Data Center Consolidation

Multiple and redundant racks or sometimes even Data Centers are common in many organizations. A small margin of redundancy aids disaster recovery and business continuity but organizations need to consider the significant cost involved in maintaining this additional infrastructure which, in most cases, is unnecessary.

So what exactly is Data Center Consolidation?

Data Center Consolidation is a process that uses efficient technologies to merge and reduce the IT assets of an organization, It involves consolidation of both hardware infrastructure, software  and public or private cloud infrastructure.

Hardware-based consolidation focuses on using intelligent switches, storage virtualization, blade chassis and rack management while software-based consolidation includes switching to a single management console to manage several different platforms, server virtualization, cloud computing and automation.