IT Optimization Pro Identifies Potential for Efficiency, Savings

IT Optimization Pro Identifies Cost Savings Opportunities

With ITOP, organizations can accurately measure IT infrastructure

Knowing all the information about the quantity and quality of a business' servers, storage, security, applications and databases can be challenging. Not knowing, though, can have a serious negative impact on a company's bottom line in lost productivity due to inefficient or outdated software and outmoded hardware. Managers that don't have a full understanding of their networks' components are putting companies at risk for lost sales revenue and potential security risks.

What is a data center director to do?

Fear not! Datatrend Technologies, a leading technology infrastructure solutions, technology services, and network services provider, has developed a solution for accurately evaluating and optimizing IT infrastructures. IT Optimization ProII (ITOPII) is an automated tool used by the company's expert consultants to catalogue, measure, reveal and report on events within a server environment.

Using exclusive methodology, consultants collect the data that data center managers may have had trouble tracking down, helping businesses to save time and money. IT Optimization creates an inclusive inventory of the server environment to identify additional opportunities for cost savings, such as eliminating unwarranted services, detecting virus protection anomalies and identifying outdated servers. The data is analyzed, interpreted and conveyed in a detailed presentation of both actual results and proposed improvements that not only will have an impact on the efficiency of the network, but also worker productivity.

Additionally, Datatrend's ITOPII provides an assortment of server consolidation analyses and business case scenarios, with full return on investment, internal rate of return and other financial metrics. Up to three different scenarios to increase a network's efficiency can be evaluated and processed, delivering a comprehensive report with all the details required for each proposed solution. With IT Optimization ProII, server consolidation may be proposed in a manner they can understand and support.

The ITOPII process has found millions in cost savings for data centers. Some of the problems most commonly identified in this process include:

• Idle processors
• Redundant servers
• Inadequate storage utilization
• Servers without virus protection
• Superfluous services and applications
• Unnecessarily high licensing versions

Outdated or inefficient elements of a network can drag it down, and the potential for generating revenue along with it. Through ITOPII processes, server consolidation assessments can be determined in a cost effective manner with broad flexibility. What practices need to be included can also be fully formulated. IT Optimization ProII simulations truly provide data center managers with a range of the evidence they need to develop a lasting solution that can be adjusted over time.