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A growing number of companies are coming to the realization that they are entering a data center energy crisis. With data centers nearing full capacity, business growth becomes inhibited as organizations struggle to make necessary capital investments -- in either heating and cooling equipment, or in added storage.
In fact, a 2006 survey of data centers by power supply vendor Liebert Corp. found that 33 percent of companies actually expect to be out of power and cooling capacity by the end of 2007. What's more, 96 percent expect to be out of capacity by 2011.
Clearly, reducing energy use is about more than being environmentally responsible. To ensure their long-term viability, organizations must begin now to find and implement solutions that help decrease power consumption.
The good news? Many of the same tools and practices that have enabled these organizations to reduce IT complexity, streamline operations, and control costs are also highly effective in optimizing energy use among them, data de-duplication, high availability and virtualization, power management, and energy-efficient data center design.
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