Data center staff spends considerable time and effort dealing with machines that are nearing the end of their life or lease. The challenge of migrating key applications from old to new infrastructures such as blades is significant – so much so that some companies continue to maintain old and inefficient servers rather than upgrade their hardware.

The traditional approach to hardware migrations involves building the new system from scratch by reinstalling the OS, applications and data. Not only is this process time-consuming and costly, but organizations also run the risk of lost data or business disruption.

With PlateSpin PowerConvert, organizations can stream the server software layer including data, applications and operating systems from the old end-of-lease machine to the new server using a simple drag-and-drop interface. Any changes to operating systems needed to adapt to the new hardware are made automatically on-the-fly.