Power, Space and Cooling Capacity Emerging As Barriers to Datacenter Innovation According to Leading Market Research Firm
14 Novembre 2012 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Nearly 85 percent of organizations say that issues with
datacenter power, space and cooling capacity—as well as asset and
uptime issues—resulted in delayed or aborted application rollouts,
reduced ability to support customers, and unplanned reallocation of
OpEx and CapEx budget away from strategic goals during the past
year.
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According to an IDC study, these issues reduce IT's ability to
support business innovation and get maximum business value from IT
hardware and software investments.
More than 500 IT and facilities professionals at midsized and
large organizations in North America, Western Europe and Latin
America participated in the study entitled “The Datacenter’s Role
in Delivering Business Innovation: Using DCIM to Provide a Common
Management Approach,”* which was sponsored by CA Technologies.
“Organizations are spending hundreds of billions of dollars each
year on the infrastructure deployed in their datacenters, and even
more on power and cooling plus IT and Facilities support staff to
ensure that current and new applications are highly available,”
said Richard Villars, vice president of Datacenter and Cloud at IDC
and author of the study. “They must ensure this investment is being
spent efficiently and effectively, and supporting the business'
overall goals of delivering innovative new products and
services.”
Unfortunately, as the study reveals, datacenter infrastructure
issues are significantly undermining the business value returned by
these investments. Specific issues cited by the 84 percent of
respondents whose datacenter infrastructure is under-performing
include power (27 percent), space (27 percent) and cooling (25
percent)—as well as imbalances in capacity across multiple
sites.
The study revealed the most common reasons things go awry in the
datacenter. These include:
- Outdated datacenters. 57 percent
of respondents admit that their datacenters are either
“inefficient” or only “moderately efficient.”
- Fragmented datacenter
operations. Because IT and facilities staff manage different
aspects of datacenter operations, organizations are not able to
implement coherent processes, policies or metrics.
- Inconsistent datacenter
information. Without clear visibility into key datacenter
infrastructure metrics, decision-makers can't accurately plan
capacity, pro-actively discover potential problems, or optimize
allocation of resources such as power, cooling, network
connectivity, rack and floor space.
The study highlights the fact that datacenter management tools
are often manual and fragmented. It suggests that a more unified
approach to Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) can
empower organizations to get more value from their existing
datacenter investments and better support IT-based business
innovation.
“IT and Facilities must work together to deliver the innovation
that their C-level management is demanding,” said Villars. “To help
achieve this, organizations should look to implement a DCIM
solution that takes a unified approach to management across all
aspects of the datacenter.”
More than half of the datacenter managers surveyed said there
would be value in having an integrated DCIM solution. Respondents'
priorities for a DCIM solution included:
- Real-time monitoring of power,
temperature and other variables;
- Alerts and alarms for power and
cooling;
- Inventory and asset management;
and
- Capacity analysis and planning.
“Data centers present major challenges for organizations today,
and these can have impacts on the business”, said Terrence Clark,
general manager, Energy and Sustainability solutions, CA
Technologies. “Conventional approaches often make it difficult to
monitor and manage data center space, power, cooling and assets
effectively. DCIM addresses these challenges and helps
organizations to leverage data center infrastructure for higher
efficiency, reduced risk and the increased agility needed to
address expanding business demands.”
IDC’s Villars, CA Technologies VP of DCIM business strategy
Peter Gilbert, and Datacenter Dynamics CTO Stephen Worn will
present the findings in a webinar entitled “The Datacenter Dilemma:
Optimize Capacity, Reduce Risk, Get Rapid Value. Can DCIM Deliver?”
on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 11 a.m. ET. To register, please
visit http://bit.ly/SqOTKt.
To download the study, visit www.ca.com/dcim-survey. For
information on CA DCIM, visit http://www.ca.com/dcim.
*IDC White Paper Sponsored by CA Technologies, “The Datacenter’s
Role in Delivering Business Innovation: Using DCIM to Provide a
Common Management Approach,” Doc # 237737, November 2012
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