Workload Consolidation

Without workload consolidation, the benefits of virtualization and the next-generation data center will not come to fruition. To implement a truly cost-effective and manageable next-gen data center, consolidation is the key. <br><br> Find out how workload consolidation combines with QoS and intelligent scaling to create the best path to maintaining high application performance.

Big Consolidation and Efficiency Lessons for Big Government

It’s no secret that consolidation strategies lie at the heart of efforts at major government agencies to drive efficiency. In the private sector, such efficiency drives are motivated by profit incentives. Within the federal government, IT leaders have essentially been ordered to act—by the President of the United States, no less. This mandate is crystallized within the 2010 Federal Data Consolidation Initiative, designed to reverse the growth of federal data centers. Continue Reading

Can Workload Consolidation and Performance Co-Exist?

While server virtualization has reduced the number of physical servers, most data centers are seeing growth in the number of storage systems that support those infrastructures. The reason for the increase in storage systems is to meet the performance expectations of the application owners and users. For fear of a sudden spike in performance, IT planners are forced to over-buy storage performance. Continue Reading