Manage

Over the years the price of computing has decreased at a phenomenal rate meaning organisations are able to roll out a greater range of increasingly demanding and complex services and applications.

This doesn’t sounds like a bad thing however this growth is largely unplanned or at the very least unanticipated. This results in new services and applications being ‘bolted’ onto the already stretched network.

New hardware now cost so little compared to only a few years ago that new servers and software are introduced on an ad-hoc basis.

This server sprawl coupled with the software manufacturers, who seem to demand a ‘one application per server’ approach, might improve the performance of the application but just means more head-ache for the server administrators as the number of servers to be managed across more and more locations increases. The problem now is not ‘have I got enough computing power to meet my users demands?’ but ‘how do I effectively utilise and manage the computing power I’ve got?

How can I ensure all my servers are being utilised at optimum rates?

Isn’t there an easier way to manage my different computing environments?

Should I employ more people to help me fire-fight my everyday problems? If so where does the budget come from?

Is there another way?

Making clever use of Virtualisation technologies, the LDD group are able to drastically improve server utilisation, reduce power consumption and simplify infrastructure management.