Labelling the data center to allocate workload

CIO India

Survey: Datacenter Complexity a Key IT Challenge
One of the top challenges in aligning IT with business objectives

IT operations management solutions provider Avocent says enterprises continue to be perplexed by the increasing complexity of datacenters, which remains one of the top challenges in aligning IT with business objectives.

Avocent today revealed results of an independent survey that showed companies are seeking better visibility into their data center operations. The spring 2008 survey was conducted for Avocent by Actionable Research and polled 299 executives and IT managers in the U.S. in manufacturing, high technology, retail, banking, health care, education and government.

Survey respondents said that energy conservation was the most difficult issue to resolve with their current tools. Managing the total cost of power was the second most difficult task, and many respondents noted that their interest and work with virtualization technology were influenced by the hope of ultimate energy savings.

Being able to understand your IT infrastructure, your data center is key to how you use this capacity, these technologies to aid in achieving business goals, whether it’s granting more capacity to the equitites teams or what the availability of space is for infrastructure to bring online that new business requirement. As the data center becomes the IT, as we continue to abstract application from infrastructure, this is set to become even more so. Understanding data centers, even tiering them in terms of resilience and performance, to allow us to allocate workload to the data center that best meets their platform specification/availability or cost requirements. We use Mumbai for the high availability, Scotland for low cost 9-5 applications and New York for the overnight batch runs.