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THE FORGOTTEN: In its day, this server ran mission-critical workloads, but IT moved those workloads to newer models and failed to shut this legacy server down.
THE INSURANCE PLAN: When this server’s financial workload went away, IT kept it up and running in case they needed to recover the data later—but now that a more robust recovery plan is in place, this server is unnecessary.
THE INVISIBLE: This server contains a virtualized application and fell off the radar during a personnel change. It cycles up only once or twice a year.
THE BOMB: No one remembers the functions of the apps running on this server, so to be safe, no one unplugs it.