In this season of giving and receiving, what you need and what you already have may not be mutually exclusive. Jerry Hodgen looks at how to get the most out of your data center investments.

Costly data center build-outs and space-devouring server expansions are a thing of the past. Jerry Hodgen shares his tale of planning a server consolidation project and getting everyone, from prickly vendors to penny-pinching CIOs, onboard.