Infrastructure Optimization Solution - Solution to the challenges

The IT infrastructure that supports today should be sturdy enough to respond to challenges of tomorrow. It is important to create systematic infrastructure tapping today's demands that also allow timely inclusion of alterations and modifications adapting futuristic requirements and opportunities. With integrated IT infrastructure optimization solutions from DSI, you can leverage a range of automated capabilities at the infrastructure level to gain insight into the performance of IT assets in relation to business processes and user-defined service levels. A resilient foundation is the essential first step towards an agile IT infrastructure - one that can respond with speed and flexibility while maximizing cost-efficiency. Let us understand how all this is taken care of.

DSI has a proven approach to help you get on track and start putting more of your IT spending towards innovative and strategic IT projects.

Are out-of-control operating costs preventing you from innovating to get things done right?

Hail Cost-cutting through Automation!

Most enterprises spend more than 70% of their total IT budget on infrastructure. These costs can be difficult to control and sometimes go out of hand despite ongoing investments in point solutions to monitor and manage core infrastructure components, because the day-to-day management of IT operations is a manual, resource-intensive and error-prone process. This approach is not only inefficient, but provides limited insight to support the strategic decisions that keep IT services aligned with business requirements.

Policy-based automation improves efficiency, reduces human errors and streamlines operations, thus enabling IT staff to be more productive. Automation also lets IT focus on strategic issues rather than daily maintenance. Thus, reducing operating costs can lead to more money being available for new corporate initiatives; therefore, building the IT infrastructure efficiently will continue to remain important.

Is quality important for infrastructure optimization?

Improve Service Levels!

Consistent service delivery and high service quality are directly related to the reliability and performance of the IT infrastructure. When the IT infrastructure is diverse, complex and managed by manual intervention, the root causes of service degradations become difficult to pinpoint. This puts both Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and business processes at risk. Comprehensive insight into your infrastructure enables you to make better, more business centric decisions so you can correct problems efficiently, improve performance and increase service quality. To build a solid foundation for agile service delivery, IT must define, refine, standardize and automate its infrastructure management processes, in alignment with best practices.

An optimized IT infrastructure is what makes it possible to synthesize business-centric service metrics; manage incidents, problems and changes from the standpoint of business users; and match service to demand. The more mature and optimized your infrastructure, the more effective and strategically beneficial your Business Service Management efforts will be.

Can creation of an Agile Infrastructure provide a good solution for optimization?

IT often is so focused on day-to-day administrative and service-related issues that it can be difficult to proactively manage, support and adapt to changing business demands. The complexity of today's distributed and largely non-standardized environments aggravate this problem. Furthermore, cost constraints force IT departments to get more from their existing infrastructures with fewer staff and resources. As a result, they cannot add staff to address the need for new services to drive business value and growth.

A high degree of automation combined with the insight to make business-centric decisions reduces the risk of service degradation, minimizes both operating and capital costs and boosts time-to-value for business-driven initiatives. Insight and automation make IT much better able to shift as business priorities shift - as well as to optimize service to users.

How does one address the challenges in managing IT infrastructure?

Virtualization is the key to success!

Running the datacenter can be a costly affair. These costs take several different forms like costs involved in server hardware, power and cooling, and real estate. Research shows that the number of servers worldwide has increased 700% from 1995 levels and go sky high even more by 2010. All of these servers require power to run and generate heat that must be controlled for the machines to function. And all these servers must be housed. Costs for building such space become huge.

DSI Virtualization service does this housing through Infrastructure Optimization, which is an umbrella concept for addressing management and server sprawl issues, bringing generous cost-savings and dramatic return on investment. Server Consolidation and Containment are the initial steps in DSI Virtualization towards a cost-effective, secure and manageable environment that will reduce operational costs and provide the required operational flexibility.

Server consolidation is an approach to the efficient usage of computer server resources in order to reduce the total number of servers or server locations that an organization requires. The practice developed in response to the problem of server sprawl, a situation in which multiple, under-utilized servers take up more space and consume more resources than can be justified by their workload. Server consolidation reduces the number of physical servers needed to run an existing IT infrastructure. As each physical machine is transformed into a virtual one and multiple virtual machines are placed onto a virtual machine server host, the number of servers declines.

Containment refers to the process of controlling new growth of servers by virtualizing wherever possible. If 8 virtual machines are hosted per physical server and each of those virtual machines would otherwise be placed on a dedicated physical server, new server growth is at one eighth the former pace. Containment on the growth of the IT infrastructure is now present.

DSI virtualization technology makes it possible to package a complete x86 server-hardware, operating system, applications, and configurations-into a portable virtual machine. Multiple virtual machines run simultaneously and independently on a single x86 server host. All of the virtual machine hosts are centrally managed and treated as a collection of resources that together with pooled processor, memory, disk space, and networking capabilities comprises the DSI Infrastructure.

With DSI Infrastructure resource pools, your customer can sever all attachments between applications and x86 hardware, and focus on strategically managing services rather than servers. With many virtual machines consolidated on a pool of servers, resource usage is continuously monitored and workloads are balanced to let customers reliably exceed 80% utilization.

DSI Infrastructure Optimization Solution reduces capital and operational costs by 40%.

The Infrastructure Optimization Vision

The emerging vision for Infrastructure Optimization encompasses the consolidation, automation and streamlining of today's IT management point solutions across heterogeneous enterprise IT environments. The goal is to enable you to manage your core systems in a centralized manner, automate and enforce policy and proactively identify problems to improve reliability and control costs. When the infrastructure is optimized in this way it can be monitored and managed end-to-end in an integrated, business-centric fashion, providing a solid foundation to support the agile delivery of critical business services.

DSI Infrastructure Optimization solution not only manages your existing data center but also takes care of the futuristic growth.
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