Week One:• Identify existing data sources• Associate data to IT services• Con�gure cost formulas • Setup templates

Week Two:• Personalize templates• Customize work�ows • Setup user accounts• Begin use

Two Weeks to Visibility into Costs of Servers

Achieve Cost Visibilty noW!

Digital Fuel’s IT Cost Management solutions can begin saving your organization money in weeks. Using a SaaS approach, Digital Fuel hosts everything for you, eliminating the overhead of installation and deployment in your datacenter. Pick any area where you need visibility – business applications, storage, virtualization, etc. – and your IT and finance teams will have access to the detailed IT cost data they need to make smart cost-related decisions within weeks.

Gain Full Cost Visibility into Server Costs

While it is generally understood that “hardware is cheap”, servers

still remains a very large budget item for corporate IT. The total cost

of server ownership is impacted by a complicated set of drivers:

more than just the hardware itself, the total cost includes electricity,

facilities, support, security, overhead, administration and much

more. With this complex set of cost drivers impacting the amount

organizations spend on their servers, full cost visibility is vital to

make smart spending decisions that align with business goals.

The costs for servers must be reduced while continuing to support

the business. If you have ever struggled to meet these opposing

requirements, IT Cost Management can answer key questions:

Which business units have high server utilization and how •much does that cost?

Where are overall server costs running over budget – and why?•

What is the right server offering to optimize on utilization, •capacity, and cost?

What are the potential cost savings of reducing service levels?•

How can we accurately give our business units visibility into •server usage when infrastructure is shared?

IT Cost Visibility Delivers Tangible Savings

IT professionals and finance teams must continually make decisions

that need to balance cost with service levels and server utilization.

Giving individuals in-depth information about cost drivers helps

them make smarter decisions when comparing actual spend to

plan, running annual budgeting processes, executing cost reduction

analysis, administering billing and chargeback, or conducting any

other business processes that impacts costs.

For the teams responsible for purchasing and administering servers,

ability to compare server utilization with service levels and cost is a

great enabler for server-related decisions including:

Prioritize Server Virtualization• – Virtualization has proven to have clear cost benefits – but where do you start? By delivering visibility into server utilization, capacity and cost, IT Cost Management can immediately identify the servers that have both high utilization and high costs. These servers are the best candidates to deliver significant costs savings through server virtualization.

Eliminate Underutilized Capacity• – An easy way to save money without impacting the business is to shift usage from high cost, under utilized servers to lower cost servers, eliminate servers that are not being utilized effectively; or terminate maintenance for servers that are no longer critical. . IT Cost Management delivers visibility into server utilization and capacity then compares that to the total cost to quickly identify servers that are candidates for more optimal use.

Recommend Cost-Effective Configurations• – Inefficiencies in server-related expenses can drive up costs significantly. IT Cost Management gives visibility into the underlying cost drivers including electricity, facilities, support, security, overhead, administration and more. When server owners can identify the underlying costs that are out of line with normal, they can make informed decisions about more cost effective configurations.

Report on Actual Server Usage• – It is much easier to have a business conversation about server costs if full visibility into underlying expenses is available to all parties. IT Cost Management delivers full transparency into the total cost of servers to both corporate IT and the business units that must pay for them. Business units are much more willing to pay when they understand that they are paying for actual usage.

Reduce Service Levels• – Business requirements do change. Servers that historically required very high service levels may no longer need it. IT Cost Management will identify the types of servers that have both a high total cost and a high per CPU cost. From there, drilling down will uncover the reasons for excessive expenditures to identify the servers that have the potential to deliver significant costs savings if service levels were reduced.

Reduce Support Costs• – Servers that have high support costs but a low number of support calls are candidates for reduced support. With IT Cost Management, you gain visibility into the overall support costs for all servers as well as the per CPU costs.

Establish Cost-effective Server Offerings• – There are many options when choosing servers solutions. From operating system to the facilities the servers are hosted in and more, the challenge is to deliver the right level of computing power at the lowest possible cost. IT Cost Management can help to capture the total cost of server offerings – such as the most expensive server configurations per CPU - so IT teams can develop more flexible server offerings, and business units can understand the tradeoffs in different types of servers.

IT Cost Management for Servers

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IT Cost Management brings organization and visibility into the complex underlying cost drivers that impact the total cost of servers.

IT Cost Management shows important server cost metrics at a glance to immediately identify irregularities requiring attention.

IT Cost Management delivers powerful drill-down reporting for deeper analysis of key cost drivers.

©2009 Digital Fuel Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved

IT Cost Management for Servers