http://blog.bdna.com BDNA is The IT Genome Company™. Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/ http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:46:35 +0000 Rajesh Kadam http://blog.bdna.com/?p=57 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/feed/ 0 http://blog.bdna.com BDNA is The IT Genome Company™. Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.bdna.com BDNA is The IT Genome Company™. Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/ http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:46:35 +0000 Rajesh Kadam http://blog.bdna.com/?p=57 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/feed/ 0 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/ http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:46:35 +0000 Rajesh Kadam http://blog.bdna.com/?p=57 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/feed/ 0 http://blog.bdna.com BDNA is The IT Genome Company™. Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/ http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:46:35 +0000 Rajesh Kadam http://blog.bdna.com/?p=57 http://blog.bdna.com/data-center-virtualization-and-cost-reduction/feed/ 0 http://blog.bdna.com/it-asset-management-baselines-and-benchmarks-for-datacenters/ http://blog.bdna.com/it-asset-management-baselines-and-benchmarks-for-datacenters/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:25:46 +0000 Ido Sarig http://blog.bdna.com/?p=67 19% percentage points from 39% in 2009 to 58% in 2010. Server consolidation and virtualization has been accorded the highest priority at 46% of the allocation. The times call for solutions that help determine the metrics of baseline consumption of resources in data centers and the benchmarks to be achieved. Companies can find cues for cost control by comparing industry averages with their own metrics. The data for standards for the overall efficiency of the data center are prepared by the Uptime Institute and energy efficiency from the Green Grid. Startling insights are uncovered when the number crunching is completed. The Uptime Institute, for example, revealed that 19 datacenters it surveyed wasted 1.9 watts of electricity for every watt they consume! The hard work is in measuring the devilish details of baseline numbers of their own data centers. The data, if it collected at all, is manually updated, scattered in the departments who own the specific IT assets and is likely hard to slice and dice. If the measurements are done manually, an expense of 250 hours of work for a facility with 1000 servers is incurred. Without automation of asset discovery and collation of data, the task of estimating the baseline numbers is overwhelming and most companies don’t even try. Companies can distinguish themselves by using innovative methods for estimating the baselines and the benchmarks. Intel experimented with more granular measurements of energy efficiency than those available from the Green Grid by determining the metrics for individual servers and the impact the consumption of useful energy and workloads have on their capacity utilization. The improvements were dramatic. For the period March 2008 to May 2009, it was able to replace older servers with more efficient new servers so that installed number of servers decreased by 14.2% while the compute capacity (EDA MIPS) increased by 96.4% and energy efficiency (EDA MIPS/kW) increased by 309%!  Without software to automate the measurements and the reporting of data, the servers would have continued to be underutilized.]]> http://blog.bdna.com/it-asset-management-baselines-and-benchmarks-for-datacenters/feed/ 0