Data Center consolidation of infrastructure and application components is one of the most common and effective approaches to reduce the costs of your business services. Effective consolidation strategies can reduce IT infrastructure costs by more than 50%, while providing greater business service reliability, lower staffing costs and improved system recovery.
Organizations encounter many opportunities for data center, system, application and workload consolidation. Following a merger or acquisition, IT organizations commonly target data center migration and consolidation efforts for synergy savings. Routine system lifecycle refreshes require workloads to be moved to new, more efficient hardware. As IT organizations focus on improving business capability, they are constantly searching for hardware and software solutions that improve agility while cutting costs. When companies migrate systems, workloads, and applications to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, data center facilities and legacy hardware are also consolidated to prevent cost overruns following migration. Utilizing IT discovery services in an attempt to reconcile system inventories and develop application mapping historically leads to significant consolidation opportunities.
There are tremendous benefits to data center consolidation. Today's consolidation doesn’t just happen at the facility level. Consolidation of server, storage, database, and network components through virtualization provide significant cost savings, staffing efficiencies and improved IT capability. A data center consolidation initiative may provide the opportunity to rid your organization of expensive to maintain legacy hardware, operating systems, and software licensing. You may also be able to shutter an entire data center facility or reduce your colocation footprint. IT consolidation can benefit the Business by increasing agility, improving performance and providing additional functionality.
CTM Technology Group works with IT Infrastructure organizations to plan and execute the technical changes required to consolidate environments. Consolidation efforts also require a thorough understanding of application and system dependencies to ensure unnecessary outages do not occur as workloads are relocated. CTM Technology Group provides IT Discovery Services leveraging our Application Mapping Methodology to support this requirement. In addition, workload migrations require communication and coordination across multiple groups. CTM Technology Group works with business, application, and infrastructure teams to implement these changes.
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IT Discovery is an important exercise that should be executed prior to a cloud or data center migration, transformation, or consolidation initiative.
CTM uses common tools and works with your teams to identify all infrastructure components and then map them to the correct business applications.
Consolidate your data center footprint, make better use of your existing assets, and decommission environments no longer in use. Use your savings to fund a cloud initiative.
CTM successfully completed integration and migration activities for a company acquisition and decommissioned a data center and 243 systems.