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Server Consolidation Strategy OverviewRising costs of space, power, and cooling drive the need to reduce footprint, while environmental concerns promote the need to pursue Green IT. Now you can build upon a generalized server strategy to further optimize your IT environment with a server consolidation strategy. A consolidation strategy assumes that you have a generalized server strategy in place that has mapped your workload characteristics to an optimal server platform.

This strategy builds upon that base by looking for opportunities to increase performance on a reduced footprint as new servers and components become available. It also seeks to ensure that your operating environment is optimal in terms of performance and cost.

Server Consolidation Strategy Benefits increase utilization and efficiency of your organization’s IT environment and provide significant return on invested capital with a server consolidation strategy. Consolidating on a lesser number of servers reduces footprint, which corresponds to reductions in rent, energy, and system administration costs.

By optimizing your server platform for your workload characteristics, and consolidating this platform on a reduced footprint, you are preparing for the possibility of a virtualization strategy that can further optimize your environment in the most efficient manner.

Offerings •ServerConsolidationAssessment •ClusterConsolidationAssessment •ApplicationConsolidationAssessment

Our PrOven MethOdOlOgy

Arrive at an optimal server

consolidation strategy through

understanding the latest servers

and components that are aligned

with your workload characteristics,

and learn how consolidation

will further reduce your capital

expenditures and operating costs.

Our process will help you appreciate

how technological advancements

can facilitate your operational

model and cost structure

through our review, plan, design,

implementation and operations

phases, where we align your

business goals to ensure the right

people, processes and technology

are in place.

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ABOut InSIght

Insight is a technology solutions provider serving global and local clients in 170 countries. Today, thousands of clients, including more than 80 percent of the Global Fortune 500, rely on Insight to acquire, implement and manage technology solutions to empower their business. Insight provides software and licensing services globally. In addition, we offer a comprehensive portfolio which also includes networking, hardware and value added services for our clients in North America and the U.K. We are aggressively expanding our global capabilities by introducing new offerings, including hardware and services, to meet emerging needs for our clients worldwide. Insight is ranked No. 484 on the 2009 Fortune 500.

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Success StoriesInternAtIOnAl energy COMPAnySummary Insight performed a server consolidation/virtualization assessment and

complete solution build out, exceeding the client’s expectation while producing incredible ROI.

Challenge •Adaptivearchitecturethatallowsthemtoeffectivelyaddressbusinesschanges

•Easeofmanagement •Businesscontinuityandhighavailability •Decreasecostofenvironmentalfactors(power,cooling,realstate,etc,) •CreateaglobalstandardasitrelatestoserverandserverinfrastructureInsight Solution Insight delivered on a global server consolidation assessment with

ConocoPhillips that presented an attractive ROI for the North American business. The deal consisted HP c-Class blades and infrastructure, consultativeanddeploymentservices,VMwareESX,andcriticalsupport.Theclient achieved a 12 to 1 physical to virtual consolidation while significantly increasing utilization rates of server resources, decreasing the cost of environmental, real estate, and creating an adaptive infrastructure that is easy to manage and highly available.

A lArge PhArMACeutICAl FIrM In the MIdweStSummary Two on-site full time employees managing and deploying the company’s virtual

environment.Challenge Client was incurring on-going consolidation challenges, their maintenance and

resources for the data center were extremely costly, they were concerned with the physical footprint of their data center as well as the costs associated to the power and cooling.

Insight Solution Insight went on-site and provided a consolidation assessment, which included virtualizing their data center. The assessment encompassed the complete lifecycle approach of assessment, planning and design, deploying anddebriefing.ThisincludedimplementingVDIandtwofulltimeon-siteemployees in assisting with maintaining their virtual environment. This led to decreasing high maintenance costs, power and cooling costs, and resources dedicated to maintaining the environment. Overall, the ease of managing and maintaining the data center has been much more cost efficient.

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