Increase IT Efficiency: Maintain Fewer Servers
Increased automation, e-commerce, Web portals, and Internet traffic have contributed to a rapid growth of server infrastructure for many IT organizations. The result is a mix of disparate environments, server sprawl, and increased management overhead. Infrastructure optimization and server consolidation can help organizations to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and achieve greater availability, scalability, and value. Read more...
| • | Announcing the availability of the Mixed Workload Consolidation Guide
This Mixed Workload Consolidation Guide provides detailed information you can use to assess and test application compatibility, and to plan and design consolidated mixed workload solutions. This guide discusses mixed workload consolidation processes primarily as they pertain to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition, which are the preferred operating systems for mixed workload consolidation.
For the purposes of this guide, mixed workload consolidation refers to running multiple, heterogeneous applications simultaneously on a single instance of the operating system. This can provide numerous benefits, including increased server utilization and simplified management of your information technology (IT) infrastructure.
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| • | Announcing the availability of the Solution Accelerator for migrating and consolidation LOB applications
This Solution Accelerator provides guidance for consolidating and migrating LOB applications to Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based solutions, including onto Virtual Server 2005-based virtual machines. It provides technical information and recommendations, processes, build notes, job aids, test scripts, and documented test validation of the processes.
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| • | Announcing the Availability of the Solution Accelerator for Domain Server Consolidation and Migration: Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003
Consolidating domains and migrating to Windows Server™ 2003 Active Directory® results in less complexity, reduced risk, and better standardization. Through a simplified, one-to-many management model and enhanced scalability of Active Directory, you can now easily reduce the number of domains, cut costs, and increase operational security.
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| • | Nine Steps to Server Consolidation
Server consolidation requires planning and attention to each phase of the consolidation project. Success is dependent on following a prescriptive methodology and on adhering to project priorities that are determined prior to the actual deployment. Read this article and learn about the methodology of server consolidation.
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| • | Microsoft Solution for UNIX Migration
Investigate UNIX to Windows migration solutions in these technical how-to guides on migrating UNIX applications, infrastructure, and databases to the Windows platform.
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| • | Enterasys Networks
See how Enterasys Networks streamlined its customer fulfillment process, reduced system management costs by 20 percent, and delivered Web services more quickly by consolidating its servers.
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