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Server Consolidation and Virtualization: Issues and Actions

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Overview Many IT organizations today have an abundance of servers, most of which are underutilized. According to various industry estimates, servers typically operate at five to 20 percent of full processing capacity. Underutilization is a major contributor to high data center costs, which include money spent on power, cooling, floor space, administration, and software license fees. The costs scale in direct proportion to the number of servers installed. This over-provisioning of servers not only drives up costs, but because servers are typically siloed and dedicated to specific applications or jobs, it also hampers business agility. Consequently, it's difficult to repurpose servers to meet changing business needs.

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Publisher	BMC Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Server Consolidation, Virtualization

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