Datacenter Transformation
Six Percent: That’s the average server utilization for every industry. In most cases, utilization never peaks beyond 11 percent. Only a very small percentage of servers consistently run at higher levels of utilization. If your data center operates 100 servers or more, that’s a lot of unused computing power. You are forced to endure these low usage statistics because applications vendors often require their application to run in solidarity to ensure a supported platform. As a result, you have many "single purpose" servers running in your datacenter. Virtual Dynamix can help you address these challenges with Virtual Infrastructure technology.
When it comes to building and managing data centers, this situation creates large-scale cost consequences. The constant demand for new applications and the need to test those applications before they go into production causes server sprawl to occur rapidly. The data centers housing these servers eventually run out of physical space.
Server sprawl also causes electricity bills to steadily rise and forces businesses to purchase additional air conditioning. This adds to the electric bill and requires even more space for the data center. Simply stated, every server deployed takes up more space, requires more maintenance and adds to the consumption of electricity and cooling. The key is to find a way to consolidate the number of servers you deploy and to contain the number of servers you need to add as new applications are needed.
And when you consider that these same inefficiencies come into play for your disaster recovery site, the need to consolidate and contain becomes even more critical to your company’s bottom line. However, by finding the proper solution, IT can position itself to have a positive influence on the achievement of corporate objectives.
