Since the global recession, organisations have looked carefully at reducing fixed cost investments in IT hardware infrastructure, and hosting applications in dedicated environments on single but scalable infrastructure.
Shortening times of readiness by having the ability to reproduce environments quickly, and consistently. Allocating memory, storage and processing power quickly and affordably.
Virtualisation has led to efficiencies in server usage by only allocating resources to servers when needed, reducing costs of physical hardware requirements and speeding up maintenance and deployment of servers.
IBM Cognos servers are all designed to run on virtualised environments as well as physical ones.
Reduce the IT footprint further by moving to Cloud based analytics and reporting.
This option allows organisations to license and utilise IBM hardware for a monthly fee and dramatically removes the expensive option of having to acquire hardware and “know-how” on setup and maintenance. The cloud environment is managed and support by IBM at IBM Data centres, so this represents a significant saving in investment.
With users now consuming content on the move, or remotely away from regular places of work, the footprint is reduced further by enabling users to use personal tablets, laptops, home computers or other devices to securely access important data.
The option is fully supported by IBM and provides a low-cost entry into the analytics, planning and reporting workspace.
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