How Murdoch Webster Uses Live Optics to Optimise IT Infrastructure

With our close partnership with Dell Technologies and extensive expertise in their solutions, we provide scalable and sustainable technology tailored to each client’s needs. Using Live Optics by Dell, we gain detailed insights into our clients' IT environments, particularly in multi-vendor and multi-cloud systems.

Live Optics collects real-time data from servers, storage systems, and data protection environments, helping us assess performance and capacity efficiently.

What is Live Optics?

Live Optics is a free software tool designed to help businesses understand and optimise their IT infrastructure. It gathers real-time metrics on storage, servers, and data protection systems, offering a comprehensive overview of performance.

The tool supports a wide range of hardware, operating systems, and platforms, making it especially useful in multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments. It also provides cloud pricing comparisons for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, assisting in cloud planning decisions.

Key features include:

• Server and Cloud Monitoring: Tracks performance and configurations for both physical servers and virtual machines.

• File Management: Analyses storage growth, file types, and potential for archiving or compression.

• Storage Analysis: Provides insights into storage hardware, including inventory, configuration, and performance.

• Data Protection: Monitors backup systems and configurations, giving visibility into backup policies and capacity.

• Workload Summaries: Generates reports on database performance and capacity.

How Murdoch Webster Uses Live Optics

Live Optics helps us provide data-driven solutions for our clients by:

• Gaining Visibility into IT Infrastructure
  Live Optics gives us a clear view of storage, server, and cloud performance, allowing us to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and capacity issues quickly.

• Providing Data-Driven Recommendations
  Based on real-time data, we offer precise recommendations for system upgrades, performance improvements, and capacity planning that are aligned with actual needs.

• Managing Multi-Cloud Environments
  Live Optics supports multi-cloud environments, allowing us to evaluate performance across platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, ensuring that clients' infrastructure is optimised.

• Optimising Data Protection
  By providing insights into backup systems and data protection policies, we ensure clients' data is properly secured while identifying potential inefficiencies.

How Live Optics Benefits Businesses

Live Optics allows us to ensure that our clients' IT systems are optimised for performance, reliability, and scalability. By addressing potential issues early, we help businesses avoid downtime and inefficiencies, keeping IT infrastructure aligned with their growth plans.

The tool collects metadata only, ensuring privacy and security while providing valuable insights. It does not access personal or application data, which makes it a non-invasive yet powerful assessment tool.

Practical Use Cases

Live Optics provides crucial data for:

• Infrastructure Optimisation: Pinpoints where resources are underutilised or overextended, enabling effective upgrades.

• Cloud Migration Planning: Offers performance data and cost comparisons to support well-informed cloud migration decisions.

• Data Protection Enhancements: Monitors backup capacity and ensures robust data protection measures are in place.

Live Optics by Dell is a valuable tool used by our Engineering team here at Murdoch Webster, enabling us to accurately assess and optimise IT environments. By providing real-time performance data, it allows us to offer tailored, data-driven recommendations for infrastructure upgrades and capacity management.

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