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Reuse Your Servers

Another new project, another new server. More assets to track, more network connections to wire-in, more power, cooling, rack space and complexity. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just drop that new application onto an existing server or simply create a new domain to run it in an environment of it’s own?

Dalleon Systems’ REUSE YOUR SERVER analysis will help you identify platforms that could accept more work or hardware that is under-used and has the potential to host virtual servers, where applications can run without the fear that they will adversely affect each other’s quality of service.
Traditionally servers run at surprisingly low average utilsations. So even a modest improvement when multiplied by the number of servers an organisation has, can make a significant reduction in operating costs.

We start with a precursor (free) meeting to discuss your goals. Typically these could be to find room for a new service that your business is planning to roll out. Alternatively you may be restructuring your datacentre to reduce facilities costs, power consumption or to dispose of old and inefficient hardware. This service is also suitable for times when your organisation has merged with another, and you wish to consolidate multiple datacentres while retaining the functionality of both businesses.

Whatever your requirements, the subsequent steps are to determine the workloads on your servers (or at least, the ones that are part of this study), determine where there is spare capacity and then match

the idle resources with the additional work that needs to be done.

We appreciate that it’s not as simple as merely joining pieces of a jigsaw: apart from resource conflicts, it can be necessary to take into account physical security (you may not be permitted to mix secure and non-secured applications or virtual servers on the same hardware platform) and the interests of various business units that are unable to agree the financial arrangements for shared hosting.

Once all these requirements have been collected, we can draw up a plan that will make best use of your servers.

Where you are about to embark on new projects, we can help to design the specification for new servers, so that they give you the maximum flexibility if the project turns into a roaring success and needs more capacity than the plan envisaged – or if a change in circumstances means that it needs to be reduced in scale. We know that once a service goes live, business constraints can make it difficult to take down servers for reconfiguration without losing revenue. By building-in flexibility right at the start, the effects of unforseen changes can be minimised and therefore become easier to schedule – rather than having the demand for change disrupt your plans and increase the risk of surprises.

This is one of Dalleon Systems' packaged services. The full suite can be seen at services.html. The company is always willing to take on bespoke work or variations to our standard products.