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You don’t need a Nobel prize for Economics to realize that the world’s economies are facing a slowdown or recession head on. And it doesn’t take a genius, or large leap of logic, to work out that your data center’s budget is likely to face a cut.

Whether you have an inkling a cut is coming or you haven’t been warned of an impending budget cut, establishing a course of action to cut costs now would be a wise move, according to Ken McGee, a vice president and Fellow at Gartner.

Check out this interesting article which is talking about taking steps to reduce your costs in reference to the economic activity that has been reported, it also mentions energy efficiency being a great way of reducing your operation costs as well as virtualization as a platform for achieving this.

Looking at your IT cost base from the big picture point of view is important:

• Reduce your hardware support contract cost – what savings could be made for marginal cost – reduce the range of servers? Reduce the gold stock – older servers cost more to support
• Look at where the space/power is going, could we replace those disk array shelves with a few larger scsi drives? Saving power and space?
• Look at what generates your oncall/support incidents – is there a trend? Is there one type of box, an application or platform that is contributing to your costs – is it worth virtualizing anything of a certain age simply to get rid of the hardware support cost/hardware failure issues?
• Evaluate your software licenses allocated – have you bought too many Windows licenses? Could we do the same with Open Source?

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