The document summarizes IBM's Server Makeover analysis which helps reduce IT costs and risks. The analysis provides a roadmap to optimize server infrastructure by consolidating servers and images to lower costs, improve utilization, and simplify management. It answers key questions about savings, timelines, and risks to transition to a more efficient environment.

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
management, including power and roadmap on the timeline and effort
a high-level technical and financial required to get there,
cooling costs, will outpace the costs of roadmap that identifies optimization
buying these servers by a factor of four opportunities within the server • Identifying major technical
times and eight times respectively. The environment. challenges early on and developing
main contributors are: mitigation strategies, and
• Rapid growth in the number of This roadmap can help you answer • Helping benchmark the current
servers, resulting in server sprawl, fundamental questions, such as: environment with industry peers.
which in turn limits the flexibility of • How many server and/or
the IT infrastructure to meet new operating system images can be
demands, consolidated? HELPS ANSWER KEY QUESTIONS
• 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?
on dedicated servers, which results • Can the savings be quantified and
• Where are the project risks? projected?
in poor return-on-asset, and
• Which strategies can help mitigate
• Increased complexity in managing risks?
the increased number of servers. CONTACT IBM
• What will be the total cost of • move2ibm@us.ibm.com
The tell-tale signs that you may need ownership (TCO)?
• IBM Sales Team
to makeover your server infrastructure
or Business Partner
are as follows: KEY BENEFITS
• Do you have a large number of Some of the possible benefits of
single-workload servers? performing a Server Makeover
• Are you facing a major technology analysis early on are:
refresh?
• Are you under pressure to reduce
your IT budget? TIMELINE OF ACTIVITIES
• Are you paying too much for
hardware maintenance? IBM kicks off the engagement by explaining the process.
• Can your servers handle seasonal or
unexpected peaks in demand from
business units and customers? Customer provides server and workload data in spreadsheet format.
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS IBM enters data provided by the customer, coupled with historical information
Faced with these challenges, where from similar customer environments, into IBM tools to begin the analysis.
do you start? How do you start?
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 analysis.
address those challenges mentioned.
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