Virtualisation, consolidation, Power on Demand, [micro]partitioning… How can these technologies contribute to dynamically adapt the server infrastructure to operational requirements – and help you drive down TCO and IT infrastructure complexity

Studies show that most enterprise servers are used on average at only 20% of their capacity. In addition, sharing of resources is technically complex and discouraged by ISVs. This situation significantly increases the cost of server infrastructures. Adding to the capital cost is the requirement for directly attached disk devices, SAN connectivity, SAN switch costs, the LAN infrastructure as well as floor space and electricity/cooling overhead.

Last but not least, administration costs are skyrocketing because each server must be 100% managed even when used at only 10% of its capacity.
As a result, server consolidation has been on IT managers’ agendas for several years in order to reduce costs and complexity. However, many projects did not deliver the promised return on investment in the past, due to immature but expensive technologies offering little flexibility.

Today blade servers provides a break-through in consolidation capabilities through mainframe-derived virtualisation built into Bull’s unique multi-layer, automated workload management model. At last, IT managers can now significantly drive down TCO, infrastructure complexity and the need for human intervention.

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