The Future of Data Center Energy Management

Summary:

Power, cooling, and utilization have  traditionally been monitored and managed separately by three primary groups in an organization. These groups are usually comprised of IT, facilities management and the “chief” suite (CFO, CIO, CEO). Each of these functional units are dedicated to maximizing the data center and its assets with little intercommunication. Businesses often target the data center as an obstacle to growth because it might shortly be out of power while unwittingly making significant equipment and application investments that the data center cannot accommodate because these resources are already depleted.

In the future, expect to see actual data center power costs and the budget for the data center moved explicitly under the CIO, and expect the CIO’s managed business objectives to include power efficiency. While regulatory requirements are inevitable, the sheer magnitude of energy costs and their impact on virtually all businesses’ bottom line will make this a reality well before governmental regulations makes it a legal requirement. This change will in turn facilitate the need for future software solutions that enable data-center management to track power cost and use to the application and business owner, and then tie this expense directly to revenue.

Article Quote:

“Because the power cost for running a server exceeds the actual cost of the server (usually within two years and shrinking!), expect power cost to not only be part of a detailed business-unit/application charge-back system, but that power cost will become a primary driver in procurement and solution architecture.”

Article Link: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/December-2009-Executive-Viewpoint/2010Prediction-Viridity.html

The requirement for increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive data center tools for cross-functional views is an excellent example of the high-level systems architecture needed to improve processes and manage various scenarios. Allowing performance to be measured across multiple dimensions will bring management under a more holistic umbrella.

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