Professional energy efficiency audits pay for themselves many times over. CIO and IT managers can save both hard and soft dollars fast. Data Centers containing a large number of out-dated and under-utilized servers are difficult to manage and expensive to maintain. Reducing server count and consolidating projects can help you gain greater efficiency. Fewer systems lowers data center space, power, and cooling requirements and reduces administrative tasks. Consolidating applications and servers can also reduce software licensing, support, and maintenance fees. As a result, companies can achieve significant capital and operating cost reductions. Moving software running on older hardware and operating systems onto new, more powerful platforms often provides the side benefit of improving application performance.