Industry research shows that often 15% of servers handle over 80% of your computing needs. Thus, consolidation initiatives including data center consolidation, server consolidation and virtualization, can deliver substantial savings over time. BDNA helps you realize those savings faster.
“Virtualization; consolidates servers by an average of 35%, reducing hardware, software, power and facilities costs.”
- Enterprise Management Associates White Paper, “Three Immediate Initiatives to Cut IT Costs, and Keep Them Down”
The first step in any consolidation effort is creating an accurate technology baseline. Using this baseline, you can make intelligent decisions to minimize disruption and maximize your savings – which servers to physically consolidate, where to virtualize and more.
BDNA Discover finds all your data center hardware, software and virtual machines in a matter of hours or days.
BDNA for Consolidation
BDNA for Consolidation relies on BDNA’s core products to deliver high value in short amount of time. BDNA for Consolidation is:
- Immediate: collect the relevant data for your project in hours or days
- Comprehensive: BDNA Discover provides rapid, agentless discovery of all relevant IT assets: servers, storage, network equipment, and also identifies virtualization environments in your infrastructure.
- Unique: It links the discovered IT inventory with warranty, software packaging and energy consumption data.
Achieving quick return on data center consolidation
- Define your current state in days or weeks – saving staff time and consulting fees
- Capture the most value from consolidation through rapid analysis and course correction
- Align consolidation with business objectives: cost reduction, increased flexibility through virtualization and more
