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Over the course of a year, the engineers at Nissan’s vehicle manufacturing plants in Smyrna and Decherd, Tenn., have implemented virtualization to consolidate 159 servers used in assembly and component manufacturing down to 28.The consolidation is impressive, not only for its scale, but for the fact that it’s been carried out by manufacturing and quality-assurance specialists outside the regular Nissan IT department. None of the servers involved was considered part of the business information services function, said Phil D’Antonio, department manager over conveyors and controls engineering in Nissan’s Smyrna plant.

As a person who’s always been interested in cars and the car industry, it was very cool to read an article talking about how Nissan managed to use virtualization and consolidation in their business, do check it out.

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