A highly virtualized environment can lead to lower hardware maintenance costs, increased availability of applications, quicker server deployment, and more. The benefits are clear, but business customers must be clear on the cost vs. SLA tradeoffs of virtualized and dedicated infrastructure service options.
Through Lontra's Service Portfolio, IT can offer a range of virtualization/performance/price packages and options (such as availability, failover, disaster recovery, etc.), and clearly communicate the description, cost, and relevant SLA of each service. The business user can then make an informed quality vs. cost decision, and IT can package and bundle specific choices to shape demand.
Approaching the Virtualization Decision
Weighing the pros and cons between moving to a virtualized environment requires a complete understanding of related costs to make the change, or to continue with your current architecture. Lontra's 5 Steps to Effective IT Budgeting workshop series gives organizations the critical capabilities they need to do just that, in just 3 days!
Making the virtualization adoption decision requires accurate cost and demand information. Lontra's Financial Management Suite includes three intuitive modules designed to manage the end-to-end economic relationship between IT and its customers.
Financial Manager Provides complete visibility into IT service costs from the business perspective using service unit-cost models, cost recovery & chargeback
Demand Manager Enables IT organizations to engage business customers to accurately forecast service demand, track it against actual consumption and ultimately influence customer buying decisions
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Making the virtualization adoption decision requires accurate cost and demand information. Lontra's Financial Management Suite includes three intuitive modules designed to manage the end-to-end economic relationship between IT and its customers.
Join Alliance Data CIO, Barry Carter, as he tells their story of developing a Service Portfolio and using it to shape demand for IT services.
