You have been asked by a company to help drive IT efficiency, focusing specifically on direct, short-term activities.
What would you recommend?
A . Begin development of a self-service portal for the business to develop and deploy applications
B . Attempt to consolidate vendors of hardware and software running in the environment by simplifying workloads
C . Identify applications with workloads that run infrequently or that require boutique services for migration to the cloud
D . Initiate a cloud comparison initiative to compare the price of competing cloud alternatives
Answer: B
Explanation:
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Direct Efficiency
• One way to quickly improve efficiency is to move from dedicated resource pools to a utility model in which provisioning is automated based on demand. Assess the environment for candidate applications to co-mingle across business lines that have complementary workloads.
• Review the list of vendors hardware and software that is running. Determine if consolidation can occur based on simplifying the workloads into just the categories. Calculate a ratio of these in terms of workloads running. This is a good precursor for evaluating whether workloads are better suited to run in private or public cloud environments.