Take the first step to optimizing your server environment

Companies can no longer afford under-utilized servers, hogging key resources such as space, power and cooling, and staff time. Server assessment & optimization services from Datatrend address all aspects of your server environment and provide you with an in-depth look at your mission critical data, applications, and server infrastructure. You will receive server optimization recommendations for solutions geared to improve server performance, reliability, and standardization.

Let Datatrend assess the current server environment in your data center, determine the ROI of consolidation and/or virtualization, and present you with a clear plan of implementation that will help optimize your server infrastructure. Our infrastructure specialists can help you:

• Increase operational efficiencies - identify ineffective or duplicate hardware and software within your server environment
• Optimize server performance - provide the ability to increase individual server utilization
• Achieve cost savings - do more with less by decreasing maintenance costs, minimizing data center space requirements and lowering power and cooling costs

Datatrend Server Assessment & Optimization services include the following detailed analysis:

Technical Analysis

• Summarize current server population, including:
  • Total number of servers
  • Quantity of servers added to infrastructure within the last year
  • Duplicate or redundant server functions that can be consolidated
• Summarize resources within data center environment, including:
  • Current “at capacity” server racks
  • Current capacity and energy usage of data center electrical and air conditioning systems
  • Opportunities for application consolidation via virtualization

Performance Analysis

• Target CPU utilization percentage of server environment during prime time and peak hours
• Provide overview of service level agreements (SLAs) within the organization
• Determine success of current server environment in meeting required performance levels
• Identify solution scalability needs

Financial Analysis

• Summarize current server hardware and software costs, including:
  • Maintenance, warranty, facility, lease payment costs
• Identify potential solution implementation costs, including:
  • Cost-replacement modeling from current state to future state recommendations
  • Return on Investment (ROI) modeling for recommended changes