Issue link: http://hub-fr.insight.com/i/532074
29 identifying and resolving performance and capacity issues. In many cases, a small IT team is supporting an organiza- tion that has significant competitive pressures; siloed man- agement tools make their job harder than it needs to be. The challenge: Improve efficiency, and fast How efficiently can you deliver IT services, deploy IT resources, and enforce IT policies and compliance mea- sures? The answer affects your profitability. With modern tools such as those found in the VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™, data centers can improve efficiency and achieve three key benefits: ✓ Faster service delivery: With insight across the entire virtual environment, including applications, infrastructure, devices and VMs, it's easier to identify performance drift and fix performance, capacity and configuration issues before they cause downtime ✓ Higher operational efficiency: By optimizing how resources are used and managed, over-provisioning is avoided and unnecessary purchases are reduced. And it goes beyond cost efficiency. IT teams are also able to work more efficiently, reducing fire drills and late nights, and focusing their skills to help the business be more competitive. ✓ Improved control and compliance: By automating configuration and compliance policies and monitoring results, the burden on IT is reduced – and many of the costs of non-compliance are avoided. How it works vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ delivers intelli- gent operations from applications to storage – managing the health, risk, efficiency and compliance of a dynamic environment from a single console.