Server consolidation

Server consolidation is a term more frequently used in connection with virtualization, where virtualization helps organizations to consolidate various IT workloads while running independently on a single hardware. What this consolidation mainly does is to achieve cost reduction by getting rid of running dedicated hardware for one application. Other than the cost factor, server consolidation greatly helps to ensure that existing hardware equipment does not stay underutilized and it is utilized in a more productive way.

It is extremely important to analyze the existing environment before going forward with a server consolidation and virtualization project, because we don't just randomly pick up the application server and decide ...

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