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Consolidate Windows Now With Next Generation Server Virtualization

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server consolidation

Overview The business case for virtualization is based on an industry-wide focus on server consolidation, a need for enhanced flexibility and responsiveness of IT assets, and high availability of critical infrastructure applications. While hardware savings has been thought a primary driver for server consolidation in the past, the primary savings are more and more in the areas of environmental (power, cooling, real estate) and management costs, which are growing far more rapidly than the hardware investment itself.

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Publisher	XenSource	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Server Consolidation, Virtualization

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Go Green with Ease: Five Steps for Small Businesses

Publisher:
Cisco Systems

An examination of server consolidation: the trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge

Publisher:
IBM

IT Optimisation Podcast

Publisher:
IBM

Best Practices for Making Your NetBackup Environment Highly Available With Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server

Publisher:
Symantec

The HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Challenge

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

What's the fuss about... server consolidation?

But, for those who have the courage, the ultimate in server consolidation can provide a better up-time for your company, greater capabilities to deal with the peaks and troughs of user needs, less impact to the business when it comes to upgrades...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

IP poised to storm the call centre

Reliability, security and proven technologies outweigh cost in some cases but for the vast majority of call centre operations cost saving has indeed been the key driver for IT choices over the last five years.

Channel:
VoIP
Tags:
call centre,
voip

The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft's shrewd vision, outsourcing lessons and the mouse

Just think of it as a transition in reverse and consider staff, hardware and software (including licences), intellectual property and real estate. The reason for the cancellation was that requirements had changed following a strategic review of IT...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?

CIOs are already starting to reduce the number of boxes [servers] and they're doing that through having more highly configured systems and systems that are more suited to consolidation than systems have been in the past - and we expect that trend...

Open source gets thumbs-up - new government report

The OGC foresees the savings from an open-source switch being particularly successful when undertaken with "server consolidation and by delaying hardware replacement". The report lists interoperability and cost as two of Linux' major advantages...

Channel:
Law & Policy

Printer bickering costs firms millions

HP announced details of several high-end business printing devices that it says can cut an organisation's printing costs by 30 per cent through consolidation, improved reliability and better services.

Channel:
IT Director

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