Why You Need A Private Cloud: Close the IT Service Delivery Gap

Despite flat and even shrinking IT budgets, the demand for complex services and infrastructure to support business initiatives continues to increase, creating a critical service delivery gap between available IT resources and the ever-growing demand. This gap is now materially impacting the enterprise with lengthy and missed delivery SLAs, growing request backlogs, and expensive resource sprawl.

What's causing this gap?

• Large user base, often globally distributed
• Large number of supported services/applications
• Increasing service complexity & update frequency
• Growing compliance and governance pressures

“It takes us on average 14 days, and up to 23 days, to provision a single VM for our end users…”
~IT, Major Global Professional Services Firm

“We have a 30-day backlog of service requests that continues to grow.”
~IT, Global Hotel Management Firm

“It takes us weeks to deploy our standard 200-server configuration, inhibiting our ability to test the scalability of our system.”
~IT, Major Data and Information Management Company

More organizations than ever are investing in virtualization in an effort to consolidate servers, centralize resources, and reduce operational costs, and they’re already seeing some significant efficiency gains. However, they’re also finding it challenging to effectively manage the virtualized infrastructure to provide complex, user-centric services with their limited staff and resources. They’re in need of a way to delegate administrative responsibilities and speed delivery while maintaining control of the infrastructure and enforcing compliance.

Cut Costs and Drive Operational Efficiency with the Private Cloud

How does IT simultaneously cut its fundamental operating cost structure and increase its overall value to the business? While there’s no silver bullet that can transform an enterprise overnight, many companies today are realizing rapid and significant ROI made possible by the private cloud.

A properly-implemented private cloud enables enterprise organizations to reap all the benefits of cloud-based infrastructure delivery within the security of the corporate firewall, while leveraging existing (often sizable) capital investments. With the private cloud, enterprise IT and managed service can:

• Fully automate infrastructure delivery and dramatically reduce administrative workloads
• Leverage an industry-unique reservation model to manage current and future resources
• Easily scale solutions from individual departments to the global enterprise
• Integrate with and extend existing virtualization and data center automation investments
• Enable end users to efficiently self-serve infrastructure to support business activities
• Fully govern and control the deployment and reclamation of self-service infrastructure

Dramatic ROI with the Private Cloud

A true enterprise private cloud drives dramatic ROI above and beyond virtualization/consolidation alone. Surgient-powered private clouds typically achieve the following:

• Capacity utilization increased from 20-35% (with virtualization) to 75-95%
• Average infrastructure reservation reduced from 45 to 9 days.
• Number of VMs provisioned per day increased four-fold
• Nhe number of data center turns per year increased four-fold
• Average delivery time (SLA) decreased from 20 days to less than one day
• Number of servers required to support end user base reduced by half

Learn more about Surgient Private Cloud ROI.