A large telecom company currently has both wireless and landline operations and wants to divest itself of the landline division. However, a lot of the servers that run each separate division are located in the same data center. Before they sell off the landline division, they want to migrate the servers out of that data center. Which of the following would be the best and most cost-effective solution so that they can preserve the capital that they have on hand while not taking on any new debt?
A) Build a new data center and move the servers to the new location.
B) Convert the servers to virtual machines and migrate them to a cloud service provider.
C) Buy new servers and install them in a new leased data center and then migrate the applications to the new servers.
D) Buy new servers and install them in a colocation facility and migrate the applications to them.

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Converting the servers to virtual machines and migrating them to a cloud service provider is the most cost-effective solution. It avoids the high upfront costs associated with building or leasing new data center space and purchasing new hardware. Cloud services typically operate on a pay-as-you-go model, which can preserve capital and avoid new debt.

A Large Telecom Company Currently Has Both Wireless and Landline