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IDEAS Advantage – Helping Enterprise IT Buyers With Their Datacenter Planning and Decision Making

Announcement posted by Ideas International Limited 01 Dec 2010

Track Server Carbon Footprint, Performance, Price, and Efficiency

SYDNEY -- Ideas International (ASX:IDE) has released a new offering to help Enterprises with their Datacenter planning and decision making. Known as IDEAS Advantage, this family of online information and analysis tools will appeal to IT specialists in large Enterprises, including Infrastructure Architects; Server and Storage Specialists; Datacenter, Supplier, Facilities, and Infrastructure Managers; IT and Solution Architects; and Performance and Capacity Planners.

According to Stephen Bowhill, CEO of Ideas International (IDEAS), “Now more than ever, planning is critical when managing datacenter resources, especially with limited budgets. In light of these overriding concerns, I am pleased to announce IDEAS Advantage, a new offering that has been built from the ground up with IT buyers in mind.”

IDEAS Advantage combines research with tools, enabling users to control the analysis and target outcomes to their own specific circumstances. It offers unique insights, featuring IDEAS own server relative performance ratings, RPE2, as well as IDEAS-derived performance per watt information.

“IDEAS Advantage is also a great productivity aid. With it you can save time and money and thus make better IT decisions, faster.” Mr. Bowhill continued, “Many of our clients have said that ‘one click within IDEAS services saves one day of work.’ And that benefit is scalable – the more work in our portals, the more time saved!”

Typical uses for IDEAS Advantage include, understanding relative server performance and efficiency; planning server and storage replacements; analyzing and tracking carbon footprint; modeling server consolidation scenarios; establishing price benchmark models; and more.

The IDEAS Advantage family of information, analysis, and planning tools includes:

IT Efficiency – A tool to track the efficiency of a user’s server inventory. With this module users can manage their server inventory and identify least efficient servers. They can even track their datacenter server carbon footprint over time, across different locations.

Server Consolidation
– A server consolidation planning module that quantifies footprint, energy, and carbon emissions savings, while accelerating project timelines with greater accuracy.

Servers
– A module containing server information, analysis, and planning tools. It provides details on server features, pricing (including cost of ownership), and performance.

Storage
– The Storage module provides similar coverage to Servers, but with a focus on the increasing important area of storage.

IDEAS Advantage does not require the installation of any special software. It is delivered via a browser interface, which is simple, intuitive, and readily accessible. Each module is sold separately on a subscription basis; discounted bundles of multiple modules are also available. A 30-day free trial is available, allowing potential clients to experience IDEAS Advantage first hand.

More information can be found at: www.ideasinternational.com/ideasadvantage

About Ideas International (IDEAS)

Ideas International (IDEAS) is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:IDE) and has been in business for over 25 years. IDEAS hosts users in over 100 countries and maintains offices in the US, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

The company provides enterprise IT research, insight, analysis, and tools to both the buy and sell sides of the industry, counting as clients many large technology vendors and major blue-chip global IT users.

www.ideasinternational.com