What is Hardware Efficiency Worth?
Ravello enables IT enterprises to continuously “right-size” hardware, software, power and space resources by optimally solving the most complex hurdle to right-sizing: Precisely identifying how to monetize hardware efficiency that minimizes total, ongoing infrastructure spend.
Typically, 50-70% of total infrastructure spend is for software, power and facility resources — which are committed months or years before better hardware arrives. To determine commitments, enterprises often preset hardware life to a fixed term. But this artificially limits right-sizing to a very small subset of possible solutions — effectively guaranteeing other more costly resources will be over-provisioned.
In contrast, Ravello’s patent-pending discrete-event simulator right-sizes all resources by dynamically varying hardware refresh — based on user-defined “jump events” (i.e., discrete changes in configuration, price, or efficiency) — to optimally monetize hardware efficiency whenever hardware is changed. This perpetual right-sizing reduces ongoing, annual total cost by 10-40% for the same service demand.
If you want to learn more about how it works, please drop us a note below.
What is Hardware Efficiency Worth?
Ravello enables IT enterprises to continuously “right-size” hardware, software, power and space resources by optimally solving the most complex hurdle to right-sizing: Precisely identifying how to monetize hardware efficiency that minimizes total, ongoing infrastructure spend.
Typically, 50-70% of total infrastructure spend is for software, power and facility resources — which are committed months or years before better hardware arrives. To determine commitments, enterprises often preset hardware life to a fixed term. But this artificially limits right-sizing to a very small subset of possible solutions — effectively guaranteeing other more costly resources will be over-provisioned.
In contrast, Ravello’s patent-pending discrete-event simulator right-sizes all resources by dynamically varying hardware refresh — based on user-defined “jump events” (i.e., discrete changes in configuration, price, or efficiency) — to optimally monetize hardware efficiency whenever hardware is changed. This perpetual right-sizing reduces ongoing, annual total cost by 10-40% for the same service demand.
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 more efficient hardware can actually justify very different refresh rates.
Let Ravello show you how to quickly identify and plan 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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If you would like to talk to us about right-sizing IT infrastructure in virtualized or private cloud setttings, or using Ravello to advise clients in your IT outsourcing, supply-chain or SAM engagements — you can reach us via email using the form below.