IBM Server Makeover Services

Server Makeovers can typically reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) by between 20% and 60%. You too, could lower your TCO effectively with an IBM System and a Server Makeover of your HP, Sun or Dell infrastructure.

According to IDC, the costs of server management, including power and cooling costs, will outpace the costs of buying these servers by a factor of four times and eight times respectively.¹ The main contributors are:

Rapid growth in the number of servers, resulting in server sprawl, which in turn limits the flexibility of the IT infrastructure to meet new demands,
Low average utilization of these servers, which is a result of running on dedicated servers, which results in poor return-on-asset,
Increased complexity in managing the increased number of servers.

The tell-tale signs that you may need to makeover your server infrastructure are as follows:

Do you have a large number of single-workload servers?
Are you facing a major technology refresh?
Are you under pressure to reduce your IT budget?
Are you paying too much for hardware maintenance?
Can your servers handle seasonal or unexpected peaks in demand from business units and customers?

Planning for success

Faced with these challenges, where do you start? How do you start? We can help. We use a proven methodology to help organizations just like yours meet those objectives.

The first step in this methodology is IBM's Server Makeover analysis. This analysis is used to develop a high-level roadmap to help you identify makeover opportunities to address your challenges.

During the Server Makeover analysis, IBM will analyze the server and application baselines provided, then — using powerful tools based on a combination of historical and customer-provided data — develop a high-level technical and financial roadmap that identifies optimization opportunities within the server environment.

This roadmap can help you answer fundamental questions, such as:

How many server and/or operating system images can be consolidated?
What timelines and costs are associated with optimization?
Where are the project risks?
Which strategies can help mitigate risks?
What will be the total cost of ownership (TCO)?

Key benefits

Benefits of a Server Makeover analysis early in your planning include:

Establishing a business and technical justification for pursuing makeover initiatives within the environment,
Helping establish a financial roadmap on the timeline and effort required to get there,
Identifying major technical challenges early on and developing mitigation strategies, and
Helping benchmark the current environment with industry peers.

Helps answer your key questions

Can a Server Makeover analysis suggest ways to save money and free up critical budget?
How much and in what timeframe?
Can the savings be quantified and projected?