Dear Customer:

Energy costs are on everyone’s minds these days — particularly IT managers. The data center electric bill that used to be “hidden” within overall facilities costs has become a line item in the IT budget. The amount is far from trivial.

As a result, IT managers are under pressure to cut the operational expenses associated with electricity, and to reduce the data center’s “carbon footprint” in conjunction with corporate “green” initiatives. Energy efficiency is becoming a key consideration in the IT decision-making process. For example, organizations planning to build out large-scale server farms or implementing “cloud computing” using hyper-scale systems are looking not only at performance metrics but also at “compute cycles per watt of power.”

Organizations that utilize co-location facilities cannot hide from these realities. Co-location providers are painfully aware of the rising cost of the power consumed by high-density servers and storage. Many now charge customers based on power usage and density rather than square footage and number of circuits.

Unfortunately, few IT managers know how to reduce their data center power footprint.  When Cassatt Corp. asked IT and facilities managers, “How do you measure power consumption in your server environments?” more than a fourth said, “We don’t.”

That’s why FusionStorm has developed an optimized data center strategy as part of our data center practice. We can help organizations assess and reduce energy consumption in their data centers, from both a power and a cooling perspective. We have also established best practices around helping companies either redesign or enhance their IT infrastructure to increase energy efficiency.

Server consolidation, virtualization and collaboration technologies can go a long way toward reducing your data center electric bill and other energy costs. Your FusionStorm representative can help guide you toward the right solutions for your organization.

Continued Success,

John Varel

CEO

FusionStorm