Consolidation approaches inefficient factors, reducing the cost incurred in managing more applications and systems than required and saving space, energy, and effort while improving asset utilization. Integration starts with virtualization, removing physical systems from the services that are trying to use them. This facility to separate the logical from the physical gives hardware independence, and that enables IT resources to be shared and dynamically worked up as needed.

Service optimization is at the core of the next-generation data center outsourcing technology solutions. When IT operations are optimized, it is viable to redirect IT spending from day-to-day works to innovations that drive business growth. Service standardization helps control IT cost, quality and uncertainty. It allows IT managers and users across the organization to achieve everyday IT tasks consistently and reliably each time they deliver them—one of the critical principles of IT service management (ITSM).

Instead of simply delivering infrastructure, automation simplifies the IT provisioning and data center maintenance services by facilitating their delivery without the necessity for human intervention. Automation lets IT step out from behind the management console. It enables users to regulate the deployment of new application settings and other IT tasks by accessing a self-service portal and choosing from a standardized program of services.

The focus is on growing into a software-defined environment, discharging applications entirely from the physical infrastructure so that they can run more easily and pervasively in the cloud. Logic is programmed into the software to harmonize the delivery of virtualized infrastructure resources, along with identical middleware and applications. This allows the infrastructure to adapt to changing workload requirements dynamically. Employing analytics and cognitive computing, the software efficiently optimizes its response to provisioning and other service requests as they record.