As protectors and public servants, federal government agencies are responsible for managing the nation's tax dollars while meeting demands from citizens for more services. At the same time, a call for greater fiscal responsibility and an economic downturn have led to severe budget restrictions. Data center consolidation offers a fast and effective way for federal government agencies to meet these objectives while maximizing taxpayer dollars.

Data center consolidation, server virtualization, and cloud computing provide many advantages. These data center strategies provide faster, more cost-effective access to powerful technology resources, freeing federal government agencies to focus on mission-critical and potentially life-threatening tasks instead of their networking infrastructures.

Consolidating widely distributed or underutilized resources into centrally managed environments offers several benefits, including:

• Improved service levels and information availability
• Reduced acquisition and administration costs and complexity
• Lower power, cooling, and real estate costs
• Higher equipment utilization, maximizing taxpayer dollars

At the same time, data consolidation and migration can present many challenges, including how to minimize downtime, support ongoing data migration efficiently, consolidate data in heterogeneous storage environments, and increase resource utilization. Brocade thoroughly understands these challenges and has developed an integrated set of solutions and services to support cost-effective, efficient data consolidation and migration throughout data centers.

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