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patches or other changes to business-critical applications. It also reduces infrastructure costs by consolidating underutilized servers and applications with virtualization licensing rights. How does Hyper-Visor benefit enterprises? Hyper-V provides customers an ideal platform for key virtualization scenarios, such as production server consolidation, business continuity management, software test and development, and development of a dynamic data center. A core component of Hyper-V is a thin layer of software between the hardware and the OS that allows multiple operating systems to run, unmodified, on a host computer at the same time. This will benefit enterprises as it provides increased reliability and security for running virtual instances. It provides simple partitioning functionality and is responsible for maintaining strong isolation between partitions. It has an inherently secure architecture with minimal attack surface, as it does not contain any thirdparty device drivers. How should CIOs look at optimizing infrastructure to look at maximum TCO savings?
70%
The percentage of today's IT infrastructure to sustain and run existing capability. This number, in a desired IT infrastructure, would come down to 55 percent. Infrastructure optimization helps realize the value of investments in infrastructure, makes infrastructure a strategic asset that enables agility within the organization, and ultimately helps create an infrastructure for a ‘peopleready business.’ To get maximum TCO savings, CIOs should consider optimizing Infrastructure to a state where the costs involved in managing desktops and servers are at their lowest. Processes and
A Strategic Infrastructure Turn your IT infrastructure into a strategic asset with a different approach that… Looks holistically across the infrastructure Addresses underlying structure and complexity Creates an integrated, uniform environment Adopts IT solutions that support proven Best Practices Prioritizes and sequences IT projects in a structured, systematic manner
Challenges and Trends Today’s IT 30% new capability 70% sustaining and running existing capability
Desired IT 45% new capability 55% existing capability
Challenges Technology Change Regulatory Compliance Competition Security Keep Business Up and Running Customer Connection Business results and new value End user productivity Cost reduction
policies have been optimized to play a large role in supporting and expanding the business. Security is very proactive, and responding to threats and challenges is rapid and controlled. Zero touch deployment is used to minimize cost, the time to deploy, and technical challenges. The number of images is minimal, the process for managing desktops is very low and a clear inventory of hardware and software is maintained. Security is extremely proactive with strict policies and control, from the desktop to server to firewall to extranet. This kind of optimized infrastructure will lead to maximum TCO savings. a bulk of an IT budget is spent in just treading water rather than adding new business values. How can IT department flip that equation? Day-to-day pressures require tons of time, resources and effort, but don’t necessarily push the business ahead. It’s these pressures that consume most of the IT budgets today. IT departments can flip that equation by moving from an unmanaged environment toward a fully automated management and dynamic resource usage environment. Infrastructure management should be changed from manual and reactive to highly automated and proactive. Security should also be improved from vulnerable to dynamically proactive in a more optimized infrastructure. The more IT professionals are enabled by systems that can self-manage to adapt to changing business demands, the more empowered they will be to add new business value and contribute to the success of the business.