If you're considering your overall data centre and facility strategy, and you're looking for ways to improve operational efficiency and data centre energy management effectiveness, IBM offers a solution: IBM Data Centre and Facilities Strategy Services. Designed to streamline the data centre planning and management process, this service helps you determine your data centre facility capacity, availability and security requirements. It also helps you identify a suitable location for your facility, and helps you evaluate the best way to acquire, operate and manage the data centre—with a smart design that can carry your organisation into the future.

This service from IBM will also:

• Provide estimates that enable you to evaluate buying versus leasing and in-house versus outsourcing options early in the decision-making process
• Teach your IT organisation to take advantage of the capabilities of a solid, long-term data centre design
• Help lower your total cost of ownership.