What is Efficiency Worth?
Reducing infrastructure cost is conceptually simple: negotiate lower prices and/or purchase fewer resources. But the amounts of software, power, and space resources that need to be procured depend on the level of hardware efficiency your refresh program actually captures. Yet most IT organizations don’t or can't measure it with actionable precision.
Instead, hardware refresh is preset to a fixed-time (e.g., every 4 years) — similar to how USPS relies on fixed-routes irrespective of package volumes or mix. Both models obscure opportunities for monetization and produce suboptimal results… or worse, foreclose efficiency monetization because other resources are unnecessarily over-provisioned.
In contrast, Ravello enables refresh programs that optimally capture and monetize hardware efficiency using Dynamic Refresh — similar to how UPS and FedEx use dynamic route optimization to adjust to changing market conditions. As a result, enterprises can reduce their total infrastructure costs by 10 - 40% for the same forecasted service demand.
If you want to learn more about how it works, please drop us a note below.
What is Efficiency Worth?
Reducing infrastructure cost is conceptually simple: negotiate lower prices and/or purchase fewer resources. But the amounts of software, power, and space resources that need to be procured depend on the level of hardware efficiency your refresh program actually captures.
Yet most IT organizations don’t or can't measure it with actionable precision, so hardware is refreshed on preset, fixed-time schedules. In contrast, Ravello enables Dynamic Refresh that reduces total infrastructure costs by 10 - 40% for the same forecasted demand by optimally capturing and monetizing hardware efficiency — similar to how UPS and FedEx use dynamic route optimization to adjust to changing market conditions versus the fixed routes of USPS.
If you want to learn more about how it works, please drop us a note below.
Contract time?
You need to forecast software for the next 3 years. Or maybe it's data center space, or power?
How do you account for better hardware and not over-purchase those resources and diminish the value of hardware refresh?
Ravello optimally solves that in minutes!
Dynamic Refresh
Software, space and power costs usually run 2-10x a server's cost, so a new server’s better performance can justify very different refresh rates.
Let Ravello show you how to balance the right refresh rates that produce the lowest total cost.
The wrong tools produce poor outcomes...
It starts with a team decoding capacity plans into server inventory and spend, followed by more teams translating that into space, power, and software license commitments. Each minimizes their costs, yet increase total costs. That’s because in pooled resource environments there are many server add/subtract combinations that can meet capacity needs. And different combinations lead to very different total cost.
But unlike planners in other industries that use inventory optimization tools to extract maximum value from their investments, enterprise IT teams still rely on simple rules and tools (e.g., refresh after 4-years, spreadsheets), which limits performance monetization. That raises total cost and risk for all digital investments.
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