Evergreen Computing
Consort's Evergreen offering entails planning the hardware and software refresh cycles so that our customers receive the best price/performance benefits in the industry.
Services Description
By signing up for our Evergreen program you gain the ability to improve server utilization, the opportunity to consolidate multiple operating systems and business application workloads onto fewer servers, the ability to upgrade server components, while achieving the goal of reducing overall cost of server life-cycle ownership.
Adaptively Sourced Infrastructure
Consort will work with you to reallocate your IT infrastructure based on business needs.
Consort's Evergreen program represents a significant cost-saving opportunity for many organizations today. This is brought about by the continued advancements in hardware technology which creates excess capacity and results in opportunities to significantly reduce space and facility cost for our customers. New servers can distribute workloads more effectively to reduce energy cost. Virtualization is a key part of consort's Evergreen program as we look to divide workloads, minimize server sprawl, and reduce overall power consumption.
We put together a framework to address the many aspects of your computing environment while attending to specific areas of priority.
Consort starts by building a comprehensive program plan and strategy that includes inventorying and identifying all the software and hardware components within your IT infrastructure that are candidates for optimization. We then perform our due diligence taking into account all the inherent obstacles related to the change management process. We continue by carefully outlining a schedule for maximizing the resources that will be utilized for testing and integrating the new components of your system back into the production environment.Lowered IT Cost
Consort employs a host of benchmarking and ROI tools as part of our Evergreen Program's methodology to construct an optimized refresh plan. From this information, Consort's Systems Performance Managers quickly quantify the opportunities and projected benefits that arise from our technology refresh plan. The results from this thorough analysis are forwarded to the client organization in illustrated easy to understand online tables, charts and graphs, which communicate the potential business value, costs/benefits, ROI and TCO savings that can be achieved.
There are a multitude of factors considered when doing an analysis such as power and cooling, cabling, network, CPU, servers, floor space, and software licensing and maintenance fees. Each helps determine the impact of implementing a customized Evergreen plan for your organization. Consort's Evergreen Program will never be a one-size-fits-all solution, because we realize there has to be a strong business case for refreshing IT infrastructure.