Companies using Scalent IM to create dynamic infrastructure have seen dramatic changes, including reductions in the total cost of running their data centers and improved service to their internal customers.
Scalent IM delivers the following benefits:
- Higher responsiveness
- Lower capital expenditures
- Reduced operational costs
- Increased IT productivity
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A dynamic infrastructure reacts quickly to change. The elapsed time between IT service request and request fulfillment can be dramatically reduced. Since time-to-market is critical for most business applications, this can mean substantial contribution to the top and bottom lines.
- Scalent IM cuts the time it takes to move a server from the loading dock to full service. Servers are automatically discovered, inventoried, and provisioned
- Scalent IM shortens the time to add or remove capacity from application configurations. Scale-up and scale-down can be done with the a click.
- Scalent IM allows you to create standard application gold-master templates that can be rolled out repeatedly to ensure uniformity of deployment across your organization.
The N+1 HA feature provided by Scalent IM eliminates the need to have dedicated idle spare servers. Many Scalent customers find they are able to reduce their spare server counts by as much as 80%. Additionally, there is no more need to implement complex clustering solutions as the only HA solution for all types of applications.
Many servers in non-productions environments are used sporadically. By repurposing these servers using Scalent IM, our customers have been able to slow down the rate at which new servers are being added to the infrastructure.
Power consumption is dramatically increasing across all data centers. Scalent IM helps reduce power consumption in multiple ways.
- Eliminating local disks in the servers and transitioning to boot from central storage reduces server power use by upto 25%
- Automatically powering off unused servers results in dramatic power savings
- Reducing server count by repurposing existing servers for multiple uses further cuts power use
Scalent IM increases the productivity of IT personnel across the data center. The automation of the end-to-end provisioning process reduces both manpower and elapsed time required for many data center tasks. These include
- New server provisioning – Adding new servers to an existing environment becomes simple plug and play task. New servers are discovered automatically and added to the available resource pool.
- Recovery from server failures – With Scalent IM, a server failure no longer means 10 man hours spent rebuilding from scratch. Within minutes, the original server image is retargeted to an available spare server and the application is up and running.
- Change management – As capacity demands fluctuate, Scalent IM enables IT personnel to rapidly assign resources to where they are needed without requiring physical changes in the infrastructure.