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  • How to minimize server consolidation mistakes

    Posted July 12, 2010 - 1:47 pm

    Joe Latrell, IT manager and lead programmer for GetMyHomesValue.com, a real estate data services company in Lancaster, Pa., knows that it's all too easy for even a knowledgeable and experienced IT veteran to make mistakes while managing a complex server-consolidation project. "You have to think about everything," he says. "It can be a minefield."

  • IT centralization is back in fashion

    Posted March 9, 2010 - 10:52 am

    When the economy plummeted at the end of 2008, the Western U.S. branch of The Salvation Army was ahead of the cost-cutting game. CIO Clarence White had centralized the IT organization a year or two earlier, and he had consolidated the database and storage servers from the business units into a single data center in Long Beach, Calif.

  • Higher Ed, Lower Costs: Colleges Remake Data Centers

    Posted February 17, 2010 - 2:51 pm

    Driven by the lean economy, large enterprises have been cutting data center costs for the past three years, but higher education has generally not followed suit. This year, that looks to change.
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