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Reduce TCO

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) can equal total loss of control — if the right costs aren’t managed.

Today’s global businesses revolve around their IT systems and strategies. This infrastructure facilitates operations and is critical in allowing businesses to quickly respond to their customers’ needs and market conditions.

But at what cost? High-density datacenters can range from $1,500 to $2,500 a square foot to construct. And a full 80% of those build costs are attributed to power and cooling demands. So it is these costs — and not the often assumed costs of CPUs and datacenter white space — that are critical to manage and control.

CFOs and CIOs are now trying to gain control of datacenter TCO. They need to look to the point where all the infrastructure pieces — servers, OS, applications, cables and cooling — come together… at the enclosure. Systems to manage and control power and cooling at the enclosure level are the new generation of management tools. A datacenter resource management system gives real-time visibility to the exact state of an enclosure — allowing better utilization of all power and cooling needs. This view can help datacenter managers balance, utilize and allocate CPU load appropriately.

When analyzing operations for TCO, management is finding that it is the data power requirements that are driving costs. Managing power at the outlet level and controlling cooling dynamically for each individual enclosure are all data power considerations, and managing them correctly will save a large part of the IT infrastructure bill. Click here for more information on these systems.