Assignment: Data Center Consolidation

Data Center ConsolidationName:Institutional affiliation:Data Center ConsolidationData consolidation is simply a process where data from multiple sources are collected and integrated into a single destination (Kliazovich, Bouvry, & Khan, 2013, p.65). There are many reasons that justify data center consolidation. The major reasons include, reducing redundancy as a result of mergers and acquisition and centralization of data storage (Kliazovich, Bouvry, & Khan, 2013, p.65). This paper will discuss three important aspects that include bandwidth and high speed communication, cloud computing, and mobile data centers and roles in successful data center consolidation.Bandwidth and High Speed CommunicationData center consolidation depends very much on the rate at which the data can be retrieved and used. The major aim of data center consolidation is to effectively taking all the data and information on a company into a single entity (Kliazovich, Bouvry, & Khan, 2013, p.66). That means the data will be in a more central place hence prevent the loss and misplacement of data. However, the question that most people within the organization ask is how effective will such data be accessible. That