Farmington Hills, MI (Vocus) 28 September 2010

Maintenance costs required to maintain the infrastructure and applications run could cost as much as the purchase of brand new systems under warranty. It is natural to look for business and IT executives, the costs for the purchase of new infrastructure. But what often occurs without regard to the expenditure of legacy solutions are running involved on a daily basis. In order to see customers where they save money now has Logicalis, an international provider of integrated information and communication technology (ICT) solutions and services, a list of five things you put together this can now be reduced to the data center.

â? ATI? s not just the initial capital expenditures. Itâ? S on the total cost of ownership. The cost reduction is important to understand how you spend your money today, â? Jeff said Nessen, director of virtualization platform for Logicalis. â? This donâ? t on speculation or what? happening in the industry. Itâ? O, that your accounts wrote a check>. ????

Once you know what your total cost of ownership really, then ATI? is easy to see how you make money in your data center. Here are five things you can do now to start saving.


Five things you can do now

to reduce costs Data Center

Virtualize

1. The addition of hypervisor technology into your infrastructure, you can consolidate existing machines on fewer platforms, allowing you to deploy new applications without requiring new hardware. This will help contain the growth of physical servers, and in most cases, reduces energy consumption and increases your business? Agility. done right, can offer virtualization as much as a 20-50 percent cost savings in a year? S time.

want to know more? Read Logicalisâ? Editorial, â? Virtual Game Changer, â? Location: http://www.us.logicalis.com/pdf/virtualization-feature-story.pdf

Converge

2. Instead of maintaining a good number of separate physical devices, each with its own connection to the network for each of switches and storage networks, the infrastructure to meet, create a smaller footprint by bringing together the largest number? ? Components as possible in a blade architecture. Fewer connections and equipment-management leads to fewer things, which may decrease the total cost of ownership and thus increase the availability.


. Normalizing

3: One of the highest costs in the data center maintenance and management of distributed systems. manage by standardizing on a common set of components to reduce procurement costs with bulk purchasing, maintenance and support contracts easier and cheaper and less spare parts to work on the way for the break / fix. Collect realize this through a broad network and significant savings through economies of scale, higher availability and redundancy.


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4 Update the physical infrastructure: data center a decade ago with the available technologies developed, will not now be able to support high-density, optimized data centers. In the most recent data centers, the demand for electricity and heat in a smaller area are isolated. reduce Scalable UPS support the load of the data center and cost and power-ups for server and storage resources for maximum efficiency. Todayâ? S chilled water for cooling series exponentially more effective than 10-ton cooling unit in the corner of the center of older data. Properly used, a large newly designed data centers expect the power increase by 60 percent and cooling to reduce by 60 percent.


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5 Enter the Cloud: The new position: a combination of options public and private cloud for the best performance. optimizing private clouds, as it functions in support of a company? Itâ? s to cut costs and changeable, agile model. In a private cloud, youâ? Re-purchase software that is used not only by the way, if youâ? Re to a better return on investment of a capital expenditure would like. In a public cloud can help customers take advantage of software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which also reduces investment and operating costs at the level of infrastructure that would have been required to perform his tasks this software at home.


Learn about options

cloud in a cloud :? ??? How to feed your own money? Location: http://www.us.logicalis.com/PDF/Cloud-Computing-Feature-Story.pdf

â? When customers are ready to assess their data centers to see how these changes can save money, to do the first step to a thorough analysis of the operating costs, â? Nessen said. The write one? ????, Over the initial cost cap and the former Producta you need to determine what to do it, duties, performance, provide a space for them, leave it connected to the network, you can buy spare parts for them and . update Then ask yourself, everything from the cost in terms of how this technology, the company justified? Otherwise, ATI? S time to changes.â some?

About Logicalis

Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information and communication technology (ICT) solutions and services to a greater breadth of knowledge and experience in communication and cooperation; data center optimization, application development and integration and outsourcing and managed services.

With its international headquarters in the UK, Logicalis Group employs over 1,900 people worldwide, including highly qualified specialists, service design, implement, specify and manage complex ICT infrastructure to meet the needs of more than 6,500 private and public clients. These strong partnerships with technology leaders like Cisco Logicalis, HP, IBM and Microsoft.

Logicalis Group has revenues of more dollars from operations in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, on an annual basis and has quickly become one of the major IT service providers and communication, specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services.

Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, recorded a 0.2 billion euro turnover on the AIM in London and Johannesburg. (LSE / JSE: DTC)

For more information about Logicalis visit www.us.logicalis.com.


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