Companies should consider the use of virtualisation to ease the workload on their data racks, it has been claimed.
According to a blog on mybroadband.co.za, virtualisation has been deployed by thousands of firms to reduce the IT spend, while boosting the efficiency and flexibility of their hardware.
The posting points out the advantages of this mean data centres can be run using fewer servers and less related IT hardware, such as data racks.
In addition, companies may find "this leads to reductions in real estate, power and cooling requirements, resulting in significantly lower IT costs".
Other benefits from implementing the technology include higher resource utilisation due to the fact common infrastructure resources are pooled and new ways to manage IT systems.
Recent research from IDC found western European organisations saw an annual increase in the energy costs of their data racks from 2006 to 2007 to reach 1.6 billion euros (£1.2 billion).
News provided by Comms Express, number one for data racks on the net.
Last Updated: 07/10/2008 17:17
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