How to approach taking a very diverse hybrid network and making something lean and cohesive

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Published on 2013-11-07T18:50:33Z Indexed on 2013/11/07 21:59 UTC
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I am going to have an opportunity (from the role of Linux Sysadmin) to work on optimizing a corporate server network that has a lot of different application servers from LAMP stacks to JBOSS to IIS based ASP/.NET systems of all sorts. I am interested to hear how you would approach evaluating and consolidating a network in a situation like this where you are walking in cold? What are some of your go-to techniques?

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