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Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation

06:53 | Jason Lopez | Dec 14th, 2007 8:30am |

Intel is launching an eight-year process of data center consolidation, as Brently Davis, communications and stakeholder manager, blogs on IT@Intel. In this video podcast, he discusses the benefits — reducing costs, improving server and storage utilization], creating higher density & more energy-efficient data centers — and challenges, like impact on business partners, impact on different parts of the company, and costs. The strategy is known as “D.O.M.E.,” which stands for “Design, office, manufacturing and enterprise” computing. IT Architect Travis Broughton, who uses a parking lot to illustrate some of the challenges of virtualization in a recent post on IT@Intel, also weighs in on virtualization’s role in data center consolidation.

Related links:
Intel’s Matthew Rosenquist blogs about Virtualization from a security professional’s perspective - is it a dream or a nightmare?

Some images courtesy of: Frederik Vandaele, Jon Hurd and Philip Schatz via Attribution 2.0 Generic; Stan Wiechers, via Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

Tags: data center consolidation, Brently Davis, IT@Intel, storage utilization, data centers, D.O.M.E., Travis Broughton, virtualization, Matthew Rosenquist

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One Response to “Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation”

Kenneth:
May 25th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

A lot of people used to be opposed to automation on all fronts a few years back. Now I see the same thing happening to data center consolidation. Both technologies bring sweeping changes to a network and save a ton of money and time for any company who employs these techniques so I often wonder why so many oppose new technologies. Consolidation is fantastic and in five or so years we should really start to see the benefit of the process.