Server Consolidation

Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. can quickly and effectively use our predictive performance modeling tools to study a company’s hardware and software topology in order to map out a plan for server consolidation. There are several types of consolidation. Each of the types is regarded as a component of a possible final plan. We have listed each type of consolidation with some of the benefits and examples of the areas that might be candidates.
Geographical Consolidation:
Benefits

• Reduce staff dramatically
• Optimize staff utilization
• Reduce facilities cost
• Reduce utilities cost
• Simplifies network
• Few Servers to manage
• Dramatic reduction of software licenses costs
• Increases CPU utilization

Homogeneous Platform Consolidation
(physical consolidation of single platforms to one)
Benefits:

• Reduce staff dramatically
• Optimize staff utilization
• Reduce facilities cost
• Reduce utilities cost
• Simplifies network
• Few Servers to manage
• Dramatic reduction of software licenses costs
• Increases CPU utilization

Example:

• Database servers
• SAP servers
• Custom applications
• Web servers

Heterogeneous Platform Consolidation
(physical consolidation of several platforms to one)
Benefits

• Reduce staff dramatically
• Optimize staff utilization
• Reduce facilities cost
• Reduce utilities cost
• Simplifies network
• Few Servers to manage
• Dramatic reduction of software licenses costs
• Increases CPU utilization

Example:

• Database servers
• SAP servers
• Bahn servers
• Custom applications
• Web servers

Database Platform Consolidation
(may be combined with a physical consolidation)
Benefits:

• Reduce staff dramatically
• Optimize staff utilization
• Dramatic reduction of software
• Licenses/support costs
• Database servers
• SAP
• Custom applications
• Data Integration/Storage
• Improved Access to Data
• Eases B2B deployment
• Reduce staff
• Simplifies network

Example:

• Unix, NT, Legacy storage consolidated to Shark, Storage Works or EMC

Application Integration
Benefits:

• Performance
• Reduce staff
• Reduce facilities cost
• Reduce utilities cost
• Simplifies network
• Few Servers to manage
• Increases CPU utilization

Example:

• Unix, NT, Legacy servers consolidated to IBM, Compaq, or FTS

Bottom Line Savings:SIL has worked with many companies over the years, helping them to realize hardware, software and staff savings. Including porting and equipment costs, our server consolidation projects are currently seeing an overall savings to the bottom line in the range of 17%­82%.