Kavanagh | Consolidation

Consolidation

Consolidation minimises risk, improves security and cuts costs

The ongoing costs associated with out of scale, end of support life systems are immense. Business expansion, mergers and acquisitions can lead to redundant infrastructure, increased hardware and application maintenance costs and under-utilised servers and storage. Reducing operating costs is of heightened importance in the current economic climate.

Benefits of adopting a consolidation strategy

IT evolution invariably involves the consolidation of existing infrastructure such as hardware, infrastructure software, applications, data and support contracts. By bringing distributed infrastructure into a rationalised, centrally managed resource, we can help you achieve the following benefits:

Economics: reduces management and operational costs
Service: simplifies management
Agility: improves speed and access
Security: enhances security
Processes: meet compliance standards

Kavanagh expertise

Kavanagh has the highest level of technical expertise in this area and continually works to develop cost-effective solutions based on extensive experience in providing consolidation solutions. On the basis that the approach taken to a consolidation solution varies according to circumstance, Kavanagh offers a comprehensive lifecycle of services that include planning, consulting, design, analysis and implementation. Kavanagh can also produce cost saving estimates to support business cases.

Consolidation solutions

Consolidation within a data centre
Kavanagh's approach to IT consolidation helps organisations to reduce its IT estate and overcome server, storage and application sprawl. At Kavanagh we believe the consolidation of hardware, applications and data holds the key to delivering significant cost savings, while enabling transformation in power and performance and reducing system administration overheads.

Dramatic cost reductions can also be achieved through reduced support and maintenance changes, less floor space and utility charges.

Centralisation of multiple data centres
You may also have IT sites in multiple locations, with duplicated staff time and energy costs, not to mention space and other IT resources. Duplication of resources, substantial power usage, and distributed applications all drive complexity back into the IT environment.

Our consultants will look at how you currently manage your data centres, what you'd like to achieve and talk you through what's involved in setting up a more efficient centralised system.

We'll discuss the challenges you are facing and what we can do to overcome them. Afterwards, you'll get a bespoke high level business case for centralisation report, giving recommendations for your organisation's centralisation strategy.

Next steps

Find out how consolidation can help your business:

Contact Kavanagh to discuss your consolidation strategy
Read about how consolidation helped DaimlerChrysler boost business agility and improve profitability
Attend our Infrastructure Roadmap event