ForeThought-Consolidate for the right reasons

ForeThought

Consolidatation is one of the Buzzword used to rationalize spending money on new Infrastructure products and technologies.

The Arguments almmost always centers around reducing the management costs(both in terms of people and infrastructure).

While I agree on this premise for consolidation, I have my reservations on the effectiveness of the exercise If it is not performed with a holistic approach.

There are often independent consolidation projects for:

Datacenter Consolidation
Server Consolidation
Storage Consolidation
Network Redesign/Consolidation
Database consolidation
Application Server consolidation

There are lot of cycles spent on justification, discovery, redesign, implementation and testing of each of the above initiatives.

Some times the conclusions from each of the exercise is contrary to each other. A Storage consolidation effort does not gel well with Database consolidation etc. etc....

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