Flash Research Papers
Data Center and Networking
Our company has the opportunity to save a total of $13,218,400 within the next three years by deciding to switch to a new tier III data center. The current data center that our organization has a total of 1734 minutes of down time a year with each minute costing us $14,800. In one year we could have the facilities in place to upgrade our data center to a Tier III data center, with availability of 99.98%, cutting down time every year from 1734 minutes to 105 minutes.
The jump from our current Tier I data center to the Tier III data center would provide us with the most up to date technologies and protection for our everyday business operations. A Tier III data center is always able to continue working because it is always being supplied power from multiple sources so that if one power supply ever goes out there will be another source ready to provide power. Tier III also provides the organization with “fault tolerances” so that parts of the data center could go down without causing the whole entire data center to shut down sending us offline. When maintenance would be required for the data center we would have the ability to work on a specific section of the center without having to shut the whole system down. Tier III also provides us with a system so that even if all the power lines went down we would still be able to stay online with the use or batteries and generators that could keep the system online as long as there was fuel.
Building a Tier III data center for our organization is a very worthwhile investment and the sooner that we decide to make the jump the faster we will begin saving money. The current data center we have is sucking money from us costing us $14,800 for every minute of downtime. With 1734 minutes of downtime a year the current data center is causing us to lose $25,663,200 every year because of downtime. The total cost we could save a year by switching from our tier I data center to the tier III data center is $24,109,200. The initial investment for the tier III data center would be 35,000,000, it would pay for itself within the first three years, costing $35,000,000 the first year and saving us $24,109,200 for every year after that first year. The quicker that the data center is built the quicker that money will be able to show up for the company to use.
Visualization and Cloud Computing
Our company has an opportunity in front of us to save a massive amount of money. If we choose to use server virtualization and cloud computing instead of physical servers for the upgrade of our servers we could save over 9 million dollars. We have the ability to use a mix of physical servers and virtual servers to help cut the costs of having only physical servers that aren’t being used to their full potential. Our business could end up saving so much money with this new investment that we would be able to use that money in other areas of the business that need more funding.
Server virtualization is able to run our network on a much more efficient set of servers. Instead of having servers that have less than 20% usage we will be able to use the full usage of the server, letting us consolidate what normally would take 10 servers into only 1 server. That means that instead of having 1000 servers on our property we would only need 200 servers. With the efficiency of the virtual servers we would only need 80. The difference between having 1000 servers to deal with and 280 servers is huge and will save valuable time. Virtual servers have the ability to house what we need in a safe, secure, and reliable manner. The virtual servers would be able to be up and running in no time compared to what it would take to set up the physical servers. If we needed more servers it would also be very easy to call up the virtualization company and get more servers online.
If we were to replace the 1000 servers we currently have with physical servers it would take a 3 year investment price of $12,000,000. If we were to split it up and use 200 physical servers and 80 virtualized servers it would only take a 3 year investment price of $5,760,000. That right there is a difference of $6,240,000, basically impossible to say no to. Every aspect of this would be saving us money. We would only have to buy 280 servers instead of 1000, resulting in money saved. We would only have to pay for the yearly upkeep of 280 servers instead of 100, resulting in money saved. There is no reason that we shouldn’t switch from physical servers to virtualized servers.
WordPress
Our organization has an opportunity to realize a savings of 2.45 million in the next three years if we decide to implement WordPress. WordPress is a tool we can use to further our web development, while also allowing our developers to be 77.8% more efficient in the process. With this increase in efficiency we would be able to do a headcount reduction of web developers, allowing us to save millions in the next three years.
WordPress allows our developers to be as efficient as possible while creating web content. WordPress is a too used to create websites as well as maintain and update our existing site. It has many plug-ins that allow the site to have new and exciting content hosted. Our developers will be able to create any type of site with any specific features we desire in an efficient manner.
WordPress can help our organization achieve a raise of 77.8% efficiency. The cost of implementing WordPress would cost us $174,000 over three years, however the benefit that implementing WordPress would bring us would be $2,625,000 over a three year period. The overall net benefit of implementing WordPress over three years is $2,451,000. WordPress is a relatively cheap way for our organization to improve our web presence while receiving a cash benefit at the same time.
SharePoint
Investing in Sharepoint will yield a benefit to our company of nearly $2,000,000 every 3 years. Sharepoint is a way for our PMP’s to manage documents in a much faster fashion by providing a platform for equal access to documents. Because of Sharepoints efficiency, our PMP’s will able to save the organization on time management, saving us money.
SharePoint is an application that would allow us to efficiently share and work on documents organization wide. There would be no more lost documents and work would be seamless, because SharePoint allows users to work on and edit documents at the same time. Our organization would be able to get information out to everyone efficiently. SharePoint will allow our whole organization to be on the same page, allowing the management of documents to be a hassle free process.
SharePoint would be reletavily easy to switch to as one of our PMP’s is already an expert with the program. Without SharePoint our PMP’s are able to generate $7,878,000 in a three year span. After the switch to SharePoint our PMP’s would be able to generate $9,878,250 in a three year span which results in a net benefit of $1,846,250 for three years after taking the cost of implementing SharePoint of $154,000. SharePoint is easy to implement and can only benefit our organization and allow us to keep growing at the pace we desire.