Good evening, I'm Dracula, and I love to suck energy from your data center. I want to bite your budget! I can drain out half your dollars just to cool your site, and more in places you’re not looking. Most managers don't know that an energy efficiency analysis can help keep me away - and help you reduce energy costs, turning me green!

Frankenstein, the Multi-vendor Environment Monster

Hi there! I’m Frankenstein, pieced together from parts of countless vendors. The need to manage and support all my pieces terrifies even the most experienced datacenter manager. Have a patch to install? Have a change to manage? Have a downtime situation? No one knows where to start or who to call when I’m roaming the aisles. You could put a leash around my neck with a Service Management process or a Mission Critical Partnership across the environment and have one throat to choke!

The Blob, the Virtualized Data Center…..Gone Wrong

Hello, I’m the Blob, the virtualized data center - gone wrong. I start out as a great idea as technology managers deploy new virtualization projects. However…….they are trying to manage their new environments with old processes and support. So what happens? A horrible blob of virtualized servers detached from the physical world and multiplying out of control. I feed off of wonderful promises of savings and efficiency. And I terrify datacenter managers. But there is a way to contain me --- an organized and strategic approach with the right virtualization tools and services.

Skeletons, Legacy, Unknown Server and Storage Hardware

Hellooooo out there…..! We’re unknown or forgotten servers and storage. Like skeletons, we rattle away in racks, or lurk in mysterious corners of your data center. We feed on your power sources to stay alive and you keep us cool. If only you had a way to find us…..! We'll give you a clue to put us to rest once and for all! Consider a project to consolidate or virtualize your hardware. That would transform your data center to give you greater capacity and energy efficiency.

Ghosts, the Spooks haunting unsecured Datacenters

Boo! We’re the spooks that sneak into your datacenter, ghosting through your security blind spots and vulnerabilities. We cause all kinds of mischief! ... assuming your identities, spying on your data, and creating mayhem on your systems! If only IT managers knew we can be stopped with effective security governance, and banished altogether from your datacenter with proactive security and identity management software and services.

Werewolf, the Untrained Custodian

Awhooo! I’m a data center Werewolf. I’m not very well trained and I roam around the data center, unchecked, tinkering with this and that. I haunt the data center manager’s dreams. Too bad managers don't realize there are solutions to end the nightmares. Technology education training can upgrade my skills. And if I understood service management processes, I would have a best practice to follow, helping to improve operations.