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Avoiding Death by Complexity: Simplifying Management on the Enterprise IT Floor

Hewlett-Packard

Effective management of business-critical data requires that enterprises get the most out of every investment in corporate IT. The current level of infrastructure complexity found at most large-scale datacenters, however, makes this nearly impossible. Fortunately, a relatively straightforward simplification strategy based on consolidation of the IT infrastructure offers clear advantages in a number of areas, most prominently with hardware CAPEX and with long-term management costs. Creating a simpler, easier-to-manage IT environment has certain prerequisites however, the most significant of which are standards compliance to enable basic management capabilities, an ability to address higher-order management functions not covered by existing standards, and a common management interface across both servers and storage to enable managing via interoperable “systems” rather than managing individual technology silos.This white paper, written by Enterprise Management Associates, looks at the key causes of IT complexity, looks at ways to eliminate them, and presents an alternative path that will lead to simplified, efficiently managed IT environments.

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