Planning to Make the Most of Your Infrastructure

As IT evolves into running more like a business, pressure will increase to “get it right the first time.” It is faced with the challenge of how to measure and optimize the IT infrastructure in financial terms. Just as it is important to monitor and analyze existing infrastructure, infrastructure planning for new application deployments is becoming critical. This needs to be quick and accurate. You avoid months of spreadsheet reviews of stale data. With its planning functionality, Sentilla delivers ERP for IT.

By knowing what is coming before it is requested, you can make deployment decisions to keep your IT business moving to match the speed at which new services and infrastructure is requested. You can evaluate the cost impacts of moving to a quicker deployment infrastructure, such as private cloud or virtual clustering. For example, if private cloud and dedicated cost the same, why not move to the private cloud option which has quicker time to provision and deliver a new service?

Sentilla planning can be used to:

• Pre-fill assumptions with real data about power, utilization and costs to model financial impacts of proposed projects?


• Automatically compute the “right size” of infrastructure, including licenses and equipment (such as VMware vSphere and vCloud)


• Benchmark applications running internally today with the cost of Amazon, Rackspace, and other public cloud providers; and more importantly measure the internal cost of delivering a service to pricing of best practice cloud providers


• Maximize how applications are placed in your infrastructure to avoid unnecessary capital costs


• Evaluate and plan for the impact of adding, removing or refreshing equipment


• Determine based on historical data, proposed projects and hypothetical scenarios, when your company will “run out of power” and other data center resources.