Driving on-demand computing is server consolidation, a way of saving money and getting more for less. Server consolidation comes in a variety of flavors – blade servers, powerful 64-bit processors, ...

For years, server consolidation has been touted as beneficial by vendors, clients, and analysts alike. Yet our research indicates that many consolidation projects have been overly consolidated, ...

initiative provides. One of the major benefits is operating cost reductions. Operating cost reductions are numerous. Costs associated with facility space, power, A/C, storage, network infrastructure, ...

Joe Latrell, IT manager and lead programmer for GetMyHomesValue.com, a real estate data services company in Lancaster, Pa., knows that it’s all too easy for even a knowledgeable and experienced IT ...

LAS VEGAS – IT managers on hand for this week’s Gartner Data Center Conference packed a presentation on server consolidation — like they have at past conferences — as they sought today to compare ...

Two primary types of consolidation are often lumped together: data centers and servers. Data center consolidation simply moves servers from multiple data centers into a central location, while server ...

Today's IT environment is unique. Budgets remain flat, business units now hold IT departments accountable for services provided, and businesses demand less downtime and increased productivity. In ...

Whatever the outcome of the White House's initiative to consolidate costly federal data centers, the transition presents a dilemma for contract employees. They stand to gain business by aggregating ...

Organizations usually use consolidation to dramatically minimize capital and operating expenses while increasing and enhancing the availability and scalability that are associated with their SQL ...

The notion that "the fewer the physical servers you have, the better" is getting serious attention lately. At the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Gartner analyst John Phelps gave a presentation on ...

Has anyone done anything with server consolidation with VMWare? It looks promising on paper, and I know of one guy who swears by the product for creating an entire test lab on a single server, but I ...