Reduce Power Consumption With Advanced Datacenter Consolidation

By Author: Martin Lobo
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With numerous modifications that have been taking place in datacenter operations, such as datacenter virtualization and hosting a prominent concept named datacenter consolidation has gained importance. In an article that appeared in the Federal Computer Week it was written that the "golden source of data around cost savings, around every data center that agencies own [and] a very specific road map for which data centers will be shut down by 2015."

However, in the recent past there have been several analyses on the future and trends in datacenter consolidation by IT experts and analysts. In order to attain the apt results and advantages, it is important to select a suitable service provider for your enterprise.

Need For Datacenter Consolidation
One of the primary reasons for datacenter consolidation is to minimize the power consumption. This is based on the principle that lesser servers in lesser apartments or buildings require less electricity. The new age service providers offering solutions in datacenter consolidation requires to put together ...
... all the well defined agendas, that has been set up carefully after studying and analyzing the client’s infrastructure requirement. Selected objectives are mentioned below:-

● Enhance service levels and lower expenses
● Support systems added in a merger or acquisition or merger
● Align systems with the enterprise's organization more appropriately known as segmenting
● Make strategic moves to or away from certain platform types
● Helps in relieving business managers from the accountability for server management, so that they are able to focus on business and other allied architecture and engineering issues
● Brings down staff levels and avoid further hiring

Datacenter Consolidation Methodology
Eminent IT service providers of specializing in cloud computing services as well as datacenter consolidation follow a consolidation methodology that depends on the following concepts:-

● Assessment Stage that includes:-
Application, Server/OS, Storage, Network, Security, Infrastructure, and TCO/ROI

● Architecture Stage that includes:-
Application Groupings, Server, Storage, Security & Network Architecture, Infrastructure, and TCO/ROI

● Implementation Stage that includes:-
Application, Server, Storage, Network, Security, Infrastructure

● Manage Stage that includes:-
Enterprise Management, Optimization, Monitoring, Infrastructure, Security and TCO/ROI

These four stages are not all. A well designed methodology comprises of short business based assessments in the front end. This acts as a feasibility study that helps the customers to estimate whether the consolidation is feasible or not. Some of the aspects that are addressed while these four phases are business objective, success criteria, target servers and storage under the Feasibility phase.

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