CMDB Paves the Way to IT Savings
The modern data center is a minefield of complexity, and opportunity. Make a wrong move
and the business can lose millions. Make the right move and the business can save millions. To make the right moves, you need accurate and timely access to configuration information across your infrastructure, visibility into the complex relationships between assets and the means to predict the impact of change.
That is the promise of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), delivering a single repository for the collected intelligence of IT Operations and enabling smarter, structured change with predictable results. This leads to both hard and soft cost savings throughout IT.
A Sampling of the Savings
One leading financial services firm realized a 70% cut in Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) of incidents as a direct result of making it easier for every member of IT to track down the information they need to resolve issues.
A car manufacturer was able to reduce annual software licensing expenses by 44% by measuring utilization versus purchased licenses and identifying under utilized and end of life services that were still consuming power, time and money.
One city government identified over $180,000 per month in hard savings, and avoided a $600,000 purchase through more accurate tracking of vendor contracts, and right-sizing services to actual utilization and growth.
Whether you're investing in virtualization, server consolidation, green computing or even best practices initiatives such as ITIL or COBiT, a CMDB is an essential resource for consolidating your scattered IT knowledge into a single location for more accurate planning and management of all of your IT projects.
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