The benefits of infrastructure outsourcing

Forrester's Phil Sayer shares practical advice on best practices in IT infrastructure outsourcing when your goal is business transformation. Beware: while the business case for infrastructure outsourcing is sound, organizations still find cost savings lower than expected.

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This on-demand approach to computing gives organizations the flexibility to add processing and storage resources both dynamically and to cope with temporary increased requirements. Consolidation and centralization of servers into a single data center reduces the total physical server resource required and simplifies management and security. As a further step you can access the cloud for SaaS delivery of applications that allow you to reduce the number of servers you need. If you can eliminate some of your servers, you are already simplifying your infrastructure and reducing the cost of your IT operations.

Phil Sayer is a Principal Analyst at Forrester, serving IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals. He is an expert in global and European enterprise networking strategy and implementation. Specifically, Phil advises enterprise clients on the selection and use of telecom and network equipment and services. For more information on the Forrester Leadership Boards and free related research, please click here.