Data center consolidation is a popular strategy showing powerful economic characteristics. Major organizations are reaping the benefits of consolidation, as shown by the following examples:
- Hewlett Packard is cutting its 85 global data centers down to six--three of which will be mirrored disaster recovery sites. HP expects this move to save the company $1 billion annually.
- IBM is consolidating 3,900 servers into 30 virtualized mainframes running under Linux. The company anticipates an 80% reduction in energy usage while significantly shrinking its current 8 million square feet of data center space.
- Microsoft is well along in its data center consolidation efforts, producing a savings of $23.2 million--a 40% cut in its pre-consolidation spending levels.
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is moving 100 stand-alone servers onto five IBM Regatta Unix servers. This effort eliminated the need to add 50 more stand-alone servers next year to handle increased processing demands.
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