The high availability and low cost of servers and storage has allowed organisations of all sizes to deploy sophisticated IT systems. However, such affordable hardware comes at a price – it has led to complex, heterogeneous environments/infrastructures and encouraged fragmented growth leading to isolated pockets of computing resource that are difficult to manage and a drain on valuable IT management resources.

Q Associates understands how to reduce this complexity across the whole infrastructure and can help minimise the risk of managing complex IT infrastructures, releasing you to concentrate on areas of IT that add the real value to your business.

Reducing this complexity through infrastructure simplification means it’s possible to improve the performance and availability of your IT infrastructure – with the added benefit of reducing management overheads, costs, and becoming more responsive to change.

Server Consolidation Feasibility Study

A typical agenda contains the following:

• Understanding of overall IT strategy
• Exploration of current infrastructure
• Illustrations of possible solutions and benefits
• Discussion of Scale Up vs Scale Out architectures
• How to extract maximum ROI from consolidation
• Risk assessment
• Agree report delivery schedule

A report will also be produced detailing the strategies and technologies discussed, with further details on specific products and pricing, whilst also clarifying any open items from the meeting.

Free of Charge Infrastructure Simplification & Consolidation Review

If you are interested in Simplifying and Consolidating your Infrastructure, take advantage of Q Associates' free of charge review. This is aimed at helping to answer the difficult questions associated with consolidation, so that you can determine the most appropriate strategy for your company.

To find out more about Q Associates’ Infrastructure Simplification & Consolidation offer and book your one-day review, simply email us at consolidation@qassociates.co.uk.