levels, simplified backups and restores, and better asset management and security.
Rational
In combination, or rational, consolidation, the company's distributed applications and services are combined onto fewer servers. It is a considerably more complex undertaking, but the potential rewards are greater. Cost savings range from 25 to 75 percent here resulting from better asset utilization and elimination of unnecessary systems, reduced staffing, lower maintenance costs, and fewer operating environments to support.
2.4.2Why consolidate servers
IT managers are feeling, pressure to reduce costs, maintain or improve service levels, and maintain or improve the availability of systems that become ever more critical to daily operations.
Users want new applications that are delayed or inadequate because of IT infrastructure. IT needs to provide a
Many organizations are realizing that, as the number of servers increases, the cost and operational complexity are also propagating. In many cases, there are concerns whether multiple distributed servers can provide the application availability, hours of service, responsiveness, and ability to grow with the requirements of the business. These characteristics are being increasingly demanded by business applications. To reduce these costs, many customers are attempting to consolidate their servers into a more manageable central location.
The main objectives of server consolidation are:
Recentralizing servers
Merging workloads onto a single large server
Consolidate architecture
Optimize the IT infrastructure
2.4.3Benefits from server consolidation
The main benefits of server consolidation are:
Single point of control
Rapidly growing firms, especially those growing through mergers and acquisitions, frequently felt that disparate distributed systems were so unwieldy to manage that they were losing control, which could constrain further corporate growth.
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