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Decommissioning Legacy Servers
RDB Concepts were commissioned to investigate the decommissioning of several legacy enterprise database servers which had. become increasingly expensive to maintain. On further investigation, there was a broader problem of managing an ageing estate with large licence and maintenance obligations
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Reduce Expenditure
Renewing legacy, proprietary equipment with modern commodity hardware
Make recommendations on an appropriate hypervisor and settings
Future Efficiency
Evaluate opportunities for monitoring the efficiency of the estate going forward by:
- Performing a survey of existing infrastructure
- Evaluating various asset management tools present
- Making initial recommendations
- Developing a management information tool which can be used to evaluate likely savings and risks on a regular and ad-hoc basis.
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What type of businesses benefit from this type of solution?
Established companies often have issues with rising OpEx and Risk profiles on ageing equipment. Often this is one of the key motivators to move to cloud with equivalent SaaS applications. However sometimes the appetite for change is moderated by the cost and risk associated with such a fundamental move.
RDB’s optimisation service, backed up by its broad and deep systems skills mean that we can either:
Tame environments
Tame the legacy environment and/or put in an appropriate cloud setting. Effectively removing the hardware risk.
Enhance Security
Move the applications into current patch-level operating environments and/or otherwise enhance its security.
Optimise Infrastructure
Optimise the infrastructure to radically reduce the cost of licensing legacy hardware (particularly if the software is licensed by core or CPU count.
In each case RDB is not only able to make the recommendations, but we can also perform the most complex migrations as well as provide a comprehensive, 24×7, full-resolving Managed service for new environments.
What are the key benefits of this service?
They key benefits are cost and risk reduction, however they may be other strategic benefits such as easing the way for strategic migrations and platform development.
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Optimisation
RDB Are experts at getting the most out of your database assets. Using our expert team we can optimise your software and infrastructure to:
- Save money on expensive licences
- Reduce the cost of a cloud migration
- Make your database perform faster
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Migration
At RDB offer comprehensive application and environment migration services. Ideal for a move to the cloud as well as those using a hybrid, or legacy infrastructure who need a
complete turnkey solution.
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