Data Center Optimization

What is Data Center Optimization?Data Center Optimization

The new IT buzz word is data center optimization, but what does it mean, why is it so important and how do you do it? 

Data Center Optimization is the process of evaluating your IT assets and infrastructure to minimize space requirements, minimize cooling needs, maximize capacity utilization, increase reliability and reduce operating costs. 

Why Should you Perform Data Center Optimization?

The obvious answer to the important's of data center optimization is; increase reliability and reduce the cost of its operation to increase the profitability of your company.  After your initial data center evaluation the precise reasons will become clear.  Would you be surprised to find out 30% of your servers were dead?  Many of our clients were.  Are you paying for “Break-Fix” agreements on more equipment than you own?  While you are planning to build a new data center would it be helpful to know that your current data center is only running at 50% of its current capacity.  Collectively, this information has saved our clients hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars.  These savings quickly pay for the implementation costs many times over.  The bottom line is that you can’t afford not to implement a software solution that provides data center optimization.

Call for your data center optimization assessment today! 

How to Leverage Data Center Optimization Data Center Optimization

To efficiently manage your IT assets and infrastructure , you need to precisely know how many devices (servers, switches, routers and storage systems) are owned, where they are located, what they are, how old they are, how are they connected and how much power are they consuming.  This may not seem like such a difficult task, but when you own thousands of devices, that are changing everyday, it is a very difficult task.  This is how ISA provides the data center optimization:

  1. Determine which IT management software solution is best for the job.
  2. Physically go on site into the data center and precisely inventory every rack of equipment, where it is positioned on the floor and how every device in the rack is connected.  This step in the process is expedited using ISA’s patent pending collection and maintenance tool “On Site Physical Inventory®” or “OSPI®”. 
  3. The collected information is then validated and entered into the software system.
  4. ISA then trains the company’s personal on how to accurately maintain the data.  This step is critical and simplified by recording all (MACs) (Moves, Adds and Changes) through the OSPI® unit.
  5. The data center optimization software system is then used to generate reports for power consumption, equipment life cycle, capacity utilization and many others.
  6. Based on the reports, recommendations are made on how to “Optimize” or “Green” the data center.
  7. The aforementioned recommendations may include consolidating or re-locating equipment, purchasing new equipment, reconfiguring power supplies, switching “break-fix” agreements (maintenance agreements to fix equipment).  ISA or its network of trusted partners can perform these services.

Call today to schedule your data center optimization assessment. 

This onsite evaluation and report will give you a clear understanding of the benefits you can expect from data center optimization.