Virtual Infrastructure Can Cut Cost and Add Efficiencies
Many organizations have turned to virtualization to manage resources more effectively, save data center space, reduce IT administrative tasks and go "green."
- White Paper: Say Yes to Virtualization
Virtualizing servers is yielding dramatic cost savings through consolidation of physical resources, reductions in power and cooling requirements, and slashed operational expenses.
- Case Study: Server Virtualization Solution Using VMware – Lakeview Medical Center
Lakeview Medical Center optimized their IT environment to combat data center infrastructure challenges such as power, cooling, and space. Learn how in this case study.
- White Paper: Taking Control: Server Consolidation Can Help You Take Control of the Server Room
Server sprawl may be the bane of many it organizations’ existence. The problem is that server sprawl creates a serious financial and efficiency leak. Consolidation can help.
- White Paper: Virtualization: Buzz and Benefits
With the implementation of virtualization, multiple servers running at limited capacity -- between 10 and 30 percent -- can be consolidated into one machine running multiple VMs.
