Paradigm Consolidation Services

Consolidation services from Paradigm can provide a foundation for implementing more advanced optimization initiatives (such as virtualization) while providing groundwork for building eco-friendly, energy efficient "green" systems and data centers.

With a consolidated environment, you truly capitalize on your investment and reduce costs in areas beyond hardware and into; software, networking, systems administration & support, site & facilities, end-user support, or even application deployment.

 

Our consolidation services draw on a center of competency - highly skilled professionals whose sole focus is developing and executing consolidation best practices strategies – be that of server or storage (see below)

 

Our solutions for infrastructure simplification/consolidation focus on three key areas:

• Physical storage consolidation
• Virtual storage consolidation
• Automated data management

 

Server/Storage consolidation services from Paradigm & IBM will design, deploy and manage an IT infrastructure needing fewer assets while reducing costs and improving flexibility.

 

Server Consolidation Highlights...

• Reduces the number of servers, reducing costs
• Creates an IT infrastructure designed to support greater business flexibility
• Improves resource utilization for potentially higher returns on investments
• Provides a foundation for advanced optimization and green data center initiatives

 

Infrastructure plans can be undermined by unexpected growth or change. When data center performance is threatened, the short-term solution is to add more servers. This approach can result in server sprawl - too many servers, too many platforms and too many resources needed to support them. This complexity increases costs and limits business flexibility.

Server consolidation will optimize your investments in infrastructure by reducing the number of servers required to support applications. The offering includes assessment, design, strategy, planning, implementation, and testing services built on IBM's extensive server product offerings (more info…) and our track record for designing, deploying, and managing data center environments.

 

 

Storage Consolidation Highlights...

Physical storage consolidation is a straightforward, highly effective technique that can offer dramatic decreases in long–term costs associated with storing and managing data. Consolidation offerings in this area include all elements of storage in your business - - disk , tape , and SAN...

 

Key Benefits...

• Eliminate unneeded points of management reduce the number of physical devices in your infrastructure.
• Centralize the physical storage environment with scale up technologies.
• Consolidate data with scale out technologies.
• Increase resource utilization to save on storage costs.
• Simplify storage management to improve productivity.
• Achieve economies of scale for acquiring and operating disk, tape and, network resources.