RSSThe Benefits of Consolidation and Virtualization
It’s also worth noting that internal politics might be the least of your hurdles. "Quite often, [the difficulties lie in] vendor relations," says Bell Mobility’s Tremblay. He notes that in one case Bell Mobility discovered a system consisting of 19 servers installed for one application by a certain vendor that Tremblay’s team found could be consolidated to nine. Such inefficient installations are going to be a thing of the past, Tremblay says. "We now say ‘no more,’" he insists, noting that Bell has created a policy of examining vendor architecture plans for efficiency before it agrees to an implementation. "[Vendors] have to start thinking of redesigning what they are selling" to make systems more efficient, Tremblay says.
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