IT demands are increasing. Budgets remain flat and 70 percent of every IT dollar is spent on managing the current data center environment. But smarter data centers are responding faster to change—and transforming operational costs. That’s because new analytics-based services provide the capability to gain new insights into data center operations and actively monitor and manage for continual improvement. Bottom line: Nothing beats analytics for improving data center management.
By transforming insights into action, analytics-based services can help you:
- Extend the life of the existing data center infrastructure and double IT capacity or reduce operational costs by 50 percent
- Rationalize the data center infrastructure and improve operational efficiencies while reducing operational costs by 50 percent
- Implement a flexible, modular data center design and defer up to 40 to 50 percent of your capital and operational costs
- Integrate IT and facilities operations management to help reduce operational costs by up to 20 percent
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IBM Data Center Study Roundtable -- Learn best practices of highly efficient data centers and allocate 50% more IT budget to new projects.
View the Video Roundtable featuring Nancy Galietti, Vice President of IT at the NFL; Margaret Dings, Vice President of IDC's Services Industry Consulting Group; Jeanette Horan, Vice President and Chief Information Officer; IBM; and Steve Sams, Vice President of IBM site and facilities services. Learn how to improve data center efficiency and allocate more of your IT funding to strategic initiatives to better support your company's business objectives. Plus hear from the NFL and IBM's CIO on how they gained efficiencies in their data center infrastructure.
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Getting started
The hallmarks of a smarter data center include flexibility, cost effectiveness, and the capability to actively monitor and manage operations for continual improvement. Read this white paper, “Defining a blueprint for a smarter data center” (PDF, 506KB), to explore the possibilities.
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Evaluating solutions
In this white paper, The Value of Smarter Data Center Services (PDF, 373KB), IDC offers an overview of how IT organizations can optimize their data centers to obtain value now while building the foundation for future IT innovation. Strategies for rationalization, consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing are all discussed.
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See what others have done
Xcel Energy fuels conservation efforts with a cost-saving high-density zone data center. Confronted with aging systems and data center design limitations, an energy provider seeks a highly efficient cooling solution to support a systems refresh—without a data center redesign. Read how (PDF, 146KB).
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See what IBM has done
With over 400 data centers worldwide, IBM is constantly uncovering innovative ways to operate smarter data centers. See how our data center transformation efforts have resulted in over a billion dollars saved, reduced risks, greater energy efficiency, increased flexibility and improved operations and services. Read our story
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