Infrastructure Virtualisation Readiness

Industry analysts will discuss how typical server utilisation rates are on average 20% - our experience has shown that this can be as low as 10%! To help customers understand just how their server landscape is performing Origina have developed the Virtualisation Readiness engagement that quickly analyses your IT server infrastructure with the goal of delivering recommendations and modelling to show how virtualisation will reduce costs, increase operational efficiency, and improve service levels within your business. Origina specialise in Intel, IBM pSeries and IBM iSeries server architectures.

What is the Virtual Readiness Assessment?

The Virtualisation Readiness Assessment firstly performs an inventory of your hardware and software assets, and then intelligently identifies workloads and collects utilisation data over a number of weeks (typically one month) to understand how you use your current server infrastructure. Through advanced server modelling, we can then identify server consolidation and cost saving opportunities that exist within your infrastructure.

The assessment delivers a full inventory report detailing your current IT environment and the impact that virtualisation can have in terms of hardware, software, quality of service and security. It also includes projected implementation costs, training and support in order to deliver the recommended solution.

• Potential virtualisation scenarios
• Preliminary Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis
• Next Steps & Recommendations

What are the benefits?

Server virtualisation can deliver the following benefits:

• Allows you to retire power-hungry, legacy hardware and the associated maintenance costs, while at the same time optimising underutilised servers
• Reduced management, hardware, software, power & cooling costs
• Improves RPO and RTO times for Disaster Recovery strategies
• Accelerated test & development cycles, and server provision times
• Increase service level times within your organisation by delivering a highly available solution

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