Centrix Software, a provider of solutions that optimise the business value, visibility and control of IT services, today announced the availability of its free Centrix WorkSpace ROI calculator at the VM ’09 event in London. The online calculator is designed to help businesses investing in virtualisation assess where further server, application and energy cost savings can be achieved. It shows how increasing server density and rationalising application installs can improve the ROI of virtualisation infrastructures by up to 40%.

The Centrix WorkSpace ROI calculator is the first tool to give an assessment based on application metering in a virtual environment. It calculates the server and application cost and CO2 savings that enterprises could achieve by deploying Centrix WorkSpace, a virtual access platform that enables companies to optimise virtualised environments, meter the delivery of applications on a per user basis and apply charge-back metrics to application delivery. With Centrix WorkSpace, organisations can monitor and control how applications and services are being taken up across the business, and prove that their IT investments are generating real business value.

“The ROI tool gives enterprises the ability to calculate the savings that can be made by supporting more users with fewer virtualised servers, how this translates to CO2 reduction and the affect of reduced application installations on operational costs,” said Lewis Gee, vice president of sales and marketing, Centrix Software. “Adopting virtualisation gives businesses a great opportunity to fine-tune their service delivery and run lean computing environments. With Centrix WorkSpace we help organisations achieve this, providing them with value assessment tools and intelligence on the benefits their infrastructure investments are delivering to the business. Having this visibility of how IT services are used across the business significantly reduces the cost and risk associated with virtualisation projects whilst accelerating delivery and adoption of the services.”

Centrix Software provides support to organisations at all stages of their virtualisation lifecycles. With Centrix WorkSpace organisations can accelerate and improve the user benefits of server and desktop virtualisation projects and provide on-going business intelligence on IT consumption by user, business unit, department or company group. It enables organisations to:

• Automate the discovery and metering of applications
o IT can understand what applications are running enterprise-wide, how they are delivered, who is accessing them, how frequently and for how long
o The deployment of applications can be determined based on cost efficiency and user requirements
• Optimise infrastructure and application investments whilst improving user experience
o IT has a single launch pad for applications across any platform, virtual or physical
o Application presentation is decoupled from application delivery to improve the user experience and flexibility of corporate IT services
• Provide ongoing business intelligence on how to best deliver IT services
o Organisations gain visibility on the most/least cost efficient applications and platforms
o Business and IT decision-makers can understand the cost of IT services and align service delivery with actual business usage
o IT can define sourcing and application strategies based on business return

For further information on Centrix WorkSpace please see:
• Centrix Software - www.centrixsoftware.com
• The Butler Group Technology Audit on Centrix WorkSpace - http://www.centrixsoftware.com/workspace/butler-group-technical-audit.html
• Shaping Application Strategies eBook - http://www.centrixsoftware.com/workspace/shaping-application-strategies-ebook.html

The Centrix WorkSpace ROI calculator can be obtained from -
http://www.centrixsoftware.com/workspace/roi-calculator.html