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Server Consolidation on IBM Intel-Based xSeries

Overview Over the past 15 years, companies have acquired many servers from various vendors. Many are now finally realizing the enormous cost of maintaining and managing these servers. This has led to the rapidly growing business trend of server consolidation, in order to reduce cost and re-architect the IT environment for efficiency and effectiveness. Server consolidation is not just about the reduction of servers and costs. It is about optimizing your IT infrastructure so it can help drive the creation of new businesses, new opportunities. This webcast will discuss the benefits of Server consolidation.

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Publisher	Mainline Information Systems
Live Date	20th May 2004 01:03 UTC
Format	Webcast
Topics	x86-standard Servers, Server Consolidation

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