Optimising Server Infrastructures

Implementing up to 31 core infrastructure best practices on key server workloads can significantly reduce IT operational costs and increase workload availability.

A new whitepaper from Microsoft looking at optimisation techniques shows how a set of best practices can cut IT costs.

The paper summarises the results of a research study that found that companies implementing the core infrastructure best practices reported IT labour costs of more than $10,000 per server per year less than those that did not. 

The study focused on six server infrastructure workloads that are essential to keeping organisations up and running.

The workloads considered are 

• Collaboration
• Data management
• Identity and access
• Email
• Connectivity
• Print 

These server workloads were analyzed from a core IO perspective, and the whitepaper makes recommendations on the best practices that have an impact on each area, prioritised into high-impact practices that show the largest returns, widely adopted practices, and those that are less frequently adopted but still useful.

The whitepaper can be downloaded from the Microsoft website.