Planning datacenter power

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“IT’s age of innocence is nearing an end,” says Steve Prentice, distinguished analyst & chief of research, Gartner. “Technology’s clean and friendly ‘weightless economy’ image is being challenged by its growing environmental footprint. While a growing number of regulations are already increasing the end-of-life costs for IT equipment, IT also has to face mounting concerns over spiraling electrical power consumption.”

Absolutely right, power costs are one of the major drivers affecting some of the larger consolidation and virtualization projects.  Many companies can afford the hosting costs of their blade farms/their current infrastructure at todays’ power prices, but as the cost of power rises, the need to consolidate and virtualize becomes ever more apparent as a business driver, not a nice to have.

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