Best Practice Report

How Large Enterprises Approach IT Infrastructure Consolidation

December 28th, 2007
James Staten, null
James Staten
With contributors:
Simon Yates , Walid Saleh

Summary

Most IT shops are either down the path or plan to engage in IT infrastructure consolidation projects in the next year. How are they approaching it? Forrester surveyed 246 IT executives and managers at US enterprises to find of those actively pursuing consolidation projects what motivated the effort, how they measure success, and the types of servers and applications they are consolidating. It turns out that they are leveraging virtualization liberally, are just as likely to use green power solutions as traditional, and are willing to reconfigure equipment and data center space to overcome cooling inefficiencies.

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