Data Center Intelligence for Transformation Planning

Virtualization and other data center transformations hold the promise of reducing costs, improving efficiency, and utilization within the modern data center. The potential benefits are great. The challenge, however, is leveraging this new paradigm without incurring significant cost, risk, or complexity.

The complexity hiding beneath the covers of today’s data centers poses a serious threat to the success of any transformation. Many organizations assume that planning these transformations is an exercise in fitting servers together. These sizing-based approaches do not consider the various constraints and policies that truly dictate where workloads should go, which technology options or platforms are best, and how much capacity is truly required to maximize efficiency while managing risk.

CiRBA’s sophisticated, multi-dimensional analysis simultaneously examines configuration, business, and resource constraints to determine what can and should go together on the same hosts, as well as what fits together from a utilization perspective. This analysis provides a comprehensive view of potential candidates, as well as those combinations and permutations that will provide the optimal balance between financial objectives, risk tolerance, performance requirements, and other constraints.

CiRBA provides cross-platform, multi-strategy analysis for:

Virtualization Planning

Hardware Refresh

Data Center Consolidation & Relocation

Cloud Analysis