4 Reasons to use CiRBA Software for Virtualization & Consolidation Analysis in Your Data Center

4 Reasons to use CiRBA Software
for Virtualization & Consolidation
Analysis in Your Data Center

"I am shoving old servers out the door by the truckload…We've gotten there a lot faster than we thought we would, and CiRBA is one of the major reasons…"

CiRBA is the only solution that provides analysis worthy of enterprise data centers for establishing and managing virtualized infrastructure. Unlike other approaches CiRBA offers:

1. Maximize Savings

CiRBA delivers not only the fastest time to value for a consolidation initiative, but also the ability to choose the paths that lead to the greatest efficiencies and savings based on your own unique goals and constraints. Because CiRBA is empirical and automated there is very little delay between targeting a group of servers and having an actionable plan. Unlike services intensive analysis approaches, CiRBA provides answers immediately so that action can be taken and savings realized. Our analytics engine enables you to choose the best paths to consolidation initially and continuously optimize your environment in spite of constant change.

2. The Intelligence You Need to Establish & Operate the Most Efficient Virtualized Data Center Possible

The complexity that hides beneath the covers of the modern data center poses a serious threat to the success of any consolidation initiative that is not methodically planned.

Consideration of All Key Constraints
CiRBA is the only solution that considers all of the critical business, configuration, technical and workload constraints required to analyze production environments for virtualization. Approaches that rely only on capacity planning tools ignore critical constraints that can make or break an initiative.

Most Advanced Workload Analysis
Risk mitigation is of critical importance in production environments and accurate workload analysis plays a key role. In addition to its rules-driven business and technical constraint analysis, CiRBA provides the most advanced workload analysis available for accurately modeling how workloads will look when virtualized. CiRBA's advanced workload analysis enables organizations to accurately plan and design virtualized infrastructure on any platform, including mainframes, according to workload personalities, risk tolerance, service level agreements and performance requirements.

Flexible What-if Analysis for Determining the Best Paths to Consolidation
CiRBA's powerful What-if analysis enables organizations to explore all the options available for consolidation from platforms to consolidation ratios to truly achieve the optimal balance between risk and savings while establishing a manageable infrastructure.

Most Accurate Analysis Available
Many consolidation initiatives are compromised due to out of date, incomplete or inaccurate data that has been manually gathered and fed into a spreadsheet for analysis. Technology driven analysis always provides timely data because it can be re-run at any time to accommodate constantly changing environments.

Cross-Platform Analysis
CiRBA provides cross-platform analytics to provide unlimited potential for evaluating an environment for consolidation and virtualization opportunities.

3. Ongoing Optimization through Dynamic Capacity Management

To say that virtualization provides new management challenges for IT is an understatement. CiRBA's analytics enable organizations apply advanced intelligence to the management of dynamic capacity on an ongoing basis to optimize utilization despite constantly changing conditions.

4. Vendor Neutral Results: No Hardware or Software Agenda

CiRBA’s analyses are vendor neutral and not tied to investments in new hardware or software. Leveraging CiRBA , you can choose the right consolidation strategies, software and hardware platforms, and targets based on your own unique requirements. CiRBA gives you the control to right size your environment and never over-provision based on ‘guesstimates’ by vendor-biased analyses.