ISaccountable provides an infrastructure intelligence solution that helps IT organizations easily identify ongoing operational inefficiencies within the IT server population – and exactly what to do about each of 5 specific server efficiency improvement areas.

1. Reduce Ongoing IT Spending:
Improve Operational Efficiency
in a Few Easy Steps

2. Reality
If yours is like most IT organizations, you’re
spending at least 70% of your budget
operating and maintaining your existing
infrastructure.
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3. Opportunity
You know there must be efficiency
improvement opportunities that would
reduce 10-30% of that spending.
We know how to identify and quantify those
opportunities quickly and easily.
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4. Specifically…..
• Decommission unused servers – quickly and easily identify
ghost and idles servers
• Avoid VM sprawl – optimize virtualization you’ve already
implemented
• Eliminate inefficient resource pools – identify over-
provisioned clusters/load balances and opportunities for
technology refresh
• Avoid unnecessary spending – leverage existing (rather than
additional) resources
• Facilitate aggressive virtualization – identify the best
virtualization candidates among your dedicated servers
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5. Decommission Unused Servers
Ghost and idle dedicated server workloads
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6. Avoid VM Sprawl
Ghosts and idle virtualized server workloads
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7. Eliminate Inefficient Resource Pools
Identify over provisioned clusters/load balances
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8. Eliminate Inefficient Resource Pools
Identify technology refresh opportunities
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9. Avoid Unnecessary Spending
Significant inefficiency that could have been avoided
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10. Avoid Unnecessary Spending
A Tale of Two Clusters
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11. Facilitate Aggressive Virtualization
Evaluate and quantify your best virtualization opportunities
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12. Putting It All Together
Server Infrastructure
Efficiency Assessment
• Detailed operational
efficiency analysis from
ghost/idle servers to
potentially overused
servers
• Actionable steps
identified
• Potential cost savings
quantified
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13. Blending Three Disciplines
Asset Capacity Cost
Management Planning/ Analysis
Performance
Management
Understanding what you have and …but it’s just as important
usage levels are important… to directly examine your costs
We call it….Server Infrastructure Intelligence
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14. Delivering Server Infrastructure Intelligence
Inventory Integrated approach for
- Automated sweeps dedicated, clustered and
and import
virtualized servers
Normalized views of capacity
and utilization
Utilization Assign costs to individual server
- Ongoing automated and/or group of servers
monitoring
Operational efficiency metrics
ServerIR™ Consolidation, cost reduction
appliance opportunity identification
Cost - Data repository
- Simple form - Analysis and reporting Tie costs to delivered services,
input by business units
- Agent-less collectors
SII ROI: Reduce spending, identify priority areas for
efficiency improvements, demonstrate results
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15. An Ongoing Process
1. Low hanging fruit
opportunities will recur
3. Expose the value of alternative
2. Changing requirements,
deployments; influence user
usage patterns and costs
behavior; demonstrate results
affect operational efficiency
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16. Easy to Get Started
• Select target subset of servers – Windows (WMI)
and/or Linux (SNMP)
• Install ServerIR appliance
• Establish inventory – from available data
• Assign basic costs – simple cost workbook
• Monitor usage for two weeks – get baseline usage
• Preliminary Efficiency Assessment Report
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17. Get Started Today!
- Identify those opportunities you know exist
- Quickly and easily determine actionable
steps to reduce costs
- Establish and maintain a set of disciplines for
ongoing measurement and improvement
ServerIR
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18. Thank You!
Visit us on the Web at: www.isaccountable.com
Be sure to view our webinar with Forrester
Research on IT Consolidation best practices.
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19. Backup Slides

20. A Unique Single Package

21. Why ServerIR?
Capacity
Planning/
Asset Performance
Management Monitoring ServerIR
Manage resource inventory Yes No Yes
Monitor utilization No Yes Yes
Calibrate capacity No Yes Yes
Normalized efficiency metrics No No Yes
Direct cost analysis No No Yes
Cost allocation analysis No No Yes
Agent-less collection Yes Yes Yes
Most often, attacking operational efficiency has involved a
combination of products, services and home-grown tools
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22. Why ISaccountable?
• Team composed of enterprise management
innovators and leaders
– Former HP OpenView CTO
– Former Sun Microsystems Enterprise Management GM
– Collectively, many decades of enterprise management
experience, including design and delivery of seminal,
ground-breaking solutions
• 100% focused on IT accountability
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