IBM White Paper Sample

During times of economic growth the focus for IT is often to deploy new applications as fast as possible to take advantage of market opportunities. This drive for innovation may satisfy crucial business imperatives, but ad-hoc growth in the datacenter may also increase on-going IT operational costs. This paper shows that now, during this economic downturn, it may be the ideal time to evaluate whether modernizing your IT infrastructure and practices can lower costs, improve efficiency and potentially reduce cash outflows.

As our case study illustrates, advances in server hardware technology and virtualization now enable significant server consolidation and real cost savings. By reducing the number of physical servers deployed by over 90% our study participant was able to reduce energy consumption 92%, which lowered costs, extended the useful lifespan of their datacenter and reduced the organization’s impact on the environment. Lowering server counts and imposing standard best practices also reduced systems administration requirements and improved service levels. Implementing a virtualized server environment leveraging the IBM BladeCenter HS22 servers improved overall resource utilization and positioned the organization for rapid deployment of new applications.