Top DCO Issues

While nearly every senior level IT manager likes to talk about high altitude, proactive issues like cloud computing and closer IT/business alignment and reacting to the daily demands of their organizations often leaves little time for anything else. Data Center Optimization (DCO) can help free up a great deal of time, and reduce costs. Among the top DCO issues are:

• The increased complexity in the environment
• The multitude of applications
• Hardware utilization
• IT processes
• Underutilized servers and storage
• Insufficient access to key data
• Incomplete disaster recovery processes
• Data center power consumption

The Cause of Inefficiencies

IT inefficiencies arise from all these factors and others, and they typically increase over time as IT structures become older and more complex. New applications lead to new servers that demand administration time, space, electricity and still more ports in the data center. Many organizations report that new application growth is making it difficult and costly to meet service level agreements (SLAs). The continued rise in data is forcing a majority of enterprises to consider data reduction technologies such as de-duplication.

There are several effective DCO solutions that can help IT organizations gain firm control of IT resources, a critical first step toward business and IT alignment, and optimal ROI on IT investments. Best-practice DCO solutions help IT organizations discover what they have, determine what they need and automatically implement the appropriate resources, all while controlling the impact of change and assuring business service levels.