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It appears that, once again, UK PLC is following in the footsteps of our cousins across the pond and suffering (albeit a little later than they did) a credit crunch.

There is talk of a full blown recession, but that remains just talk. So, what you may ask, has this to do with a data centre?

Data centres house the majority of the equipment that not only powers the internet, but also that hosts many of the commercial websites that we may visit to make a purchase.

They also host the equipment which is used to process our online payments and, they host the equipment that our banks use to store all of our account information.

As IT becomes more integrated to your business activity, the data center becomes ever more important, having the right capacity, the ability to scale your IT with the business transactions/business needs becomes ever more important. In an economic downturn what does this mean for the data center?

• More focus on getting the most we can from our existing data centers
• Trying to future proof new data centers coming online – provision more capacity in terms of power/cooling with a focus on air flow, of being as efficient as we can with power and cooling
• More focus on reducing the operational costs of the data center – this could be through consolidation, virtualization or even just refreshing the hardware to newer more efficient systems
• Looking at ways of provisioning infrastructure/application capacity for workloads – can we buy in elements of the infrastructure -  do we need to own the infrastructure, could I not buy in a HPC solution, what are the alternatives to the way we’re working now, an Azul appliance instead of blades for example

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