Infrastructure Consolidation

Infrastructure Consolidation > Business issues

For many years, the development of distributed computing has led to the proliferation of countless servers, often deployed to support a single application. The reasons for this have been straightforward: servers have been relatively cheap to procure and the “stove pipe” fashion of deployment has simplified testing and the coexistence of multiple applications.

The operational costs for supporting large server estates and the impact of space within the data centre, including the consumption of energy for power and cooling, have however become problematic. Consolidation is needed to reduce costs, minimise infrastructure footprint and enable flexibility to deliver new applications and services more quickly.

Similarly, most organisations are moving away from embedded direct attached storage to shared storage platforms in the form of network attached storage or storage area networks. The restriction of linking a storage pool with a specific server is too wasteful. Storage should be reusable and flexible across a wide range of servers.

Infrastructure Consolidation > The Anix Service

Anix is experienced in the assessment of application workloads across a wide range of infrastructure platforms. This is an essential step to allow analysis to take place prior to the design and implementation of a suitable and appropriate platform to successfully consolidate your current infrastructure.

Server and storage consolidation is carried out with a proof of concept and migration from the existing platforms with risk mitigation.

Infrastructure Consolidation > Key benefits

• Reduce the number of servers and storage devices in your data centres
• Improve the flexibility of delivering new applications and services
• Obtain better utilisation from your infrastructure
• Free up space in the data centre
• Lower power and cooling cost
• Reduce your carbon footprint