Optimize and Consolidate SQL Server

More servers are deployed in production than necessary, resulting in excessive hardware, utilities, licensing and maintenance costs.
Many databases are business critical, and prolonged downtime while IT changes the environment is unacceptable.
It can be hard to secure funds for an overdue upgrade project.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Get to action with the tasks that have the most impact. Focus your time and energy on the items that will provide the greatest return on investment.
Create a plan to replace infrastructure that can make costs and changes predictable.
Clearly communicate these needs to executive stakeholders, identifying the business value of changes.

Impact and Result

Create an inventory of your current environment.
Perform an analysis of the current system to identify candidates for consolidation and out-of-date platforms.
Create a detailed plan to test, execute modifications, and stabilize your platform.
Use Info-Tech’s tools and templates to guide your project and get to action.

Optimize and Consolidate SQL Server Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should consolidate and optimize your SQL Server environment, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Optimize and Consolidate SQL Server – Executive Brief

1. Identify opportunities and challenges

Understand opportunities to optimize SQL Server.

2. Plan the optimization project

Create a workflow for optimization.

3. Test, execute, stabilize, and debrief

Put the plan into action and collect the results.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

Authors

Darin Stahl

Frank Trovato

Andrew Sharp

Contributors

Richard Teta, Manager of Technology Support, Trinity Wall Street
Dave Hildebrand, Manager of Information Technology & Systems, Meno Ya Win Health Centre
Mike West, SQL Server Educator, DBA, and Technical Consultant
System Analyst Manager, a community bank in Upstate New York
Senior DBA, a major international organization
Chief Technology Officer, mid-size US medical organization