Managing Data and Records Growth: The Key to Dramatic Cost Savings in Data Center Consolidation

Bricks and Mortar data center consolidation efforts have failed to meet the desired savings. So, government organizations mandated by FDCCI need a strategy for realizing true and dramatic cost savings. First, organizations need to understand that data center consolidation is not an IT problem. It is a business strategy that engages and aligns with IT that can have positive impacts across the organization and can provide an extraordinary return on investment if done well. Today’s comprehensive strategy needs to leverage traditional physical consolidations while at the same time embracing more innovative approaches. It can involve combining programs and funding streams, collapsing the requisite underlying architectures needed to support the two. Using the right technology, organizations can securely archive data, retire legacy applications and associated platforms, and employ a more cost effective storage strategy including cloud. 

An Enterprise Information Lifecycle Management approach to data center consolidation can empower your IT organization to:

• Cost-effectively handle data growth, 
• Safely retire legacy systems and applications, 
• Optimize test data management, 
• And protect sensitive data.

By handling every phase of the data lifecycle, your IT team can improve information lifecycle management and better support application optimization, regulatory compliance, and achieve the end goal of true data center consolidation.