Whitepaper: 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation and Virtualization

Most organizations today are faced with conflicting goals and challenges. They have geographically distributed workforces, with headquarters, datacentres, branch offices, and mobile workers scattered widely. Everyone needs to access email, file shares, and mission critical applications, and the speed of access directly ties to employee productivity, so computing resources have been widely deployed in many locations to give the local workers the best possible service delivery. However, this approach is now seen as wasteful and expensive with extra hardware and software to buy and maintain for many locations, and often few local IT staff to support the systems. As budgets get tighter, organizations are looking for solutions to handle this burden. IT consolidation is the number one approach today, taking infrastructure out of remote offices and into the main data centre as a way to cut costs and boost IT staff productivity. The trick is how to consolidate without hurting the performance for the end users.

This paper lays out 5 steps to successful IT consolidation and virtualization projects. While you’ll still be doing the hard work of actually implementing the new infrastructure, following these steps will enable you to make sure that you’ve covered all the issues in order to ensure that your organization experiences the full benefits of IT consolidation.