Today's Trend: Server Consolidation
The trend today in the first decade of the new millennium is to move to server consolidation. This shift towards consolidating all of the computing functionality into one place is motivated by a need to reduce the complexity of the IT infrastructure, which by now could have several different servers, each handling unique applications. Reducing the physical distribution of the machines before consolidation also makes the system easier to manage.
Imposing standards on different, relatively standalone desktop PCs simply could not match the inherent efficiency in having computing power administered from a single physical access point. Today, many companies are looking at how to consolidate applications distributed ...
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