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Server Consolidation with Compaq ProLiant Servers 11 Corporations experiencing dramatic expansion and growth often benefit from consolidating workload tasks into fewer, more powerful systems and applications Rational Consolidation Organizations well suited for rational consolidation have experienced dramatic growth that resulted in complex solutions for workload related tasks. Situations such as corporate mergers and global expansions create redundant, incompatible workgroup practices, including financial applications, office productivity tools, intranet applications, e-mail and customer management applications. Rational consolidation merges different workgroup applications onto standardized enterprise applications, running on fewer and larger servers, optimizing labor usage and reducing overall costs. Rational Consolidation Example In 1995, Digital Equipment Corporation evaluated its global staffing and equipment requirements for its e-mail application servers. The company found there were 700 staffers attending to mail servers around the globe. After consolidating on a single email application, Digital was able to eliminate nearly fifty percent of its e-mail servers and reduce dedicated support staff to 200. In 1997, the company handled 50 million messages per day at a cost thirty-five percent less than it did in 1995. Benefits of Rational Consolidation The many benefits of rational consolidation include: • Increased administrator productivity: by standardizing on fewer servers and reducing the number of applications that are required. • Reorganization of complementary resources: into a singular workflow environment (e.g. order entry and general ledger). • Decreased downtime: in a centralized single application environment because problem-resolution capable staff are locally accessible. • Reduced application licensing fees: as a single application replaces the workload of many applications. • Increased resource utilization: in large scale global environments because fewer servers are operating for longer periods of time, as opposed to many servers being under-utilized. • Reduced total cost per user: as a function of decreased hardware, software and overhead expenses. ECGO30/0499