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Cutting data centre energy costs Peter Prowse, General Manager, Data Centre Solutions, Dimension Data
W
ith CIOs under increas-
available as they’re required. Not only
ing pressure to be more
do these data centres operate at a higher
energy efficient, there
level of energy efficiency, further savings
are several core areas
are realised when cloud providers allow
where gains can be found.
you to adjust capacity and only pay for actual usage.
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Despite increasing demands on data centres and the rapidly increasing cost of energy, it is possible to limit the impact of power costs in data centres.
1. Consider location, delivery and management models
After establishing the services you want
Cloud computing opens new opportuni-
data centre services, the next step is to
ties for organisations striving to improve
optimise delivery of applications over the
energy efficiency. The next-generation
network. This can reduce the number of
data centre is a place where the multiple
physical data centres you need to own
services that support the business are
and operate. Then there’s location. Be-
and how you will procure and consume