The value of IT as a Service (ITaaS)
An organisation’s cloud needs vary significantly based on industry, workloads, and applications. While they may benefit from the flexibility of public cloud resources, they generally also require an on-premises solution. According to Gartner, over 75% of midsize and large organizations will have adopted a multi-cloud or a hybrid cloud strategy by 2021.
ITaaS on-premises delivers many of the things that our customers expect from the public cloud: pay-per-use, elastic IT and simplified IT operations. But they also get the added control that comes from directly operating their data centre or edge solution.
Every organisation has a unique process to improve IT operations and services. However, there are commonly faced challenges that organisations face.
CHALLENGE: PROACTIVELY MANAGING IT CAPACITY AND COST
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Increased costs due to overprovisioning server and storage capacity. These include both initial capital costs and higher support costs.
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Constant changes in technology. Organisations seek to get the latest hardware without the initial capital outlay to replace their existing infrastructure.
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An increasing amount of data needs to be stored and accessed. It is challenging to keep up with storage requirements to support growth.
CHALLENGE: OPTIMISING STAFFING AND PROCESSES
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Continued pressure to reduce IT budgets. It may become too costly to dedicate resources to routine support and maintenance activities.
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Standardisation of global operations and transparency across usage and consumption within the organisation.
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Desire to simplify the IT provisioning process and improve time-to-value. The traditional process can be long and drawn out.
ITAAS ADOPTION STRATEGY
No matter how great the public cloud experience, some organisations need to know where their data is, how it’s being managed, and maintain responsibility for all elements of its security. So there is another option – IT as a Service. Converting from traditional IT to ITaaS takes careful planning. Each step must address business goals: to run workloads where they are needed on best-fit platforms, protect the company’s IP, provide security and governance, control costs, and improve engagement with the business. Addressing these requirements is the purpose of this HPE GreenLake blueprint “Four essential steps to adopting IT as a service”.
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SOLVING IT TOGETHER
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SOLUTIONS
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AS A SERVICE
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