For data centre managers, 2009 will be all about keeping costs low and staying
energy-efficient but what is the best way to do it? Interxion UK Managing
Director Greg McCulloch has the answers.
centres that were not intended for modern locations, such as finding staff or ensuring easy access to
computing demands with answering the facilities without compromising security.
ever-growing needs of the business. To help,
there are tools to improve the modern data But there is a third way that provides firms with access to
centre but some of these, unfortunately, can well managed data centre resources at predictable,
be counter-productive. There are, for subscription-based cost, and it is growing in popularity.
example, devices such as fans and chilling Data centre hosts can provide the facilities, skills and
cabinets that are intended to counteract resilient infrastructure to support companies as their ICT
heat dispersal but also demand plenty of needs grow, providing applications, backup, security
power themselves. It is quite common for scanning or other services over a reliable connection.
the amount of power consumed by
servers to be equalled by the amount of Hosting specialists create an economy of scale by co-
power used to cool them. locating resources from many firms. They are also experts
in their field, specialists who know the best way to operate.
Is there a solution? Firms could, By transferring some operations to service providers, firms
of course, build new data centres but stand to benefit in 2009, saving costs, streamlining
costs can be prohibitive operations and even having the luxury of ticking corporate
in urban areas and social responsibility tick-boxes.
many firms still
have issues
Notes:
with remote
(1) 1.2 per cent of 2005 US electricity
sales was consumed by servers –
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
& Stanford University
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