Consolidating and Protecting Servers in the New IT Operational Model

Consolidating and Protecting Servers in the New IT Operational Model

Already burdened with the challenges of providing access to content, applications, and services for the growing geographically dispersed workforce, IT organizations are also faced with a conflicting challenge: controlling capital and operational costs across the enterprise while enabling an "always-on" infrastructure.

Companies sell into hypercompetitive markets that are driven by the explosion of the Internet, efficiencies in supply chaining, diminishing consumer prices and profits, and the entrance of larger profit-centric organizations into historically niche markets. Managers are now treating IT organizations as profit and loss centers, controlling expenses in the same way that other departments within an enterprise organization control their expenses.

Looking at infrastructure deployments globally, IT organizations quickly realize that the choice to move to a distributed server model globally has fulfilled the need of many initiatives, such as enabling productivity through high-performance access to local infrastructure resources. It has, however, also created a nightmare of a capital and operational expenditure model that, in the new economy, must be controlled. Enter server consolidation.