Data Center Consolidation

Data Center Consolidation Savings Opportunity

If you have a lease coming due in the next 1 to 3 years, there is a multi-million dollar savings opportunity consolidating in new data center space! “How is that possible?”  …  The market has changed in the last 5 years.

• Pricing per kW: Significant price reductions have occurred across nearly every
  US and International data center market.
• Power Efficiencies: Newer infrastructure runs more efficiently, resulting in lower PUEs (Power Usage Effectiveness) and lower electric bills.
• Space Requirements Have Reduced: Technologies are more powerful and smaller in footprint. The cloud and SaaS allows client to optimize, refresh & reduce their need for technology.
• Critical System Improvements: New data center facilities offer improved operations, with more redundancy and higher availability.
• New Regional Incentives: Target locations offer concessions to new tenants, financial incentives for local hiring & tax breaks on new equipment.

Potential Savings Applied to a Technology Refresh

And This Doesn’t Consider Other Opportunities for Savings:

• Can the server or application be turned off?
• Is the application cloud-ready?
• Can the server be virtualized or consolidated with other workloads
• Can hardware be refreshed & right-sized to more energy efficient platforms

Extensive Benefits To Your Business

• Consolidate multiple platforms and implement compute standards
• Reduce incidents, improve SLAs, RPO & Disaster Recovery
• Leverage improved energy efficiencies
• Address End-of-Life / End-of-Support Equipment
• Upgrade to new network topologies & speeds
• Reduce technology sprawl
• Improve security, processes and tools
• Optimize IT staff productivity

“The average datacenter is utilized at 63% capacity on square footage, and 56% from a power perspective.”
– 451 Alliance Research White Paper, 2015