Overview This automotive company designs, manufac- tures and supports a wide variety of com- ponents and systems for manufacturers of commercial and private vehicles globally. Challenge With a manufacturing and design presence in multiple countries across three continents, this automotive company supplies leading vehicle manufacturers with a wide variety of components. Following a number of corporate acquisitions, the company had become reliant on multiple data centers to support critical ap- plications for different parts of the business. Aiming to reduce costs and centralize its IT expertise, the company decided on a policy of consolidation to shared regional data centers. In its global IT infrastructure, the company had a mixture of physical and virtual servers, the latt

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