Utilizing a Relative Performance Indicator to Optimize Efficiency

Presenters: Thomas Hudgens, Senior Program Manager, Willdan Energy Solutions and Greg Dietrich, Director of IT Infrastructure Capacity and Inventory Management, Credit Suisse, on behalf of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

Tuesday, May 18
3:20-3:50 pm, Bryant

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Explore how a leading financial services firm established a relative performance indicator for multi-platform distributed compute servers. Learn how this indicator has been ingrained into the firm's end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle management processes to establish best practice around: server hardware evaluation and platform selection; solution design and capacity provisioning; demand management and capital expense governance; and adoption of virtualization at a scale. The impressive results will demonstrate real optimization in the form on flattened data center consumption and deferred data center capital expenditures all while growing the compute processing power in step with a volatile market and aggressive business growth.