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Computerworld – Analysts predict hot, cramped time for data centers

“Increasing use of cheaper x86 chip-based servers has presented problems for data centers, most of which haven’t been redesigned since the last tech boom went bust six years ago, said Rakesh Kumar, a Gartner research vice president. He spoke Monday during a presentation at Gartner’s Data Center Technology Summit in London.”

For a number of reasons many investment banks have been increasing the number of servers, a good example of this is the projects the banks have had to migrate from windows nt to windows 2000, this required massive investment in new servers, which had to be ran in parallel until the new systems were tested and proven ready for use. This coupled with the notice that a current 1u or 2u server may be only 350 watts, but the newer all singing all dancing models jumped to 450, coupled with blade servers being introduced meant your datacenter real estate became that bit more important. Where vmware made inroads was in migrating physical old servers on to virtual sessions, allowing for reallocation of space and power. That said the new processors are more energy efficient, but in the meantime those plans for datacenter consolidation, virtualization and invesment may have to be brought forward, vmware for production in some cases may be the way forward.

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