This white paper, from the Experts at Riverbed, details critical Best Practices in five key steps that are essential to the successful and timely migration, implementation, and completion of your Virtualization or Consolidation project. This document has real details on the actual process elements that are going to help you design your project and activities in such a way that success is a far more certain outcome, and pitfalls or issues that can sidetrack your project are minimized.

Based upon the real world experience of hundreds of projects, and infused with the knowledge gained from these experiences, this document is a must read even if you already done one or two projects. The processes and Best Practices described in this white paper will save you time and aggravation, and probably some budget too!

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Introduction

For most organizations today, the possibility of consolidating IT infrastructure out of remote offices and into the main data center is an idea that has been on the table to cut costs and boost productivity. After all, isn’t consolidation supposed to produce these benefits with nothing more than a small one-time effort of some time and money?

While consolidation can certainly bring a number of benefits to organizations - and by this point you’ve already created the ROI calculations that show a year or less payback period – it will take more than just a Friday afternoon to ensure that your consolidation project is truly successful. As far too many IT managers will tell you, a poorly-planned consolidation project will have your executives screaproject in the first place.

This paper lays out 5 steps to a successful IT consolidation project. While you’ll still be doing the hard work of actually consolidating infrastructure, following these steps will enable you to make sure that you’ve covered all the issues in order to ensure that your organization experiences the full benefits of IT consolidation.