IBM's Server Makeover analysis provides a high-level roadmap to identify opportunities to optimize a company's server environment through consolidation and reduce costs. The analysis examines server and application data to develop a technical and financial plan, quantify savings, and address risks. Key benefits include establishing justification for changes, creating a timeline and investment needs, and benchmarking the current environment against industry standards.

1. SERVER MAKEOVER.
YOUR FIRST STEP TOWARD
LOWER COSTS, LOWER RISKS.
How do you reduce information During the Server Makeover analysis, • Establishing a business and
technology (IT) costs yet continue IBM will analyze the server and technical justification for pursuing
to meet the growing demands of the application baselines provided, makeover initiatives within the
business? then — using powerful tools based environment,
on a combination of historical and • Helping establish a financial
According to IDC, the costs of server customer-provided data — develop roadmap on the timeline and effort
management, including power and a high-level technical and financial required to get there,
cooling costs, will outpace the costs of roadmap that identifies optimization • Identifying major technical
buying these servers by a factor of four opportunities within the server challenges early on and developing
times and eight times respectively. The environment. mitigation strategies, and
main contributors are: • Helping benchmark the current
• Rapid growth in the number of This roadmap can help you answer environment with industry peers.
servers, resulting in server sprawl, fundamental questions, such as:
which in turn limits the flexibility of • How many server and/or
the IT infrastructure to meet new operating system images can be HELPS ANSWER KEY QUESTIONS
demands, consolidated? • Will it save the business money?
• Low average utilization of these • What timelines and costs are How much and in what timeframe?
servers, which is a result of running associated with optimization? • Can return on investment be
on dedicated servers, which results • Where are the project risks? achieved within the desired
in poor return-on-asset, and • Which strategies can help mitigate timeframe?
• Increased complexity in managing risks? • Can the savings be quantified and
the increased number of servers. • What will be the total cost of projected?
ownership (TCO) and return on
The tell-tale signs that you may need investment (ROI)?
to makeover your server infrastructure CONTACT IBM
are as follows: • move2ibm@us.ibm.com
• Do you have a large number of KEY BENEFITS • IBM Sales Team
single-workload servers? Some of the possible benefits of or Business Partner
• Are you facing a major technology performing a Server Makeover
refresh? analysis early on are:
• Are you under pressure to reduce
your IT budget?
• Are you paying too much for TIMELINE OF ACTIVITIES
hardware maintenance?
• Can your servers handle seasonal or IBM kicks off the engagement by explaining the process.
unexpected peaks in demand from
business units and customers?
Customer provides server and workload data in spreadsheet format.
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS
Faced with these challenges, where IBM enters data provided by the customer, coupled with historical information
do you start? How do you start? from similar customer environments, into IBM tools to begin the analysis.
We can help. We use a proven
methodology to help organizations IBM presents the findings of the Server Makeover analysis to customer.
just like yours meet those objectives.
This includes an estimate of:
The first step in this methodology 1. Number of physical machines needed to replace the current environment,
is IBM’s Server Makeover analysis. 2. Number of virtual machines needed to replace the current environment,
This analysis is used to develop a 3. Estimated cost of transformation,
high-level roadmap that can help you 4. A high-level box and image plan, and
identify makeover opportunities to 5. Total cost of ownership/return on investment analysis.
address those challenges mentioned.
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