Save money by consolidating your IT

BT Data Centre Services

What is consolidation of IT?

If your business runs ten applications, you're probably using ten servers. You could consolidate onto one server and dispense with the other nine.

That's nine servers that you won't need to manage, maintain, or provide space, power, cooling and cabling for.

Consolidated IT means reduced support & maintenance costs, easier management, improved security and better utilisation of your facilities.

Your business

Consolidating your IT could save on your management spend, and save on hardware costs too.

Ask yourself or your IT Manager (if you have one) a few questions about your business:

• Do you run a number of different server locations or data centres?
• Do you have constraints on your IT budget or IT skill sets?
• Do you run numerous operating systems, types of hardware, or versions of applications?
• What's your strategy for delivering new applications on the same IT spend?

We could help you save on the cost of running your IT servers and applications, so it's worth talking to our specialists.

Why consolidate your IT now?

As businesses change and grow they tend to take on more and more applications, often running at more than one site.

Each new application is traditionally set up to run on its own dedicated server, which needs a secure location with power and cooling and cabling, and licences.

• Each of these servers is invariably only being used between 5 and 15% of its capacity
• Each needs its own IT teams and helpdesks with the right skill-sets, able to reach every location - and increasingly 24x7

So you could be paying for hardware, power, cooling and cabling that you're not using to anywhere near full capacity, and for multiple skills and at multiple locations.

All this is costing YOU money - money you could save by consolidating your IT.

Who will benefit?

Most businesses could benefit from consolidating their IT.

You'll benefit most if you have a larger number of servers, operating systems and applications - especially over a number of sites.

Typically you'll have a diverse IT infrastructure that could be consolidated if you:

• Have multiple business units and/or sites
• Have been through a merger, acquisition or large scale re-organisation
• Have grown steadily over time

Typical savings

We can help save you money and simplify your IT by helping you to reduce the number of physical locations where servers are installed, the actual number of servers, the quantity of software licenses, and thus the number of things and places to manage.

Here are typical examples of savings we find businesses can make:

• Hardware costs - up to 30-50%
• Running costs - up to 70-80%
• Total cost of ownership - up to 30-70%

What does IT consolidation mean for you?

Watch our short video to see how you could save money by consolidating your IT