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Migrating to the Solaris Operating System: Migration Strategies

Overview This article defines the most important terms in migration and differentiates between these terms. In addition, it presents migration strategies, the benefits, and risks of each strategy, and the appropriateness of each strategy for various situations. Migration is often confused with the act of consolidation. While consolidations involve migrations, as applications and business functionality are moved to a single machine, migrations do not necessarily involve consolidation. The value proposition realized by migration relates to improved quality of service (QoS) and reduced TCO realized as a characteristic of the new platform, environment, and overall IT infrastructure.

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Publisher	SUN	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	September 2003	Downloads	32
Format	White Papers
Topics	Upgrades and Migration, OS Interoperability, Sun Solaris

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