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Reducing cost is imperative to any business, particularly during an economic downturn.

However, budget cuts are not always an effective means of realising this. Fortunately, there is another way – or seven, to be precise – according to Gartner.

“While responding to contracting budgets, IT managers are expected to deliver an ever-increasing level of service to users, and many are charged with showing tangible financial savings as part of cost-cutting measures,” said Rakesh Kumar, research vice president at Gartner.

“Significant savings can be made in the data center. For example, removing a single x86 server will result in savings of more than $400 a year in energy costs alone.”

An interesting and relevant article talking about reducing IT costs, and I think we’re seeing this more and more in combination with data center renewal or migration costs, where we analyze what we’re moving and migrating on to virtual machines, on to newer hardware rather than move that legacy x86 cost. To do this though requires buy-in from the business units/application teams, sign-off on the possible new platforms and an understanding that renewing or virtualizing the server might require some investment but that we’ll reclaim this in support cost or in data center space and power which can be just as important.

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