and can cost up to US $28,900. SET. GOALS. CDW Canada customers have diverse goals around data centre technologies in 20
UPGRADING AND
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE
It’s tempting to hold onto server infrastructure beyond its intended lifespan, but delaying upgrades extracts costs that only go up with time and measurably hurt future IT performance.
LOST TIME 2.6
HOURS OF
UNPLANNED
DOWNTIME
Companies can expect 2.6 hours of unplanned downtime in each of the first three years of a server’s life (per user, per server). That rises to 5 hours in 5 to 7 years. And those failures impact other areas of the organization, too.
MANAGEMENT
COSTS
The cost of maintaining servers also goes up as they age. Waiting to upgrade can mean a 40% rise in application management costs and a 148% increase in server administration costs.
148% SERVER
ADMIN COSTS
POOR
PERFORMANCE You should also consider declining performance when deciding whether to upgrade. A server’s performance deteriorates by 14% each year. By its fifth year, it has just 40% of its performance when new.
DETERIORATES
14%
EACH YEAR
EXPENSIVE
OUTAGES According to a Redshift Research survey of 200 IT decision makers, it takes an average of 7 hours and 53 minutes to recover from a data centre outage, and can cost up to US $28,900.
PREPARE
FOR THE FUTURE Planning ahead and upgrading servers at the right time can keep systems running reliably, on budget and at peak performance. Modern servers are built to catch imminent failures before they happen, and allow sophisticated performance analysis. Planning for upgrades can help ensure you have the best tools available, today and tomorrow.
MANAGE TO SUCCEED
By efficiently managing data centre resources with tools such as Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM), you can better plan for not only the day-to-day, but long term as well. In fact, 32% of IT decision makers who were using no form of DCIM said they lacked enough actionable data to make day-to-day decisions or plan for the long term.
SET GOALS CDW Canada customers have diverse goals around data centre technologies in 2018.
21
Cost reduction
24
Expansion/Scalability
15
Managed/Hosted services
21
Consolidation
19
Redundancy
PARTNERS WHO GET IT
To learn more about how CDW’s solutions and services can help your organization, visit CDW.ca/orchestration Sources: Why Upgrade Your Server Infrastructure Now? - IDC and Dell, July 2016. 5 Reasons Why It’s Time to Upgrade Your Servers – Dell EMC. Inefficiencies Cost Data Centres Time and Money - Intel. Customer survey, CDW Canada Business Technology Expo 2018.
