The massive expansion of compute infrastructure over the last few decades has left many organizations facing power and cooling, floor space, and administrative challenges. By embracing application and server consolidation strategies, IT managers can gain real efficiencies that lower costs and streamline operations. Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M- Series servers offer the scalability required to tackle consolidation projects. These systems also support a choice of virtualization technologies that help organizations match the right level of application and resource isolation to the job at hand.