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Asking the right questions to cut the costs of IT - "Virtualisation?"
Matthew Brown, the head of IT at Legal Marketing Services raised this opportunity to cut the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of IT when he spoke at their annual conference last week. Very few in the audience raised their hands when he asked who had heard of "virtualisation" before. It's a good topic to raise because most established IT managers are too busy firefighting day-to-day issues - keeping your system up and running - to consider the increasing number of cost saving and productivity improvement options that any new startup would take on board without any qualms. Here is more information from Microsoft that might help you to understand a bit more of what this is about. Even if you don't fully understand it, should you be asking your IT manager something like, "How much can we cut our TCO by adopting more virtualisation of hardware and software?"
"Virtualisation saves money. The more extensively you implement virtualisation, the more savings you can realize. An end-to-end virtualisation strategy can maximize your investments and lower the cost of ownership across your IT infrastructure. The most common way, to date, to improve TCO is by virtualising hardware and consolidating servers. This lowers equipment costs and electrical consumption for server power and cooling. And by implementing a comprehensive management strategy, you can dramatically cut the costs of managing both virtual and physical assets.
But the TCO benefits of holistic virtualisation extend beyond server assets. Presentation and/or application virtualisation can enable applications written on older operating platforms to be supported in a current OS without time-consuming and costly software code revisions. Even better, by virtualising applications and delivering them on demand to desktops or servers, application-to-application conflicts are nearly eliminated. This significantly reduces the regression testing required for deployment, saving labour and associated costs."
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