"You've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are saying ""do more with less"" think that it's a magical incantation. Run the servers without electricity!
You've already taken basic cost-cutting steps and saved the easy money. You know that you need to dig deeper. But where should you start? What's killing your IT budget?
The good news is that you're probably already staring right at the problem-it's just a matter of knowing what you're seeing and understanding what to do about it. Many of the largest IT budget problems can be traced back to five big money drains:
1. Storage expansion
2. System complexity
3. Hardware sprawl
4. Reliability and scalability
5. Compliance
If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone. This e-book, provided by IBM, will introduce you to the five big IT budget killers - and some of the best ways to knock them out."
The Top
IT Budget Killers
(and how you can fight back)
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Storage ExpansionSmart moves to make Hardware Sprawlas data volumes grow When it comes to and access demands server boxes, more is increase System Complexity 2not necessarily better Compliance How to cut through the Make sure the price tangle of data center of vigilance isn't more management and Reliability and Sc4alability than you can bearfocus on what really Building lean, smart IT matters systems that keep your business always on and always growing3
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ou've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as
budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are
saying "do more with less" think that it's a magical incantation. Run the servers without
eYlectricity! Wave a wand so your data center takes care of itself! While we're at it, let's conjure
up some rabbits and train them to install security patches.
You've already taken basic cost-cutting steps and saved the easy money. You know that you
need to dig deeper. But where should you start? What's killing your IT budget?
The good news is that you're probably already staring right at the problem-it's just a matter
of knowing what you're seeing and understanding what to do about it. Many of the largest IT
budget problems can be traced back to five big money drains:
1. Storage expansion
2. System complexity
3. Hardware sprawl
4. Reliability and scalability
5. Compliance
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f you think that you already have these bases covered, you might want to think again and
ask yourself five questions. How efficient is the storage that you're using to support your
exponentially expanding databases? How much overtime is your database administrator I(DBA) staff putting into managing servers and storage? How much are you spending on all
that hardware in your data centers? What's the cost of the measures you put in place to make
sure that your systems are available 24x7 and can grow with the business? And finally, how
much are you spending on regulatory compliance?
If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone. This e-book, provided by IBM, will introduce you to
the five big IT budget killers-and some of the best ways to knock them out.
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IT Budget Enemy #1: Storage Expansion
We can't say that Gordon Moore didn't warn us. The idea that transistor density would double
every two years was an alarm bell. After all, more transistors mean more information, which
SUMMARY means more data. Still, even he couldn't have anticipated the traffic that has clogged data
. Consolidate databases centers since the Internet became the central conduit of business. Analysts now estimate that
the volume of business e-mail is growing by 25-30 percent each year, and by 2010, the world's . Free up high-value 1information base will double in size every 11 hours. storage space
. Embrace data IT departments are already stretching their budgets for storage, and the demand is only going compression to grow. The volume of data an average business collects and stores actually doubles every
. Automate data archiving 18-24 months. That 70TB database you're juggling now could easily top a petabyte (that's a
thousand terabytes) within six years.
To complicate the situation further, a lot of data can't be thrown away. It must be carefully
managed from creation through disposal, to meet increasingly strict compliance regulations.
At the same time, IT departments are under pressure to deliver rapid data access-regardless
of where the information resides.
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