Server Consolidation

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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Top 10 Reasons

Following are the ten most common reasons (source: InfoWorld) why organizations consolidate. 

1. Losing track of servers 
2. Facing scalability restrictions 
3. High ratio of administrators to servers 
4. Running more than seven operating systems 
5. Difficulty controlling software licenses 
6. It is less expensive to buy new servers than to do capacity planning 
7. Purchasing is decentralized, but management is centralized 
8. Utilization rates for more than half of the servers are in single digits 
9. Physical space for every server is becoming difficult/expensive to find 
10. Server maintenance costs are skyrocketing 

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