One of the ways organisations can optimize their IT Infrastructure cost is aligning it to expected performance standards. Quite often in the past most of us have invested into Infrastructure which provisions for supreme performance.
For example a performance management system being hosted on a platform that gives 2 millisecond response time with 10,000 concurrent users. While this was okay in past, now we need to understand very closely the expected performance more closely.
Like in the above example the 2 Millisecond for 10,000 may never be needed in actual scenario or might be needed only during 15 days in the entire year.
We can plan for the better Infrastructure utlization by closely aligning it to the expected performance.
In the current times most effective ways to manage existing infrastructure is to establish achievable performance standards for the groups of assets. Once these performance standards are determined, organization needs to analyze its financial commitments over the life of the assets. Then we need to do a fine tuning exercise between financial needs and performance standards.
This exercise conducted over the entire Portfolio can help organizations identify over 20 % to 30 % reduction in their financial commitments.
Filed under: Consulting, Enterprise 2.0 | Tagged: Competing in difficult times, Cost Saving, Infrastructure Optimisation, Performance based infrastructure
