Financial services firms are struggling to deliver more services while their IT budgets continue to shrink. To keep pace with customer demands for anywhere, anytime access to online services and other features, these firms must find ways to maximize their existing resources. Data center consolidation provides a fast and effective way for financial services firms to meet these objectives.

By consolidating widely distributed or underutilized resources into centrally managed environments, financial services firms can realize many technical and business advantages, including:

• Improved service levels and information availability
• Improved IT agility and responsiveness
• Reduced administration costs and complexity
• Lower power, cooling, and real estate costs
• Higher equipment utilization

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.

Learn more about Brocade data center consolidation solutions.