Enterprise data growth continues to expand exponentially, affirms market research firm, Gartner, Inc., which projects a fivefold increase through 2015. To prepare for this onslaught, businesses are proactively shrinking their physical datacenter footprints through virtualization and other technologies.
Best practices in data center consolidation can improve utilization of existing resources, slash operational and maintenance costs and reduce corporate power consumption — while giving your organization the flexibility it needs to manage this data deluge. The federal government, for example, estimates a savings of $3 billion by shuttering roughly 950 datacenters over the five-year period.
Agilysys’ approach to data center consolidation employs its HawkPoint ProcessTM—a unique combination of analytic software and expert analysis—to rightsize, consolidate, virtualize and refresh such heterogeneous environments.
Agilysys’ clients report substantial operational efficiencies through these solutions. As a result, over three years, one insurance company achieved savings of $1 million by consolidating servers and operating systems, and a large national bank slashed $7 million by consolidating 400 servers
down to 14.