What is Performance Worth?
Reducing infrastructure cost is conceptually simple: negotiate lower unit prices or purchase fewer units. And determining the latter boils down to how effective your hardware refresh models are at predicting the lowest cost refresh strategies.
Large cloud providers have gained significant cost advantages over enterprise IT largely because they capture the value of more performant hardware better and faster than most enterprises do. That’s because enterprises still rely on an outdated class of refresh models that fail to take advantage of newer architectures. So opportunities to lower total costs are consistently missed — leading to over-procurement of costly software, space, and power resources.
Ravello provides a new type of inventory model that enables enterprises to more precisely calculate and predict optimal refresh strategies for today’s infrastructure that reduces total annual costs by 10-40%. To see how it works, click here to get started with a free trial.
What is Performance Worth?
Justifying hardware refresh often boils down to identifying which costs, and how much, can be displaced by better hardware. What was a simple exercise is now more complex — with far higher potential benefits.
Hardware is now usually grouped into resource pools, which creates innumerable ways to execute refresh — with very different payoffs.
Ravello enables enterprises to easily and more precisely calculate optimal refresh strategies to evolve pool inventory and reduce annual spend for software, space and power resources by 10-40%.
If you are interested in seeing how it works, click here to give our beta release a test run.
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!
Responsive 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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