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Server Consolidation: Why Less is More: Page 10 of 14

• "Firm Engineers Better Asset Management"

• "MRTG Monitors What's Brewing"

• "The End All of Network Performance Management"

• "Design Tools Come Into Focus"

Somewhere, like a distant mirage, there lies an IT utopia called the utility data center. It's a place where new projects can be implemented simply by assigning the needed memory, network bandwidth and hard-disk and processor resources. Imagine a data center dial tone, where all of these assets are measured in percent utilization of an existing pool, and the standalone server is a thing of the past.

Technology is finally making this vision a reality--HP, Sun and IBM all have ongoing