SatoriTech: Business Intelligence to dramatically improve cost and operating efficiency of IT
What’s The Problem?
The complexity and inefficiency of enterprise IT has become a major cost concern for large corporations and institutions. IDC estimates that there is $140 billion in excess server capacity on the market, and 77% of companies surveyed by IBM in 2007, rated improving IT efficiency as the most important operational priority.
A high degree of inefficiency is caused by the inherent nature of server-based IT environments where applications run in silos on dedicated and customized servers and hardware is over-provisioned to accommodate peak loads and fail-over requirements. New technologies are available, such as server virtualization, which reduces inefficiencies by de-coupling the hardware (servers) from the software (applications) to enable dynamic usage of shared computing capacity when and where needed.
However, IT and financial executives are struggling to fully leverage these new technologies and reduce complexity and cost due to the lack of visibility into the economics and efficiencies of their IT environments.
The SatoriAnalytics Solution
SatoriAnalytics is a business intelligence platform for virtualized IT environments that enables significant efficiency gains and cost savings by creating full visibility into the economics of IT operations.
The SatoriAnalytics platform helps IT and financial executives answer key questions, such as:
- How much computing capacity is available, how much of that is being used, and by whom?
- How much should users be charged for IT services and resource usage?
- How should server consolidation efforts be prioritized for maximum cost / benefit impact?
- On which computing environments should I standardize based on true cost / capacity performance?
- How is each of my datacenters performing relative to others in terms of cost efficiency?
At the core of the SatoriAnalytics platform is the Capacity Metering Engine, which performs real-time tracking of IT infrastructure capacity as well as continuous monitoring of capacity usage attributable down to the individual user/application level.
The Business Capacity Management module provides capabilities to help align IT infrastructure capacity and performance with business requirements at the lowest possible cost, including demand management, consolidation / virtualization optimization, application sizing and capacity efficiency management.
The IT Financial Management module provides capabilities for budgeting, accounting and charging to proactively control, manage and allocate IT costs. This includes cost itemization to reflect total cost of ownership, financial modeling and budgeting, chargeback and cost efficiency management.
The Benefits
The ultimate benefits of the unique insights that SatoriAnalytics brings are better IT governance and the ability for the organization to do more with less.
More Information
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