Problem:

You bought a server to support a single application. When it was full, or when you wanted to support another application or department, you bought another one. Now, instead of an orderly server farm, you have an impenetrable forest of hardware that comes from different vendors, that takes up a lot of real estate, and that's difficult and expensive to manage and maintain.

Solution: Key Server Consolidation.

The right server consolidation plan can help you maximize server efficiencies, reduce total cost of ownership, and, depending on the size of your company, save you thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Experienced Key specialists will help you identify the systems, processes, and data that can be safely and cost-effectively combined. And we will work with your IT staff and business management to design and implement a custom server consolidation solution that meets your business and technology goals, now and in the future.

Business Benefits:

• Lower total cost of ownership
• Less time and money spent on maintenance chores, like inventory, software updates, utilization monitoring, OS security monitoring, and backups.
• Staff is freed for more important projects.
• Save money on real estate. Finding the space for one or two servers is no problem. Finding room for 100 or 200 servers is both problematic and expensive.
• Save money on server licenses.
• Easier management with single-vendor installations.

Best-of-Breed Products for This Solution:

Depending on your environment, infrastructure, and needs, Key will craft your Server Consolidation solution from any of the following products:

IBM xSeries
IBM iSeries
IBM pSeries
Tivoli Storage Management
IBM Shark-ESS