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However, with consolidation, planning and implementation are equally demanding and that is the area, which was affected because of individual decisions. ...
Before bravely moving forward with server consolidation plans, and before sitting down to determine return on investment and total cost of ownership, it is important to take a broad view. Questions such as the consequences of consolidation if the company grows rapidly or shrinks must be taken into consideration, which we failed to answer. A server consolidation project is not one of the easier endeavors an organization can undertake. Yet server consolidation and the rationalization of other systems that often go with it can do wonders for a company (King, 2002).
Common sense holds that if we at BCBSFL with hundreds, if not thousands, of servers consolidate, cutting the number of servers and server locations, it would save money. My experience on the other hand teaches me that making server consolidation pay off can be almost an art. ...
Centralization is an obvious principle of server consolidation. ... I was only trying to change the number of servers, however, with consolidation come changes in network architecture, communications, storage systems, application and data distribution, and personnel, should have also been taken into consideration (King, 2002).
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