Ejasent ships 'optimizer' for server consolidation.Ejasent Inc., the leading provider of utility computing (1) Pay-per-usage processing provided by a service organization that uses its own computers and facilities. Customers access the computers via a private network or over the Internet and are charged according to how much computing time they use, such as CPU seconds, minutes or hours. solutions for today's data centers, announced recently the availability of Optimizer, a new software product designed specifically for the task of analyzing and optimizing data center server consolidation scenarios. A recent Gartner study found that 81% of IT managers found significant cost reductions by consolidating their data center assets. Ejasent's Optimizer analyzes data center application performance and utilization profiles and maps them to a target server environment to achieve the lowest cost consolidation schedule while maintaining user-specified levels of performance. Ejasent's Optimizer is the only software on the market today that rapidly generates consolidation schedules across complex, heterogeneous data centers. Companies using Optimizer have forecasted data center cost savings of as much as 50%, resulting in 500%-700% ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and as little as 3-4 months payback Payback The length of time it takes to recover the initial cost of a project, without regard to the time value of money. on their Optimizer purchase. "Consolidation and standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting of IT infrastructure is one of the top five priorities among enterprises that outsource," says Bruce Caldwell Bruce Caldwell (February 8, 1906 - February 15, 1959) is a former outfielder and first baseman for the Cleveland Indians and Brooklyn Dodgers as well as an American football running back in the NFL for the New York Giants , principal analyst in outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. services at Gartner. "The demand to cut costs, starting with increased efficiencies in the IT infrastructure through consolidation, has led to more than $20 billion in major outsourcing contracts over the past year and a half," he adds. "Software tools that help automate the consolidation and standardization process and shorten the time needed to achieve cost reductions, are critical for both outsourcers and enterprises that seek to optimize the IT infrastructure," notes Caldwell. Ejasent's Optimizer is a stand-alone software application that is available now and can monitor and analyze an unlimited number of servers for consolidation. Optimizer leverages integer programming Integer programming Variant of linear programming in which the solution values must be integers. techniques to analyze application utilization patterns and generate different scenarios for server consolidation across the entire enterprise infrastructure, or across just a subset A group of commands or functions that do not include all the capabilities of the original specification. Software or hardware components designed for the subset will also work with the original. . Multiple consolidation scenarios can be generated and sensitivity analysis done--within just minutes--to develop an optimization plan that prioritizes how the enterprise should execute its infrastructure consolidation initiatives. Optimizer can analyze data and optimize consolidation scenarios using any existing measurement data. Moreover, Optimizer integrates with Ejasent's own industry-leading MicroMeasure application--which meters, rates and presents usage data for any device in the data center, and applies financial cost information--to provide a complete server consolidation solution. Ejasent helps companies reduce costs and improve the financial return of their existing IT investments by enabling real-time allocation of data center resources to satisfy user demand consistent with the goals of the business. The company has 14 patents pending on core utility computing technologies. Optimizer is a capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. application that enables IT asset consolidation through utilization analysis and optimization modeling based on actual usage over time. |
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