Consolidation
The Single Application Per Server approach used in a growing IT environment can lead to complexity, high hardware, software, and maintenance costs. There are also hidden costs related to adding or re-allocating server resources in line with user's needs, administration overhead, backup costs and being able to implement a cost-effective Disaster Recovery Solution.
Rojan is experienced in analysing these costs and delivering benefits by consolidating applications onto fewer servers. We typically find that we can reduce license requirements (Operating System, Backup Software, Anti-Virus, Management Software etc), reduce administration overheads and retire older hardware which is expensive to maintain.
Our consolidation customers have typically received a return on their investment within one year while achieving improved availability of their systems and reducing their Total Cost of Ownership
Two of the latest consolidation technologies are Virtualization and WAFS (Wide Area File Services). At Rojan our chosen products for the latter are VMware ESX and Expand Networks Accelerators:
VMware ESX
Don't let server sprawl and platform dependencies prevent your organization from achieving its goals. Take control of your IT infrastructure and help it reach its full potential with the benefits of deploying VMware Infrastructure to Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%, Reduce energy costs by 80%, Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70% and Save more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized.
Expand Networks
As organizations look to rationalize their IT infrastructures through initiatives such as server consolidation, re-trenching servers from the branch office back to the datacenter, there is still a need for server based functions such as print and file share services. Expand's WAN Optimization solution with its integrated 'virtual server' technology enables complete server consolidation by replacing the need for an additional branch office file server. By creating a 'Virtual Proximity' experience Expand solutions deliver a superior end user environment, closing the user/application 'proximity gap' and putting the user in 'virtual proximity' of applications and datacenter services.
