Carbon footprint top cause for datacenter moves

Organisations often introduce new technology such as server and storage virtualization as part of a migration plan, which can be risky. Hammond cautions IT managers against doing everything at once and says keeping an up-to-date change management and asset database is the wisest move in any migration strategy.

Download: Paul Hammond, managing director of GlassHouse Technologies UK on datacenter migration planning.

For more information on datacenter migration strategies check out this white paper from GlassHouse.

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