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IT resource optimization from IBM

Executive summary

Business view

Technical details

The goal

Improve IT asset utilization

Are you feeling pressure to reduce IT spending so you can focus on projects that directly improve quality of service and core business operations? Does your business suffer from error-prone and time-consuming manual processes and systems that don't work together? Optimize your IT environment. IBM can help your business consolidate, eliminate, automate, upgrade and potentially outsource aspects of your IT environment as appropriate.

The advantage

Blend of industry insight and technology innovation

Take advantage of the breadth and depth of IBM industry experience and technology expertise to help you stretch your budget. We offer:

Recognized market leadership in IT resource optimization middleware, server hardware and services.
Advanced dynamic virtualization and autonomic capabilities.
A complete virtualization environment.
End-to-end tooling for the detection, isolation, and resolution of complex application performance problems.
Worldwide expertise and the ability to design, implement and manage an entire project from start to finish with a single source of accountability.
Proven methodologies and techniques, hailed by analysts, such as the Component Infrastructure Roadmap and Component Business Modeling for the Business of IT.

The benefits

Rapidly respond to business challenges

Align IT resources with your organization's objectives by simplifying and improving systems management. IBM can help you improve resource utilization and flexibility using consolidation, virtualization, provisioning and orchestration technologies.

Simplify: consolidate servers, storage and network assets for greater efficiency and reduced complexity.
Virtualize: IT resources are used across applications without regard to where they physically reside.
Provision: replace error-prone manual tasks and repetitive IT resource capacity management tasks.
Orchestrate: dynamically allocate IT capacity to meet business goals for increased infrastructure agility and growth readiness.

Our predefined, proven solutions offer an accelerated approach to help you:

Align your IT expense with your business priorities by improving resource utilization, reducing costs and enabling more effective IT services.
Build a flexible infrastructure that is easier to manage and upgrade while being less expensive to run on.
Reduce maintenance and support costs.
Increase resource utilization, flexibility and response times.
Automate error-prone manual capacity and workload management tasks.
Improve ability for IT infrastructure to respond to changing business needs.
Provide 24x7 availability and integration using automation techniques to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
Standardize and centralize systems to accommodate varying levels of demand across your business.
Flexibly adapt to the inevitable changes and fluctuations in your marketplace.

The approach

Colgate-Palmolive optimizes IT resources with IBM

Global consumer products company, Colgate-Palmolive, focuses on oral and personal care, household cleaning supplies, fabric care, and pet nutrition. They wanted to increase usage, flexibility, availability and manageability of their systems and achieve a lower total cost of ownership. After implementing our solution, Ed Toben, CIO of Colgate-Palmolive, said "the dynamic infrastructure from IBM is really core in allowing us to grow our business and manage our business at the same time¡¦"

Benefits gained include:

A reduction of footprint.
More processing capacity with fewer resources.
The resources to support business globally.
Faster, automated provisioning of resources.

The financial advantage

Growth with cost containment

With your IT budgets under constant scrutiny, we can help you leverage your resources so you can build or maintain technologies that support your vision and goals. Our approach is designed to help:

Improve operating efficiencies and staff effectiveness.
Optimize existing assets so upgrade expenses can be deferred.
Rapidly respond to changing business priorities and a growing customer base.
Deploy standard applications and systems quickly and efficiently to meet customer demands faster.
Integrate new custom applications and systems into your existing environment with ease.

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