Investment
Your Datacenter—How to Recoup Your Investment Costs and Control Operating Costs to Prevent Them from Outstripping Your Projections
Investing in a datacenter or datacenter expansion and the related infrastructure is a big commitment—one that should result in at least five to seven years of use.
So what can cut that time frame drastically and create havoc with financial projections? And what can throw all operating cost projections out of alignment?
It’s not a real estate problem; the processing power of high-density servers continues to pack more power in less space. But those servers place a premium demand on
two precious datacenter resources—cooling and power.
Many sites believe they have run out of cooling and power long before space. Industry experts estimate that up to 40% of the cool air being delivered in a
datacenter bypasses the equipment that needs it most. Gaining control of these resources throughout a facility is imperative to efficiently manage datacenters.
Often, the need for a new facility can be eliminated or postponed if the correct systems are deployed to take full advantage of the existing power and cooling
infrastructure in place.
As the complexity of datacenters has soared, the high-density factor for power and cooling has taken on a critical dimension to any growing company.
Anything that affects energy consumption affects costs—dramatically and immediately. And, as the Green Datacenter revolution takes hold, IT management notes:
“If the cost to implement a green datacenter is holding you back, consider how much you're spending right now on energy output. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
datacenters used an estimated 12 billion kilowatt hours of electrical power in the year 2000, expanding to 23 billion in 2005.”
Recapturing existing cooling, power or both can greatly increase your return on capital investments and decrease your operating costs. But in order to gain control
and recapture the resources you need, you need to have systems that can accomplish this. Systems that will give you the knowledge, visibility and flexibility to deal
with these challenges.
For more details on how AFCO, a leader in green datacenter resource solutions, can help you achieve this, click here .
