Nobody is immune to economic realities. CFOs are always looking to trim fat and squeeze waste form every department’s budget—and the IT organization is a big target. In recent years IT budgets have been a rapidly increasing component of total expenditures. But the honeymoon is over. Now that IT has made itself indispensible to the business, it must play by business rules and constantly increase cost-efficiencies while becoming more productive.

 

Efficiency in the cloud
A virtualized, cloud infrastructure provides multiple ways for enterprise organizations to make IT operations more efficient and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Whether you take an incremental approach or plan to outsource your entire infrastructure, iland [1] provides you with several paths to efficiency.

 

Optimize the datacenter
The term “server sprawl [2]” has come to symbolize the inefficiencies of physical servers in corporate, in-house datacenters. The costs are many: electricity, cooling, maintenance, real estate, security, etc. But the inefficiencies are far greater—estimates of individual server utilization are as low as 10 percent. This means entire datacenters are 90 percent inefficient while costing the business 100 percent of the fixed operation costs.

 

The solution is to phase out your in-house datacenter and migrate to iland cloud infrastructure [3]. Depending on your needs, iland can provide the cost-effective iland Resource Cloud© [4] with a dedicated pool of resources, or the iland Enterprise Cloud© [3] as a fully outsourced solution with dedicated and segregated resources deployed within high availability iland cloud datacenters.