Nothing motivates like cost. Enterprise-wide IT transformations have cost savings as the prime objective. For years, falling infrastructure prices allowed growth to be sustained by buying more. At the same time, though rising, operating and facility costs remained lower than infrastructure. Inevitably, the cost curves crossed, driven lately and importantly by the fast-rising cost of energy prices. When Zunesis’ teams prepare financial analyses for virtualization projects, the largest cost saving item is inevitably power. In fact, companies’ virtualization initiatives have been launched entirely by power savings  alone. Important facility space reductions and a simpler infrastructure to operate, add to the compelling economics and benefits of IT Transformation..
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On the other hand, because the economic forces are so great, we see  consolidations and virtualizations executed absent sufficient planning to right-size and optimize the new environments. We see them performed without “cleaning the house before they move” – over-spending for these projects consolidations and virtualizations due to lack of planning and information. Organizations know that the economics are sufficient to absorb some waste yet still deliver a return on investment, and leave a lot of money on the table by moving rapidly ahead. In actuality, two opportunities create the greatest returns – from the actual virtualization and consolidation initiatives themselves, and from right-sizing and optimizing the new environments. Planning, assessing, optimizing, and executing is the best chronology for IT transformations. Zunesis specializes across this spectrum, saving clients of all sizes up to the Fortune 50 significant sums and enhancing the success rates of these key initiatives. |
