CIOs and infrastructure managers are continually pressed to qualify IT service costs. IT leaders have to ensure optimal use of the infrastructure components, provision what the business needs and continuously review the cost drivers.
“Poor hardware management can increase companies' total cost of ownership by 7% to 10% annually.” - Gartner
An under-utilised asset means that you may have spent too much Capex, over-provisioned, and thus reduced productivity.
On the flip side, over-utilisation is synonymous with poor performances, again resulting in reduced productivity.
“An estimated 27% of enterprise assets are unused or underused, which translates into big budget hits due to poor system management.” - Micropath
The 5th annual ITWeb Security Summit, taking place from 11-13 May 2010, at the Sandton Convention Centre, is a high-profile three-day conference and business exhibition that brings together local and international IT and security professionals, practitioners, experts and analysts to share their experiences as well as the latest tools and techniques available for safeguarding information. (Register at www.securitysummit.co.za)
ITWeb's 5th annual Security Summit
More information about ITWeb's Security Summit, which takes place on 11-13 May 2010 at the Sandton Convention Centre is available online here.
Sintrex will partake in this year's Security Summit to expose the market to its solution offerings. Sintrex is known for its solid infrastructure management solutions and has strengthened its management solutions by recently partnering with Australian company, nMetrics.
Steve Urquhart, Director, nMetrics, says: “South Africa is a key market for us and we're excited to be working with Sintrex to grow our business there. Sintrex has an excellent reputation as one of the leading IT solutions providers in South Africa and we're confident that the nMetrics networking and application monitoring and reporting solution will add real value to their business.”
IT disciplines need to break out of their silos and adopt management solutions that provide information about IT, end-to-end. It's not about the tools, but rather about what information is required to bring IT and the business closer together. Technology leaders need to take a proactive role in managing IT resources and assets.
Visit Sintrex and nMetrics to discuss these hot topics:
* Business views and real-time dashboards
* IT infrastructure failure impacts on business systems
* Business system SLAs
* Application performance monitoring
* Telco SLA measurement and management
* Problem and fault monitoring
* Capacity and performance management
* Asset inventory collection
* Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB)
* Internet impact measurement
Information:
International Data Corporation's (IDC) research shows that:
* Twenty-five percent of organisations are still managing their servers and storage manually, leading to much higher costs compared with organisations that are using some tools. Only 14% of organisations have a fully integrated management framework.
* The industry needs to assist CIOs in showing how to benefit from improved management. Only 30% of companies see data centre operational cost as a priority, with 25% concerned specifically about software licence costs.
* Suppliers need to package their approach to meet different needs as organisations are divided on the best way to approach their data centre management. Fifty-eight percent are looking for modular solutions and 42% prefer an integrated approach.
* The rapid growth of virtualisation has changed the nature of management, with diverse challenges created. Overall, the prime concern is being able to integrate server, storage, and network management, cited by 31% of respondents. However, there are many complexities; for example, larger data centres are more concerned with unifying their physical and virtual management and smaller sites are finding integrating different virtualisation technologies into a single management strategy to be essential.
* The market for virtualisation management is wide open, with 52% of organisations relying on their virtualisation provider, 32% using their systems vendor to manage their virtual environment, and 16% looking at management suite suppliers.
* The promise of data centre automation to reduce the cost of the data centre and improve alignment with business goals is recognised by 69% of organisations. Although cost is the main factor, improving security by reducing errors is the second most commonly mentioned reason for using data centre automation.
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