IT CONSOLIDATION

The connection between IT and business agility is driving innovative companies to rethink how they can tap technology for greater success. Intelligent Technology Solutions can help consolidate your resources to keep pace with external and internal change, result will be to evolve more quickly than your competition, developing new architecture which reduces overall cost and improving the performance and increase the ease of manage. IT infrastructure consolidation is a high priority for management as budgets for human resources and capital purchases shrink. Yet to truly reduce human resource requirements, an organization must move beyond a perception that consolidation is the "high density racking and stacking of boxes" and re-engineer the way the IT infrastructure is deployed and managed. Reducing system management cost and complexity while gaining increased utilization means re-thinking and re-engineering the entire consolidation effort.

Why Intelligent Technology Solutions 
An effective IT consolidation effort requires more than installing larger servers. It calls for simplifying your infrastructure and operations to align with enterprise strategy. Intelligent 
Interface end-to-end infrastructure solutions offer, and tools you need, along with the experience and expertise you want.

TCO Assessments 
TCO Assessments analyze your entire infrastructure to identify the opportunities, risks, and benefits of a consolidation initiative.

What needs to be considered in the design stage of IT consolidation? Understanding the methodologies that cut across different operating system platforms and the detailed design technicalities behind them, including: homogeneous vs. heterogeneous consolidation trade-offs, application and database considerations, network, datacenter (including multi-site) and SAN integration, workload management and partitioning, security and the various aspects of testing required before implementation can begin.

Intelligent Technology Solutions professional services consultants will discuss not only the business considerations but also deliver into detailed technical topics including:

• Network consideration 
• Data and SAN integration 
• Migration planning 
• Application and database consideration 
• Available tools 
• Functional, users & load tests

Server Consolidation 
Business Solutions Reducing the total number of servers is a key initiative for many organizations, but unless increased manageability and utilization are achieved, the true benefits of server consolidation are not realized. Get an in-depth look at how Intelligent Technology Solutions delivers better total solutions for manageability, adaptability, reliability, and scalability when consolidating servers. These technologies include tools that provide manageability beyond what is available in the operating system to allow you to rapidly configure industry standard servers. Those same tools allow you to realize benefits of adaptability and reliability by expediting the reconfiguration of servers to address shifting workload requirements or the need to compensate for out-of-service resources.

Storage Consolidation 
Business Solutions Many IT organizations are not getting the most from their investment in SAN and NAS technologies because they continue to utilize server attached storage concepts. While that approach may yield some performance gains it will introduce complexity without improving manageability, adaptability, and scalability. Storage virtualization is a robust architecture that allows for easy manageability by making storage a transparent resource to the server systems. By achieving that transparency, storage can be centrally managed independent of the server. Additionally, mission critical reliability can be achieved through technologies like replication.

Messaging Consolidation 
Business Solutions Consolidating messaging servers (Microsoft Exchange, Novell Groupware, Lotus Domino) achieves scalability and provides No Single Point of Failure (NSPoF), high availability and low cost of ownership. Server sizing can be challenging for these applications unless you know the consolidation methodologies that achieve right sized, reliable servers the first time out.

Database Consolidation 
Business Solutions Good database server design and administration are critical to providing data to enterprise applications and achieving maximum long-term consolidation benefits. Our consultants can provide you with technical detail on the key elements in planning and implementing the database aspects of a consolidation project, and in-depth knowledge is provided to re-engineer workable data consolidation architecture.

Customer Benefits 

• Maximize system utilization and consolidate applications on fewer servers; 
• Simplify central management of consolidated resources, resulting in improved reliability and security; 
• Refine support processes and reduce support contract needs; 
• Increase ROI through reduced expenditures for facilities, staff, hardware, software, and support services; 
• Improve service levels with faster installation times and reduced time-to-solution, resulting in increased customer satisfaction. 

To be successful, every element of your business needs to perform at the highest level. Intelligent Technology Solutions has complete suite of IT consolidation solutions to help you optimize your technology resources. That way you can spend less time working on your systems, and more time letting them work for you.