Businesses are striving to achieve increased profits and gain competitive advantages whilst at the same time, reducing overall operating costs. IT department’s now need to design IT infrastructures that adapt to business changes whilst continually reducing the total cost of ownership.
Optimising the IT infrastructure is a continuous process for many IT departments to improve operational efficiencies.
Consolidation of homogenous and heterogeneous infrastructures requires careful planning and understanding of product lifecycles, upgrade and migration opportunities through to data management, integration and coupling of solutions.
Different triggers influence when and which optimisation project needs to be undertaken. These range from mergers and acquisitions, release upgrades, changes in the market to general response times and availability issues. The most effective optimisation opportunities are:
- Process optimisation
- System availability optimisation
- Reliability optimisation
- Performance optimisation
- Landscape optimisation
- Storage optimisation
- Cost optimisation
