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THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY

Overview Nearly every Information Technology organisation is using consolidation, or is considering using consolidation, as a way to reduce both capital and operating costs. IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilised servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can run at higher utilisation levels and reduce overall space, power, and cooling requirements.

In this whitepaper, Sun explore how reducing the total number of servers can help to reduce both administration and hardware maintenance costs. As a side benefit, IT organisations saddled with legacy applications running on obsolete hardware and operating-system platforms can use consolidation to upgrade to new, more powerful servers.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Server Consolidation

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