Data Center Infrastructure Refresh

Refreshing your IT Virtual Infrastructure

An aging IT infrastructure can lead to greater maintenance costs, increased downtime, out of support software and a skill set shortage in the marketplace. Companies have typically operated on a 3 to 5 year server and storage refresh cycle to address the problems associated with an aging IT infrastructure. Before undertaking an infrastructure refresh it is important to understand the business benefits, the costs and most importantly the business risks of undertaking a technology refresh. Keep in mind you may have to purchase some automated tools to support the migration of the data and the applications. Having a good understanding of these factors are paramount to a successful refresh program.

Organizations often view a technology refresh program as a costly exercise when, in fact, it can lead to lower OPEX costs, the opportunity to consolidate thus reducing data center costs, and enhances the organization’s ability to innovate and develop new products, services, and processes a must for survival in the global market place of today. It also offers an opportunity to standardize diverse technology components into standard ones which results in reduced operational support costs. The timing for a refresh project depends on the business circumstances of the organization. In most cases, a technology refresh will in fact reduce overall costs of equipment and data center operations and significantly improve effectiveness.

The 6 top reasons to consider an infrastructure upgrade :

1. Upgrade servers that do not provide important technology advances such as new memory types, processors with new extensions or more aggressive conservation features to improve the data center’s energy efficiency.
2. Servers whose workload performance has been degraded over time as application updates and system patches converge and the user base is growing demanding more capacity.
3. Servers which are failing frequently, are unreliable are unable to be maintained resulting in maintenance costs which are prohibitive.
4. The storage system has reached its maximum capacity and can’t keep up with the performance demands of the applications being supported.
5. Reduction in power consumption and cooling costs due to advanced technologies and the coming-of-age of enterprise flash storage (solid state arrays).
6. Reduction in data center floor space requirements thus reducing data center costs.

To address these rising costs, performance issues and the technology currency issue, it is time to transform your virtual environment to a Simplivity Hyperconverged solution.

A Simplivity Hyperconverged solution can reduce IT costs and streamline operations achieving a 73% TCO savings compared to traditional IT infrastructure and up to a 49% TCO savings compared to AWS. It improves agility and reduces time to production which is critical when the business releases new products or services as time to market is critical. It also maximizes uptime as well as preventing data loss. According to the Forrester Research study “The Total Economic Impact™ Of SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure” the Simplivity solution achieves a 10:1 device reduction and lowers upfront costs, reduces energy consumption, eliminates OPEX and avoids endless refresh cycles. Over half of Simplivity’s customers (57%) benefitted from an average of 53% increase in staff productivity.