Cloud Computing: What Data Center Hardware Should You Keep?
Posted by brennels on July 28, 2010
By: Vanessa Alvarez Publication: CIO.com Date: July 22, 2010
“As your enterprise adopts cloud solutions, it can be hard to determine what systems should stay and what should go.
Enterprises today have so much to think about when designing their overall data center strategies. It’s critical that a holistic approach be taken when laying out a data center design. The challenge for many CIOs and their IT organizations today is working with their partner to determine the best approach. First, what to do with the existing infrastructure in place?
With virtualization, many organizations rid themselves of physical servers, despite the significant dollar investment, and went to virtualization. Although many continue to do virtualization in a more phased approach, the understanding was that long-term, virtualization not only provided organizations with cost savings, but also better performance, agility, and flexibility, to name a few benefits. The point is, virtualization was not just about the cost savings, but about the value adds that it brought to the overall IT environment and ultimately, the business.”
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