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Follow These Five Simple Steps to Rationalize and Renovate Your IT Infrastructure

Infrastructure modernization is a necessary but often costly undertaking in the data center and off-premises. I&O leaders should follow these simple techniques to rationalize and renovate existing IT systems to deliver a more agile environment using commercial off-the-shelf infrastructure.

I&O leaders involved in infrastructure modernization can rationalize or renovate random server proliferation using these strategies:

  • Develop common management tools and processes to manage infrastructure.
  • Reduce the number of common locations to centralize and harvest infrastructure.
  • Renovate hardware, software and processes by consolidating workloads and updating platforms, often through virtualization.
  • Rationalize the variety of workloads and infrastructure.


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