{"id":9884,"date":"2009-09-17T15:45:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2009-09-17T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"two-thirds-of-irish-tech-pros-say-it-budgets-have-been-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9884","title":{"rendered":"Two Thirds of Irish Tech Pro\u2019s Say IT Budgets Have Been Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/news\/article\/13878\/cio\/two-thirds-of-tech-pros-say-it-budgets-have-been-cut\">SiliconRepublic<\/a> where I have been quoted.\u00a0 Microsoft TechNet Ireland ran a survey and found that 2\/3 of respondents said budgets were being cut.\u00a0 At the same time, the business was looking to IT to find more cost effective ways for the business to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Some simple solutions?\u00a0 If you virtualise using Hyper-V then you can slash your server OS spend and your systems management costs.\u00a0 An Enterprise license assigned to a host allows 4 free guest Windows Server operating systems.\u00a0 A Datacenter license assigned to each physical CPU on the host allows unlimited Windows Server guest operating systems.\u00a0 So a dual CPU machine (maybe 8 or 12 cores) could run unlimited Windows Server licenses for just \u20ac5000 or thereabouts!\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The same applies to Microsoft System Center.\u00a0 You can assign and Enterprise (for 4 VM\u2019s) or DataCenter (for unlimited VM\u2019s) System Center CAL\/SAL to manage your VM\u2019s with Data Protection Manager, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager.<\/p>\n<p>What it you already have an Enterprise Agreement with MS for your existing physical servers?\u00a0 Virtualise them and \u201ctrue-down\u201d on your report.\u00a0 Let your managers know how much your saving and suggest a commensurate bonus \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Then send me a cheque! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s much more to virtualisation of course.\u00a0 There is a spend at the front end on hardware and storage.\u00a0 Maybe on consulting too.\u00a0 But over the long run you save big time on power (especially with Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Parking).\u00a0 You also separate yourself from being tied to hardware so hardware replacement becomes a lot easier.\u00a0 That\u2019s more true with Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 quick storage migration where a hardware replacement for a VM (move a VM from one device to another) has maybe 2 minutes of downtime (this is different to Live Migration or VMotion).<\/p>\n<p>39% of those surveyed said virtualisation was what they were doing.\u00a0 Other solutions included business intelligence and unified communications.\u00a0 Give it a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/news\/article\/13878\/cio\/two-thirds-of-tech-pros-say-it-budgets-have-been-cut\">read<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a story on SiliconRepublic where I have been quoted.\u00a0 Microsoft TechNet Ireland ran a survey and found that 2\/3 of respondents said budgets were being cut.\u00a0 At the same time, the business was looking to IT to find more cost effective ways for the business to operate. Some simple solutions?\u00a0 If you virtualise using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Thirds of Irish Tech Pro\u2019s Say IT Budgets Have Been Cut&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}