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Kenneth van Surksum on
on June 24 2009, 7:15 PM
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Over the course of a year, the engineers at
Nissan's vehicle manufacturing plants in Smyrna and Decherd, Tenn.,
have implemented virtualization to consolidate 159 servers used in
assembly and component manufacturing down to 28.
The consolidation is impressive, not only for its scale, but for the
fact that it's been carried out by manufacturing and quality-assurance
specialists outside the regular Nissan IT department. None of the
servers involved was considered part of the business information
services function, said Phil D'Antonio, department manager over
conveyors and controls engineering in Nissan's Smyrna plant.
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