Server & PC Optimization

Computing hardware (servers, desktops, and laptops) represents a significant level of investment for businesses. Building an IT asset management discipline enhances your chance to fully optimize the IT hardware in your environment. In fact, Gartner believes that if you commit a minimum of 3% of your annual operating budgets to ITAM programs and tools, you can expect a 25% reduction in your total cost of ownership (William R. Snyder, Gartner, "Establishing an IT Asset Management Identity"). Yet most IT organizations have focused their energy towards the transactional or operational aspects of an ITAM program, never realizing the full fiscal and strategic benefits.

Blazent offers true ITAM analysis with an extremely focused business acumen. The platform specifically addresses the need to triangulate IT asset data with business and management data from other parts of the organization to form a business view of servers and PCs. Blazent easily enables focused analysis around:

Asset Lifecycle Optimization

• Where are our servers and PCs?
• How are they being used (what functions)?
• Are there systems that should be retired, but aren’t?

Asset Inventory Reconciliation

• Do we have an accurate baseline inventory?
• Have we reconciled recorded data with physical inventory?
• Is our asset management system reconciled with our financial systems?

Vendor Management

• Have we over-committed around specific vendors?
• What would it cost to move to migrate to another vendor?

Configuration Management

• Which servers and PCs are over-/under-configured?
• Which are over-/under-powered?
• What OS and applications are most prevalent?
• Are we ready for an upgrade and how much would it cost?