Data Center Consolidation – Strategy for Success

Why perform data center consolidation.

Reduce costs

• Consolidating data centers has the potential to reduce Operating costs, Facility costs, IT personnel costs, and Hardware costs
• By reducing the number of devices that need to be monitored and maintained, the IT team will have an opportunity to standardize and update infrastructure for greater efficiency providing increased control
• Reducing capital equipment costs by consolidating multiple functions into fewer devices
• Reducing power and cooling by eliminating the number of devices in the data center
• Eliminating floor space and building maintenance activities by consolidating within and across data centers
• Physically security will naturally improve when there are fewer sites and assets to manage. Also, reduced connections between facilities will make it easier to monitor and control security entry and exit points
• Consolidation can also improve security due to the reduced number of updates and patching required for the systems software
• As part of consolidation, automation of business-critical processes and systems becomes possible. This can improve overall resilience by improving process consistency and enforcement of regulations

Simplify operation

• By reducing the number of data centers management and operations is simplified
• Existing team members can be reassigned to more value-added activities
  
  

Manage growth

• Fewer data centers facilitates accommodating the growing storage capacity, performance, and operational requirements of the business
  
  

Increased agility and responsiveness to changing business needs

• Enables the support of new, revenue-generating activities for the business
  
  

Reduces risk of data loss and downtime

• Safeguards against the threat of downtime from hardware failures, power failures, site-wide outages and other disasters