Top 10 Reasons for Consolidation:
- Losing track of servers
- Facing scalability restrictions
- High ratio of administrators to servers
- Running more than seven operating systems
- Difficulty controlling software licenses
- It is less expensive to buy new servers than to do capacity planning
- Purchasing is decentralized, but management is centralized
- Utilization rates for more than half of the servers are in the single digits
- Physical space for every server is becoming difficult/expensive to find
- Server maintenance costs are getting out of hand
