Throw Another Box at It
Given the relatively inexpensive initial cost of acquisition, the focus on performance often results in companies overstocking their hardware infrastructure. I recently heard about a consultant hired by a U.S. company to study its IT infrastructure. The company had three locations with a total of 900 servers. The consultant started looking at the workloads and the utilization of each server and discovered that there was only one business application per server. According to the system administrators, the company had tried to run more than one application, but the results were poor performance. The application administration people started pointing fingers at each other, each claiming the problem was with the other application. ...
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