Web Application Controllers
The complexity of modern data centers coupled with the increasing value of information to business places IT in a double bind—more applications and components to manage with higher standards for availability. As today’s computing environment becomes more interconnected, with applications spanning multiple tiers on heterogeneous platforms, enterprise IT organizations are struggling to control costs while managing their infrastructure efficiently. Simultaneously, IT is expected to quickly adapt and respond to the needs of the business and to transform itself into a source of competitive strategic advantage. These trends emphasize the need for data center tools that simplify management of the infrastructure and enable greater operational efficiency and cost savings. Many enterprises are looking to achieve these efficiencies through two key areas: leveraging staff and increasing system utilization. Staff leverage refers to the ability to manage more systems per administrator or to broaden the scope of front-line operator capabilities. Driving up system utilization results in hardware cost savings and describes efforts targeted at expanding server and application consolidation.
While these methods represent a sound approach to improving IT operational processes, a third emerging strategy focuses on a shared services infrastructure. Many organizations realize that the current approach to IT infrastructure management is untenable. Most enterprises manage the infrastructure through heavily silo IT groups, which leads to a segregation of assets and resources across the business. This methodology fails to take advantage of higher utilization and to maximize returns more broadly. As a result, enterprises are turning to a shared services infrastructure (utility computing) model to alleviate these problems and to enable a more robust and dynamic computing environment. While this architecture offers significant benefits from a utilization and service delivery perspective, it also introduces planning and management challenges. Our Application Controllers enables IT organizations to achieve significant operational efficiencies through simplified application control and automated, policy-based management capabilities. In terms of next-generation data centers, it helps enterprises implement a shared services infrastructure.
This overview summarizes the barriers to efficiency in today’s data centers and discusses how Sencilo’s Application Controllers addresses complex IT environments through enhanced efficiency and automated application management.
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