Dell White Paper Sample

What is the source of IT inefficiency, of these ongoing, day-to-day costs? Time-consuming processes throughout the IT life cycle—from planning to purchase, from installation to implementation, and beyond. A heterogeneous, difficult-to-manage mixture of systems, software, data, interfaces, and applications from a variety of sources, requiring too much manual interaction. Aging, inflexible infrastructures that do not scale well and are too inflexible to meet changing requirements. The constant struggle for IT managers and administrators to keep systems running, patched, and up-to-date; make information accessible when and where it is needed; adhere to complicated licensing and service upgrade requirements with hidden costs; control power and cooling expenses; and keep up with the exponential growth of devices and data.

IT simplification can help reverse this trend. IT managers and administrators should be able to acquire, deploy, manage, and maintain their systems easily, and their IT infrastructures should scale flexibly to meet their needs. Reducing ongoing operations and maintenance costs enables enterprises to free up resources, reinvest savings back into the core of the business, build a flexible infrastructure to help meet changing requirements, or reinvent the enterprise altogether.