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Data Center Consolidation: How to Turn Mandated Reductions Into Opportunity
I. The Problem
At a time when governments at all levels are being called upon to once again, “do more with less,” Data Center Consolidation (DCC) has become a hot topic. While the Federal government has called for a reduction of 2,400 Data Centers down to about 1,200 by 2015, what does that mean, and most important, how does government get there? (more…)
How Do You Handle the Recent Storage Shortage?
Gartner hosted a webinar on January 10, 2012: Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast. One of the topics covered was industry IT spend for 2012.
In covering that topic they made a point of saying that due to severe flooding in Thailand, they expect storage to become in short supply (as much as a 29% global shortfall) through the end of 2012. It is expected that the price of storage/GB will increase as a result and supplies will fall short of demand. They recommended finding alternatives to purchasing storage to keep costs down. (more…)
Don’t Forget The Legacy Applications After Data Center Consolidation
As part of their cost cutting program, organizations are consolidating data centers and the applications within them. Federal and state agencies in the public sector are among those where IT consolidation and moving applications to the cloud are top priorities as part of an overall goal to increase efficiencies and eliminate costs. In other industries, many consolidations are also under way due to mergers and acquisitions and other cost cutting initiatives. As you plan or undergo a consolidation project, you also need to plan for the retirement of legacy, redundant applications that are left behind.