IT Focus Area: infrastructure operations

Many businesses today are relying on outdated equipment and aging infrastructure to run their data centers. These aging data centers were designed in a different compute era and simply cannot meet today's power, cooling, redundancy and other technology requirements.

Consider this information when you read about the 12 keys to a successful data center facility in the SlideShare presentation below:

• Companies should grow vertically before horizontally to reduce the amount of floor space and number of cabinets needed.

• A higher power density reduces an organization’s overall footprint requirement.

• The colder a data center, the higher your energy bills.

• Maximizing return temperatures at cooling units can save 35 to 50 percent on cooling energy costs.

• Removing one watt of power on the IT side results in almost three watts of total power savings.

For more tips on how plan, build and run a successful data center facility, get your copy of The Essential Guide to the Data Center Facility of the Future.