Tek-Tools is Doing More with Less by Controlling Storage and IT Costs

Dallas, TX, August 19, 2009 --(PR.com)-- In today's economy, companies are struggling to control costs. IT departments are being asked, even required, to do more with their current resources, the goal being to maximize the use and effectiveness of their infrastructures. Organizations are pursuing this goal in several ways:

* Virtualizing Servers
* Optimizing Resources
* Reclaiming Storage
* Condensing Responsibilities

What’s needed is a simple and easy-to-use tool that provides end-to-end, actionable visibility into the IT infrastructure, and that also enables cost savings and optimization. That’s where Tek-Tools Profiler comes in. Profiler can identify opportunities for storage reclamation and resource optimization, allowing you to leverage those opportunities into real storage, performance, space, and power savings. The same data collected to optimize resources enables Profiler to also provide management with trending, forecasting, and categorization information in order to make the right decisions for their specific organization’s needs. With Profiler, customers have reclaimed an average of 30% of their storage that was unused or wasted. Fore every terabyte of reclaimed storage, organizations save approximately $10,000. The average Tek-Tools customer realizes an ROI of up to 40% within three to six months.

Below are ten different ways you can reclaim or repurpose resources in your environment.

1. Server Consolidation - Profiler identifies candidates for virtualization via its server consolidation reports, allowing organizations to retire hardware, reduce power consumption, streamline management, and free up rack space.

2. Recover Resources in the Virtualized Infrastructure:
1. Identify unused virtual machines that can be turned off in order to reclaim performance capacity, or deleted in order to reclaim storage.
2. Find orphaned VMDK files that can be deleted, freeing space and improving performance.
3. Expose virtual machines with over-allocated resources (storage, CPU, memory, etc.) that can be released back into the virtual infrastructure.

3. Array Capacity Reclamation - find storage on arrays that is unused or allocated but free: If you are leveraging your storage fully, you can retire storage you don't need anymore, and put off future purchases of additional storage.

4. Clean Your Files – Do you know what files can be archived or deleted? Identify files and directories by age, size, and ownership that can be relocated or removed, reducing primary storage usage, backup size, and duration, as well as disaster recovery requirements.

5. Snapshot and Mirror management – Do you know how much storage you are using for snapshots and mirrors? If the protection policies exceed your SLAs or recovery point objectives, you could be consuming production storage with copies of data you don’t need.

Under these circumstances, a solid and proven reporting, monitoring, and forecasting tool is invaluable. Managers and administrators cannot optimize and maximize their IT infrastructures without first gaining real insight into what resources are available, how they are being used, and what will be needed both in the near and distant futures. A storage resource management suite like Tek-Tools Profiler enables organizations to do more with less, freeing up time for core tasks and utilizing resources in the most cost effective manner possible. Learn more about VMware Management at Tek-Tools.com.
www.tek-tools.com/virtual/overview.php

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