• More affordable
• Resistant to unplanned disruptions
• Security-enhanced to mitigate risk
• Adaptable to evolving business requirements
• Scalable to handle market swings
• Capable of rapid recovery

Sky IT Group performs an Infrastructure simplification assessment to determine where a company should consolidate, redeploy and possibly enhance its IT assets in order to achieve a significant return on investment. Sky can plan, manage and implement a consolidation project.

As companies grow and expand, there can be a hodgepodge of applications, servers, storage devices, processes, backup arrangements, etc. etc. Our certified eServer and Storage Specialists have extensive experience in IT optimization services and have been trained on IBM 's “Consolidation, Discovery and Analysis Tool (CDAT)”. Contact us to review the areas that present an opportunity to reduce cost by consolidation.


Sky IT Group provides IT Optimization services for whatever type of consolidation makes sense for your business. These include:

CENTRALIZATION

Relocating existing IT assets to fewer numbers of sites can result in economies of scale of operation that provide simplified management and cost improvements. Centralization is typically the initial consolidation step most companies take. It is almost always where organizations begin to support mergers and acquisitions (collocating data centers before merging operations and business processes.)


PHYSICAL CONSOLIDATION

Many people think of physical consolidation when they first consider server consolidation. It is the process of reducing the total number of servers by replacing many servers with fewer, more powerful ones or clustered systems. This can take place within the same architecture or across architectural boundaries.


DATA INTEGRATION

Data integration involves physically combining data from different sources across the enterprise into a single repository or format. The result is that the merged data resides on fewer servers and/or more centralized and consistent storage devices, which can help to greatly lower the total costs associated with managing and leveraging it for added business value.

The data can be file data consolidated to a single networked operating system. Also, multiple types of databases can be converged to fewer database architectures.


APPLICATION INTEGRATION

Application integration is a type of consolidation characteristic of many Intel® processor-based and UNIX® environments. It involves consolidating and combining multiple applications and data into fewer server architectures to reduce redundancy and complexity for business process integration and automation.

Application integration allows for collocating mixed workloads within a unified infrastructure so that applications can communicate with each other and work together seamlessly. For example, business process synergies can be achieved through the integration of order entry, inventory, fulfillment and accounting systems (Web serving, ERP, business intelligence and other applications) that represent the backbone of the core business.

Contact Sky IT Group IBM Solutions Group info@skyitgroup.com or 866 SKY-3500 ext 106