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Update: 7% Increase In Data Center Power Concern

A recent article released by SearchDataCenter stated that more Information Technology (IT) professionals are concerned with data center power consumption. In fact, a conducted survey of industry professionals showed that increasing power center consumption was a major concern of 48% of those interviewed in 2011*. This number has risen to 55% for 2012. The article went on to say that there was “a major increase in number of respondents whose business unit actually pays the power bill, from 37% to 53%.”* What does this mean for the professionals tasked with effectively monitoring their data centers?

Those who are in charge of monitoring data centers have begun to readily realize the operations of an organization, especially in this economy. When power bills are high enough, they end up traveling up the corporate totem pole and landing on an executive’s desk. When an executive is unhappy, the employees generally become unhappy.

 

How then does one keep their employer content and effectively manage and monitor their data center? Virtualization of their IT infrastructures. Virtualization has become an effective trend that is occurring in the technology industry today and allows for an added host of benefits. SearchDataCenter went on to say that there has been a shift of focus on IT budgeting and spending, “from the nice-to-have (“Modernizing infrastructure” was the No. 1 reason for increasing virtualization budget last year) to the need-to-have: saving on hardware and power and cooling costs.”*

By creating a necessity to virtualize, organizations are finding that they have more readily accessible information, easier installations and implementations of new advancements in software and can continue maintenance in a much easier fashion. This occurs via an effective application performance monitoring solution. The article in SearchDataCenter went on to say that the budgeting for effective monitoring solutions are greatly decreasing, mainly due to the current economic situation of organizations worldwide: “There are a lot of nifty tools out there, but they tend to be expensive…”* Issues that come from data center power concerns stem many other associated issues with data center management in general.

What then, is an IT professional to do? The answer can be found in implementing a comprehensive monitoring solution that is priced appropriately. There is no need to sacrifice capabilities for an affordable option. Let us and the information technology community know… What we here at IT Infrastructure Info would like to know is who has experience with a less expensive solution for monitoring either the physical or virtual infrastructure?

*SearchDataCenter