By adopting a virtual data center approach, organizations can mitigate common server threats like obsolete hardware, lack of high availability, slow recovery times, unpatched systems, viruses, and high power consumption. The objectives are to improve system availability and data center management while reducing operational costs. Open source tools like oVirt for virtualization, Gluster for storage, Nagios for monitoring, and Amanda for backups can help achieve these goals. The next steps are establishing a disaster recovery center, implementing hybrid cloud and green data center strategies, and utilizing open source hardware.