Redefining Consolidation Strategy
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IT consolidation, one of the hottest trends in today's economy, is viewed as a means of lowering IT costs while simplifying IT management.
Some perceive the consolidation trend as a desire to return to the old mainframe days, when IT was centralized and considerably easier to control and manage. The real opportunity presented by the consolidation trend, however, is gaining the best of the two IT models: the benefits of centralized management of IT along with the high performance and end-user productivity of the distributed computing model.
In its 'Enterprises 2005 IT Priorities' report, issued in March 2005, Forrester Research Inc. surveyed 515 large companies and discovered that infrastructure consolidation would be a high priority for 63% of them during the following 12 months. In its 'Remote Offices: Critical Links In Enterprise Architecture' report published that same month, Forrester stated that 'a critical aspect of the consolidation and IT rationalization plans of large enterprises is support for remote offices. If not planned for, data consolidation will slow branch office users' data access to a crawl, hurting productivity and morale.'
Many enterprises enter into data center consolidation programs only to realize that a substantial fraction of their IT resources and expenses are 'outside the walls' in hundreds
IT consolidation, one of the hottest trends in today's economy, is viewed as a means of lowering IT costs while simplifying IT management.
Some perceive the consolidation trend as a desire to return to the old mainframe days, when IT was centralized and considerably easier to control and manage. The real opportunity presented by the consolidation trend, however, is gaining the best of the two IT models: the benefits of centralized management of IT along with the high performance and end-user productivity of the distributed computing model.
In its 'Enterprises 2005 IT Priorities' report, issued in March 2005, Forrester Research Inc. surveyed 515 large companies and discovered that infrastructure consolidation would be a high priority for 63% of them during the following 12 months. In its 'Remote Offices: Critical Links In Enterprise Architecture' report published that same month, Forrester stated that 'a critical aspect of the consolidation and IT rationalization plans of large enterprises is support for remote offices. If not planned for, data consolidation will slow branch office users' data access to a crawl, hurting productivity and morale.'
Many enterprises enter into data center consolidation programs only to realize that a substantial fraction of their IT resources and expenses are 'outside the walls' in hundreds
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