CIO Briefing | Green IT Initiatives | Data Center Readiness Planning
Remote site server consolidation is a clear win in terms of reducing operating costs and improving data security. Centralizing servers at a data center means greater resource utilization, and fewer servers to backup and patch. Since complexity is reduced, such consolidation also means lower IT staff requirements, less chance for errors, and better system.
Data Center Consolidation
Many large organizations have resorted to operating multiple data centers in order to ensure globally consistent application performance. Many have now discovered that data center consolidation can be a reality if they can accelerate application across the wide-are network.
After deploying Wide-area Data Services, companies experience improved user’s productivity, ability to grow revenue through previously impossible business strategies, pursue new projects that could be geographically dispersed, as well as the ability to share work more effectively across offices around the world.
Using WDS solutions, CIOs now have a technology that can tie together their distributed enterprises. Mobile and branch office workers can have the same level of application performance as users at headquarters. Data centers are more protected, using WDS to respond faster in the event of disaster. Infrastructure can be consolidated without performance loss to far-off locations, yet the flexibility to move data and applications can be retained, often providing faster response than ever before.
Because WDS significantly enhances the performance of applications over WANs, enterprises can realize considerable cost savings in addition to productivity improvements. IDC found that the average payback period for a WDS implementation is 7.3 months.
Disaster Recovery
In the event of a disaster, WDS would considerably improve the performance of a DR site. Bandwidth consumption is reduced by 65% to 95% and application performance is accelerated from five to 50x, even up to 100x in some cases. For many companies, slowdowns of even a few minutes can have a substantial impact on revenues. With WDS at the DR site, organization can ensure sufficient performance when they need it most.
“Virtual” Workers
The workforce is becoming more mobile – IDC forecasts that nearly 75% of the workforce in the US will be mobile by 2011, up from 68% in 2006, and that there will be 1 billion mobile workers worldwide. Optimize the connections for these mobile workers, by reducing the amount of bandwidth they consume.
In addition to bandwidth savings, Aserdiv can help companies achieve even more dramatic savings by reducing real estate and facilities costs. According to one estimate, “virtual” workers cost 60% less than those based at headquarters. One barrier for many organizations is making the workforce more mobile is the difficulty that mobile workers face in accessing key applications over the WAN. Aserdiv removes this roadblock.