Consolidation

Organisations rely on their computing infrastructure to provide a broad array of services. To meet the demand to deploy, maintain, and grow these services IT organisations must continue adding new servers to increase computing capacity. However, as a consequence of purchasing more and more servers, organisations face a growing server sprawl that presents challenges that include:

• Rising costs. In addition to spending a growing amount of money to acquire a growing number of servers, organisations face rising costs for power, cooling, network infrastructure, storage infrastructure, server administration, data centre upgrades and new data centres.
• Decreasing manageability. Managing servers becomes increasingly diffi cult as the number of servers grows. Adding to that challenge is the heterogeneous mix of hardware vendors, server models, operating systems and confi gurations that IT departments need to support.
  

• Decreasing efficiency. As server sprawl increases, IT organisations are forced to spend an increasing amount of time on reactive tasks such as server provisioning, confi guration, monitoring and maintenance. This leaves them less time for proactive, strategic projects to improve infrastructure and service levels. In short, the need to provide new and upgraded services has brought organisations face-to-face with the limitations of their current data centre infrastructure. As a result, organisations are looking for solutions that provide them a more cost-effective, manageable and efficient infrastructure.

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