Three Immediate Initiatives to Cut
IT Costs, and Keep Them Down

Overview
To handle budget reductions, IT can cut operational and capital expenditures in three specific areas:
  • Software Licensing – lack of visibility into software use drives higher license costs, compliance costs, fines, penalties, and personal liability. Automatic software discovery can reduce help license costs by millions of dollars per year, and eliminate other costs and risks.
  • Consolidation – virtualization consolidates servers by an average of 35%, reducing hardware, software, power, and facilities costs. Data center consolidation eliminates costs of up to $2,000/ft2. Detailed hardware and software discovery is critical to fast, error-free consolidation.
  • Green IT – Consolidation, virtualization, power management, and energy-efficient hardware reduces energy costs by as much as 60%. These initiatives require accurate discovery of hardware and software utilization to avoid mission-critical outages.
BDNA Insight discovers, catalogs, and maps hardware and software utilization, providing the visibility that is critical to these initiatives. A NYSE-listed financial services firm that deployed BDNA for 10,000 servers in just 2 months expects to save several million dollars per year through better sourcing, license harvesting, faster procurement, lower project costs, improved compliance, and eliminating unauthorized software.

ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) analysts believe that, by providing environmental visibility and understanding, BDNA offers immediate, achievable, and strategic capabilities for widespread cost reduction.
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