Although the distributed computing movement has been a boon for hardware manufacturers, it has significantly increased the costs and complexity of maintenance and support. Growing servers in all areas of business have been addictive and costly for many organizations. In the past decade, many companies have been trying to reign in and control server growth with server consolidation efforts. Take the time to review your inventory of servers and determine if you are able to consolidate. Although server consolidation does not save short-term costs, it saves in long-term cost of maintenance and support.
In addition to consolidating servers, consolidate infrastructure software tools when possible. Review your inventory list of software products to identify tools that provide the same functionality, which you can then eliminate. One company saved $150,000 in maintenance expenses by eliminating nonstrategic legacy infrastructure software tools. Another company consolidated three software distribution packages down to one and saved $50,000 in maintenance and support expenses.
When doing server consolidation, consider virtualizing servers at the same time. As you need to reinstall applications on new servers with consolidation, it is not that much more complex to implement a virtualized server environment at the same time with even more benefits.
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