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Essentials for Successful Server Consolidation

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Overview Distributed server architectures have become extremely costly and difficult to operate and maintain. Server consolidation helps companies overcome these problems. This white paper elaborates on: server consolidation delivering ROI benefits, why server consolidation projects must be approached cautiously, why sizing end-to-end capacity and performance needs is the key to success, how application performance products can help CIOs deliver results.

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Publisher	Compuware Corporation	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2003	Downloads	5
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management

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