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Vendor Consolidation Delivers Valuable Business Outcomes White Paper: Maintaining and managing a relationship with one vendor, any vendor takes time, effort, and resources. Many enterprises, however, maintain not one but numerous IT vendor relationships, a dozen, two dozen, even more. Multiply the cost of maintaining one vendor relationship across all the vendor relationships the enterprise maintains, and the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Consolidation, Relationship, Vendor Consolidation, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-09-01

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Getting the Most Out of IT Consolidation: How does one manage the new infrastructure after IT consolidation? In this webcast one can see how HP customers addressed their needs in several consolidation scenarios to include application consolidation, server and storage consolidation, IT management consolidation and datacenter consolidation. From managing the network, systems and applications to managing the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Consolidation, IT Consolidation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; Webcasts
Optimizing IT through Server Consolidation - Seven Keys to Success: To help ensure that server consolidation results are long-lasting and predictable, it is important that consolidation projects are logically and thoroughly planned. If done correctly, server consolidation does work, and can help businesses lower costs and maintain or improve service delivery quality. However, since every organization...; Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2002-08-02
Vendor Consolidation: An Opportunity to View IT Through a Single Pane of Glass: IT managers have traditionally avoided becoming "Too involved" with a single vendor, preferring to spread their IT investments among several vendors in order to maintain vendor independence. Reducing the number of vendors necessary to conduct effective IT operations offers the benefits of simplifying both IT infrastructure and the processes needed...; Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Information Technology, Consolidation, Strategy, Management; White papers 2007-02-01
Six Best Practices for Windows File Server Consolidation: Is storage growth driving up costs in your data center? Are you looking for ways to simplify operations? Server consolidation can help. It can streamline your workload and it's proven to cut costs by up to 60 percent! But what's the best approach to server consolidation? This...; Tags: Consolidation, ONStor, Microsoft Windows, File Server, Best Practice, Taneja Group, Server Consolidation, File Servers, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-09-01

A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation: This paper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also provides an introduction to workload profiling and portability technology which has helped thousands of organizations accelerate their consolidation initiatives and optimize...; Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Data Center, Data Center Consolidation, Consolidation Initiative, Data Centers, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2007-03-12
A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation: This whitepaper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also provides an introduction to workload profiling and portability technology which has helped thousands of organisations accelerate their consolidation initiatives and...; Tags: Data Center, Citrix Systems Inc., Data Center Consolidation, Consolidation Initiative, Server Consolidation, Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2008-09-03
Best Practices for IT Consolidation Management: Consolidation can increase IT efficiency and help deliver predictable, high-quality IT services by reducing the number of disparate IT processes and applications in the organization. But without a comprehensive strategy, consolidation can cause downtime, increased costs, and service-level violations. The attendee of this webcast will gain practical insights for developing...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Consolidation, Best Practice, Strategy, Management; Webcasts 2007-05-17
Server Consolidation Technologies - A Practical Guide: This paper talks about server consolidation, which describes a variety of ways of reducing capital and operating expenses associated with running servers. Gartner research divides consolidation projects into three categories: logical consolidation means implementing common processes and management across a range of server applications; physical consolidation means collocating servers in...; Tags: Consolidation Mean, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2002-11-12
Successful Server Consolidation: It's All in the Preparation: IT departments are unable to implement a server consolidation effort without showing economic justification first. While a server consolidation effort provides IT departments many operational and strategic advantages, often the most important aspect of a successful consolidation is the financial value. This paper highlights the technological advantages of server consolidation...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2003-05-01
Introducing XenEnterprise Volume Virtualization Via Next Generation of Server Virtualization: A XenSource Whitepaper: The business case for virtualization is based on an industry-wide focus on server consolidation, a need for enhanced flexibility and responsiveness of IT assets, and high availability of critical infrastructure applications. But in spite of an impressive growth rate, server virtualization has yet to become main stream. Today's proprietary virtualization...; Tags: XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2006-11-29
Achieving an Enterprise-wide View of Data through Database Consolidation: While many organizations have undertaken IT consolidation projects in recent years, very few have completed database consolidations. But there are compelling reasons to do so. Download this white paper from HP to read about the market factors that are driving database consolidation initiatives, the key challenges of consolidation, and HP’s...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidation, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2005-11-01
An Examination of Server Consolidation: Trends That Can Drive Efficiencies and Help Businesses Gain a Competitive Edge: This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. It also looks at the potential cost savings associated with server consolidation and offers information on how organizations can sustain the advantage they...; Tags: Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2006-12-01
An examination of server consolidation: trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge: This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. It also looks at the potential cost savings associated with server consolidation and offers information on how organizations can sustain the advantage they...; Tags: Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2008-06-11
Storage Consolidation: Moving From DAS to SAN/NAS: The proliferation of on-line data and the need for instant access 24x7 has put pressure on IT professionals to do more with less. Consolidation is an approach to achieve more efficient use of IT resources. Server, Application, and Storage are some of the types of information system consolidations. This paper...; Tags: Storage Consolidation, NAS, Dell Computer Corp., Consolidation, SAN, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2002-08-01
Infrastructure and the Future Enterprise: This paper is focused on providing a futures-based consolidation methodology that includes the examination of existing technological advances in consolidation and virtualization technologies across today's most widely used platforms. It will also explore how these technologies can be utilized to best perform new consolidation efforts and to augment, manage, and...; Tags: Computer Sciences Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2006-06-01
Consolidation and Virtualization: Business Strategy for a Successful Consolidation Implementation: For all the incentives to enterprise consolidation, there are also some powerful lines of resistance to overcome. Because many organizations don't have a centralized IT budget, Logicalis Senior Infrastructure Consultant observes, individual departments are often less than enthusiastic about surrendering hardware they have purchased with their own money to the...; Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Business Strategy, Datatec, Virtualization, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-01
Maintain Fewer Servers - Overview: Nine Steps to Server Consolidation: Increased automation, e-commerce, Web portals, and Internet traffic have contributed to a rapid growth of server infrastructure for many IT organizations. The result is a mix of disparate environments, server sprawl, and increased management overhead. Infrastructure optimization and server consolidation can help organizations to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and achieve...; Tags: Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware; White papers
Server Consolidation/Virtual Server 2005: This webcast discusses strategies for server consolidation. The topics include heterogeneous and homogenous consolidation approaches, server sizing, virtualization technologies, and management tools.; Tags: Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage; Webcasts
Thinking Beyond Silos to Consolidate Systems for Maximum Simplicity, Agility, Value: While any storage consolidation activity can deliver benefits, adopting a strategic view of consolidation that looks beyond storage silos can bring significantly greater outcomes by maximizing simplicity, agility, and value. For example, by consolidating not just devices or arrays but storage management tools as well, organizations can boost the return...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidation Effort, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-02-01

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