If you talk to any techie about ʻsystems consolidationʼ there is generally only one word you will hear - Virtualization.

The act of shoehorning a number of ʻvirtual serversʼ into a space previously occupied by just one server - is to most people, the beginning and the end of systems consolidation. Not so.

ACC have a far more all encompassing approach to consolidation - which looks at the entire resource footprint of your operation. For example - the implementation of Traffic Managers can vastly reduce the amount of load on your servers (be they virtual or not) meaning you need fewer servers, and fewer resources for them.

Virtualizing your I/O with Xsigo hardware can remove miles and miles of network cables, and the expensive switches they connect to - simplifying your entire hosting operation. Advanced firewall systems such as the Palo Alto Networks PA 2050 can also virtualize - enabling you to turn a single pair into perhaps 5 pairs - again with massive savings on space, power, support costs and complexity.

Why pay for three racks, when you can run it all from one?