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organisations will require a hot management challenges that could and people. If organisations are to
standby – a strategy that will add cost undermine both the quality of service achieve a reduction in headcount
and could therefore ultimately and cost objectives. whilst still delivering a robust data
undermine CSR goals. centre environment, there is a
With these additional green and Multi-Platform pressing need for effective systems
financial considerations to address, it Critically, there has been a dramatic management tools that can support
is therefore imperative that the CIO shift towards multi-platform end-to-end business processes
can deliver highly effective, highly operations to support end to end across the multi-platform environment.
efficient data centre management. business processes that integrate the Highly skilled, data centre specialists
online customer with every element of and platform specific utilities will have
Organisations moved away from data customer service and the supply no place in the increasingly cost
centres over the last ten years to chain. Indeed, this shift in approach is conscious data centre.
distributed computing for a reason: now so entrenched that the new IBM
the need to move fast, develop systems support different operating The mega data centre of the 21st
tailored solutions that responded systems on one platform. century should begin to resemble the
rapidly to business needs and achieve Marie Celeste. With the right, cross
high availability to support the 24x7 This new environment, therefore, platform systems management tools,
economy. offers unprecedented challenges in organisations can manage the entire
system management, capacity data centre from a single console
And whilst the hardware technology planning and support. It is perhaps, using exception reporting to highlight
has progressed significantly in the last little surprise that according to a problems or potential problems as
few years, delivering unprecedented recent IBM survey on data centre use, they arise.
reliability at a new, low cost point, the 58 per cent of respondents said the
overall environment has become far biggest challenge for the CIO is the With this easy to use, highly visual
more complex, adding new systems cost of operation in terms of power data centre management approach,
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