All-in-One Guides:Data center systems management
Chapter 3: Data center capacity planning
Data center consolidation
What happens when server sprawl starts bogging down your data center? Data center consolidation can help relieve the pressure. Learn about data center consolidation in this section of our guide to data center systems management and capacity planning.
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Q&A: Data center consolidation expert, Clay Ryder
30 Oct 2006
Interview - Clay Ryder, president of Union City, Calif-based analyst firm The Sageza Group Inc., spoke at Data Center Decisions 2006 last week in Chicago. We caught up with Ryder before the conference for an email interview on the topic of his presentation, data...
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Data center consolidation: 10 takeaways from the pros
Tip - A data center consolidation can be the crowning achievement of an IT career, but also one of the biggest gambles. Here are five pros that pulled it off, and five tips to getting it done.
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Data center consolidation, virtualization: Ultra-dense server deployments
Tip - Combining blade server, virtualization and SAN technologies in the data center leads to ultra-dense server deployments, which can save on hardware costs and power.
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HP's data center consolidation provides management insights
30 Aug 2006
Article - HP plans to reign in apps and hardware configurations for its in-house data center consolidation project. Execs offer more specifics and strategies on the company's move from 85 facilities down to six.
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U.S. Census reins in data center sprawl
04 May 2006
Article - The U.S. Census Bureau and an Alexandria, Va.-based project management firm gutted an extremely complex data center and got on board with blade servers.