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WAYS TO CUT GLOBAL IT COSTSTURBONOMIC MICRO-EBOOK5

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ABOUT THE AUTHORIddo started his career in the Israeli Defense Force as a software Developer (Mamram Unit). During his service he was recruited to the IDF Elite program for software developers leaders. After 8 years resigned as a captain managing the department of software training for the Army. Shortly after, before joining Turbonomic, Iddo started a presales and post sales career in the application performance space, working with multiple fortune 500 companies to resolve performance issues on state of the art cutting edge mission critical applications.

After spending nearly 10 years chasing issues Iddo joined Turbonomic in the quest to assure application performance to begin with and prevent problems from ever happening.

IddoGlobal Enterprise Presales Director

at Turbonomic

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BACKGROUNDIT budgets are not increasing. As a matter of fact, Gartner indicates that the global IT budget is shrinking. Since the demand for IT only grows, IT professionals are left with the difficult task of doing more with less. Cutting costs is inevitable and has to be done intelligently. Here are 5 suggestions for surviving in the process:

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1. Cut Operational Costs• Flatten your organization. A flat structure can

encourage better productivity, accountability, and more work gets accomplished.

• Take away the human element – automate processes. Examples vary across the organizations and include automating of accounting processes, automating of testing or automating of the entire data center. A recent customer told me his CTO directions were that solutions that cannot be automated are not allowed in-house.

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2. Buy Less Enterprise Software• Get rid of any software that is not directly impacting your business. Do you

really need all those monitoring tools? Is anyone looking at those alerts? Is anyone even reading those TPS reports?

• Choose free alternatives – Do you really need Microsoft Office anymore• Limit the licensing costs by buying the minimum needed. Careful, One of the

challenges is that some vendors supports only hardware partitioning, not software partitioning like you get with VMWare. As a result, you must license all processors and cores accessible to the product. Get your free Licensing Gut Check here.

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3. Choose Cheaper Solutions• Move to Open Source. Apple dumped VMWare licensing agreement moving

forward with open stack KVM saving about $20,000,000. There is a lot of buzz around containers replacing Virtual Machines all together. Docker is now valued at $1B leading that charge (They chose an interesting way of cutting cost designing their logo!)

• Shop around. You can save by moving to less expensive solutions. Nutanix claims to cut up to 60% costs of infrastructure by leveraging their local storage solution.

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4. Intelligently Burst to the Cloud• Pay for what you use. By moving some workloads to

the cloud you can reduce capital costs, paying only for the resources you need, when you need them—the question is: which workloads when?

• By nature, a cloud has a broad and large mix of workload characteristics. This enables the cloud provider to drive the environment to high levels of hardware utilization across the board.

Higher than what you might experience in smaller environments. Of course the cloud provider profits from this practice. However, some of the benefits are reflected in the overall low costs of cloud hosting.

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5. Turbonomic

Turbonomic can assist with all of the above:• Automation of actions across the entire

data center to assure performance• Reduce software costs by reducing

licensing costs• Control open source solutions such as

OpenStack or containers• Burst to cloud if and only if demand

justifies it• Utilize your infrastructure as efficiently

as possible

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