Dave Heads the Information Technology Department of a Small Company

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Multiple Choice

Dave heads the information technology department of a small company based in Atlanta that sells customized T-shirts over the Internet. The company has seen a surge in popularity and is planning to expand its operational base to four more cities. However, Dave has now been asked to come up with a strategy to cut down on the costs incurred in maintaining multiple servers in different cities to host the marketing and e-commerce sites. Which of the following measures will help Dave achieve his objective?

• A)procuring server hardware from multiple vendors, instead of just one
• B)isolating each of the cities' servers and running dedicated operating systems on them
• C)using virtualization to run multiple operating systems on a single server system
• D)leasing private lines to transmit information between the corporate sites

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