GlassHouse Technologies, a global data center consulting and managed services firm, today announced the availability of a whitepaper that provides best practices for integrating technology upgrades with operational management initiatives that will provide optimal ROI. The whitepaper, “Maximize Technology ROI Through Better Operations Management,” provides strategies for today’s companies to initiate cost-efficient operations management projects with correlating new technologies and achieve business alignment.
Technology upgrades are a constant occurrence in a variety of enterprises due to increasing capacity needs or the platform’s age. However, according to a recent study from Enterprise Strategy Group, 35 percent of organizations also plan to purchase new technologies as a cost reduction strategy. Technology upgrades can help contain costs through consolidation, maintenance reduction and a decrease in the data center footprint. However, they also force IT to upgrade operations management capabilities to and increase interaction with end-users, which can strain resources and take time away from mission critical actions.
The GlassHouse whitepaper highlights several technologies commonly used in IT upgrades: these include established consolidation technologies such as automated storage provisioning, deduplication and server virtualization. These complex technologies are critical to maintaining IT efficiency, but pose a growing technical management challenge to the enterprise.
GlassHouse recommends a strategic approach that helps organizations both anticipate user needs and address the challenges posed by new technology platforms by leveraging external service providers. External service providers can provide deep first-hand experience with new technologies, more sophisticated tools, documentation abilities, vendor leverage and commercial strength that aids in the operational management of complex new technologies. This allows IT management to focus on internal customer requirements and business alignment.
“Consolidation technology provides important benefits that are critical for containing costs and improving ROI within an organization,” said Brian Ritchie, senior vice president at GlassHouse Technologies. “However, the complexity that often comes with these solutions can increase the operational demands on the IT team. External service providers can relieve pressure on internal IT departments by providing a management layer to IT shops that recognizes and addresses the requirements of new platforms, saving them valuable time and money that can then be focused on more mission critical activities.”
About GlassHouse
GlassHouse Technologiesis a global provider of data center infrastructure consulting services. In a rapidly changing data center environment, GlassHouse partners with customers to define a strategy, execute that plan and operate their environment. Our constant focus is on cost efficiency, risk mitigation and service improvement. This is provided through Transom, our unique business model comprised of proprietary software tools, methodologies and domain expertise. We help deliver on the promise of agility and usage-based spending in the next generation infrastructure paradigm. This journey is significant and requires an experienced and pragmatic guide to help you achieve your goals. Our experience is based on thousands of projects in addition to ongoing daily operations of customer environments. Visit the GlassHouse blogfor expert commentary on key data center issues facing today’s enterprises and follow us on twitter at #GlassHouse_Tech.
