Data and applications сonsolidation is the necessary condition for building effective data centers. Consolidation is inseparable from virtualization, disaster-tolerance and information lifecycle management.  Combining these approaches allows to reduce considerably data center maintenance costs by improving the efficiency of managers and reducing the park of equipment used.

The separating data and processing facilities is the basis of data center consolidation. This task could be realized effectively by pooling disparate storage systems into a single SAN network and building a virtual server environment.

Consolidated systems allow easy scaling and backup and recovery automating. When implementing these solutions you create the prerequisites for building fault-tolerant solutions within a data center and for uniting distributed data centers in disaster-tolerant system.