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Every organization pursuing digital transformation needs to adapt IT from the edge to the cloud to move fast and speed time for innovation. But the devil is in the details. Each proposed IT infrastructure purchase presents decision makers with tough questions. What is the correct infrastructure configuration to meet our Service Level Agreements (SLAs)? Where should we modernize – on-premises or in the cloud? And how do we display ROI going forward?
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There is no easy, straight answer. Each organization is at a different stage in the transformation journey, and each faces unique challenges. The traditional approach to IT procurement decisions has been highly manual: looking at spreadsheets, applying estimates, and trying to understand all of the complex dependencies of the workload on the underlying infrastructure.
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Partners and vendors alike are constrained. They must provide a unique solution for each customer with little to no visibility into a prospect’s IT environment. This has created an IT infrastructure planning and procurement process that is inaccurate, time-consuming, wasteful and inherently risky from the point of view of meeting the SLAs.
Smart solutions make better IT decisions
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It is time to abandon old processes and reinvent IT procurement with a new approach that leverages the power of data-driven insights. For IT decision makers and their partners and vendors, a modern approach includes three essential steps to optimize procurement – and accelerate digital transformation:
1. Understand your VM needs
Before investing in infrastructure modernization, it is important to handle your current workload. Ultimately, you need to have a clear understanding of what you need before you decide. To reach that understanding, enterprises, partners and vendors need to be able to collect and analyze fine-grained resource usage data per virtual machine (VM) – and then leverage those insights to help each VM do its job. The resources needed for this should be accurately determined.
Why is this so important? VM administrators often choose from a menu of VM templates of various sizes when they provision workloads. They typically do this without access to the data – which can cause slow performance due to under-provisioning, or subscribing to the VM if they select a sizable template. Getting your infrastructure plan right is essential before proceeding.
2. Model and Value Infrastructure with Accuracy
Any infrastructure purchase requires a budget, or at least an understanding of how much money you want to spend. To create that budget, an ideal IT procurement solution provides an overview of your inventory, including overall information on storage, calculations, virtual resource allocation and configuration details. It will also provide a simulator for on-premises IT including the ability to input your actual costs of storage, host and memory. Bonus points for the ability to customize your estimate with the depreciation period, as well as the options for third-party licensing and hypervisor and environmental costs.
Together, these capabilities will tell you how much money you are spending to meet your needs – and help you avoid overpaying for infrastructure.
3. Optimize workloads across public and private clouds
Many IT decision makers wonder about the actual cost of running specialized applications in the public cloud versus keeping them on-premises. Public cloud costs often start out attractively low, but as usage and data volumes increase, it can increase rapidly. As a result, it is important to have a clear understanding of costs before deciding where the workload will live. A complete cost estimate includes identifying the ideal configuration for compute, memory, storage, and network when moving apps and data to the cloud.
To do this, your organization and your partners and vendors need a procurement solution that can map their entire infrastructure against the major cloud providers’ existing pricing and configuration options. It enables you to make quick, easy, data-driven decisions about the cost of running applications in the cloud based on the actual resource requirements of your VMs.
And, since you’ve already sized your infrastructure right (Step 1), you won’t have to worry about moving waste resources to the cloud and paying for capacity you don’t need .
HPE is a leader in modern IT procurement
HPE has transformed the IT procurement experience with a simple procurement solution delivered as a service: HPE CloudPhysics. Part of the HPE Greenlake edge-to-cloud platform, HPE CloudPhysics continuously monitors and analyzes your IT infrastructure, models the infrastructure as a virtual environment, and provides cost estimates for cloud migration. Since it’s SaaS, there’s no hardware or software to deal with – and no future maintenance.
HPE CloudPhysics is powered by some of the most granular data capture in the industry, with over 200 metrics for VMs, hosts, data stores, and networks. With the insight and visibility of HPE CloudPhysics, you and your vendors and partners can collaborate on the right size infrastructure, optimize application workload placement, and reduce costs. Installation takes just a few minutes, with insights generated in as little as 15 minutes.
Across all industries, HPE CloudPhysics has already collected over 200 trillion data samples from over one million VM instances worldwide. With over 4,500 infrastructure assessments, HPE CloudPhysics already has a proven record of significantly increasing the ROI of infrastructure investments.
This is the kind of game-changing solution you need to transform your planning and shopping experience – and power your digital transformation.
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Jenna Colleran. about
HPE
Jenna Colleran is the Worldwide Product Marketing Manager at HPE. With over six years in the storage industry, Jena has worked in primary storage and cloud storage, most recently in cloud data and infrastructure services. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut.
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