Server consolidation and disaster recovery

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Server consolidation has been the talk of IT departments for several years, and represents a still popular cost cutting move. The concept is simple: rather than dedicate applications to individual servers, which can result in underutilized servers, install multiple applications onto servers in order to more efficiently utilize server hardware, thereby reducing costs.

Check out this great post, it’s talking about server consolidation, it’s got some great comments. In the virtualization and consolidation space, we should be looking at how we can utilize the technology, to make it a business enabler, whether it’s taking the development server estate and consolidating it on to an ESX farm composed of some rack mount or blade servers; or taking the next step and virtualizing the bcp environment. That said we need to as ever do so with due diligence, investing the right amount of time, finance and processes, so that invoking bcp is doing just that, we’ve tested the infrastructure, we’ve tested the functionality and we’ve signed off on any associated risk.

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