Resource consolidation
This strategy centers on removing locally deployed storage and servers from ROBOs and replacing the IT gear with various wide-area gateway technologies, terminal emulation and software services delivered from the main data center. Depending on the workflow and an organization's needs, resource consolidation can be aggressive or nearly nonexistent.

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Because of recent technology innovations that have enabled this broad concept, resource consolidation has g...

But no matter how attractive a proposition it is for most companies, consolidating all remote-office data into the main data center is a significant undertaking. According to our survey, 19% of our respondents have more than 50% of their production data resident in ROBO locations, with another 21% indicating they have between 26% and 50% of their production data residing in ROBOs (see "Percent of total production data that resides in ROBOs," below).

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