Methodology
VAlign supports the development of a Virtualization Service Strategy by modeling business requirements and the IT service portfolio and providing the information required for accurate demand and financial management. The VAlign methodology can be tailored to any organization to fulfill the requirement for virtual services aligned to business needs.
Discover:
The VAlign solution discovers the virtual and physical infrastructure and all the information necessary to map IT services to the business including the organizational design, the current cost structure, the service catalog and personnel resources to support service delivery.
Measure:
VAlign measures the true usage of the entire virtual IT environment including computing resources such as processor, memory, storage, and network; combines that with the associated IT operational costs including power, cooling, real estate, depreciation and labor; then applies flexible pricing models to report cost of consumption to the organization.
Align:
The solution aligns IT and business groups through distributed usage and cost reporting to update policies based on consumption, scale capacity based on demand, and forecast future needs for accurate budgeting.