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Guide
Guide

How to Do IT Cost Optimization

Our years of experience shows that organizations waste 30% of their hybrid IT spend, on average. This article identifies the five key components of a cost optimization strategy and how to be successful with each of them.
Infrastructure Management
Case Study
Case Study

Humanitarian Organization Reduces Application Slowdowns by 94%

Organization Description: This humanitarian group organizes more than 500,000 volunteer employees to help victims of tragedy across the United States. Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped this non-profit reduce the number of application slowdowns by 94 percent in only four months.
Infrastructure Management
Case Study
Case Study

Financial Services Giant Optimizes, Virtualizes, and Saves Big Money

Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management (formerly TeamQuest): Vityl helped to significantly optimize the physical CPU base, maximize usage of CPU and memory resources, lower the cost per unit of CPU to clients and improve the time to market. The Fortune 500 financial services company now charges 25 percent less per unit of CPU in its virtualized environment. These benefits have helped justify...
Infrastructure Management
Case Study
Case Study

Capacity Planning at a Czech Bank

Organization Description : In the Czech Republic this bank serves more than 3 million clients and employs over 8000 workers. The bank operates a very extensive IT infrastructure which requires round-the-clock accessibility checks and computing capacity planning. Business Value of Vityl Capacity Management : The Vityl capacity planning solution has given the bank full control over the operations of...
Infrastructure Management
Guide
Guide

Continuously Optimizing IT in Financial Terms

CHALLENGES : Virtualization and increasingly complex agile computing environments are creating difficulties for IT financial controllers and for IT Financial Management (ITFM). Virtualization breaks the long-standing direct, one-to-one correlation between cost-allocated physical hardware and the IT services it supports. Increasingly dynamic, multi-layered applications have made it more difficult...
Infrastructure Management
Guide
Guide

DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview : The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Infrastructure Management
Guide
Guide

Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...
Infrastructure Management