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Virtualization is seen as a fundamental enabling technology for consolidation, allowing each server to be much more efficiently utilized and giving more flexibility to the infrastructure. Organizations are rapidly evaluating and implementing virtualization as they look to further consolidate and reduce the hardware footprint in their IT environment. Together consolidation and virtualization are said to produce these benefits with nothing more than a small one-time effort of some time and money, but can you believe the hype?
While consolidation can certainly bring a number of benefits to organizations, it will take more than just a Friday afternoon to ensure that your consolidation and virtualization projects are truly successful. As far too many IT managers will tell you, a poorly planned project will have your executives screaming, users threatening mutiny, and IT in the hot seat to quickly undo all the effort that went into the project in the first place.
This paper lays out 5 steps to successful IT consolidation and virtualization projects. While you'll still be doing the hard work of actually implementing the new infrastructure, following these steps will enable you to make sure that you've covered all the issues in order to ensure that your organization experiences the full benefits of IT consolidation.
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