IT Resource Reallocation

Identifying and redeploying underutilized IT resources can be a huge cost-cutting initiative for IT organizations. Several industry studies show that it is common to have 70 to 80 percent of IT resources sitting idle. Once identified, those idle resources could be redeployed for new services, minimizing the waste and cutting capital expenditures significantly.

TeamQuest Software Addresses IT Resource Reallocation

TeamQuest software lets you quickly and accurately identify IT resources that are being underutilized. Underutilized resources are often targets for hosting new work and applications or are candidates for consolidation. By combining the at-a-glance ease of TeamQuest Alert to identify "low usage" resources and the predictive ability of TeamQuest Model to show the result of adding work or consolidation, you can confidently reallocate resources to projects and applications that need them.

TeamQuest Alert gives you a one-stop look at what is happening within your enterprise. You can easily identify what servers are running normally and which resources are being underutilized. Further investigation of these resources will show whether they are always underutilized, making them good candidates to either add work or consolidate.

Further analysis of this particular server shows it is underutilized. The application "HR Systems" is only using 33% of the CPU. With TeamQuest Model, you can move work from an overutilized server to this machine and predict what the load will be on this server.

In this example, an application that is being developed called "Account Management" is added. Now with two clicks of the mouse, you can predict the effects on the server.

After adding the "Account Management" application to this server, the active resource utilization is running at 64% busy. Other reports available from TeamQuest Model show the impact of this change on other resources, such as throughput and response times. After verifying that none of the resources have been negatively impacted by the change, it is clear that adding the "Account Management" application is safe. Making this change allows you to get more use from the server without a negative impact to throughput or application response times.