Data Center
Issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability impact every individual and every business, worldwide. Energy usage is becoming the largest single data center operating cost — at 30-40% of the operational budget today.
Power and cooling will drive the evolution of data centers into becoming conceptual models of intelligent “living organisms” as organisations need to improve energy efficiency and become ‘greener’, according to a 2008 Gartner press release. Legacy data centers, constructed in the last decade are - in relative terms and particularly when addressing ‘green’ - functionally obsolete.
Rakesh Kumar, vice president at Gartner said, “If ‘greening’ the data center is the goal, power efficiency is the starting point but not sufficient on its own; ’Green’ requires an end-to-end, integrated view of the data center, including the building, energy efficiency, waste management, asset management, capacity management, technology architecture, support services, energy sources and operations.”
Within the next few years, it is estimated the cost to power a server will equal the acquistion cost of the server. As part of the 'Green' data center, BluePoint's solutions can help customers address these critical energy and power costs through an optimized IT and information infrastructure. By combining hardware, software, and managed services, customers can meet all of their business goals — performance, availability, simplicity — while addressing energy and cooling concerns.
The demand for more computing power and electricity, better cooling solutions, and facilities that can grow with an organization is creating a crisis in data centers around the world. Simply adding more servers and turning up the air conditioning is not feasible. Instead, numerous organizations are planning to cope with this crisis by consolidating and relocating their data centers. They are aiming to optimize their data centers — not only to accommodate more hardware, but also to meet business objectives that include:
- Reducing costs
- Responding to increasing demand for data center capacity that helps increase productivity
- Enabling continuous technology change to implement new business processes
- Improving resiliency and security to help protect data and address corporate and governmental mandates
BluePoint Data Center services are designed to help you perform a successful consolidation or relocation of you data center on time and under budget. We use a multiphase, consulting-based approach to support smooth transitions and future-ready environments that enable you to deliver better performance to users. Engagements typically include the following steps:
- Business case development
- Consolidation or relocation model development
- Detailed project plan creation (following validation of models)
- Plan implementation with minimal downtime during transition
