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Aside from cost savings, what are some big server consolidation benefits?
I’m trying to make a case to my CIO and want to be prepared for all of the questions he might ask. I think going green and cost savings might benefit our company and I read that server consolidation is one way to do it. What are some other benefits from server consolidation?
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This is taken from CDW's Case Studies on ThermoFisher Scientific and a World-wide Manufacturing company.
Business Challenge: Need for cost reductions across the Mainframe infrastructure.
Benefits of Consolidation:
- Reduce support personnel cost at remote sites
- Centralized Help Desk
- Reduce operating expenses
- Improved productivity / cost
Business Challenge: Rising power, cooling, and floorspace costs.
Benefits of Consolidation:
- Single hardware platform to manage
- Reduce total cost of ownership of hardware/software components
- Provide greater utilization of hardware resources through the sharing of system processor and memory resources
You can check out this link on virtualization solutions:
http://www.cdw.com/content/solutions/infrastructure-optimization/server-virtu...
Taya Elery
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